Steam Specialist Teacher Part Time .4 Position

Location: North West Region | Central Goldfields

Job type: Part time / From 28/01/2025 - 25/01/2026

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Teacher

Reference: 1452022

**Location Profile**:
Newstead Primary School provides a warm, caring and safe learning environment for the children of our country town and community. Newstead Primary School was established in 1877 and is a focal point of our country town.
The school is located on the land of the Dja Dja Wurrung people and wishes to acknowledge them as the Traditional Owners of it. The school community pays respect to their Elders - past, present, and emerging.
Our vision is to **en**able our students to understand and engage in both the local and global community, to be lifelong learners and well informed active community members.**

The School's original 1877 (and refurbished) redbrick building sits proudly in the large school grounds. Large classrooms cater for flexible learning. A modern separate multipurpose building is utilised for the Art program and other school and community activities. In 2025, we will be moving to four classrooms with a growing enrolment.

The grounds and gardens feature tended mature trees, flower and plant beds, as well as large sports areas, play and learning spaces for the children including two playgrounds, basketball and netball courts, footy and soccer pitches, a veggie garden, and quieter retreat areas.

Newstead Primary School provides support and stimulation for the students to develop their full potential. Teachers have high expectations that students work to their personal best and respect and care for themselves, others and the environment.

Our safe, secure and attractive environment inspires students, staff and the wider community to value learning and to grow in self-awareness and social responsiveness, with opportunities for the students to develop and succeed socially, physically, academically, creatively and emotionally.

**School Values**:
Respect, Responsibility & Resilience are the values that we wish our students and School community to uphold.
- ** Resilience** - being able to manage our emotions in any situation. It means being persistent, bouncing back from adversity and making the right choices.
- ** Respect** - treating ourselves, others and our environment with care and consideration. It means interacting and appreciating the unique qualities of all individuals.
- ** Responsibility** - being accountable for our actions and resolving differences in a constructive way, contributing to our community and ensuring the preservation of our environment.

These values were developed through a process that involved the whole school community.

**Child Safe**:
Newstead Primary School has a culture of Child Safety. The emotional and physical wellbeing of our students is pivotal to their success at school, as adolescents, and in their future lives. Physically and emotionally healthy students are happy, able to deal positively with life¿s challenges, experience a sense of connectedness with the school and others, and are well placed to develop into well-balanced and successful young adults. **All staff, volunteers and school council members of Newstead Primary School are required to observe child safe principles and expectations for appropriate behaviour towards and in the company of children.**

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC1** Demonstrated high level of knowledge of the relevant curriculum, including the ability to incorporate the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills. Demonstrated high level of ability to respond to student learning needs.

**SC2** Demonstrated high level of ability to plan for and implement high impact teaching strategies, guided by how students learn, and evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth.

**SC3** Demonstrated high level of ability to monitor and assess student learning. Demonstrated high level of ability to use data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.

**SC4** Demonstrated high level of interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrated high level of ability to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with students, parents, colleagues and the broader school community to support student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.

**SC5** Demonstrated behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values. Demonstrated high level of ability to reflect upon practice and engage in professional learning to continually improve the quality of teaching.

**Role**:
Range 2 classroom teachers play a significant role in assisting the school to improve student performance and educational outcomes determined by the school strategic plan and state-wide priorities and contributing to the development and implementation of school policies and priorities.

A critical component of this work will focus on increasing t