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About this job
Position Information
St Andrews Public School is located in Campbelltown, in South West Sydney. The school has an enrolment of 790 students which includes 7% Aboriginal students, 47% from English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EALD), an Opportunity Class (OC) and seven support classes including 2 - Moderate Intellectual Disability (IO), 1 - Moderate Intellectual Disability and Autism (IO/AU), 2- Multi-Categorical (MC), 1 - Mild Intellectual Disability (IM) and 1- Autism (AU).
The school's vision statement, 'Children, First and Foremost' is clearly visible across our setting and is at the heart of all decision making. The school has excellent resources to cater for students and their individual learning needs and provides a variety of extra curricular activities such as a dance group, debating, Tournament of Minds and many additional opportunities. Students have access to a beautiful and stimulating sensory garden and a Structured Play Area (SPA) has been designed to support our students who require additional support on the playground.
The school has a Student Prefect Leadership Team, Student Representative Council (SRC) and a Junior Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG) which meet on a weekly basis and are active in the future direction of the school.
The school has created collaborative systems to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate processes and practices to ensure high levels of accountability. These processes provide feedback to consistently refine teaching practices to improve student outcomes. Our two appointed Assistant Principals - Curriculum and Instruction continue to work hard to build the capacity of middle leaders and support teachers to implement effective evidence-informed literacy and numeracy practices to improve teaching, learning and assessment across the curriculum.
Specific Selection Criteria
* Approval to teach infants and primary (K-6) with demonstrated experience in developing and implementing programs in literacy and numeracy, with an emphasis on data-informed practice.
* Excellent classroom management and ability to develop a positive classroom environment to enhance student engagement and wellbeing.
* Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build relationships and engage students, staff and the community.
* Ability to contribute to whole school initiatives.
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, 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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