Teacher Music – Belmore Boys High School – Sydney NSW

Belmore Boys’ High School is a family of approximately 515 students and 65 teaching and non-teaching staff, located in Southwest Sydney. Our diverse student population represents 34 languages with 98% of students from language backgrounds other than English.

Our school specialises on boys’ education, focusing on the academic, social and emotional growth of our students. Our boys enjoy positive relationships with their teachers and peers, which allows them to be creative and confident learners who recognise the importance of learning and wellbeing. Our learning environment provides students with tailored learning experiences through planned, explicit and differentiated learning activities. Our school also offers a wide curriculum allowing students to successfully transition into a diverse range of future learning and employment opportunities.

The focus areas of our school plan are:

• Student growth and attainment
• Empowering staff and students
• Community engagement and learning

The focus areas revolve around building student capacity in literacy and numeracy through explicit and remedial strategies to improve student access to curriculum. Building teacher capacity will empower staff and ensure a long-term wider impact on student outcomes as students work towards achieving the requirements of their HSC.

At Belmore Boys’ High School, every individual, staff and student, is celebrated as a unique member of our family.

• Approval to teach Music. Approval and or willingness to teach Music Ext 1 and 2.
• Approval and or Willingness to teach Visual Art.
• Demonstrated ability to differentiate teaching and learning to cater for students with a diverse range of abilities and socioeconomic and linguistic backgrounds.
• Capacity to establish and run school initiatives that engage students and contribute toward a positive school image.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to enhance student wellbeing by building relationships to engage students, staff and community.

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.

From 8 November 2021 all Department of Education employees undertaking relevant work, including any work conducted on a NSW school site, will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The successful candidate for this position will be required to confirm full vaccination status prior to the Department of Education finalising the appointment of the candidate and entry on duty. Further information on the Department’s COVID-19 response is available at https://education.nsw.gov.au/covid-19.

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

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.

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, 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