LOTE Spanish Teacher

Location Profile

Glenroy West Primary School was built in 1958 and is located 16km north of metropolitan CBD. There are excellent facilities and large grounds that provide active play, adventure playgrounds, running track and oval, basketball courts, additional playgrounds, down-ball courts, two kindergarten rooms and landscaped gardens. 

Glenroy West Primary School received an $18.12 million upgrade resulting in a modernized school, including new facilities for an additional 250 students to meet enrolment growth for future years.

The school currently has 341 students with an expected increase in capacity for 550 students in the next few years. The school has a proud tradition of education in the City of Merri-Bek.

The student population is diverse with thirty languages represented at the school and 48 per cent of students coming from a home where English is not the main. The school has a SFO index of 0.4892 and SFOE index of 0.3698. 

The school has two kindergarten buildings on site called York Street Kindergarten operational from 2014 under the banner of the Northern Schools Early Years Cluster. The York Street Kindergarten has an excellent educational program for both three- and four-year-old in the Glenroy area. There is a strong link between the playgroup, kindergarten and school to ensure a seamless transition in the Early Years and beyond.

The curriculum provides explicit teaching and learning in literacy and numeracy based on the Victorian Curriculum. Specialist programs include Physical Education, The Arts, STEM, Music and LOTE (Spanish). EAL (English as an additional la…