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About this job
Position Information
Birrong Public School is located on Dharug Country in the Chullora Principals Network and has an enrolment of approximately 450 students. The school serves a highly diverse community, with 91% of students from a language background other than English and more than 30 language backgrounds represented, the largest being Arabic and Vietnamese. This diversity enriches the school community and informs a strong commitment to equity, inclusion and high expectations for every learner. The school maintains a clear focus on evidence-informed teaching, collaborative professional learning and data-informed practice to improve student outcomes. Staff work together regularly to analyse student learning, refine teaching strategies and ensure every student is supported to make strong learning progress. Student wellbeing and belonging underpin the school's learning culture. A consistent, whole-school approach to behaviour and wellbeing supports a safe, inclusive and respectful learning environment where students develop resilience, responsibility and agency in their learning.
Birrong Public School is excited to be opening our brand new public preschool. This initiative is part of the NSW Government’s commitment to deliver 100 new public preschools by 2027, which is the biggest expansion of public preschools in NSW history.
Our public preschool is an approved early childhood education and care service, operating under the requirements of the National Quality Framework. We provide a safe, secure and quality play-based and intentional educational program to support every child to make a strong start in life and learning and experience a successful transition to school. We are committed to protecting and promoting the safety, wellbeing and rights of all children. This role includes clear child safety responsibilities, including mandatory reporting, and requires a strong commitment to maintaining a child-safe environment by recognising, responding and reporting concerns and taking part in ongoing training and improvement of child safe practices.
Specific Selection Criteria
- Approval to teach preschool holding an ACECQA approved teaching qualification, with working knowledge of and ability to implement the National Quality Framework including Early Childhood Education and Care National Law & Regulations and National Quality Standards.
- Demonstrated commitment to protecting and promoting the safety, wellbeing and rights of all children.
- Demonstrated capacity to plan and implement a preschool program based on the Early Years Learning Framework, including a thorough understanding of age-appropriate pedagogies including play-based learning and intentional teaching.
- Demonstrated ability to build positive relationships with students and families from diverse backgrounds through excellent communication, time management and interpersonal skills to manage the complexity of a preschool setting.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively as part of a whole school team, including specialist school-based staff and external agencies, to design, implement and evaluate effective programs transitions for students into primary school.
- A commitment to embedding cultural responsiveness into the preschool program.
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.
The anticipated entry on duty date is Term 3, 20 July 2026.
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 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.
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