St Mary's Anglican Girls' School is an independent day and boarding school for over 1450 girls from Kindergarten to Year 12. We provide girls with opportunities to pursue personal and academic excellence in a respectful and supportive environment.
St Mary’s at Metricup: The Lady Treatt Centre for Learning and Leadership is the School’s outdoor education facility, consisting of 84h. Located in the heart of the world-famous Margaret River region, the Centre is the largest of its kind for an all-girls’ school in Western Australia and provides our students wonderful opportunities to learn, explore and experiment outside the walls of a conventional classroom.
St Mary’s at Metricup boasts an adventure challenge course, mountain bike track, walking trails and a bush chapel. Facilities include a large recreation and dining area that is equipped with a commercial kitchen and four dormitories that sleep up to 112 students. Each of the four dormitories has laundry, shower and toilet facilities, and a small living area. A separate area of the property is home to a camping ground that features a large, communal canvas eco tent and 20 smaller canvas eco tents which can sleep up to 88 students and staff.
St Mary’s Outdoor Education program offers a comprehensive and diverse program. It is designed to stimulate and equip our students with a sense of curiosity, knowledge and a range of skills beyond the classroom to develop the whole person. The program is sequenced across K to Year 12 to enable the girls to build on their skills and continue to be challenged each year.
Please refer to https://www.stmarys.wa.edu.au/co-curricular/st-marys-metricup/ for further information.
This newly created role of Director of Outdoor Education will oversee an holistic outdoor education program, catering for all year groups from K to Year 12. Responsibilities include planning, preparing, providing instruction and leading a differentiated outdoor program to engage students in outdoor experiences, both in and beyond the classroom.
The successful applicant will have a genuine passion for Outdoor Education, and the vision to further expand and embed the use of our Metricup facility to deliver an engaging and appropriately challenging Outdoor Education program.
Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills, the ability to work productively in both a team and autonomous environment, and extensive teaching experience are all pre-requisites for the role.
This role has a preferable start date of Semester 2 2023 however is open to negotiation to start in 2024 for the right applicant.