Assistant Principal-Range 1

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Teacher

Reference: 1440618

**Location Profile**:
Preston West Primary School is located on Murray Road Preston, in the City of Darebin. While located in a residential area, the school is in close proximity to the Preston Market and High Street shopping precinct. The main school building is a double story brick building that was built in 1915. A gymnasium, built in 2010, also accommodates a music room and our Before and After School Care Service. The gymnasium has a surrounding landscaped garden and dry creek river bed. A double storey building, accommodating four classrooms was completed in 2013 and five new buildings were erected in 2016 for students in Grades 4-6. Two galleries were constructed in 2017/18 to establish the Grade 4 and Grade 5 learning communities. Preston West Primary School has a rich history of educational excellence. Serving the community for over 108 years, the school motto coined in 1915, 'Duty First¿, is just as important in today's setting.

Our school encourages students to strive for excellence in all their endeavours. Our core purpose is to provide an inclusive and rigorous learning environment that challenges and engages children to grow as passionate learners. The school seeks to develop motivated, creative and independent learners who demonstrate strong social values and whose leadership, resilience and self-esteem is evident when interacting with the community. The school values are LEARN (Leadership, Excellence, Acceptance, Respect and Never Give Up).

Preston West Primary is a high performing school, placing great emphasis on academic outcomes. Our achievements are consistently significantly above state benchmarks in all areas. We are extremely proud of our reputation for providing a comprehensive and challenging curriculum, academic excellence, valuable friendships and catering for each individual. Preston West Primary School is committed to improving the achievements of all students. This is achieved through the provision of a challenging academic program, based on the Victorian Curriculum whilst reflecting worldwide best practice for 21st century learners. Our purpose is to provide a safe, stimulating and supportive environment that develops all students to their full potential - academically, socially and personally. We instil in students a lifelong love of learning. Our strong academic focus is supported by a multitude of extra-curricular activities and programs that provide a well-rounded education. Programs offered include Physical Education, Visual Arts, Music, Italian, STEAM and Intervention/Support.

Preston West Primary is committed to embedding FISO 2.0, the HITS and DET initiatives into our everyday teaching and learning. Embedding these models underpin our focus and determination to improve teacher practice and in turn provide vital and successful learning opportunities for all our students. Teaching staff are highly focussed, with ongoing professional development, to implement best practise to achieve improved outcomes for our students through explicit Literacy and Numeracy teaching models, shared curriculum planning, coaching, Peer Observations, Professional Learning Communities (PLC) and SPA (Student Performance Analyser). Staff work collaboratively in their teams to document a challenging and differentiated curriculum.

Student enrolments overall have risen dramatically over the past decade, which accounts for the significant expansion of the school's facilities. However, we are now encountering a greater stabilisation of our student enrolments
- 671 in 2024. Our predicted enrolment for 2025 is 678 students. Currently the gender break down is 46% girls and 54% boys. The proportion of students with a Language Background Other Than English is 56%. The proportion of English as an Additional Language (EAL) students has risen from 113 students in 2016 to 228 in 2023. At risk students equates to 2.2% of our students, refugees 0.2% and less than 0.1% are indigenous. Preston West Primary has an enrolment cap of 725 students. Based on the school¿s Student Family Occupation and Education Index, the socio-economic status of the student cohort is in the high range.

Our school currently has 56 equivalent full time staff: 3 Principal Class, 39 Teachers and 15 Educational Support staff. The Management Team in 2024 consists of the Principal, Assistant Principal, one Leading Teacher (Assessment/Reporting) and three Learning Specialists (Student Agency, eLearning and STEAM). The School Improvement Leadership Team (SILT) comprises of members of the Management Team and year level coordinators. The Consultation Committee includes representation from each teaching team. The results generated from the Staff Opinion Survey 'School Climate¿ section since 2016, show Preston West Primary School staff above the sta