Location Profile Ferntree Gully North Primary School is situated at the base of the Dandenong Ranges with an enrolment of 300 students in 14 classes in 2025. Our classes include preps and multi age 1/2, 3/4 and 5/6 groups. Our state of the art facilities provide an outstanding learning environment for our students, teachers and the community. Our values are excellence, respect, resilience and integrity. The community prides itself on our beautiful environment and our vision is to provide a holistic approach to educating students encompassing academic, social and emotional growth. Our learning community is founded on an educational philosophy centred on the whole child and grounded in the belief that all students can learn and all students have the right to be challenged to fulfil their potential as life-long learners. Our staff profile includes two Principal class, teaching staff and Education Support Staff. We offer a comprehensive education for our students including the specialist areas of visual arts, performing arts, science, cultural program and physical education. The school has an Enviro Centre with a focus on chickens and some food production. Our school wide approach focuses on the Education State Initiatives of learning for life, happy, healthy and resilient kids, breaking the link between disadvantage and outcomes, and building pride and confidence in our schools. We have a strong commitment to improving student outcomes, with a focus on literacy and numeracy. Our goals include improving student achievement in literacy and numeracy through improved teaching and assessment practices and supporting student engagement, motivation, learning confidence and connectedness. Our key improvement strategies include the completion of a sustainable curriculum plan utilising the Victorian Curriculum, the development of consistent units across foundation to year 6 and the implementation of effective data collection to enhance our planning and teaching cycle. Selection Criteria SC1 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. SC2 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. SC3 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. SC4
