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About this job
Position Information
Normanhurst Public School is located in the northern suburbs of Sydney and has a student enrolment of 380 students with 30% of students from non-English speaking backgrounds.
There are high expectations for student achievement across academic, sporting, and creative areas and students are provided with a broad range of learning opportunities to assist them in realising their potential. A strong focus on catering to the individual needs of students is established both through differentiated class programs and specific support and enrichment programs. A diverse range of extra-curricular programs is offered across areas of sport, creative arts, technology, debating, leadership, and environmental education.
Our school has three key values of: Be Responsible, Be Respectful, and Strive for Success and these are taught explicitly, with expectations across all settings stemming from these values. We recognise the relationship between well-being and learning and take collective responsibility for our students.
General Selection Criteria
Specific Selection Criteria
In addition to the general selection criteria, approval to teach infants and/or primary, with proven capacity to effectively balance the role of an exemplary classroom teacher with the complex responsibilities of a leadership role.
Proven capacity to work as a collaborative member of the executive team to strategically plan and lead initiatives and apply evidence-informed practices that contribute to the school’s strategic directions.
Highly developed educational leadership skills with an expertise in building the capacity of all staff to meet student needs, with a strong focus on explicit teaching, differentiation and implementing new curriculum.
A visible leader with outstanding interpersonal skills who engages in genuine collaboration and builds authentic partnerships with students, staff, families, and the wider community.
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.