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About this job
Position Information
Hanwood Public School is a proud, dynamic public school at the heart of the Hanwood community, 5 kilometres from Griffith on Wiradjuri Land in the New South Wales Riverina. The school currently has an enrolment of 160 students, including 7% of students from an Aboriginal/Torres Strait Island background and 33% from a language background other than English. The school prides itself on community engagement, and offering strong sporting, performing arts, wellbeing and debating programs.
Whole-school focuses at Hanwood Public School include explicit teaching, the effective teaching of reading and place value, and strong whole-school wellbeing initiatives. The school is supported by an active P&C association.
This position is an early childhood teaching position at Hanwood Public School, specifically in the Hanwood Public Preschool.
Following a successful External Validation process in Term 3, Hanwood Public School is set to embark on a new School Excellence Plan from 2026. Our 2021-2025 School Excellence Plan and 2024 Annual Report can be found on our school website https://hanwood-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/
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 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.
Special Notes
Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.
It is anticipated that the entry on duty date is D1, T1, 2026, 27 January 2026.
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, neurodiverse people and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please contact the hiring manager using the contact details provided above. For more information, visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion
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