Location Profile Willowbank Primary School opened in 2022 for all year levels, Prep to Year 6 and is located at 385 McGeorge Road, Gisborne. The school has a current enrolment of 476 students and facilities for a long-term enrolment of 550 students. The state-of-the-art school facilities include general teaching spaces and specialist facilities for music, science, food technology and physical education. The outdoor facilities include a soccer field, basketball courts, kitchen garden, a performing arts stage, play spaces and undercover areas. Willowbank Primary Schools vision is to be an inclusive school community where everyone is empowered to achieve excellence. This vision is captured in our motto `Achieving excellence, together'. We provide a safe and inclusive learning environment that inspires and challenges all members of the community to embrace learning and achieve academic, social, emotional, and physical excellence.

Willowbank Primary School is committed to:

- developing a whole-of-school culture of excellence and inclusion.
- establishing a safe, inclusive, and supported learning environment that is conducive to learning.
- developing a professional learning community that is focussed on the continuous improvement of teaching and learning and takes a collective responsibility for improving student learning outcomes.
- implementing high quality learning and pedagogical practices that maximise the opportunities presented in our inclusive and contemporary learning spaces.
- developing a strategic approach to the professional learning of staff and the ongoing development of the school's culture of inclusion and excellence.
- delivering a high quality, student focussed, rigorous and relevant curriculum that meets the learning needs of all students.




- empowering learners to take ownership and be active participants in their own learning.
- building resilience and supporting students to be happy, healthy, and confident individuals.
- engaging with parents, carers, and the wider community as genuine partners in learning, striving to achieve the best possible outcomes for students.
- creating a community hub that links families and children to services and support.

Selection Criteria – Graduates

- SC1 Demonstrated knowledge of the relevant curriculum, including the capacity to incorporate the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills. Demonstrated capacity to respond to student learning needs.
- SC2 Demonstrated capacity to implement high impact teaching strategies, guided by how students learn, and evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth.
- SC3 Demonstrated capacity to monitor and assess student learning. Demonstrated capacity to use data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.
- SC4 Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrated capacity to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with students, parents, colleagues and the broader school community to support student learning, wellbeing and engagement.
- SC5 Demonstrated behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values.



Demonstrated capacity to reflect upon practice and engage in professional learning to continually improve the quality of teaching.

Role – Graduates

The primary focus of the range 1 classroom teacher is on further developing skills and competencies to become an effective classroom practitioner with structured support and guidance from teachers at higher levels and the planning, preparation and teaching of programmes to achieve specific student outcomes. These teachers teach a range of students/classes and are accountable for the effective delivery of their programs. Range 1 classroom teachers are skilled teachers who operate under general direction within clear guidelines following established work practices and documented priorities and may have responsibility for the supervision and training of one or more student teachers. At range 1, teachers participate in the development of school policies and programs and assist in the implementation of school priorities. The focus of a range 1 classroom teacher is on classroom management, subject content and teaching practice. New entrants to the teaching profession in their initial teaching years receive structured support, mentoring and guidance from teachers at higher levels. Under guidance, new entrants to the teaching profession will plan and teach student groups in one or more subjects and are expected to participate in induction programs and other qualified learning activities that are designed to ensure the integration of curriculum, assessment and pedagogy across the school. Teachers at range 1 are responsible for teaching their own classes and may also assist and participate in policy developm

📌 Graduate Teacher Program (Bendigo)
🏢 Government schools
📍 Bendigo