Dandenong North Primary School enjoys a long-standing reputation as a family-friendly and academically successful school. In keeping with the re-generation of Dandenong as a thriving multi-cultural hub, the actual buildings of Dandenong North Primary School have undergone a transformation to bring the facilities into the 21st Century. Superb, new learning spaces, including a state of the art gymnasium, provide our students with a learning environment which is welcoming and purposeful.

Our wonderful and vibrant students come from a wide diversity of cultural backgrounds and provide a model for the adult Australian society of how diversity can deliver a fantastic team and family approach to learning.

We expect that all students should be able to achieve National and State benchmark standards in literacy and numeracy. We direct enormous resources to make sure that our students will perform at expected levels. We are most fortunate to have a team of highly skilled, capable and experienced teachers and support staff working together as a committed team to ensure every child can achieve to as high a level as possible. We are also in a position to provide intervention programs for any student who may need additional support in the key areas of reading and mathematics as well as providing mathematics enrichment classes for those students requiring extension tasks.

We are proud to be able to provide outstanding specialist programs for many students who enrol in an Australian school for the first time after arriving in Australia from overseas. We are highly skilled at providing smooth transitional pathways into the Victorian Curriculum for all of our students. We operate an innovative two-week Reception Program for newly arrived students and an outstanding,



three-tiered English as an Additional Language program (EAL).

As a school with over 800 students we are provided with the resources that allow us to offer an ideal mix of specialist programs that include: Physical Education, Art, Library and Information Communication Technology. Our school encourages and provides pathways to excellence in artistic and sporting fields because we believe that our students should have a love and understanding of the Arts as well as being fit, skilled and healthy in body, mind and soul. We know that fit and healthy children learn faster than those who are not, so we make sure that our physical education program delivers levels of fitness and preparedness that are well above average

Our school prides itself on the successful development of a family feeling and atmosphere among the students and staff. We believe that when students feel happy and relaxed, as they do at "home", they will be able to make the most of every available learning opportunity. We strive to give students and their families a strong sense of belonging to a very large family All of our staff believe in the school philosophy of "treating children as if they were our own", and a tour through the school is all it takes to experience the feeling of a positive and supportive atmosphere.





Our School Council and Staff are committed to delivering an environment where students will be encouraged to be totally engaged in their learning, fearless in expressing their creativity and confident in pursuing their personal goals. We want them to grow and develop as happy, independent, confident and resilient young people who will be in the best possible position when they leave us to make the most of the next phase of their educational journey.

Selection Criteria

SC1Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum. Demonstrated ability to lead and manage the implementation of school priorities, and the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum.

SC2Demonstrated ability to lead the planning and implementation of high impact teaching strategies that respond to student learning needs. Demonstrated ability to support teachers to evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth.

SC3Demonstrated exemplary ability to monitor and assess student learning at a class, cohort or whole-school level and use this data to lead improvement initiatives. Demonstrated ability to support others in using data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.

SC4Demonstrated exemplary interpersonal and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to lead cooperative relationships with students, colleagues, parents and the broader school community focused on student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.

SC5Demonstrated ability to model behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values and support colleagues to adopt these behaviours and attitudes. Demonstrated ability to reflect upon their own, others and whole-school practice and contribute to

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