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About this job
Position Information
Prairiewood High School is a Year 7 to 12 comprehensive, co–educational and partially academically selective school of 1300 students. The school caters for a diverse student population with 1% of Aboriginal students and 87% of students from a wide range of non–English speaking backgrounds, including over 100 refugee students. The school has four Special Education classes. There are 60 academically selective students in each year group. The school is committed to extending its students within a culture that values excellence in teaching and learning; offers students and staff rich and innovative opportunities for learning and leadership, and actively promotes wellbeing and positive relationships. Find out more on the school website, at https://prairiewoo-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/
General Selection Criteria
Specific Selection Criteria
Proven ability to build and lead a collaborative, high-performing English faculty while contributing strategically as an effective member of the school’s leadership team.
Demonstrated understanding and capacity to lead staff in supporting the learning needs of a diverse student body, including High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) students, within a culture of high expectations.
Exceptional skills in fostering a positive, cohesive, and high-performing team environment that caters to a diverse range of staff experience levels, with a demonstrated ability to contribute proactively to the school executive and lead whole-school programs or activities.
- Demonstrated capacity to lead whole-school literacy initiatives that improve outcomes for all students, supported by effective and innovative teaching practices within the English faculty.
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
The Eligibility Requirements for Head Teacher Positions in NSW Government Schools are located here.
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 people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment, details listed above. For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.