Education & Training,Teaching - Primary,Teaching - Secondary

The School

Brisbane Grammar School is a non-denominational boys’ school of about 2000 students (Years 5 to12) overlooking the Brisbane CBD. The School maintains a 150-year strong tradition of academic excellence, extensive cocurricular activities and student wellbeing programs. We are fortunate to have a team of dedicated and professional staff who provide an exceptional learning environment responsive to the needs of our students.

Our Professional Community

Brisbane Grammar School values the professionalism of our teaching staff and seeks to nurture a dynamic learning culture at the School for both students and staff. The School provides freedom for teachers to be creative and innovative, and to develop and grow our research capacity in pedagogical practice and blended learning. The School’s academic structures support collaboration, with staff working in teams within and across disciplines and between the Middle and Senior Schools. Our teachers model collaborative, lifelong learning, and are supported through generous career development opportunities and high-quality resources.

Our Learning Environment

In recent years, Brisbane Grammar School carefully audited and reviewed its curriculum frameworks and practices. Our curriculum design processes are led by teachers who continually grow and refine their teaching skills. As a result, we are committed to systematically developing effective thinking cultures within all classrooms and staffrooms. We plan learning experiences in the language of student thinking and cognition and give feedback and guide learner improvement through distinct values of inquiry. The School has a well-supported and pedagogically advanced Tablet PC program,



with all students in Years 7 to 12 enabled for one-to-one learning. Teachers are encouraged to work together to use technology and space in innovative ways, ensuring adaptive and transformative curriculum delivery. We are growing our capacity to identify and analyse relevant data that helps our teachers to respond to their students’ learning needs. In addition, the explicit teaching of literacy and numeracy informs curriculum design and classroom practice.

Applicants for all teaching positions must be eligible for registration with the Queensland College of Teachers and provide their academic transcripts and should be sympathetic to the aims and ethos of independent schools.

09/10/2026

06/11/2026

Permanent - Full Time

Pepperina Hills Outdoor Sport Centre

Job Description

About the Role

Outdoor Education at BGS contributes to the development of the Grammar Graduate through sequential outdoor learning experiences from Years 5 to 11 utilising Effective Thinking Cultures in Outdoor Education pedagogy. Each year, students reflect upon these place-based experiences building the dispositions of a Grammar learner and leader throughout the outdoor journey.

The outdoor education teacher works in a small and professional team of educators to deliver the Outdoor Education program. The Outdoor Education Teacher is responsible for the planning, preparation,



implementation and management of outdoor education experiences and facilities. The program includes experiences for Years 5 to 11 students based at the School’s Outdoor Education Centre, as well as expeditions to alternative sites, school-based training, and school community events.

The position is based at the schools Outdoor Education Centre, Pepperina Hill, which is located at Lake Moogerah, approximately 100 kilometres from Brisbane. The expedition site, Bitenbar, is 560 acres of bush and remnant forest on the Teviot Range, 5 kilometres from the Pepperina Hill site. Students are encouraged to think of the centre as an extension of the main campus at Gregory Terrace.

The outdoor education teacher reports directly to the Director of Outdoor Education and through him to the Head of Senior School, Head of Middle School and Deputy Headmaster.

Outdoor Educator Teacher is responsible for:

Teaching

- Implementing the School’s outdoor education program through developmentally appropriate and sequenced experiences providing an increasingly sophisticated set of physical and emotional challenges.
- Use of effective thinking cultures in pedagogy.
- Reviewing and improving the educational, safety and logistical aspects of the program annually.
- Staying connected to recent innovations and developments within the field of Outdoor Education.
- Participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Awards Scheme through registration as an Adventurous Journey Supervisor and planning and conducting expeditions.
- Following the programs operational documents at all times.

Organisational

- Assisting with construction, improvement and maintenance of existing program infras

📌 Outdoor Education Teacher (Brisbane)
🏢 Brisbane Grammar School
📍 Brisbane