Grade 3 teaching assistant( 1:1) question...

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My new job is grade 3. How does this work in a Primary school setting?
The pay structure is what l'm mainly wondering about? I'm assuming it has a seal for that grade?

Surely it depends on who you're employed by? It's not going to be the same everywhere.

I don't think l made my question easy to understand. :)
I know my grade amount and its sealing, but l was wondering how it could become a higher grade? What l might need to do really.

I don't know, does your LA employ TAs on a higher grade?

Usually 1:1 are the lower grades. I don't know why this is.There may well be a ceiling to your grade. It might be that you have to apply for a different TA job (in your school or a different one) at some point in order to progress. In my school there are sometimes jobs advertised internally at higher grades.

I suspect you'd need some sort of training to go above a Level 4 - in my school, all the level 5 &6 TAs have either a teaching qualification or HLTA training.
But ask at the school- the business manager would be the person to approach in the first place, as they know the ceiling for each grade.

What do you mean by the grade having a seal?

At my school all the TAs are paid at band C.
Which is about 15800 to 18500 but pro rata. I do 25 hours and get just over 9000. HLTAs get paid at band d about 18000 to 20000 but pro rata again.

Ceiling, I assumed, rollon. I might be wrong!

Oh! I hadn't even thought it might be ceiling!?

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belinda - where I am 1:1 tend to be a higher grade then classroom TAs. Here the grades are 5 to 8, occasionally I have seen grade 9 advertised. Which is approx £15k-£21k pro-rata.

That's good. Ours are banded A-D + HLTA. I've never understood why 1:1 (which I believe can be harder than general if done properly!) get paid less.

1:1 are paid less here, too. I'd much rather be a classroom TA than a 1:1 though!

God, me too! I make sure all mine rotate around though, so that no child or adult is attached to the same person all day. So difficult and wearing for both parties.

I think if you want a higher grade you might need to be able to teach the children how to spell ceiling.

Though to answer your question learning support mentors earn more money, as does training to be HLTA or becoming a SENCO. Obviously once you reach the top then your only option is to become a qualified teacher, assuming general teaching is the route you want to go down.

Though to answer your question wink learning support mentors earn more money, as does training to be HLTA or becoming a SENCO.

I thought the SENCo role could only be done by a qualified teacher?

atsea l can spell. I didn't pick up on my phone deciding for me.
Thank you for all the replies everyone.