Teacher Music - Gundagai High School

Gundagai High School (180 enrolments, including 24 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students) is a small comprehensive rural secondary school in the Riverina and an active partner within a broad network of schools. Gundagai High School is focused on striving towards excellence in the delivery of Teaching and learning, and addressing student needs in an inclusive learning environment to improve their educational outcomes. This is underpinned by a supportive values–based framework for student wellbeing which encourages and recognises student development and achievement.

Gundagai High School offers a broad curriculum which includes the sciences, humanities and social sciences, creative and performing arts, and technology. In addition, Gundagai High School also offers extension and vocational education and training (VET) courses to further broaden the senior curriculum, as well as specialised support for students with additional learning needs.

Gundagai High school boasts a range of facilities including a fully functional recording studio and industry standard live production equipment which assists in highlighting music as an integral component of students education. The music program is focused on giving students an authentic music education by offering a range of performance opportunities that reach into the community, showcasing the musical abilities of students. 

Gundagai High School works collaboratively with its partner schools as well as the wider community. Through the school's strong focus on community connections, students have access to a broad range of post–school options within industry and tertiary education providers.

Students at Gundagai High School are encouraged to participate in a range of sporting and cultural opportunities, including learning about our local Aboriginal culture, and activities to further enhance their physical and emotional development.

For more information on our school, please visit: http://www.gundagai-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/

1. Approval to teach Music 7 -12,
2. Demonstrated ability to plan and implement innovative and differentiated experiences and effective programs for students.
3. Highly developed organisational skills to deliver engaging extra-curricular creative and performing arts opportunities for students and school community.
4. High level communication skills with the ability to work independently and collaboratively towards whole school priorities.

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.

From 8 November 2021 all Department of Education employees undertaking relevant work, including any work conducted on a NSW school site, will be required to meet mandatory double vaccination requirements against COVID-19. The successful candidate for this position will be required to meet mandatory double vaccination requirements prior to the Department of Education finalising the appointment of the candidate and entry on duty. Further information on the Department’s COVID-19 response is available at https://education.nsw.gov.au/covid-19.

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 all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, please contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team (dandi@det.nsw.edu.au) or visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion

New merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals have been introduced to provide greater clarity to applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are located here. To ensure that your application complies with the guideline page limits, your attachments must be in PDF format.