Junior Classroom Teacher

Junior Classroom Teacher

St Robert's School

NEWTOWN, VIC

Primary Teacher

Contract Type: Contract Position Full Time

Applications Close: 27 November 2025

We are seeking a passionate and dedicated classroom teacher to join our junior team. This is a full-time, fixed-term contract position for the 2026 school year, with the class level to be negotiated.

We welcome applications from both experienced teachers and graduates who are eager to grow professionally and contribute to our dynamic school community and Catholic identity. A passion for teaching, sound knowledge of the Victorian Curriculum, and commitment to continuous improvement are essential.

St Robert’s Catholic Primary School is a vibrant, faith-filled, and welcoming community committed to the safety, well-being and protection of all children in our care.

The successful applicant will:

• Committed to child safety, to maintaining best practices to ensure this, and to ongoing evaluation of these practices
• Demonstrate alignment with MACS Visions for Instruction and Engagement, using evidence-based practices to maximise student learning.
• Embrace Explicit Direct Instruction and Engagement Norms as the foundation of classroom practice.
• Collaborate effectively within a team, contributing to the shared responsibility for student growth and achievement.
• Be open to coaching, reflective practice, and welcoming feedback to support professional learning and development.
• Collaborate effectively within a team, contributing to shared responsibility for student growth and achievement.

Special Requirements:

• Full registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching.
• Accreditation to teach Religious Education in a Catholic Primary School is desirable.

Success Criteria:

1. Be faith-filled with a strong commitment to the Catholic ethos of the school and to the spiritual, emotional, social, and educational well-being of all students.
2. Have strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the capacity to continue building authentic relationships with students, colleagues, and families and work collaboratively as an active member of a team.
3. Use supportive, consistent, and respectful behaviour management practices that promote a positive learning environment.
4. Display a strong understanding of contemporary learning practices, including explicit direct instruction and responsive teaching, and demonstrate a willingness to work within a low-variance, knowledge-rich curriculum.

Interested applicants are encouraged to send the following documentation to employment@srnewtown.catholic.edu.au

• Short one-page covering letter
• Attach a Curriculum Vitae, including three references, including your last two school principals
• Response to the selection criteria. Please keep responses to two pages
• St Robert’s Application Form

Attachments:

• Code-of-Conduct-for-MACS-Staff.pdf
• Application for Employment Form St Robert's Primary School-Junior Classroom Position Fixed-Term.pdf

St Robert's School

NEWTOWN, VIC

http://www.srnewtown.catholic.edu.au

Principal: Rebecca O'Leary

Affiliation: Catholic

Teaching Level: Primary

Gender: Coed

261 Students

24 Teaching Staff

17 Non-Teaching Staff

Single School

St Robert’s Primary School is a vibrant learning community and strives to realise a vision to prepare children for life as it is now and for how it may be in the future. Our school is well known for being most welcoming and family oriented, with parents appreciative of the dedication and hard work of its teachers. The spirit of partnership between parents, teachers, students, the parish and wider community and other schools is very much the fabric of the school.

Application Instructions

Please email all application documents, including cover letter, CV, response to success criteria and application form as PDFs to employment@srnewtown.catholic.edu.au