Karwan Primary School is the perfect place to lead innovation, shape direction and take the next step in your leadership career.
With an ongoing Leading Teacher (Leading Literacy at Karwan Primary School) position available, this is a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact on a rapidly growing, diverse and dynamic school community.
Karwan Primary School is conveniently situated at 455 Bethany Road, Tarneit.
Getting here is a breeze: it's a ***** minute drive against traffic from the inner west of Melbourne, just 40 minutes via freeway from Geelong, a smooth 35-minute drive from the northern suburbs, and a quick maximum 15-minute drive from Altona, Point Cook, Truganina, Tarneit, Eynesbury, or Lara.
Accessible and well-connected, making your way to Karwan Primary School is a stress-free journey!
Established in Term 1, ****, this purpose-built government school provides high-quality education to a diverse and expanding community in Melbourne¿s rapidly growing outer west.
The school currently has an enrolment of **** students, with continued growth projected over the coming terms and years.
At Karwan Primary School, you¿ll join a community where exceptional staff, engaged students and supportive families come together to create an outstanding and inclusive learning environment.
Our teachers, leaders, allied health professionals and support staff are highly skilled, passionate and dedicated, going above and beyond every day to ensure the best outcomes for every student.
We are truly fortunate to have such wonderful staff.
Our students come from a wide range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
They are well behaved, respectful and eager to learn, creating a positive and productive classroom atmosphere that makes teaching highly rewarding.
Equally, our families work closely with staff, strengthening collaboration and community connections.
Together, the commitment and capability of our staff,



the engagement of our students and the support of our families make Karwan Primary School a truly inspiring place to teach and lead.
Karwan Primary School operates with a distributed leadership model designed to maximise impact across all areas of the school.
The revised structure includes a Principal, an Assistant Principal-3, three Assistant Principal-1 roles (P-2, Years 3-6, Inclusion), eight Leading Teachers with clearly defined portfolios across curriculum, wellbeing and inclusion and Professional Learning Team (PLT) Leaders providing targeted team support.
All leadership roles include coaching and mentoring responsibilities, ensuring staff development and continuous improvement across the school.
Principal class roles are set to commence at the start of Term 3, Leading Teacher positions at the start of Term 4, and PLT Leaders will be appointed in preparation for the **** school year.
This role is a middle leader role and will be an active member of the School Improvement Team (SIT) focused on leading and strengthening whole-school literacy improvement, with a strong emphasis on reading, writing and oral language outcomes.
Working closely with the Leadership Team, this role provides high-level instructional leadership in literacy across the school, ensuring consistency, high expectations and strong outcomes for all students in literacy.
Key responsibilities include:
Maintaining a strong visible presence across the school.
Contributing to subject specific goals, key improvement strategies (KIS), actions and tasks aligned to the School Strategic Plan (SSP) and Annual Implementation Plan (AIP).




Leading the whole-school implementation of evidence-informed literacy practices aligned to the Victorian Curriculum 2.0 and Victorian Teaching and Learning Model 2.0.
Building teacher capability in reading, writing and oral language through coaching, modelling and targeted professional learning.
Overseeing consistent assessment practices, including data collection, analysis and moderation of student achievement.
Leading the development and refinement of a coherent literacy scope and sequence across all year levels.
Monitoring student literacy outcomes and coordinating targeted interventions for students requiring additional support.
Embedding high-impact teaching strategies, including explicit instruction and differentiation, across literacy programs.
Supporting robust Tier 1 and Tier 2 literacy instruction to improve equity and student outcomes.
Working collaboratively with other Assistant Principals and Leading Teachers to ensure consistency across the school.
Undertaking additional leadership responsibilities as delegated by the Principal.
All members of the School Improvement Team (SIT) take a hands-on approach, actively engaging with the school community, visible in classrooms, on yard duty and interacting with students.
With an open-door policy, they warmly welcome staff seeking support or conversation and students eager to share their work, fostering a collaborative environment where every teacher's voice is valued.
Karwan Primary School boasts state-of-the-art facilities, including individual classrooms, common spaces, a gymnasium, science labs, visual and performing arts spaces, well designed outdoor learning environments and expansive, manicured grounds.
These facilities support a modern, evidence-informed approach to teaching and learning.
We are committed to fostering a healthy work-life balance for all staff.
With school hours from 8:40
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📌 Leading Literacy At Karwan Primary School (Melbourne)
🏢 State Government Of Victoria, Australia
📍 Melbourne