Smith's Hill High School is a co-educational public selective school located in Wollongong, a regional city located approximately 90 minutes south of Sydney CBD. Established in 1916, our school has a diverse student body, with approximately 730 students from Years 7 to 12 and 55 staff. Our school is situated in close proximity to the Wollongong city centre, the University of Wollongong, the escarpment and the beautiful beaches of the Illawarra, which allows us to provide a rich array of extracurricular and outdoor activities rooted in our local community. Our school has sister schools in Germany, France and Japan, with whom we coordinate our reciprocal exchange programs. We have a wide variety of student-led clubs and ensembles and pride ourselves on being an inclusive and diverse school.
Type of the school: Secondary School (Both)
Age of the students from: 12 to 18
Main project topics: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Theatre, Kultur, Sprachen
Languages taught: Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Japanisch
Requests concerning your future partner school: We are seeking a Gymnasium in Germany to facilitate an annual 6-week reciprocal exchange program for students in Years 10-12 (ages 16-18). Traditionally, our students have attended our German sister school and lived with host families from early December to late January. We are very flexible with hosting dates, although we prefer our German exchange students to join us for one of our school holiday periods, so that their host families are able to show them more of our region or travel around Australia. Our school holidays are in April, July and October and last 2 weeks. We generally have between 5 and 10 students interested in participating per year.
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