Our Staff Team
2023 Staff
The following table shows the number of staff employed at Pilgrim School in 2023:
Number of Staff | FTE | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Teachers | Permanent Temporary | 12 3 | 12.3 |
| Diverse Learning Support | Permanent Temporary | 4 - | 1.6 |
| Pastoral Care Worker | Contractor | 1 | 0.4 |
| Administrative | Permanent Temporary | 6 - | 3.9 |
| Maintenance | Contractor | 1 | 0.5 |
| TOTAL | 27 | 18.7 |
Our school community is grateful for funding received from the Government’s National School Chaplaincy Program which supports Pilgrim School to maintain the services of our wellbeing staff.
Specialist Subjects
Pilgrim School offered the following specialist subjects in 2023:
- Languages (Indonesian)
- Digital Technologies and Media Arts
- Diverse Learning
- Physical Education
- Performing Arts
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Staff
There are currently no Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff members employed at Pilgrim School.
Teacher Standards and Qualifications
All teachers at Pilgrim School are registered with the Teachers Registration Board of South Australia.
Pilgrim teaching staff are experienced educators and between them hold:
- 1 Masters Degree
- 19 Undergraduate Degrees
- 7 Graduate Certificates
- 2 Diplomas.
Nine staff hold a single qualification and seven have two or more qualifications.
All staff have current Responding to Risks of Harm, Abuse and Neglect - Education and Care (RRHAN-EC) and Protective Practices training. Staff are also trained on a yearly cycle in First Aid and other health matters.
Our staff team have continued to professionally develop and grow in a range of professional learning activities during the year. Some of these are completed as an entire staff team or the teaching team and others are accessed by individual or a small group of staff.
In 2023 this included:
- Australians Together cultural understanding training
- Youth Mental Health First Aid Training
- Kickstart your Choir
- MarteMeo Training
- Australian Curriculum v9 training
- Systematic Synthetic Phonics Workshop
- Instructional Coaching
- Back to Front Maths
- Leading Change in the Teaching of Literacy
- CSA National Leaders Summit and National Forum Policy
- ASBA Biennial National Conference
- Resilient Kids Conference
- Build the Foundations for your Literacy Block
- UFLI Foundations Workshop
- Australian Schools Women's Leadership Summit