Department of Education Victoria – Leopold VIC

3d ago , from Department of Education & Training Victoria

Leopold Primary School is located on the Bellarine Peninsula, 12 kilometres from Geelong. Leopold Primary School¿s Motto: ¿Learning For Life¿ espouses our vision: learning to know, learning to do, learning to be and learning to live together, equips our students with knowledge, skills and the disposition to actively embrace learning, leading all to become confident contributing member of both our school and the wider community. The values of our school community embraces are: Respect, Responsibility, Kindness and Honesty. These values ground our school community in all aspects of its day-to-day operations.

Leopold Primary School has an enrolment of approximately 875 students in almost 40 straight grades. Our school has a main administration block, incorporating meeting rooms known as Karroong Ngiti (Meeting Together), Cultural Studies, Music and Art rooms, accompanied by a further seven additional teaching blocks. The beautiful and well-maintained school grounds include the school oval, synthetic turf areas, four playgrounds, a bike track, Indigenous garden and a South East Asian garden. The Leopold Indoor Neighbourhood Centre (LINC) is housed within the school grounds and has a basketball court within the main sports hall; this space is also used for school assemblies. The LINC also holds a multifunction room that is used by the community for various sporting and community events.

The current staffing profile of Leopold PS includes a Principal and 3 Assistant Principals, over 50 teachers and 40 Education Support staff, a Mental Health in Primary Schools Leader, a Chaplain, and a Social Worker.



Leopold Primary School has a Cultural Inclusion coordinator that provides opportunities for First Nations students to get together regularly to conduct cultural activities, known as our Mok Burryn Group. The school provides an approved curriculum framework differentiated to meet student needs. Students follow the Victoria Curriculum 2.0 including Physical Education, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, STEM and Cultural Studies as part of their specialist program. The school runs its own accredited Out of School Hours Care Program, including a Holiday program and additional service provision is hosted at the school to support students with targeted needs.

Selection Criteria

SC1 Educational Leadership

- Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school.
- Highly developed skills in leading and managing change including the leadership of others in the process of change.

SC2 Financial, managerial and administrative ability

- Outstanding financial, organisational and resource management skills.

SC3 Planning, policy and program development and 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.

SC4 Leadership of staff and students

- A highly developed capacity to motivate staff, develop their talents and build an effective team.
- A clear capacity to foster a learning workplace that takes account of the individual needs of students and helps students to develop their special abilities and talents.

SC5 Interpersonal and 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.

Role

The assistant principal reports directly to the principal.

Assistant principals have a primary responsibility for the management of significant areas or functions within the school to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school's education program.In exercising the responsibility, assistant principals will have the authority to make all significant decisions relating to the program, budget and staff relating to their area of designated responsibility within the framework of the school's strategic plan, policies and budget.Assistant principals will contribute to the overall management of the school through involvement in policy formulation and decision making.

The management of significant school program or functional areas in schools involve assistant principals in the analysis of the needs of students and the translation of state educational policy and frameworks into appropriate education programs to meet the n

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