Our Primary School has a permanent full-time position available from 2026. Experienced teachers, as well as new graduates, are encouraged to apply. (Casual work may be available in Term Explore exciting real-life research projects with small groups of students.
Blue Gum Community School is a unique small school in Canberra offering programs from birth up to 16 years, i.e. Playgroups through to Year 10. Our multi-age research groups enjoy a 1:13 teacher-to-student ratio. Specialists in Music/Drama, Visual Arts, Sport, Outdoor Education & Italian also work with each class. Specialist spaces include a new Music & Sound Recording Studio, as well as Science Laboratory, Black-and-White Photography Darkroom, and Visual Arts Studios. A state-of-the-art Maker Space is about to be built.
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Blue Gum attracts dedicated teachers who are passionate about seeing all students as competent, capable, creative, responsible, resourceful and resilient. Our teachers prepare amazing learning environments that are thought-provoking, full of intrigue and therefore irresistible to students.
Blue Gum strives to ensure that each student feels valued, develops a strong sense of belonging, and is equipped with the essential academic and interpersonal skills for success and a meaningful life with others. Blue Gum is not religion-based, though families' differing beliefs are respected.
Have you retained your own curiosity about how the world works? Love the challenge of investigating the unknown? Keen to explore and research that world alongside students? See your role as provoking critical thinking and inspiring creative responses, rather than simply imparting information? Value social/emotional learning as highly as academic pursuits? Aware that powerful learning emerges from positive relationships within a supportive community? Keen to bring/find joy in everyday encounters?
Blue Gum is a great place for nurturing your professional and personal development - the possibilities are endless; you certainly won't be bored
Please answer the following questions (genuine responses please; AI-written applications are obvious, so will be immediately rejected):
1. Explain the schooling you experienced & what you valued or would change... and why.
2. Why do you want to work at Blue Gum Community School?
3. Explain your understanding and experience of research-focused approaches to learning - give examples.
4. What special talents/interests would you bring to share with our student community?
5. If funds were unlimited, what would your ideal learning environment include?
6. What do you want to know about Blue Gum?
7. Are you an Australian resident?
8. Please include CV & 2 refs.
NB: Blue Gum does NOT offer Sponsorships.
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TEACHING INTERNSHIPS - another option
Blue Gum also offers paid Teaching Internships to pre-service teachers & new graduates - the chance to team-teach with an experienced teacher. This is a year-long supportive culture in which to transition from uni student to competent confident teacher An ideal metamorphosis for a newly-graduated primary school teacher
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