Administration manager

Location Profile Merri Creek Primary School was established in 1891 and is situated on the banks of the Merri Creek in Fitzroy North, an inner urban Melbourne suburb. Enrolments sit around 440 students. Classes are single year level structures and include Foundation, Years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. There is one Year 3/4 composite most years to allow for the differences in required class sizes between the junior and senior school. The school strategic planning reflects the school community's high expectations for literacy and numeracy learning with a focus on ensuring teacher capacity to differentiate teaching to provide challenge and progress for every student, to embed consistent assessment practices that analyse and monitor the impact of learning to inform teacher practice and directions and establishing visible partnerships with the parent community through digital portfolios, to align with assessment and reporting. Inquiry learning at Merri Creek Primary School is designed around a well-sequenced, knowledge-focused curriculum centred on the humanities and the sciences. These subject areas are delivered through the careful ordering of this curriculum content so that new information and concepts are built sequentially from year to year. Learning, reasoning, problem solving, and concept formation are learned within the curriculum content domains of history, geography, civics and citizenship, economics, biological, physical, earth, and chemical sciences. Students develop critical thinking and inquiry skills through strong knowledge of these curriculum domains. Teachers use clear explanations to teach through modelling/guiding practice, through worked examples, and effectively supporting students in learning. By breaking down complex concepts into manageable parts, providing explicit instruction on each component and checking for understanding before gradually releasing responsibility to students, teachers can develop a solid foundation of understanding. Independent student work is carefully placed within a larger instructional sequence. Merri Creek Primary School strives to provide a student-centred, stimulating learning environment that promotes rigour, curiosity, diversity and actively engages students in their learning through developing their physical, social and emotional wellbeing. Specialist teachers provide a Language program, Music program (rock bands and musical performances), a Visual Arts program and Library. Merri Creek Primary School students engage in a range of creative pursuits, and we proudly celebrate their talents through displaying their work and conducting music performances at weekly assembly. We have a school arts festival on alternate years.