Assistant Principal - Fort Street Public School

Permanent full-time job at Fort Street Public School (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) recruited via NSW Department of Education (Sydney NSW, Australia)
Job Reference 0000AQTW
Closing date November 6, 2024 (AEST)
Location Observatory Hill, Sydney 2000 NSW, Australia
Type Full-Time
Status Permanent
Contact Michele Peel-Yates
0408669150

About this job

Position Information

Fort Street Public School, established in 1842 as the Model School for exemplary education, is an inner-city school located in Sydney's historic Rocks area with a current enrolment of 300 students, Kindergarten to Year 6. Fort Street has a proud tradition of providing excellence in educational programs in a nurturing and inclusive environment. The school serves a culturally and linguistically diverse community, with 84% of students from a Language Background Other Than English.

The school, located in one of Sydney's iconic heritage and cultural locations atop Observatory Hill, commands outstanding views across the harbour and provides students access to a wealth of significant educational experiences. The school has undertaken an expansive rebuild to allow for a student capacity of 550 in addition to providing world class, future focused educational facilities. Classroom teaching is highly collaborative, is conducted in purposely designed Learning Hubs where hub Teachers have a collective responsibility across a Stage cohort. The school's professional body includes a balance of experienced and early career teachers, cohesive and supportive executive and administration teams and highly skilled classroom Support Officers.  

Students pursue academic excellence along with a range of extra curricula high-interest and targeted enrichment programs including STEM, Public Speaking, Debating, Chess, PSSA representative Sports and an extensive Music program. The school has a strong sense of community and is supported by parents and the wider community working together to enhance the school's extra curricula programs, special events and celebrations

General Selection Criteria
1. Successful teaching experience with capacity to initiate improvement in teaching, learning and classroom practice
2. Knowledge of curriculum, assessment and student welfare with the ability to lead and design quality, inclusive teaching and learning programs
3. Educational leadership skills to build the capacity and manage the performance of individuals and teams
4. Well developed communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build relationships and engage students, staff and parents
5. Ability to plan and manage resources effectively and equitably to support teaching and learning
6. Knowledge of and commitment to the Department's Aboriginal education policy
Specific Selection Criteria
In addition to the general selection criteria, approval to teach infants and/or primary 

Exhibit exemplary practice and lead colleagues to plan, implement and review the effectiveness of their teaching and learning programs to develop students' knowledge, understanding and skills

Promote equity by recognising the uniqueness of all cultures, languages and communities and commit to sustaining a positive school culture.

Lead and sustain a collaborative professional culture that enables complex problem solving and evidence informed decisions for planning, teaching, assessing and reporting within a co teaching partnership.

Lead colleagues to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching and learning programs differentiated for the specific learning needs of students across the full range of capabilities.

 
Conditions

An unconditional full approval to teach is a requirement. If you do not hold a full approval to teach with the NSW Department of Education, you are required to commence the application process at the same time as you apply for this teaching opportunity.

 

Special Notes

Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.
 

About the NSW Department of Education 

The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia with responsibility for delivering high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population. We welcome applications from all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, please contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team (dandi@det.nsw.edu.au) or visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion

New merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals have been introduced to provide greater clarity to applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are located here. To ensure that your application complies with the guideline page limits, your attachments must be in PDF format.

 

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