St Mary's Catholic School (Tauranga) Bay of Plenty

Principal

St Mary’s Catholic School is an integrated primary school catering for approximately 450 children from new entrants to year six. We are proud of our history and heritage and value the strong bond that continues with our founding order, the Cluny Sisters.  

St Mary’s Catholic School is seeking a  principal who will strive to enact our vision - Together with Jesus we love, learn and serve in the Cluny spirit. Our aim is to develop confident, faith-filled learners through our learning focussed culture which supports each child’s spiritual, academic, physical, social and emotional development. 

We are looking for a leader who will continue to strengthen current school performance and lead us into the future. 

Our new Principal will: 

• be a passionate Catholic educator who is: 
• experienced with leading teaching and learning in a Catholic School setting
• committed to being an active member of our school and parish community 
• have great interpersonal and communication skills which strengthen partnerships resulting in:
• engaged and well informed students, staff and community
• a learning focussed culture of collaboration, trust and respect
• be innovative and forward thinking, focused on ensuring high quality learning opportunities through the ongoing development and implementation of a student centred, localised curriculum
• actively lead, model and promote the principles of the Te Tiriti o Waitangi and continue to strengthen the use of Te Reo Māori within our school
• model and have evidence of ongoing professional growth
• be up to date with educational thinking and legislative requirements 
• develop and sustain positive working relationships with local schools, educational agencies and networks
• ensure effective systems for finance, property, health & safety
• provide calm and steadying leadership in challenging situations.

This is a tagged position and a willingness and ability to lead religious instruction, appropriate to the special character of the school, is a condition of appointment.