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About this job
Position Information
Banks Public School draws students from the Western Sydney suburb of St Clair. It serves a diverse community of families from low to middle class working backgrounds. The school population of 415 students includes 31% from non-English speaking backgrounds and 6% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. The school is well regarded as a safe and learning focused environment within the wider St Clair community.
Our school plan focuses on high level areas for improvement in Reading, Numeracy and Attendance. The school is currently engaged in programs to develop and sustain all areas of student development such as Speech Therapy, Chaplaincy, Junior Aboriginal Education Consultative Group, Leadership groups and Peer Support.
An active Learning and Support team and comprehensive student welfare programs effectively support all areas of student engagement and wellbeing. The school has a very active involvement with STEPS (St Clair and Erskine Park Learning Community) and local businesses engaging in programs to facilitate student, staff and community development. Opportunities exist through these partnerships for talent identification and development, professional sharing and a celebration of student and school success.
The school is well resourced and has excellent facilities such as spacious, attractive grounds with ample playground areas, fixed playground equipment, air conditioned classrooms with innovative technologies and adjoining wet areas, an assembly hall, a modern library, a computer room, a school run canteen, yarning circle, onsite before and after school care and covered outdoor learning areas. A wide variety of extracurricular activities enhance student engagement. The school is establishing a K/1 autism support class in 2025. The school community and P&C show a keen interest in the school and is very supportive.
Specific Selection Criteria
- Approval to teach special education and/or experience in teaching students with additional learning needs including autism, intellectual disabilities and behavioural difficulties with proven abilities to implement strategies to meet their communication, sensory, social and behavioural needs.
- Demonstrated ability to differentiate the curriculum and to work collaboratively to build, implement and review effective approaches that meet the needs of students.
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to positively contribute to the school culture by working collaboratively with staff members, students, families and external agencies.
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
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