Work Type: Fixed-term - Part-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Classroom Teacher
Occupation: Classroom teacher
Location: Melbourne - Inner South East suburbs
Reference: 1505150
St Kilda Park Primary School, founded in 1882, is a highly popular inner-suburban bay side school located on Fitzroy Street, St Kilda within Albert Park Reserve. St Kilda is a vibrant, diverse neighbourhood with a high population density.
As of May 2025, our student population is 321.
The school facilities include the original 1882 two storey brick building along with additional buildings and facilities that have been added in the subsequent 143 years which include flexible teaching spaces, a library, multipurpose centre and specialist teaching spaces including a kitchen garden and kitchen.
The school works closely with Parks Victoria to utilise adjoining ovals and parkland during the school day to complement its existing play areas and to increase opportunities for physical activity and sports.
Teaching at St Kilda Park is grounded in educational research and cognitive science. We ensure that students make the most of their time on task by maximising the quality of each learning moment. We employ explicit teaching, delivering new material in manageable steps, along with guided practice, teacher modelling, questioning, guided practice and review and retrieval practices. These are whole-school strategies that ensure all students make steady progress in their learning journey.
Our instructional routines are crucial. We prioritise teaching first, reducing cognitive load, providing ample opportunities for practice, and focusing on efficient and effective learning. As educators, we recognise that knowledge stored in long-term memory is active and can be applied flexibly and effortlessly across a range of contexts. We beleive that knowledge is what students think with. With this in mind, we are dedicated to a knowledge-rich curriculum, ensuring that foundational, enabling, and problem-solving knowledge is strategically developed as students progress through each stage of their education.
Our school has 15 classes, with two classes at each year level. We have five specialist subjects which each class visits every week, meaning our students engage in a broad and rich curriculum. We have additional teachers who provide tutoring and intervention for targeted students. There are two Assistant Principals and a Principal, a Business Manager and an Office Manager. There are ten Integration Aides. Recently we have engaged a Speech Therapist, an Occupational Therapist and a Counsellor to support our students with additional needs.
The school community has a special commitment to Visual and Performing Arts and an enriching Italian program that extends into the school's curriculum. Our Year Three and Four students are involved in an extensive Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program.
Our vision is to build a progressive and nurturing culture underpinned by kindness, collaboration and inclusion. This focus on strong and positive relationships sits at the heart of what we do and allows us to create a rigorous and challenging approach to student learning where students work hard to achieve excellence.
Four core values guide community life, teaching, and learning at St Kilda Park Primary School - Resilience, kindness, Creativity and Curiosity.
These values are reflected in all aspects of school life and contribute to a sense of common purpose within the school community.
Amongst a range of ideals we value student voice, teachers being addressed by first names, leadership opportunities for all students and no school uniform.
The school¿s wider community is actively involved in school life to ensure that individual backgrounds and experiences are acknowledged and affirmed. Parent participation is encouraged and welcomed in many different ways.
Relationships in the school community underpin everything and enable us to build a community of continuous learners.
A key component of St Kilda Park¿s approach is building a positive culture through a primary prevention focus that underpins student wellbeing. The framework teaches positive behaviours, Restorative Practices and the use of logical consequences to address appropriate and inappropriate behaviour.
Our professional learning program is designed to build professional practice, knowledge, capacity and understanding of curriculum. We recognise that teaching is an incredibly complex profession and that to meet the needs of students, we require ongoing opportunities for practice improvement. At St Kilda Park, we are also committed to developing a strong and vibrant professional learning culture where all teachers are given the opportunity to learn and grow together. Built on a foundation of trust, our teachers have opportunities to observe and coach one another, with the view to provide the best possible education for a diverse student community.
SC1 Demonstrated ability to teach Physical Education across all year levels, Foundation to Year 6.
SC2 Demonstrated high-level teaching skills with a strong understanding of evidence-based pedagogy and explicit instruction.
SC3 Demonstrated understanding of, and commitment to, student health and wellbeing
SC4 Demonstrated high-level written and verbal communication skills, and an ability to develop constructive relationships with students, staff, and parents.
SC5 Demonstrated commitment and capacity to contribute to a broad range of school activities including responsibility for all aspects of the PE program.
The successful applicant would be responsible for the planning and delivering an engaging PE program to all classes at the school from Foundation to Year 6. They would also be expected to co-ordinate school activities and events such as our swimming program, athletics day and involvement in district and inter-school sporting competitions.
The role of classroom teacher may include but is not limited to:
Teachers currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching and qualified to teach and/or have demonstrated experience in the curriculum area(s) specified for the position.
The department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we service. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQA+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department. The Department recognises that the provision of safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work and diversity across all schools and Department workplaces. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for staff with disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines).
Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander candidates from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via [email protected]
Applicants seeking part-time employment are encouraged to apply for any teaching service position and, if they are the successful candidate, request a reduced time fraction. Such requests will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis and will be subject to the operational requirements of the school.
Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:
https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/child-safe-standards/policy
The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:
https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/values-department-vps-school-employees/overview
To be eligible for employment, transfer or promotion in the principal or teacher class:
Details of qualification requirements as updated from time to time can be found at Recruitment in Schools.