Head Teacher Administration – Chifley College Mount Druitt Campus

Position Information

Chifley College is a multi-campus college established in 2000 to enhance the educational opportunities for students in the Mount Druitt area. Mount Druitt campus has an enrolment of 624 students, including 21% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students as well as 52% Pacific Islander students. The campus is committed to the Premier’s Priorities to Lifting Education Standards through literacy, numeracy, differentiation and explicit teaching. The school received significant funding to support student learning outcomes through the Resource Allocation Model (RAM) including equity loading for Aboriginal background, English language proficiency, low level adjustment for disability and socio-economic background. Added to this, our flexible well being funds, beginning teaching funds and professional learning funds ensure that the school is well resourced, caters to the individual needs of staff and students and addresses the various aspects of education in our school. The school is committed to continually improving effective classroom practices with staff professional learning being the key to ensuring this outcome. This learning will ensure that both literacy and numeracy levels can be enhanced through excellent teaching, improved data analysis and used to support individualised and differentiated learning. Strong partnerships are evident with parent forums, the Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG), local Aboriginal Elders, partner primary schools.