Where Gratitude Inspires Growth. Be Part of Barayip in Melbourne

Barayip Primary School is in Tarneit, as part of Wyndham. We acknowledge the Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation, who are the Traditional Owners of the land where we gather and pay our respects to Elders past and present. We recognise their continued connection to Country and their role in caring for and maintaining Country and waterways over thousands of generations.

We are inviting outstanding humans, who show gratitude, love of learning, social intelligence, teamwork and kindness in all they do, to apply for the role of Assistant Principal at our most wonderful school. Barayip Primary School is seeking outstanding staff to join the team for our new school that opened in 2025. We are looking for passionate people who can shape our culture of deep gratitude and growth, as well as drive excellence from day one.

Barayip Primary School was built as part of the Victorian Government's commitment to deliver 100 new schools between 2019 and 2026. Our school is located at 290 Hummingbird Boulevard Tarneit 3029, with a capacity to accommodate 650 students. Our school has:

• Administration Building
• Learning neighbourhoods
• A community hub
• Hardcourts
• Sports field
• Gated staff carpark
• Onsite OSHC

We are incredibly grateful to have a kindergarten on-site. We work closely with the kindergarten to promote seamless transition for local pre-schoolers and easy drop-off logistics for families with both kindergarten and school-aged children.

Our Vision and Values

At Barayip Primary School, we are inclusive of all. We show deep gratitude and growth in all we do.

Vision

Barayip Primary School is inclusive of all. We are a school community filled with pride, confidence, and excellence, in all areas of learning and wellbeing. Our deep gratitude and growth are shown through a love of learning, social intelligence, teamwork, and kindness.

Values

• We are grateful for many things and show our thankfulness to others.
• We are aware of and understand our own feelings and thoughts, as well the feelings of those around us.
• We show our love of learning by being motivated to build and deepen our knowledge.
• We are kind to ourselves and others.
• We model daily and random acts of kindness within and beyond our school community.
• We are outstanding team players.
• We are helpful and proud when our team achieves together.

Teachers are responsible for:

• Leading our culture of deep gratitude and growth with all staff and community members.
• Modelling exemplary explicit teaching, feedback and school values in all learning experiences.
• Promoting enrichment opportunities to all students, which results in school connectedness, academic excellence and high levels of engagement.

At Barayip Primary School, we highly value our staff and know that life-work satisfaction looks differently for each of us. Barayip recognises the importance of flexible time fraction and family friendly work practices. This is our way of maintaining a diverse, adaptive and high performing workforce.

As we begin to implement our Strategic Plan, we are celebrating the strength in culture we have at Barayip, which is our outstanding culture of deep gratitude and growth. Over the next four years, we are building on our culture by learning more and growing our skills in:

• A culture of deep gratitude and growth
• A culture of leading
• A culture of learning
• A culture of receiving feedback

To achieve this together, we are recruiting outstanding humans. People who are ready to learn, flexible in their thinking and actions, people who are curious, compassionate and people who care deeply about humanity.

At Barayip Primary School, we support our staff by:

• Greeting each other, students, community every day, throughout the day.
• Providing Instructional Coaching.
• Offering Leadership Coaching.
• Providing access to Employee Assistance Program during school time, a confidential free service which supports the wellbeing of all Department of Education Staff.

Selection Criteria

• Demonstrated knowledge of the relevant curriculum, including the ability to incorporate the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills.
• Demonstrated experience in responding to student learning needs.
• Demonstrated experience in planning for and implementing high impact teaching strategies, guided by how students learn, and evaluating the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth.
• Demonstrated experience in monitoring and assessing student learning.
• Demonstrated experience in using data to inform teaching practice and providing feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.
• Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience in establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with students, parents, colleagues and the broader school community to support student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.
• Demonstrated behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values.
• Demonstrated experience in reflecting upon practice and engaging in professional learning to continually improve the quality of teaching.

Responsibilities

• Direct teaching of groups of students and individual students.
• Contributing to the development, implementation and evaluation of a curriculum area or other curriculum program within the school.
• Undertaking other classroom teaching related and organisational duties as determined by the School Principal.
• Participating in activities such as parent/teacher meetings; staff meetings; camps and excursions.
• Undertaking other non-teaching supervisory duties.

Diversity and Inclusion

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.

Child Safe Standards: 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.