As a Primary School Teaching Assistant, you will need to master following:

• assist children in developing personal skills
• assist students in their learning
• assist students with equipment
• attend to children's basic physical needs
• encourage students to acknowledge their achievements
• give constructive feedback
• guarantee students' safety
• handle children's problems
• implement care programmes for children
• maintain students' discipline
• manage student relationships
• observe student's progress
• perform playground surveillance
• prepare youths for adulthood
• primary school procedures
• provide lesson materials
• provide teacher support
• support children's wellbeing
• support the positiveness of youths

It also helps to know the following:

• assess the development of youth
• facilitate teamwork between students
• provide after school care
• teach primary education class content
• advise on lesson plans
• assess students
• common children's diseases
• consult students on learning content
• curriculum objectives
• disability types
• escort students on a field trip
• first aid
• learning difficulties
• liaise with educational support staff
• maintain relations with children's parents
• organise creative performance
• perform classroom management
• prepare lesson content
• promote the safeguarding of young people
• teamwork principles
• work with virtual learning environments
• workplace sanitation