Teaching Support

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Part time

**Salary**:Salary not specified

**Grade**:Ed Support Level 1-Range 2

**Occupation**: Teacher

**Location**: Bendigo

**Reference**: 1474687

**Location Profile**:
Lightning Reef Primary School boasts outstanding open planned facilities and large grounds beside Bendigo Showgrounds. The grounds are expansive and provides for active and passive play. The full-size gymnasium and indoor canteen ensure a range of indoor activities are encompassed in daily learning opportunities. The school's mission is to provide a welcoming and challenging environment that fosters respectful and responsible global citizens, capable of thriving in the future. We hope our students graduate as knowledgeable, skilled and confident thinkers through the school being a centre of excellence committed to sharing best practice. Our key values demonstrate our shared and relentless commitment to implementing our mission, so that our vision becomes a living reality. We value _Respect:_ We show we care about ourselves, others and the environment through our actions and words. _Responsibility:_ We do the things we are supposed to do, own, and accept the results of our actions and words. _Persistence:_ We keep trying, even when things seem hard, and know when to seek help. _Kindness:_ We use actions and words to make others feel happy, or when we notice they need help. The enrolment in 2024 was around 165 students. Student Family Occupation (SFO) index in 2024 was 0.71 and the Student Family Occupation and Education Index was also high. This characterises the school as a low socio-economic school community. We gained Disability Inclusion funding for five students and assisted another 5 students to gain entry to the local Special School. In 2024 there were 18 ATSI students, 5 in Out of Home Care and 63 with an EAL background, mainly Karen.

The leadership team consists of a Principal, Assistant Principal, a Leading Teacher tagged to Student Wellbeing and an Acting Learning Specialist tagged to English and EAL. Both the AP and LS have a teaching load. Eight Homegroups were taught by teachers, with half of our homegroups having two teachers across the week. Three Intervention teachers are supported by the AP and PMSS teachers to provide additional assistance in Literacy, EAL and Numeracy, and three specialist teachers complete our Teaching profile. The school's specialist programs are Visual Arts, Music and Physical Education and a Languages program in Karen with the assistance of our Multi Cultural Aides.

increased our Education Support Officers (ES) as a result of the change to DI. Fourteen ES supported students across classrooms. The school enjoyed strong ties with the Greater City of Bendigo Council who sponsor local businesses to participate in an aspirational work program called Passions and Pathways (P&P) targeting Year Six students. The school also had strong ties with both the Eaglehawk and Bendigo Sandhurst Rotary Clubs, with Bendigo Sandhurst Rotary Club leading a weekly volunteer gardening program. The club also donated fresh fruit weekly that complemented our daily breakfast club. The school maintained positive community partnerships that supported our students and their families. The school accesses DET Speech Pathologists, Psychologists, Occupational Therapists and Koorie Education Support Officers, supplementing our own speech aide and a qualified Social Worker, employed as our PWO (0.6) to complement these services using Equity funds. A major success in 2022 was the introduction of a designated Student Attendance and Wellbeing LT. This substantial commitment via Equity funding saw a total review of processes to track student absences, work closely with the Regional Team and families to support students to attend school on a regular basis. Although our Attendance Data remained a challenge, the newly developed Staged Response to Non-Attendance will provide us with a clear implementation strategy for future years. Equity funding has been allocated to allow the Wellbeing Leading Teacher to promote and oversee SWPBS and teach RR&RR across the school, support additional ESS, release a second Leading Teacher to manage Disability and Inclusion at a whole-school level and release a Literacy leader to provide additional lessons to our EAL students.

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC1** Demonstrated capacity to perform duties consistent with established guidelines and frameworks, including coordinating and supporting others in respect to specific work functions relevant to the role.

**SC2** Demonstrated capacity to work and collaborate with others in a team environment.

**SC3** Demonstrated capacity to communicate effectively in a team environment, including high level oral and written communication skills.

**SC4** Possess the technical knowledge and expertise relevant to the position, including the ability to translate in Karen language.

**SC5** Demonstrated capacity to provide advice and support to