School Learning Support Officer - Full time - Ongoing - Macarthur Girls High School

Posted 19 Oct 2026

About Macarthur Girls High School

Macarthur Girls High School is a selective girls secondary school located in Parramatta, NSW, catering to students in Years 7 to 12. The school serves a rich multicultural community and operates as a comprehensive girls' institution with a strong focus on academic rigour and personal development. The school offers a range of specialist programs spanning selective entry, high potential and gifted education, special education support, and STEM. This breadth of provision reflects a deliberate approach to meeting diverse academic needs within the one cohort. Student learning support officers are embedded in classrooms alongside classroom teachers, enabling targeted instruction and responsive support for students at every point of the learning spectrum. Strategic priorities at Macarthur Girls centre on personalised academic growth, high-quality explicit teaching, student wellbeing, and cultural celebration and community participation. These priorities are reflected in the school's commitment — expressed in its vision — to "explicit teaching practices that provide targeted instruction and feedback tailored to diverse learning needs," and to partnering with families and the wider community to foster wellbeing and lifelong learning. The school's multicultural community is treated as a genuine asset, with cultural celebration named explicitly as a strategic focus rather than incidental to school life. The school seeks to equip students with the skills, knowledge and values to become "resilient, critical thinkers and confident, compassionate citizens" — language that signals an intentional blend of academic and character development as core institutional goals.