Position Information
Glenaven Public School is a coeducational school in The Ponds Network of Schools and is located in a natural bush setting. It is a caring school, proud of its tradition of promoting academic challenge, cultural understanding and high personal standards and values. The school's three core values are Respect, Responsibility and Personal Best.
In 2025, Glenhaven Public School has an enrolment of approximately 240 students. Our diverse community includes students from different cultural backgrounds. Approximately 19.7% of our students are from a non-English speaking background and 2.1% Indigenous background.
The school's vision is valued by the local community and supported by dedicated staff who continually deliver comprehensive programs. This cohesion ensures our students are offered the best possible fully rounded education. We continue to use data-driven practices that ensure all students have access to the most appropriate programs. Triangulated data drives teaching and learning practices where teachers can successfully deliver quality differentiated instruction to all students, including those identified as high potential and gifted and those with additional support needs.
Our school plan will ensure that all staff are supported by high impact professional learning. Our work aims to increase student engagement and promote students' sense of belonging. This involves students taking a more proactive role in their learning with collaborative practice being a critical element of this process.
Continual monitoring of student performance data will determine areas of need and success at a school, class and individual level and the involvement of the school, student and whole community in this process will be essential for success.
Selection Criteria
In addition to the general selection criteria, approval to teach infants and/or primary and demonstrated exemplary practice in classroom management skills, developing positive behaviour and wellbeing strategies to support a range of students.
Ability to lead and develop a school wide process of analysing student assessment data, both internal and external, to build consistent and comparable judgement of student learning.
Demonstrated ability to work as part of a dynamic leadership team, strategically planning, leading and monitoring initiatives and applying evaluative practices to drive continuous improvement in the implementation of the School Excellence Plan.
Demonstrated ability to lead whole school extracurricular programs, including Sport and Dance.
General Selection Criteria
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
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.