Primary Teacher: Multi-stage

Gwabegar Public School, Gwabegar NSW

Placement level: Teacher

Contact for enquiries: Tracy McGlashan (Principal), tracy.mcglashan2@det.nsw.edu.au, 02 6843 6252

Additional resources: explore what it's like to live and work in the Narrabri area.

The Welcome Experience is a new service supporting essential workers and their families who are thinking of moving or have made the move to a rural location. The service connects you and your family with local people and local resources to help you settle in and feel at home in your new community faster.

Placement details

Terms 1 - 4, 2025 (Applicants can request a shorter duration in their application).

Role description: The placement will be full-time teaching K-2 and includes taking RFF classes for the other teacher, an anticipated maximum of 10 students. The teacher will be supported by the Teaching Principal and assisted in the classroom by an SLSO.

Desired candidate expertise:

• Approval and/or experience in teaching students in a primary school setting.
• Demonstrated ability to design and teach quality, differentiated educational programs for all students across a K-6 setting.
• High-level communication and interpersonal and organisational skills with the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues, parents, and carers within a team environment to support students.
• Understanding and willingness to support the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and their families, students in low socio-economic rural communities.
• Experiences and or talents that allow you to balance and maintain a healthy work-life balance, that would make you an asset to our small school community.

Accommodation details

There is a 3-bedroom house, through Teacher Housing that may be available. Closest town for supplies is Baradine, 38kms on a sealed well maintained road.

Please note: Teacher Housing availability can depend upon a variety of factors, including vacancy status and potential priority offers to other staff with full time rural appointments. Teacher Housing Authority (THA) may not be able to confirm the allocation of properties until all applications have been received and processed. Applicants are encouraged to discuss property availability directly with THA. Participants of the Rural Experience Program are not eligible for the Housing Rental Subsidy but may rent a property (at market value) through the THA if available.

School details

Gwabegar Public School as a current enrolment of 20 students and is an isolated rural and remote school situated in the heart of the Pilliga Forest, 38km north of Baradine and two and a half hours from the regional centres of Dubbo and Tamworth. We have dedicated staff who nurture students to achieve their full potential. The school has excellent facilities which include well-maintained classrooms in pleasant, grounds and green surroundings. Classrooms are fitted with the latest interactive panel boards and every student in the school has access to a laptop and iPad, as well as an iPad that they leave at home to support their learning.

The school implements high-quality inclusive programs that focus on Literacy and Numeracy with high expectations, collaborative practices, and evidence-based teaching.