Location Profile Sunshine Heights Primary School Our School Sunshine Heights Primary School is a passionate, vibrant and multicultural P¿6 school community in Sunshine West, in Melbourne¿s west. We are a community of approximately 360 amazing students, representing more than 40 different cultural backgrounds, and we see this diversity as one of our greatest strengths. Our staff comprises approximately 41 equivalent full-time staff, including three Principal Class leaders, 25 teachers, 11 Education Support staff and two Allied Health professionals. We are part of the Deer Park/Sunshine Network. At Sunshine Heights, we believe that relationships are the foundation for everything. We invest time in knowing and understanding our students and families and in fostering a genuine sense of identity, belonging and partnership. We are committed to building a community in which everyone can know, show and grow themselves openly and without judgement. Our diversity is something we actively celebrate. Our annual Harmony Day celebrations are a highlight of the school year, culminating in an epic community Block Party that brings together our students, families, staff and wider community. We also believe that schools should be joyful places. We work incredibly hard and have high expectations of ourselves and one another, but we laugh, celebrate, create, perform and have fun together too. Teaching and Learning at Sunshine Heights We are ambitious about what our students can learn and passionate about the craft of teaching. Our approach to curriculum, teaching and professional learning is informed by the Science of Learning and Reading and by the best available evidence about how students learn. We are building a coherent approach in which curriculum, pedagogy,



assessment and professional learning work together rather than existing as separate initiatives. Over recent years, we have undertaken significant curriculum development across our school. This includes the development of our own Systemic Knowledge Curriculum , carefully sequencing the knowledge we want students to develop from Prep to Year 6; a comprehensive approach to writing and sentence-level instruction ; and explicit, systematic approaches to early reading. Our Systemic Knowledge Curriculum reflects our belief that children should leave primary school with rich knowledge of the natural and social world around them. Science is an significant part of this work , with students progressively building knowledge across the biological, chemical, physical and Earth and space sciences. Alongside our curriculum work, we are developing a shared instructional approach to great teaching. Our work focuses on ensuring students are actively engaged in learning, teaching new material explicitly, checking understanding and responding to what we find, and supporting students towards accuracy, depth and mastery. Professional learning is central to our culture. We believe that teaching is complex, intellectually demanding work and that expertise develops through learning, deliberate practice, feedback and reflection. Instructional coaching is an important part of how we work, and our teachers regularly work with colleagues and leaders to examine and strengthen their practice.



STEM at Sunshine Heights We want Science and Technology to be exciting, purposeful and intellectually rich parts of children's experience at Sunshine Heights. Our STEM program provides students from Prep to Year 6 with opportunities to investigate, design, make, test, solve problems and apply their learning. We want students to experience the joy of asking why?, the satisfaction of figuring out how?, and the confidence to persist when the first solution doesn't work. We also see STEM as bigger than what happens during a weekly specialist lesson. Our school and grounds provide enormous opportunities for authentic learning. Our developing gardens, sustainability projects and connections with the local environment provide opportunities for students to engage with science in the world immediately around them. Technology and design provide further opportunities for students to create, solve authentic problems and see themselves as capable thinkers, designers and makers. We want our STEM teacher to help us imagine what else is possible. Who This Role Will Suit We are looking for someone who genuinely loves Science and Technology and wants children to love them too. This role will suit a teacher who is curious about the world, enjoys understanding how things work and gets excited about sharing that curiosity with children. You might have particular expertise in science, engineering, digital technologies, design or making
- or simply a broad passion for STEM and an appetite to keep learning. We want someone who can combine that enthusiasm with excellent teaching. At Sunshine Heights, engaging learning isn't about keeping children busy or producing an impressive end product. We want students to develop gen

📌 STEM Teacher (Melbourne)
🏢 Government schools
📍 Melbourne