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Location: Geelong | Queenscliff
Job type: Full time / From 15/07/2024 - 14/07/2029
Organisation: Schools (Government)
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Teacher
Reference: 1411440
Demonstrated capacity to create a shared vision, define and gain acceptance of school goals and set and communicate expectations for effective performance.
Demonstrated ability to manage the quality of teaching and create a positive culture of challenge, support and collaboration.
Demonstrated capacity to produce and implement clear, evidence-based improvement plans and policies and lead innovation and change.
Demonstrated capacity to ensure that the school¿s human, physical and financial resources are efficiently allocated and managed.
Demonstrated capacity to create a professional learning community that is focused on the continuous improvement of teaching and learning, supporting all staff to achieve high standards and commitment to their own learning and wellbeing.
Demonstrated capacity to develop positive relationships with students, parents/families and the local community and participate in and contribute to system-level activities.
Demonstrated ability to establish a strong partnership with parents and the local community, ensuring a strength based school culture and a nurturing and stimulating learning environment that supports the needs and aspirations of all students and staff.
The role of the principal is to lead and manage the planning, delivery, evaluation and improvement of the education of all students in a community through the deployment of resources provided by the Department and the school community.
At the same time, the principal, as executive officer of the school council, must ensure that adequate and appropriate advice is provided to the council on educational and other matters, that the decisions of the council are implemented and that adequate support and resources are provided for the conduct of council meetings.
The principal is accountable for the overall management and development of the school within statewide guidelines and Government policies. A clear set of accountabilities, which distinguish their work from other members of the Teaching Service and the education community are set out in detail in the contract of employment.
The core accountabilities of all principals are to:
Appropriately qualified individuals currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching.
Applicants seeking part-time employment are encouraged to apply for any teaching service position and, if they are the successful candidate, request a reduced time fraction. Such requests will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis and will be subject to the operational requirements of the school.
The Department of Education is committed to the principles of equal opportunity, and diversity and inclusion for all. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department. The Department recognises that the provision of family friendly, supportive, safe and harassment free workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work, diversity and safety across all schools and Department workplaces. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for persons with a disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines).
Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via marrung@education.vic.gov.au
Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:
https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/child-safe-standards/policy
The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:
https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/values-department-vps-school-employees/overview
To be eligible for employment, transfer or promotion in the principal or teacher class a person must have provisional or full registration from the Victorian Institute of Teaching. In addition, from 3 August 2020, to be eligible for employment in the principal class or teacher class, a person who graduated from a Victorian Initial Teacher Education program after 1 July 2016, must demonstrate that they have passed the literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher education (LANTITE) requirements. This condition is satisfied where the LANTITE requirement is part of the Victorian Initial Teacher Education program completed by the person.
To be eligible for appointment as a principal a person must either already be a Principal or have met the Victorian Aspiring Principal Assessment (VAPA) requirement as follows:
Our school is located on the Bellarine Peninsula, in the midst of the small, but growing coastal town of St Leonards. Our campus is just 300 metres from the beach and Port Phillip Bay. Our students have a rich outdoor classroom, a place where they are immersed in community and the natural, marine and coastal environment.
At St Leonards Primary School our mission is to develop future capable learners who will become great adults. Our values are respect, responsibility and safety.
We will achieve our mission by nurturing students to:
- want to learn, know how to learn and be engaged and have agency in their learning
- know that anything is possible
- be creative, curious and confident inquirers
- be happy, caring and inclusive with a strong sense of community
- have high expectations of themselves and others
Our children learn academically, emotionally and socially in a thriving supportive learning community.
Our staff are purposeful in delivering optimal experiences, providing all students with learning that is personalised, evidence-based and technologically rich. Our students engage in a broad and differentiated curriculum promoting student voice, creativity, resilience and a growth mindset.
High expectations underpin the rich learning tasks and challenges provided for all students as they are supported to achieve and thrive. Professionalism, instructional capacity and accountability of our teachers is paramount to the education our students receive. The school has strong and inclusive professional learning culture.
Our positive school culture is built on a belief that we are a community of learners and agents in our own learning. This is underpinned by the teaching of the Learner Strengths of Collaboration, Self-Management, Communication, Thinking and Research. Using this inquiry approach means that we are all constantly improving our capacity to learn. The specific teaching of these strengths moves us towards developing 21st century learning capabilities.
There is a strong focus on literacy and numeracy to provide all students with the key tools needed for learning. Overlaying our teaching of the Victorian Curriculum is the teaching of School Wide Positive Behaviour and Respectful Relationships. Like academic skills, these social skills must be taught explicitly, regularly practised and acknowledged frequently to ensure mastery.
Our learning community is symbolised by the St Leonards Pier and the animals that live underneath represent our St Leonards Learner strengths and values.
In 2024 our priorities are learning for all, especially in mathematics, and environmental health, mental health and wellbeing.
Full time / From 15/07/2024 - 14/07/2029
Principal-Range 3
Caleb Sutton Business Manager | 03 52571460