How much do TA's get paid during the summer holidays???

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I am currently a cover TA through a Temping agency. They're great and find me plenty to do, but I only get paid for the time that I work and during the holidays, I receive literally no money. I'm not complaining, but I would like to know if permanent TA's get paid through the holidays.

Also, every time I see a job it says "14,500 pro-rata" this usually means that if you work 25 hours instead of 40, you get 25/40ths of the advertised wages. What does it mean when a TA post is advertised???

Hope you can help...

That's good news. However in the schools round here, there are many who have no qualifications. It is becoming less common, but especially 1-2-1 TAs are often unqualified.

And Im not meaning to knock TAs at all. As I said before, they provide fantastic support and schools could not deliver the education they do without them. They are underpaid, but because so many people are keen to get these school hour jobs, supply means the Gov can continue to pay them often less than £10k a year.

As a SENCO I wouldn't be happy with an unqualified 1 2 1 support assistant

Perhaps the unqualified ones and mostly historic. They have been around a long time and started before schools were so hot on qualifications. With demand for these jobs being fierce, I suspect it is hard to get a job as a TA with no qualification or experience these days.

In my area there have never been unqualified TAs (not in past 40 years anyway)

Parents seem to like lots of TAs (with or without qualification) rather than a few well qualified staff

ChocolateWombat - yes, HLTAs are most definitely underpaid for what they do. But I know I do it as it works for me. And I do more and more outside of my normal role as it is of interest to me, and potential benefit to me if I do decide to return to teaching. I could do less and get no comeback from school, but even my straight forward normal role involves whole class teaching, planning and prep.

BTW - as a subject leader I do plan the scheme of work for the year. I also do it for all 3 year groups, not just the classes I teach.

Some of the TA's at our school were not "qualified" when they took the job on 15-20 years ago,but have acquired skills through training and experience over the years. I put myself through NVQ2 Teaching Assistant course,working on voluntary basis,before being taken on as casual then fully employed. I also have acquired other skills through training and experience. TA's now have to have a minimum of NVQ2 Support/TA to be taken on now.
Yes,I was a parent of children at the school and sure,it's great it fitted in with our lives,but I have never regretted taking on this role,even now my kids are in year 9,12 and my 22 year old about to go to uni.

Its just a shame the pay isn't that great,considering the amount of responsibility we all have.

I am a SFLA and my remit is to support the pupils at the direction of the teacher. I organise the school trips and do the dinner money admin too. I arrive early (to check emails etc) but aim to leave at the same time as the children at the end of the day. I'm nothing like a teacher; teachers have the huge responsibility to plan and teach the curriculum. They invariably arrive early, stay late and work at home too, including weekends.

The same as a NQT

That's the difference. Ours are paid nowhere near that.