Occupation: Principal and assistant principal

Location: Hume - Greater Shepparton

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Location Profile

Our way of doing things at GSSC

The saying goes at Greater Shepparton Secondary College (GSSC) that we are Greater Together! That is our families, staff and community all working together to support our young people, and our students leaning on these support networks to achieve their best.

Although we are a big school able to cater for more than 2,200 students, we have been able to retain a `small school¿ atmosphere through our House and Neighbourhood structure. Through this model, our students are able to feel a sense of Greater Belonging by having a house to call home. This provides students an opportunity to build relationships with key neighbourhood staff, as well as with their peers through our Vertical Home Groups.

This team around the learner is further strengthened by our Ngarri Ngarri team, made by of six staff and a Team Leader who work across neighbourhoods to support First Nations students and their families. Our Multicultural Liaison Officers (MLO) provide this same support for our Culturally and Linguistically Diverse families and speak a range of languages including Arabic, Dari, Persian, Hazaragi, Swahili, Kirundi and Samoan. Both teams work in and outside of the classroom to promote active student participation, positive family engagement, a proactive home/school partnership, culturally safe learning environment and inclusive curriculum and teaching and learning practices.

Our Wellbeing and Inclusion Hub also including a range of external allied health and education agencies working in school to support students.

Greater Shepparton Secondary College (GSSC) is among the most contemporary secondary schools in the country, featuring award-winning school design and cutting-edge facilities.

A double gymnasium, theatrette, green room and roof-top gardens are among features found in few secondary schools. GSSC¿s Enterprise and Innovation Centre for the arts, media, science and technology provides students with the subject choice and education pathways only a big school can deliver.

Our people

They say it takes a village to raise a child and the same goes for our school community ¿ we simply could not do it without our talented, diverse and passionate teaching and education support staff.

Whether it¿s in front of the classroom, maintaining our beautiful school grounds and facilities, in a leadership role, administration or providing extra support for our students and families, there are so many ways you can have a positive impact on the lives of young people here at GSSC.

Although we are a relatively new school, our people have built a fantastic workplace culture here at the college, through a induction and mentorship program supporting current staff. Our staff are also the driving force behind an active calendar of social events and opportunities to get to know one an other in a different way. Not only that but we have the benefit of living in a vibrant regional area that strives to foster a sense of community and offers a wide range of sport and recreation choice and caters to a growing food and wine culture.

Teaching in Greater Shepparton also means having the very best in professional learning and inspiration on your doorstep, with the city being home to one of the few regional centres of the Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership, building on the Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership based in Melbourne.

The Academy provides an unprecedented opportunity for our best teachers to develop their skills and become recognised as state-wide leaders in teaching excellence, while still teaching in their Shepparton classroom.

- Here from our talented teaching staff about why they love teaching in our community:

GSSC is a reflection of its community in that it is a highly multicultural school and welcomes students from all ethnic and cultural backgrounds. We are committed to creating a school community where all members of our school community are welcomed, accepted and treated equitably and with respect.

GSSC stands on the Country of the Yorta Yorta and Bangerang peoples, nations, tribes and clans and the Greater Shepparton area is home to the largest population of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people outside of Melbourne.

Greater Shepparton is located 180 kilometres north of Melbourne, with a population of 66,000. It is the fifth-largest city in regional Victoria and consists of Shepparton city, Mooroopna and Tatura.

Location Profile

Our way of doing things at GSSC

The saying goes at Greater Shepparton Secondary College (GSSC) that we are Greater Together! That is our families, staff and community all working together to support our young people, and our students leaning on these support networks to achieve their best.

Although we are a big school able to cater for more than 2,200 students, we have been able to retain a `small school¿ atmosphere through our House and Neighbourhood structure. Through this model, our students are able to feel a sense of Greater Belonging by having a house to call home. This provides students an opportunity to build relationships with key neighbourhood staff, as well as with their peers through our Vertical Home Groups.

Building relationships and nurturing a student-centred culture is at the forefront of everything that we do here at GSSC. Our College and House Captains and specialist First Nations, Multicultural, Values, Environmental and Music Student Leaders provide invaluable student voice and input and role model our college values and ethos at various events and activities, both in the school and in the community.

Our award-winning Careers Team provide the supports our students need to set Greater Expectations for themselves and to aspire for excellence. While we ask our students to set high expectations of themselves and each other, we also recognise that achieving your personal best is just that, personal! This is why our careers pathway mentoring and counselling is targeted to each individual student and our curriculum is tailored at each year level.

In addition to this, our Wellbeing Team here at GSSC is focused on providing Greater Care to our students through a range of services and initiatives including our Doctors in School program, paediatric clinic, Program for Students with a Disability,



Secondary School Nurses and Mental Health Practitioners. GSSC Wellbeing Officers are also based in each neighbourhood to support students on a day-to-day basis.

This team around the learner is further strengthened by our Ngarri Ngarri team, made by of six staff and a Team Leader who work across neighbourhoods to support First Nations students and their families. Our Multicultural Liaison Officers (MLO) provide this same support for our Culturally and Linguistically Diverse families and speak a range of languages including Arabic, Dari, Persian, Hazaragi, Swahili, Kirundi and Samoan. Both teams work in and outside of the classroom to promote active student participation, positive family engagement, a proactive home/school partnership, culturally safe learning environment and inclusive curriculum and teaching and learning practices.

Our Wellbeing and Inclusion Hub also including a range of external allied health and education agencies working in school to support students.

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Our facilities

Greater Shepparton Secondary College (GSSC) is among the most contemporary secondary schools in the country, featuring award-winning school design and cutting-edge facilities.

A double gymnasium, theatrette, green room and roof-top gardens are among features found in few secondary schools. GSSC¿s Enterprise and Innovation Centre for the arts, media, science and technology provides students with the subject choice and education pathways only a big school can deliver.

Our people

They say it takes a village to raise a child and the same goes for our school community ¿ we simply could not do it without our talented, diverse and passionate teaching and education support staff.

Whether it¿s in front of the classroom, maintaining our beautiful school grounds and facilities, in a leadership role, administration or providing extra support for our students and families, there are so many ways you can have a positive impact on the lives of young people here at GSSC.

Although we are a relatively new school, our people have built a fantastic workplace culture here at the college, through a induction and mentorship program supporting new staff. Our staff are also the driving force behind an active calendar of social events and opportunities to get to know one an other in a different way. Not only that but we have the benefit of living in a vibrant regional area that strives to foster a sense of community and offers a wide range of sport and recreation choice and caters to a growing food and wine culture.

Teaching in Greater Shepparton also means having the very best in professional learning and inspiration on your doorstep, with the city being home to one of the few regional centres of the Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership, building on the Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership based in Melbourne.

The Academy provides an unprecedented opportunity for our best teachers to develop their skills and become recognised as state-wide leaders in teaching excellence, while still teaching in their Shepparton classroom.

- Find out more about the Academy here:

- Here from our talented teaching staff about why they love teaching in our community:

Our community

GSSC is a reflection of its community in that it is a highly multicultural school and welcomes students from all ethnic and cultural backgrounds. We are committed to creating a school community where all members of our school community are welcomed, accepted and treated equitably and with respect.

GSSC stands on the Country of the Yorta Yorta and Bangerang peoples, nations, tribes and clans and the Greater Shepparton area is home to the largest population of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people outside of Melbourne.

Greater Shepparton is located 180 kilometres north of Melbourne, with a population of 66,000. It is the fifth-largest city in regional Victoria and consists of Shepparton city, Mooroopna and Tatura.

The area is a culturally and linguistically diverse community with almost one quarter of the population born overseas in more than 50 different countries. Migrant communities are predominately from Italy and Albania and settled in the region after World War II. In the following years, refugees have come from Iraq, Kuwait, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The most recent arrivals have come from Afghanistan, Iran, Sudan and other parts of Africa.

- More about our First Nations history and diversity here: Shepparton and Goulburn Valley Destination Rebrand Hero Video - YouTube
- More about the Greater Shepparton community here:

Our history

GSSC was formed by the merge of four secondary colleges in Shepparton and Mooroopna, as part of the Shepparton Education Plan - a 10-year Victorian Government strategy to transform Shepparton¿s education system for young people from early learning, through to primary and secondary school, and beyond to higher skills and further education.

GSSC commenced in 2020 across the four campuses: Shepparton High School, McGuire College, Wanganui Park Secondary College and Mooroopna Secondary College.

Our combined campus, built on the former Shepparton High School site on Hawdon Street, opened in 2022 bringing students from all four campuses onto the one site.

- More on Education Plans Victoria here:

Selection Criteria

Please address the following State-Wide Criteria:

(1) Educational Leadership

- Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school or college.

- Highly developed skills in leading and managing change including the leadership of others in the process of change.

(2) Financial, Managerial & Administrative Ability

- Outstanding financial, organisational and resource management skills.

(3) Planning, Policy & Program Development & Review

- Exemplary values appropriate to the development of student learning with a demonstrated capacity to achieve high quality student outcomes.





- Demonstrated ability to implement Department policies to a high level.

- An understanding of, and a commitment to, the use of learning technologies to improve teaching and learning.

(4) Leadership of Staff & Students

- A highly developed capacity to motivate staff, develop their talents and build an effective team.

- A clear capacity to foster a learning environment that takes account of the individual needs of students and helps students to develop their special abilities and talents.

(5) Interpersonal & Communication Skills

- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills in individual, small group and community contexts.

- Exemplary values pertaining to personal qualities of objectivity, sensitivity and integrity.

- An ability to work with parents and the community to develop a strong learning environment

(6) Local Criterion

Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate comprehensive transition processes that support students moving from Year 6 to Year 7 and between year levels, ensuring students are known, connected, supported and ready to learn through effective collaboration, communication, planning and data-informed practice.

Role

Sub School Assistant Principals at Greater Shepparton Secondary College will contribute to the leadership and transformation of the school to provide an excellent education and viable pathways for students by:

- Building a culture in the Sub School that mirrors college vision, values, mission and educational philosophy and ensures consistency of agreed practices across the College

- Contributing to excellence in teaching, learning and teacher pedagogy

- Leading the development of student connections to each other, to staff and to the school and building community participation and ownership of the new school

The role will ensure:

- The smooth running of their Sub School

- Consistent implementation of agreed practices across the College

- That students consistently demonstrate the school wide expectations of Aspiration, Integrity, Respect & Responsibility

- Students represent the College well in the community

- The inclusion and development of all students from the wide range of backgrounds in the Sub School

Responsibilities

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

- Work with the Principal team to provide leadership and modelling of college values across the College

- Attend and actively contribute to Leadership and all other relevant college meetings and events

- Adopt college leadership and teacher expectations and model these to other teachers

- Hold staff accountable for implementing all college processes and procedures, and in particular

- the College Instructional Model

- the agreed approach to SWPBS

- Contribute to the development of the GSSC Strategic Plan and Annual Implementation Plan

- Contribute to professional learning at the College

- Support staff by modelling and coaching in effective classroom management practices

- Conduct performance reviews of a number of staff

- Communicated effectively with families, including managing difficult conversations and resolving concerns in a timely, respectful and solutions-focused manner

SPECIFIC POSITION ACCOUNTABILITES

The Sub School Assistant Principal has ultimate accountability for the day-to-day operation of their Houses and their House Leaders. The Sub School Assistant Principal will:

General:

- Liaise with the Sub School Assistant Principal 10-12 to ensure that the Neighbourhood has a team approach

- While having a focus on 7-9, support the development of the House system 7-12 in their Neighbourhood and ensure that all processes are in alignment with the other Neighbourhoods

- Champion student leadership across the Neighbourhood

- Champion whole-school House activities

- Convene Neighbourhood Year 7 to 9 Suspension Meetings

- Work with the Enrolment Officer to provide advice to incoming Middle School students

Student Wellbeing:

- Be an active member of the Colleges SWPBS Team

- Oversee and guide the implementation of the SWPBS program, ensuring the accurate implementation of the matrix, expected behaviours and referral systems across the Neighbourhood

- Provide support and guidance to staff, both teaching and education support, on SWPBS implementation

- Ensure that the SWPBS system is implemented in alignment with the other Neighbourhoods

- Chair regular case management meetings for Sub School/House

- Ensure the consistent implementation of a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), including the identification of students requiring Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions, the coordination of appropriate supports, and the monitoring of their impact on student outcomes

- Ensure each student receiving Tier 2 and Tier 3 supports has a case manager (includes attendance)

- Support case managers to meet mandated requirements for priority cohorts and to implement Tier 2 and Tier 3 supports

- Case manage allocated students requiring intensive Tier 3 supports and/or interventions

- Respond to major incidents as required

- Ensure consistent implementation of the social-emotional curriculum within their Sub School; and support House Leaders to monitor and provide additional support to teachers
- Implement the College Attendance Strategy within their Sub School
- Provide House Leaders with regular reports on students at risk

Curriculum & Pedagogy:

- Ensure the College Instructional Model is being implemented in classes within the Sub School

- Participate in College SIT weekly learning walks that relate to the College SIT focus

- Ensure that within the Sub School, the curriculum is relevant, challenging and reflects College priorities

- Work as a team, oversee the development and implementation of the Connect Program for Years 7-9

Assessment & Reporting:

- Ensure assessment and reporting across the Sub School aligns with college policy

- Ensure teachers maintain up to date and comprehensive records of student learning progress

Professional Learning & Meetings:

- Participate as a member in your allocated School Improvement Team

- Convene Sub School meetings as indicated on the meeting schedule

- Convene weekly Sub School meetings of House leaders (and Homegroup Teachers as required)

- Lead & document regular and efficient meetings that are clearly focused on improving student learning

- Plan and facilitate regular team meetings focused on discussion and

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📌 Assistant Principal-Range 2 Sub-school Assistant Principal Years 7 - 9 (Shepparton)
🏢 State Government Of Victoria, Australia
📍 Shepparton