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About this job
Position Information
Woodland Road Public School is located in St Helens Park, 5 km south of Campbelltown.
Our feed areas of Bradbury, Airds, St Helens Park and Wedderburn, are suburbs which are diverse in social and economic context, yet connected by the school. Set in an attractive, spacious, natural environment the school strives to provide quality teaching and learning programs to move children beyond their potential.
The student population of 269 includes children of Aboriginal descent (14%), children with a language background other than English (32%) as well as children requiring additional support in learning, mobility and social skills.
The school motto "Grow with Love and Learning" is clearly demonstrated by students achieving success in a caring environment. With a focus on literacy and numeracy our experienced staff is able to differentiate learning to cater for the needs of the individual.
Future focussed skills are balanced with fundamentals, creative arts and sport to provide each child's education through active involvement in the P & C Association, community events and classroom activities.
Specific Selection Criteria
• Approval to teach special education and/or experience teaching students with a variety of disabilities including Autism Spectrum Disorder, students with emotional disturbances and challenging behavioural needs.
• Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills with ability to work collaboratively, proactively and professionally with colleagues, parents, carers, school learning support officers, support agencies and the wider school community.
• Demonstrated ability to build and contribute to a positive school culture and school-wide wellbeing practices with a capacity to make a broader contribution to whole school extra-curricula activities.
• Ability and willingness to build respectful and authentic partnerships to engage a diverse school community including students from low socio-economic, language background other than English and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds.
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.