Teaching - Secondary (Education & Training)
Full time
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About the Position
The College is seeking to appoint a full-time (1.0 FTE) permanent English Teacher to join our highly successful and aspirational English Department, commencing Term 1, 2025.
Within the English department, language and literature are seen to be at the heart of a sound liberal education.
Great emphasis is placed on developing skills in, and a love for, English.
Canonical, diverse and contemporary literature are explored across the English program, with opportunities for class-based patterns of study.
Teachers are expected to teach writing in embedded and direct ways and there is a strong and sustained Wide Reading Program through Years 7 to 10.
Our students enjoy the rigour of studying English.
The College offers Senior students the option of either the IB Diploma Programme (IBDP) or the NSW Higher School Certificate (HSC) and our student enrolment in English Extension 1 has grown significantly in the past two years.
Additionally, from 2024, Year 9 students have the option to study IGCSE World Literature.
Further details about the position can be obtained by contacting David Conway, Acting Head of English at ****** or (02) 9568 9333
About You
We have deliberately not provided set and narrow selection criteria.
However, it would be expected that the successful candidate will:
have appropriate teaching and tertiary qualifications relevant to the position be a dynamic and effective classroom practitioner ability to differentiate instruction and cater for a range of learning abilities and needs have a thorough understanding of the learning process, including the role of assessment and feedback work effectively as a member of a team be personally committed to learning and professional growth have a strong work ethic possess strong ICT competencies show a genuine appreciation and commitment to pastoral care participate in the College's co-curricular program understand and adhere to the College's Child Safeguarding policies and practices contribute to the continuous improvement of Child Safeguarding at NewingtonThe College's Commitment to Child Protection
The College is a 'Child Safe Organisation' committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and wellbeing of all children and young people at the College and is dedicated to protecting them from abuse and harm.
All children and young people who come to Newington have a right to feel and be safe.
Successful applicants will be subject to employment screening processes with the Office of the Children's Guardian and will be required to provide a current Working with Children registration number.
In addition, teaching staff will be expected to possess a current First Aid qualification.
About Newington College:
Newington College is a school bustling with opportunity and rigour.
We aim to teach students to think critically, stretch their learning and approach life with curiosity, kindness and open-mindedness, and that also applies to everyone who works here – from the teachers and grounds staff to the finance and admissions teams.
Founded in 1863 by the Uniting Church, the College has more than 2000 students across four vibrant campuses from our Early Learning Centre through to Year 12.
In 2026, Newington will enter an exciting new phase as the College transitions to co-education starting with Kindergarten and Year 5, becoming fully co-educational by 2033.
Our students will enter a world that will require them to walk and work alongside all genders collaboratively, respectfully and empathetically as colleagues, employers, employees, partners, parents and friends.
We want to ensure the College remains a vibrant, contemporary institution, in step with the society it is part of.
Further information about the College, its programs and its strategic plans is available on the College website: www.newington.nsw.edu.au
To Apply
To apply for this position, you must be eligible to work in Australia, e.g., hold an appropriate and current Australian work visa.
Applications should be submitted in one attachment of no more than 6 pages.
This document will include your cover letter and CV.Applicants must apply electronically for their application to be considered.
The online application form can be accessed at: https://www.newington.nsw.edu.au/about-newington/careers/Interview may be conducted at the receipt of potential application.
Thus, you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
Applications close Friday 8 November 2024.
At Newington College, our Vision is to provide an internationally respected education that empowers boys to become men of substance and resilience, who make an active and positive contribution to society.
Newington is a Boys K-12 Day and Boarding School located in Stanmore in the heart of Sydney's Inner West.
It is one of the six founding members of the GPS, an alliance of independent boys' schools in New South Wales.
Five key 'Pillars of Distinction' set Newington's priorities and goals into the future: Learning and Teaching for excellence and discovery, Well-being, Character and Service; Spirituality, Values and Ethics; Co-curricular Engagement; and Community in Partnership.
We encourage our boys to be open-minded and tolerant, to think freely and not be bound by traditional or conventional ideas.
We want to cultivate an approach to life that sees them striving for personal bests each and every time.
Source: This is an extract from the company's own website.
At Newington College, our Vision is to provide an internationally respected education that empowers boys to become men of substance and resilience, who make an active and positive contribution to society.
Newington is a Boys K-12 Day and Boarding School located in Stanmore in the heart of Sydney's Inner West.
It is one of the six founding members of the GPS, an alliance of independent boys' schools in New South Wales.
Five key 'Pillars of Distinction' set Newington's priorities and goals into the future: Learning and Teaching for excellence and discovery, Well-being, Character and Service; Spirituality, Values and Ethics; Co-curricular Engagement; and Community in Partnership.
We encourage our boys to be open-minded and tolerant, to think freely and not be bound by traditional or conventional ideas.
We want to cultivate an approach to life that sees them striving for personal bests each and every time.
Source: This is an extract from the company's own website.
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