Jamberoo Public School is located in Jamberoo, a small town 11 kilometres inland from Kiama on the South Coast of NSW. Traditional stories speak of the Dharawal people who first came to the area, bringing the cabbage tree palm (Dharawal). Nomadic Wadi Wadi tribes then passed through this heavily bush-clad region, following trails north. One of their traditional camps was near modern-day Jamberoo ('track or meeting place'). Throughout our beautiful region, there are stone arrangements in the Jamberoo Valley and engravings in the nearby Foxgrounds. Connecting to our First People is important to Jamberoo Public School and our surrounding community. We are grateful for the Dharawal people and acknowledge the country in which our school operates.
Jamberoo Public School has 139 students, with ten teaching staff and seven non-teaching staff members. The students at Jamberoo are dynamic and enthusiastic, and our school prides itself on being inclusive and catering to all learners' diverse needs. Jamberoo Public School is part of a very supportive community, and we value our school's parent and community involvement. Evidence of this support is the developing technological focus around our school. With a STEAM program operating in our library, the students use their growth mindsets to develop critical and creative thinking skills through communication and problem-solving activities to develop themselves as future global thinkers. Jamberoo Public School is an environmentally conscious school. Students can work with community members in our school garden, care for our productive school chickens, learn in our P&C-sponsored outdoor classroom or even study the Aboriginal bushcraft in our bush tucker garden. Students are also working closely with our government to create an Aboriginal Jamberoo (meeting place or track) on our school grounds that can be used by our community and will include opportunities for sharing and yarning circles to take place.
The Assistant Principal, Curriculum and Instruction position is a leadership role dedicated to ensuring that literacy and numeracy knowledge and skills are embedded in curriculum and assessment; high-quality teaching practices are enhanced, and the capabilities of middle leaders are strengthened in literacy and numeracy instruction. It shares the broader educational imperatives of the Assistant Principal position. Still, it explicitly focuses on the leadership of effective, evidence-based literacy and numeracy teaching and assessment practices for improved student learning outcomes across the curriculum.
The Assistant Principal, Curriculum and Instruction, provides high support and guidance to enhance teacher growth and development in literacy and numeracy and strengthens schoolwide instructional capabilities across the curriculum for middle and senior leaders.
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