Department of Education Victoria – Mount Macedon VIC

2d ago , from Department of Education & Training Victoria

Mount Macedon Primary School is a small community school which offers excellent opportunities for all students in a nurturing environment. Mount Macedon Primary School has approximately 120 students. The school is set in a beautiful environment and offers a range of well-developed facilities, including a school hall and STEAM room.

Our pedagogical framework is based on The International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme and inquiry learning. Professional development will be provided in this area.

The school maintains a high academic standard due to policies and programs that ensure a current and relevant curriculum is professionally delivered in a high quality, whole school approach to teaching and learning. The school continues to maintain strong NAPLAN results and staff work to ensure that they understand the needs of every student. The professional learning of all staff is a high priority at Mount Macedon and staff share willingly their expertise and knowledge, enhancing programs and creating an environment where all our students are encouraged to reach their full potential.

Wellbeing and Inclusion are a core focus at the school, and we work to ensure that the social emotional needs of all students are supported, both individually and in our daily practices.

MMPS has a positive education model, where all interactions, purpose, engagement, and relationships are approached with a positive mindset. At Mount Macedon we acknowledge the benefits to students when parents and teachers work together. Parents are encouraged to participate as much as they can in their children¿s educational development in either a formal or informal way.





We offer students a wide range specialist programs that include French, PE, Music, Art, Science, and Digital Technology. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is successfully integrated into the learning process at all year levels. A key feature of the school is the annual school production in which every student participates.

Mount Macedon Primary School is a happy, agile place to work.

Selection Criteria

- SC1 `Content of teaching and learning'. Demonstrated ability to inform and influence the work of others involved in the engagement, mental health, wellbeing or learning of children and young people.
- SC2 `Teaching practice'. Demonstrated ability to input into the development, implementation and evaluation of processes and strategies relating to mental health, wellbeing or learning.
- SC3 `Assessment and reporting of student learning'. Demonstrated ability to support a student's mental health, wellbeing or learning by developing and maintaining connection with external services.
- SC4 `Interaction with the school community'. Demonstrated high level interpersonal skills and communication skills. Demonstrated high level of capability to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with students, parents, other employees and the broader school community to focus on student learning, wellbeing and engagement.
- SC5 `Professional requirements'.



Demonstrated ability to influence and negotiate by gaining buy-in and ownership for ideas, gaining agreement to proposals, or involving experts or other third parties to strengthen a case.

Role

The Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System highlighted that primary schools provide opportunities to identify children with mental health and wellbeing challenges, who can then be referred to treatment, care and support.

The Mental Health in Primary Schools initiative is being expanded to every government and low-fee non-government primary school in Victoria. Scaling up across the state from 2023, by 2026 every primary school will be able to employ a Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader to implement a whole-school approach to wellbeing.

The Department of Education has been piloting the Mental Health in Primary Schools initiative in Victorian schools since 2020 in partnership with the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. Evaluation of this pilot initiative has shown that 95 per cent of Mental Health and Wellbeing Leaders consider the Mental Health in Primary Schools model has improved their school's capacity to support students' mentalhealth and wellbeing needs.

Participating schools receive funding to employ a Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader, a qualified teacher, to work across the school to implement a whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing for students, staff and families based on a broad knowledge of the needs of the school community.

The role of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader is to:

- build capability of the whole school with regard to mental healt

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🏢 Department of Education Victoria
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