Midday Supervisor
| Posting date: | 19 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 07 July 2025 |
| Location: | Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE4 7DZ |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 62d72c79-2b2a-4a57-8271-55182138d738 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you passionate about working with children and making a positive impact?
Are you looking for a part time, term time only role?
Are you reliable, flexible and committed to being a valuable team member?
If so, you would be an ideal candidate for a Midday Supervisor at Norwood Primary School.
Your role:
• Keeping pupils safe at all times;
• Supporting pupils in the dining hall to collect their lunch;
• Support with cutting food and ensuring pupils have eaten well;
• High expectations and reinforcing good table manners;
• Supporting pupils to play in a kind and fair manner;
• Address behaviour in line with our behaviour policy;
• Clean tables and benches, and put these away.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer well-being support and professional development.
A friendly environment and our school is committed to developing learners who, through quality education, provision, resources and environment, reach their full potential in all areas of our broad and balanced curriculum. We work as a strategic team across all job roles to implement learning and teaching strategies that enable children to acquire and develop a range of skills and knowledge.
Further details about the role
JOB DESCRIPTION – MID DAY SUPERVISOR
Salary Point 2
Norwood School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Responsible to: Head Teacher, or Deputy Head Teacher
Purpose of the Job: To ensure the security and care of the pupils of the school and to promote their social development during the lunch time period.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
1. To supervise pupils, during the lunch period, in dining hall, playground areas and school premises, ensuring the safety, welfare, physical and mental well-being of pupils and the maintenance of good order and discipline.
2. To report to the Co-ordinator* at the beginning of the lunch period and receive any instructions with regard to duties.
3. To monitor the behaviour of pupils, discouraging in a positive way, any anti-social behaviour and reporting any incidents to the Co-ordinator* as appropriate.
4. To ensure the safety and wellbeing of children, providing emotional support where necessary.
5. To arrange and supervise appropriate activities under the direction of the Co-ordinator*.
6. To ensure that all pupils who suffer any injury or accident are dealt with appropriately in accordance with the school’s agreed procedures.
Dining Hall
7. On entering the dining hall, ensure that pupils have washed their hands.
8. To organise dinner queue and entrance of pupils into dining hall and from dining hall to playground: ensuring good behaviour and calm atmosphere. To deal with any misbehaviour that may occur in accordance with the school’s behaviour policy. Report, as appropriate, incidents to Co-ordinator*.
9. To encourage all pupils to eat but especially those with special needs or disabilities and to assist children with cutting up of food, pouring of water etc. where necessary.
10. To encourage social skills and good table manners, ensuring safety with knives and forks.
11. To clean up spillages of food and to organise clearing cutlery and crockery off tables.
Playground
12. Where appropriate, to collect pupils from classroom ensuring that they are adequately dressed for the weather conditions.
13. To supervise and control entrance and exit to school premises by pupils during the lunch break. Check on any strangers who may enter the school grounds and report any concerns to the co-ordinator*.
14. To ensure that pupils who leave the school site have permission to do so.
School Premises
15. To supervise pupils on the school premises in the hall, classrooms and through corridors, when they are not allowed outside, because of inclement weather.
16. To ensure that, when classrooms are used during the Midday break, because of inclement weather, that the children are quietly occupied and that the classroom is left tidy, ready for afternoon school.
17. To check toilet areas regularly to ensure that they are clean and being used appropriately. To report any problems to the Co-ordinator*.
18. To:
• take part in training appropriate to the job of midday supervisor.
• take part in any appraisal arrangement made by the school.
• undertake any other duties consistent with the purpose of the job.
* or Head Teacher or Deputy Head Teacher as agreed.
Commitment to safeguarding
Norwood School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff, governors and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Are you passionate about working with children and making a positive impact?
Are you looking for a part time, term time only role?
Are you reliable, flexible and committed to being a valuable team member?
If so, you would be an ideal candidate for a Midday Supervisor at Norwood Primary School.
Your role:
• Keeping pupils safe at all times;
• Supporting pupils in the dining hall to collect their lunch;
• Support with cutting food and ensuring pupils have eaten well;
• High expectations and reinforcing good table manners;
• Supporting pupils to play in a kind and fair manner;
• Address behaviour in line with our behaviour policy;
• Clean tables and benches, and put these away.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer well-being support and professional development.
A friendly environment and our school is committed to developing learners who, through quality education, provision, resources and environment, reach their full potential in all areas of our broad and balanced curriculum. We work as a strategic team across all job roles to implement learning and teaching strategies that enable children to acquire and develop a range of skills and knowledge.
Further details about the role
JOB DESCRIPTION – MID DAY SUPERVISOR
Salary Point 2
Norwood School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Responsible to: Head Teacher, or Deputy Head Teacher
Purpose of the Job: To ensure the security and care of the pupils of the school and to promote their social development during the lunch time period.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
1. To supervise pupils, during the lunch period, in dining hall, playground areas and school premises, ensuring the safety, welfare, physical and mental well-being of pupils and the maintenance of good order and discipline.
2. To report to the Co-ordinator* at the beginning of the lunch period and receive any instructions with regard to duties.
3. To monitor the behaviour of pupils, discouraging in a positive way, any anti-social behaviour and reporting any incidents to the Co-ordinator* as appropriate.
4. To ensure the safety and wellbeing of children, providing emotional support where necessary.
5. To arrange and supervise appropriate activities under the direction of the Co-ordinator*.
6. To ensure that all pupils who suffer any injury or accident are dealt with appropriately in accordance with the school’s agreed procedures.
Dining Hall
7. On entering the dining hall, ensure that pupils have washed their hands.
8. To organise dinner queue and entrance of pupils into dining hall and from dining hall to playground: ensuring good behaviour and calm atmosphere. To deal with any misbehaviour that may occur in accordance with the school’s behaviour policy. Report, as appropriate, incidents to Co-ordinator*.
9. To encourage all pupils to eat but especially those with special needs or disabilities and to assist children with cutting up of food, pouring of water etc. where necessary.
10. To encourage social skills and good table manners, ensuring safety with knives and forks.
11. To clean up spillages of food and to organise clearing cutlery and crockery off tables.
Playground
12. Where appropriate, to collect pupils from classroom ensuring that they are adequately dressed for the weather conditions.
13. To supervise and control entrance and exit to school premises by pupils during the lunch break. Check on any strangers who may enter the school grounds and report any concerns to the co-ordinator*.
14. To ensure that pupils who leave the school site have permission to do so.
School Premises
15. To supervise pupils on the school premises in the hall, classrooms and through corridors, when they are not allowed outside, because of inclement weather.
16. To ensure that, when classrooms are used during the Midday break, because of inclement weather, that the children are quietly occupied and that the classroom is left tidy, ready for afternoon school.
17. To check toilet areas regularly to ensure that they are clean and being used appropriately. To report any problems to the Co-ordinator*.
18. To:
• take part in training appropriate to the job of midday supervisor.
• take part in any appraisal arrangement made by the school.
• undertake any other duties consistent with the purpose of the job.
* or Head Teacher or Deputy Head Teacher as agreed.
Commitment to safeguarding
Norwood School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff, governors and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.