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**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Leading Teacher - Range 3

**Occupation**:Leading teacher

**Location**:Melbourne - Western suburbs

**Reference**:1442475

**Location Profile**:
**History**
- Springside Primary School is located in Caroline Springs in the western suburbs of Melbourne, approximately 34 kilometres from the Melbourne Central Business District. The school was originally founded in 2009 as a campus of Caroline Springs College before establishing itself as Springside P-9 College in 2012. Springside College was a Kindergarten to Year 9 educational setting that was constructed in two stages. Stage 1 opened in 2009, catering for students from Kindergarten to Year 4 with a total of 154 enrolments. Stage 2 followed in 2010, catering for students from Kindergarten to Year 9 with a total of 570 enrolments. In 2017 a further transition occurred with the opening of a local secondary college. In 2020, the school opened as the newly named Springside Primary School. Current enrolments are approximately 940 students and steadily increasing.

**Our School Motto**
- Learning Today - Leading Tomorrow

**Our School Vision Statement**
- At Springside we deliver excellence. Our community works in harmony to develop creative learners who think, act and contribute positively to an ever-changing world.

**Our School Values**
- Respect
- Optimism
- Responsibility
- Excellence: At Springside we **RORE****

**Our School Mission Statement**
- To embed a Professional Learning Community culture at Springside Primary School, where we work collaboratively and interdependently to significantly improve the outcomes of every child at our college. This will be achieved through:

- having high expectations of ourselves and others in our Professional Learning Community
- a shared belief that all students can and want to learn, and have the right to achieve their full potential
- delivering an authentic Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum that is differentiated to meet the individual learning needs of our students
- authentic and evidence-based assessment practices that are being used to identify and monitor our students' progress and their next learning
- delivering a Twenty-First Century learning environment for all members of our Professional Learning Community
- ensuring a safe and secure learning environment for all members of our Professional Learning Community
- building teacher knowledge, skills and capacity
- utilising research-based best practices and authentic evidence
- providing relevant and timely feedback for staff and students
- monitoring and reflecting on our progress
- recognising and celebrating our successes
- recognising and acknowledging areas for improvement and working collaboratively and strategically to address them

**Our Purpose**
- At Springside Primary School we have a strong focus on student growth across all aspects of their school and beyond school lives. As well as focussing on growth in student learning outcomes, we have our students¿ engagement and wellbeing at the forefront of our actions. Our priority at Springside Primary School is to meet the individual learning needs of every student and to enhance their learning opportunities and achievement. We believe every child can learn and that every child has the right to learn. We take seriously the responsibility we have in ensuring each child realises their full potential and grows to participate and contribute to their future community. This is best achieved by parents, students and staff collaboratively working together in partnership.

**SUMMARY OF KEY DIRECTIONS FOR SPRINGSIDE¿S STRATEGIC PLAN (2020-2024)**
- Learning achievement and growth for all students
- Guaranteed and viable curriculum
- Assessment for learning
- High impact teaching strategies
- Effective use of the agreed instructional model
- Adult learning using observation, feedback and coaching
- Students as active and empowered learners
- Supporting this strategic direction is Springside's Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum and lesson structure based on Explicit Direct Instruction which underpins our focus on high-quality learning and teaching. To further support this we have a strategic approach to enhance the capacity of our teachers, through the PLC model. We have implemented the School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support approach to enhance the already high expectations we have of our school community.
- We would love to find staff who are committed to evidence-based practice with an understanding or interest in the Science of Learning. In 2020, we started our journey towards aligning our curriculum, instruction and assessment practices to the Science of Reading including explicit, synthetic and systematic phonics instruction in Prep-Year One. Since 2022, our Prep-Two PLCs have focussed on decoding supported by the Little Learners Love Literacy resource and our Year 3-6 PLCs have focussed on encoding supported by Spelling Ma