Head of Mathematics

7 months ago

Greater Adelaide SA, Australia Hender Consulting Full time

**Head of**
**Mathematics**
**Recruitment**
Handbook

Recruitment Handbook

**Contents**
**Principal’s Welcome**

**The Story of Pulteney**

**Strategic Intent and Lived Values**

**Guiding Principles**

**Working at Pulteney**

**The Pulteney Experience**

**10 Houses, Co-curricular Activities, Experiential Learning, Terms**

**11 Teaching and Learning Vision**

**15 Information for Prospective Applicants: Head of Mathematics**

**17 Recruitment Process**

**18 Privacy Policy, Get in Touch**

Recruitment Handbook

**Principal’s Welcome**
**Welcome to Pulteney**
**Grammar School.**
Since 1847 Pulteney has committed itself to a unified purpose: to
provide opportunity for every student to prosper.

Our positive teaching staff team support one another to deliver a
personalised, innovative, and compassionate learning environment.
Through our innovative Learner Compass, we deliver teaching and
learning approaches that develop learners’ foundational literacies
and transversal skills, including quality thinking, metacognition and
learner agency.

We embrace new ideas and celebrate diversity. We are a
welcoming, forward-thinking community, that has the student’s well
- being at its core. Your school years shape not only future career
success, but it is also a time where social connections are made, and
one’s character takes form. At Pulteney, we value the responsibility
of nurturing and guiding young people, understanding their strengths
and talents, and assisting them to reach their potential.

I am proud to lead this reputable school, with a thousand students
and over 200 teaching staff, who go above and beyond to ensure
each school year is one of joy, discovery, and achievement.

booklet to learn more about the Pulteney experience. Thank you for
considering our school for the next chapter in your career

**Deborah Dalwood**
**Interim Principal**

**_Ngadlu Kaurna miyurna tampinthi. Parnaku tapa purruna _**
**_kuma. Ngadlu purrutyi kumangka padnititya._**

**_ Pulteney Grammar School is based on Kaurna land. _**
**_As a school community, we acknowledge the Kaurna _**

**_people, their spiritual heritage and living culture _**
**_and our walk together to reconciliation._**

Recruitment Handbook

**_The Story of _**

**Pulteney**
**Independent education in Australia has its origins with colonial settlement and**

**flourished throughout Adelaide prior to universal education in 1875.**

While most independent schools originated through whose parents could not afford the fees’; egalitarian and
endowment by a church body or the philanthropic ideals philanthropic from the outset. Pulteney has moved site on
of a wealthy benefactor, the story of Pulteney Grammar two occasions since its foundation, laying its current roots
School is quite different. The School was founded in 1847 on South Terrace in 1921. Since then the School has grown
to ‘offer the elements of a plain, useful education to all by acquisition and amalgamation of adjacent properties
such that are placed in circumstances that render economy rather than endowment and expansion. The School is a
indispensable’. The school was founded for the mercantile microcosm of the city in which it resides, an expression
and working classes. This ideal was reflected in the School’s of sustainable, urban renewal with a combination of
name. Where many schools have sought to take names colonial Victorian era grandeur, the scholastic gothic, a
in deference to the feats of saints or in ode to the stature converted warehouse, an old pub, a mechanic’s institute, a
of monarchs, the Pulteney Street School drew its name long forged partnership with the city of Adelaide and our
from its modest location and was named in honour of the beloved parklands, and contemporary purpose-designed
work and toil of a person: Sir Admiral Pulteney Malcolm. educational buildings. All the while aware and respectful
The South Australian in December 1848 reported on the that we gather daily on Kaurna land. The School’s birth
fledgling school’s inaugural Speech Day: ‘at 10 o’clock, the was humble but purposeful. Pulteney’s origins lie not in the
procession left the school led by banners on two poles. desire to perpetuate privilege but to build and contribute
The first was blue and had the words “Pulteney Street to the growth of society; it is a story of inclusion rather
Schools” and was followed by 180 boys walking in pairs. than exclusion. It is an origin of altruism and opportunity;
The second white banner was followed by 80 girls.’ The of pragmatic and egalitarian ideals. It is an origin that past
school was co-educational from its commencement and Headmaster Rev Alexander Kerr captured in 1898 when
in fact it was reported that in 1851, twelve full scholarships he granted the School its emblem and its motto:

- six to boys and six to girls - were granted to ‘children _O prosper thou our handiwork._

**Mission**
**To provide a meaningful and useful educational**

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