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.
The Outdoor Education teacher delivers an holistic outdoor education program, catering for all year groups from K to 12. Responsibilities include assisting in planning and preparation to provide a differentiated outdoor program to engage students in outdoor experiences.
The Outdoor Education Teacher will assist in the organisation of camps for all year levels, as well as the Duke of Edinburgh International award program.
Reporting to the Director of Outdoor Education, the responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to:
- Plan and implement coherent, well sequenced teaching and learning programs that engage students and maximise learning.
- Use a range of teaching strategies to deliver quality teaching programs that are responsive to the learning strengths and needs of students.
- Undertake the Duke of Edinburgh’s Bronze, Silver and Gold Award Scheme according to Duke of Edinburgh’s Award guidelines, St Mary’s Outdoor Education’s guidelines and St Mary’s Risk Management guidelines.
- Assist in the planning and execution of participation in other programs such as the World Challenge Program and the IGNITE Award.
Applications close midnight Sunday 28 May 2023.