The Meadows Public School, established in 1890 and located in the suburb of Seven Hills, is part of the Bungarribee Principals Network in Western Sydney. The school has an enrolment of approximately 340 students, including 11% Aboriginal students and 69% of students from a Language Background other than English.
The school continues to work in partnership with its Schools as Community Centre (SaCC) to support early childhood learners and their families and serves as the base school for the Itinerant Support (Hearing) Team, providing specialist support to students and schools across the network.
Our teaching staff includes both experienced and early career teachers who share a strong commitment to evidence-informed teaching, with a focus on literacy, numeracy, and student engagement. Analysis of school data and evidence highlights ongoing priorities in reading, numeracy, attendance, wellbeing, and teacher collaboration. These priorities guide professional learning and classroom practice to ensure consistent, high-quality teaching and improved student outcomes.
The school implements Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) and provides a range of co-curricular and leadership opportunities supported by an active and engaged Parents and Citizens Association. The Meadows Public School maintains strong connections within the Blacktown Learning Community, participating in shared programs that enhance student voice, leadership and high potential and gifted education.
The Meadows Public School is a welcoming, inclusive, and culturally responsive community that values respect, wellbeing, learning, improvement, and cultural diversity, and works collaboratively to ensure every student is known, valued and cared for.
Approval to teach primary English as an additional language or dialect or currently undertaking or currently enrolled in English as an additional language primary or dialect qualifications approved by the NSW Department of education.
Demonstrated experience in evidence-based explicit teaching, with the ability to collaborate with classroom teachers to plan, implement and evaluate EaL/D strategies that strengthen English language development and improve literacy outcomes for EaL/D and New Arrival learners.
Strong understanding and application of departmental policies and procedures, including use of the EaL/D school Evaluation Framework, to plan for and implement improved whole school practices that align with school priorities.
Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, with the demonstrated ability to build and maintain positive, collaborative relationships with students, staff, families and the wider school community.
An unconditional full approval to teach is a requirement. If you do not hold a full approval to teach with the NSW Department of Education, you are required to commence the application process at the same time as you apply for this teaching opportunity.
This is a permanent part-time position of 3 days per week, 0.6FTE (full time equivalent).
Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.
About the NSW Department of Education
The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia with responsibility for delivering high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment, details listed above. For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.
Merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals provide clear advice for applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are available here.
To meet the page limits outlined in the guidelines, all application attachments must be submitted in PDF format. Please note that late applications will not be accepted.
