Total 6 job vacancies by La Petite Ecole Pte. Ltd.

The Part-time Monitor/Teacher's Assistant supports the classroom teacher in the delivery of quality teaching and learning to all students through administrative support, maintenance of classroom organisation and procedures, emotional support to students, communicating with teachers and adhering to school’s policies and procedures. The particularity of the Part-time Monitor is that her working hours with the children are mostly around the lunch break, as she comes into the classroom to substitute the Teacher's Assistant who takes her lunch break.

Start date: 6 January, 2025

Duties:

• Supervise and accompany the children during recess, meals, some activities, nap time, when the buses arrive and when they depart from school, help them with dressing, undressing, and changing when and where needed (with a follow-up on autonomy development); Prepare snack and mealtime, assist when and where needed.
• Ensure that personal hygiene and safety rules are respected in all pertinent places such as the classrooms, stairs, corridors, playground etc.; Clean, tidy up and store the school’s equipment throughout the day, as well as at the end of the day.
• Maintain classroom organization and procedures (including supervision and rest time) as indicated by teacher: preparate and supervise activities, maintain classroom stationery, store student work in order.
• Instigate preventative measures to minimise accidents in the classroom and other areas.
• Reinforce children’s positive attitudes and behaviour.
• Refer parents to teacher with specific enquiries regarding education, welfare, social and emotional development, student interactions and concerns.
• Participate in meetings and trainings according to the school calendar.
• Support and implement the policies of LPE: Understand and work in accordance with the school policies and procedures, including LPE code of conducts and dress standards.
• Other duties entrusted by the School Principal.

Required qualifications and skills:

• A minimum Diploma in Early Childhood or similar
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in working with children (aged 2.5-11) in a school or day care environment international experience highly regarded
• Excellent written and spoken English skills
• Further qualifications in Early Childhood would be an advantage.

Desired attributes:

• A positive attitude with the children, and within the school community
• Able to multi-task and adapt easily
• A good common sense
• Able to take initiatives in class
• Teamwork
• Dynamic and proactive
• Diligence

Work time for Part-time Monitor/Teacher's Assistant position:

• Monday to Thursday: from 11am to 1pm
• Friday: from from 11am to 3pm

Work time for full-time Teaching Assistant position (for information only):

• Monday to Thursday: from 8:15am to 3:45pm (including 45 minutes of lunch break)
• Friday: from 8:15am to 3pm (45 minutes of lunch break)
• School functions, meetings, events, and professional development days as required, both within and out of school hours

The Relief Teaching Assistant/Monitor covers the absence of any full-time or regular part-time Teaching Assistant/Monitor to ensure the continuity of teaching and the students’ learning.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Welcome the children in their classroom, at the start of the day.
• Supervise and accompany the children during recess, meals, some activities, nap time, when the buses arrive and when they depart from school, help them with dressing, undressing, and changing when and where needed (with a follow-up on autonomy development); Prepare snack and mealtime, assist when and where needed.
• Ensure that personal hygiene and safety rules are respected in all pertinent places such as the classrooms, stairs, corridors, playground etc.; Clean, tidy up and store the school’s equipment throughout the day, as well as at the end of the day.
• Maintain classroom organization and procedures (including supervision and rest time) as indicated by teacher: preparate and supervise activities, maintain classroom stationery, store student work in order.
• Instigate preventative measures to minimise accidents in the classroom and other areas.
• Reinforce children’s positive attitudes and behaviour.
• Refer parents to teacher with specific enquiries regarding education, welfare, social and emotional development, student interactions and concerns.
• Participate in meetings and trainings according to the school calendar.
• Support and implement the policies of LPE: Understand and work in accordance with the school policies and procedures, including LPE code of conducts and dress standards.
• Other duties entrusted by the School Principal.

If while carrying out the duties of the role, the job holder identifies any instance that a child is suffering or likely to suffer significant harm either at school or at home, s/he must report any concerns to the School Principal so that a referral can be made accordingly to the relevant third-party services.

Job Competencies

• Excellent communication skills at all levels
• Sound organisational and time management skills
• Nurturing manner and ability to show compassion and care with young children
• Classroom organisation abilities including moving of books, toys, administrative aids and furniture as required, and ability to create classroom and corridor displays including climbing of ladders to arrange ceiling-height displays and hang artwork
• Ability to physically interact with up to 25 students during floor time, for lessons such as PE, Gross Motor exercises and Art.

Job Key Relationships

• Line managed by School Principal, and Teacher in terms of classroom management.
• Liaison with School Principal (Curriculum, Welfare and Administration), Admin staff, Subject Leader
• Enrichment Teachers

Required Qualifications and Desired Attributes

• A minimum Diploma in Early Childhood or similar
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in working with children (aged 2-11) in a school or day care environment international experience highly regarded
• Excellent written and spoken English skills
• Further qualifications in Early Childhood would be an advantage.

Desired attributes:

• A positive attitude with the children, and within the school community
• Able to multi-task and adapt easily
• A good common sense
• Able to take initiatives in class
• Teamwork
• Dynamic and reactive
• Diligence

Working Conditions

Workplace

• Most time in classroom and playground on campus site, as well as when needed or required, off site on school functions, excursions, meetings, events, and professional development.

Work Time

• No fixed work schedule, to be called in to report to work half day or a whole day when a classroom teacher is absent. An hourly basic rate apply for hours duly completed.

Terms of Employment

Odyssey Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.

Appointment is subject to criminal/police or equivalent background checks for all other countries inhabited (irrespective of whether you worked in those countries).

• Part time (casual) role

Job Purpose

The School Nurse provides medical care for students throughout the school day, and oversees school wellness programs.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Provide Nursing Care Services

• Dispense prescription medications to students as per parents or doctors’ instructions / medical directives.
• Provide basic first aid for minor injuries such as cuts, scrapes and bruises, and stabilising severely ill or injured students until parents, guardians or emergency services arrive;
• Ensure a clear and smooth communication with the families and the team members.
• Complete relevant nursing documentation.
• Maintain and restock First Aid Kits

Manage School Wellness Program

• Educate students on hygiene and safety practices.
• Collect and analyse statistics using our record.
• Organise meetings with the School Principal to follow-up on healthcare needs.
• Participate and moderate educational team meetings to better assist special needs children, and liaise with the Special Needs support team of practitioners.
• Participate in the organisation of protocols to deal with major emergencies occurring in the school.
• Communicate with the canteen service to come up with balanced, healthy meals adapted to the children and follow-up weekly.
• Conduct student hearing and vision screenings.
• Verify vaccination records.

Daily Routine Duties

• Communicate and coordinate with the school cleaners and classroom assistants to ensure that they are adequately equipped and informed on hygiene and safety practices.
• Record student absences, communicate with families in case of a child’s absence, finding out the reasons, thus getting a better visibility of the potential diseases in the school.

If while carrying out the duties of the role, the job holder identifies any instance that a child is suffering or likely to suffer significant harm either at school or at home, s/he must report any concerns to the School Principal so that a referral can be made accordingly to the relevant third-party services.

Job Competencies

• Standard clinical skills to dispense medications and treat minor ailments and injuries
• Adequate math skills to ensure proper dosage amounts when dispensing medications
• Good communication skills to work with students and parents
• Ability to demonstrate a calm, caring demeanour when working with children
• Good presentation skills for training school staff
• Ability to remain focused in the event of a student medical emergency.

Job Key Relationships

• Line managed by School Principal
• Liaise with School Principal, pedagogical team, and other support team members
• Liaise with parents, guardians, and other external parties like Special Needs healthcare practitioners, ambulance paramedics, enrichment activities providers etc.

Required Qualifications and Desired Attributes

• Must have completed a minimum of 1,000 hours of clinical experience or three years of academic experience.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience as a school nurse is preferred; experience with young children will be considered a plus.
• Fluency in English, bilingual in French and English is preferred, but not a must.

Desired attributes:

• Kind, benevolent, and reassuring, able to listen to the children’s needs and attend to their well-being.
• Results-driven and resourceful, with a strong affinity for critical thinking, hands-on execution, and problem-solving
• Self-directed and able to work without supervision
• Excellent team-player
• Dynamic and proactive
• Diligence

Working Conditions

Workplace

• Most time on La Petite Ecole campus site, when needed or required, off site on school functions, excursions, meetings, events, and professional development.

Work Time

• Monday to Thursday: from 8am until 5pm
• Friday: from 8am until 4pm
• Attending the team meetings in the week prior to back-to-school day.

LPE Singapore is an international primary school accredited by the French Ministry of national Education and offering a plurilingual educational approach in accordance with the French national curriculum. The school currently counts around 120 students from N1 to G3, and is continuing its development with the opening of the G4 and G5 levels in September 2024.

LPE Singapore is a member of French international educational group Odyssey, specialising in French education abroad with 12 schools across 11 countries.

Duties:

• Teaching in French the French Curriculum to 2 classes of primary school students
• Sharing the class with your English-speaking counterpart, planning the programme for the week together
• Closely monitoring the children and their learning progression, and reporting this information to the school director and to the families accurately
• Coordinating with the classroom Teaching Assistant (French or English speaking) for daily programme and matters
• Contributing to the development of a special pedagogical project across school, in line with the school project and the French curriculum
• Teaching the “Activités Pédagogiques Complémentaires” (APC) according to the schedule provided by the School
• Supervising morning breaks and/or afternoon breaks according to the schedule provided by the School
• Attending the team meetings according to the schedule provided by the School;
• Participating in the school’s events outside of teaching time (i.e. end of year fair, open house and gardening days), and that may occur over the weekend
• Liaising with children’s parents whenever requested (incl. regular parent-teacher meetings scheduled twice a year)
• Reporting to the School Principal

Normal working hours in the classroom (exclusive of preparation time and meetings):

Monday to Thursday: 8.15am-3.45pm

Friday: 8.15am-1pm

Job Requirements:

• Holder of the French diploma in Early Childhood (titulaire du diplôme de Professeur des Ecoles) or Diploma in Early Childhood Care & Education – Teaching (DECCE-T) or above qualification
• Minimum 2 years work experience as a teacher
• Fluent in French and English languages
• Excellent communication and classroom management skills to work together with the team on common projects and understand and support the children who have difficulties
• Good knowledge of new technologies to work in class and in the team
• Flexible and a real team player
• Open-minded and able to think outside the box
• Proactive and dynamic
• Willing to develop pedagogical projects, in line with the school yearly project

Factors or professional experience that will stand out in your application:

• A teaching experience in a multilingual environment is preferable, in order to better understand and assimilate the unique language situations of each student;
• A practical experience of the use of communication skills through trainings / workshops or projects (drama, discussion sessions / debates…) would be a plus;
• Good knowledge of English language necessary to communicate with the team and parents;
• Any additional experience that could be an asset to the children (i.e. a sport or an artistic activity) will be considered.

LPE Singapore is an international primary school accredited by the French Ministry of national Education and offering a plurilingual educational approach in accordance with the French national curriculum. The school currently counts around 120 students from N1 to G3, and is continuing its development with the opening of the G4 and G5 levels in September 2024.

LPE Singapore is a member of French international educational group Odyssey, specialising in French education abroad with 12 schools across 11 countries.

Duties:

• Teaching in English the French Curriculum to 2 classes of primary school students
• Sharing the class with your French-speaking counterpart, planning the programme for the week together
• Closely monitoring the children and their learning progression, and reporting this information to the school director and to the families accurately
• Coordinating with the classroom Teaching Assistant (French or English speaking) for daily programme and matters
• Contributing to the development of a special pedagogical project across school, in line with the school project and the French curriculum
• Teaching the “Activités Pédagogiques Complémentaires” (APC) according to the schedule provided by the School
• Supervising morning breaks and/or afternoon breaks according to the schedule provided by the School
• Attending the team meetings according to the schedule provided by the School;
• Participating in the school’s events outside of teaching time (i.e. end of year fair, open house and gardening days), and that may occur over the weekend
• Liaising with children’s parents whenever requested (incl. regular parent-teacher meetings scheduled twice a year)
• Reporting to the School Principal

Normal working hours in the classroom (exclusive of preparation time and meetings):

Monday to Thursday: 8.15am-3.45pm

Friday: 8.15am-1pm

Job Requirements:

• Holder of the French diploma in Early Childhood (titulaire du diplôme de Professeur des Ecoles) or Diploma in Early Childhood Care & Education – Teaching (DECCE-T) or above qualification
• Minimum 3 years work experience as a teacher
• Fluent in French and English Language.
• Excellent communication and classroom management skills to work together with the team on common projects and understand and support the children who have difficulties
• Good knowledge of new technologies to work in class and in the team
• Flexible and a real team player
• Open-minded and able to think outside the box
• Proactive and dynamic
• Willing to develop pedagogical projects, in line with the school yearly project

Factors or professional experience that will stand out in your application:

• A teaching experience in a multilingual environment is preferable, in order to better understand and assimilate the unique language situations of each student;
• A practical experience of the use of communication skills through trainings / workshops or projects (drama, discussion sessions / debates…) would be a plus;
• Good knowledge of English language necessary to communicate with the team and parents;
• Any additional experience that could be an asset to the children (i.e. a sport or an artistic activity) will be considered.

LPE Singapore is an international primary school accredited by the French Ministry of national Education and offering a plurilingual educational approach in accordance with the French national curriculum. The school currently counts around 120 students from N1 to G3, and is continuing its development with the opening of the G4 and G5 levels in September 2024.

LPE Singapore is a member of French international educational group Odyssey, specialising in French education abroad with 12 schools across 11 countries.

School Principal [Plurilingual school in French-English-Mandarin]

Pedagogical:

Implementation of the French education system with the particularity of bilingualism, in collaboration with the pedagogical management:

Programmes for preschool and elementary school:

• Guarantee the teaching of the different learning subjects and their content;
• Follow up (coherence and liaison between classes and the different ‘cycles’ in the French education system);
• Coordinate teaching and learning to enable the acquisition of the skills required by the French curriculum;
• Organise and document the specific measures taken to support children, eg school monitoring of pupils, help for pupils in difficulty, etc.;
• Organise team meetings to monitor schooling and draft the various support plans (PAI, PAP, etc.);
• Promote the success of all students by organising special aid and support systems (eg PPRE).

Organisation of schooling:

• Ensure the harmonious allocation of classes and teaching resources in collaboration with the pedagogical team (class structure);
• Ensure the good distribution of students to allow everyone to find their place in the school and that everyone has access to the same opportunities to succeed (allocation of students to the different classes discussed together with the teaching team).

School council, teacher council, cycle council and team meetings:

• Participate in the organisation of the school council;
• Organise and monitor the work of the council of teachers in collaboration with the pedagogical management and write reports;
• Ensure the holding and follow-up of cycle councils in collaboration with the pedagogical management and write reports;
• Ensure the consistency of the actions implemented at the school in collaboration with the pedagogical management;
• Ensure pedagogical management of the teaching team;
• Provide help, advice, support, training to work colleagues in collaboration with the educational management and write reports.

School project:

• Participate in the write-up of the school project and its updating in collaboration with the pedagogical management;
• Ensure its implementation and compliance of actions with the project;
• Ensure that the school project is designed around the students to allow better integration into the school and greater academic success.

Evaluation:

• Hold session to discuss the evaluation of the pupils with the teaching team and the implementation of remediation and communication with the teaching management (for example, review, assess and adapt the current organisation, if necessary);
• Support the pedagogical reflection of the team on the results of the various evaluations. Establish concrete action sheets for this purpose;
• Provide families with information both on the monitoring and evaluation of the child and on the implementation of the various remedial processes when applicable;
• Be proactive and communicate on the various proposals both with the educational management and with the families.

Security:

• Guarantee security in all areas (surveillance, outings, premises, classes);
• Write and implement procedures (eg PPMS, evacuation plan, pollution, internal regulations, etc.);
• Set up procedures in the event of an incident/accident and create the necessary documents for this purpose (accident report and other).

Hygiene, prevention and health education:

• Check vaccinations during the registration process;
• Ensure general and individual hygiene conditions;
• Promote a health education policy (hygiene, sleep, food).

Communication:

Participate in the reflection and development of communication intended for families and prospects (eg brochures, flyers, posters at our external partners) in collaboration with the communication manager.

Work closely with the communication manager to highlight the educational actions and the work carried out by teachers and their students.

Listen to the families and the school staff to establish a bond of trust and collaborative work.

Administrative:

• Participate in weekly admin meetings;
• Supervise the organisation of ECAs together with the administrative team (recruitment, budget, schedule, replacement, payment, contracts, ECA party);
• Supervise and plan the organisation of holiday camps together with the administrative team;
• Create and implement tools for the practical organisation of the staff’s work (schedules, etc.);
• Ensure the good display of regulations;
• Participate in the coordination of activities in the school in and out of school time;
• Participate in the organisation of school outings with the administrative team.