Teacher - Ongoing - Canterbury South Public School

Permanent full-time job at Canterbury South Public School (Canterbury, New South Wales, Australia) recruited via NSW Department of Education (Sydney NSW, Australia)

Job Reference 0000B309

Closing date November 12, 2025 (AEST)

Location High St, Canterbury 2193 NSW, Australia

Type Full-Time

Status Permanent

Contact Kerri Lovi 02 9789 5255

About this job

Position Information

Canterbury South Public School is a growing school dedicated to fostering academic growth and student wellbeing. The school has a current enrolment of 274 students. 5% of students are of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander heritage. 59% of students have a language background other than English. Canterbury South Public School is located adjacent to Cup and Saucer Creek, between Earlwood, Clemton Park and Campsie and is a member of the Canterbury network of schools. The school operates within a contemporary co-teaching learning environment in which up to 4 classes teach and learn collaboratively in flexible learning spaces. Students engage in lessons co-taught by their teachers using various co-teaching modes and methods.

Canterbury South Public School engages the co-teaching cycles where hub buddies plan and teach in cycles of continuous collaboration to facilitate collective teacher efficacy. Throughout the cycle, opportunities to investigate student assessment data, engage in shared professional learning, time to co-plan strategic learning experiences and consideration of student learning goals are considered. The school has an embedded culture of learning walks that support ongoing professional reflection and growth.

Canterbury South's dedication to student wellbeing, rigorous curriculum and innovative assessment practices saw the school externally validated in 2024 as excelling in 9 domains and will be central to the delivery of this strategic improvement plan in 2025 - 2028.

Specific Selection Criteria

1. Approval to teach Infants (K-2) and Primary, with a demonstrated ability to plan and implement high quality, data-informed literacy and numeracy programs, utilising evidence-based practices.
2. Highly developed interpersonal skills to actively contribute to a culture that values collaboration, high expectations and building positive partnerships with the whole school community.
3. Evidence of effective and positive classroom management and ability to develop an engaging co teaching learning environment that enhances the wellbeing of all students.
4. Demonstrated capacity and willingness to support whole school programs including extra-curricular activities and HPGE initiatives, to strengthen school culture.

Conditions

An unconditional full approval to teach is a requirement. If you do not hold a full approval to teach with the NSW Department of Education, you are required to commence the application process at the same time as you apply for this teaching opportunity.

Special Notes

Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.

About the NSW Department of Education

The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia with responsibility for delivering high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population. We welcome applications from all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, please contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team (dandi@det.nsw.edu.au) or visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion

New merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals have been introduced to provide greater clarity to applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are located here. To ensure that your application complies with the guideline page limits, your attachments must be in PDF format.

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