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Exploring The Teaching Staff At Kingsley Primary School

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Kingsley Primary School is a metropolitan, government funded, k-6 school that is located on Lathwell Street in the suburb of Armadale. The school has 13.4 FTE staff members with 277 enrolled students. The student peer group consists of many cultural identities with 22% of students having a language background that is not English. The student profile also has a high socio-economic disadvantage with 36% of the school distribution being in the bottom quarter compared to the Australian average of 25%. With the vision of being strong and working as a team, the school strive to ensure that every student is a successful learner.

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1.2 School Organisation and Structure
The teaching staff at Kingsley Primary School (KPS) has a variety of roles, with many teachers being at the school for a number of years. The school staff structure of Kingsley Primary is that of 16 teaching staff, including a Principal and deputy principal. Of this 16, the full time equivalent teaching staff is 13.4. Within this teaching staff, there are teachers who specialist in areas as science, ICT, PE and LOTE. …show more content…

These consist of grounds keepers and office administration staff. This number of staff sits at 13 with a full time equivalent of 7.7. There are also specialist staff of a school nurse and a psychologist. These specialist non-teaching staff visit the school regularly through referral and appointment schedules.

1.3 School Mission
Kingsley Primary has the mission statement of “Be Strong, Work as a team.” This mission statement emphasis its focus on the development of successful leaners in an inclusive, safe environment where every child is provided the opportunity to achieve to the best of their

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