Homebush Public School
School contact details
School name	Homebush Public School
Street address	Rochester Street Homebush NSW 2140
Phone	02 9764 9171
Fax	02 9746 3516
Email	homebush-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au
Principal's name	Mr Chris Russell
Contact person	Mrs Gabrielle Allan-Smith
School website	http://www.homebush-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au
About your school
Classification	Primary school
System sector	DET
Number of students	401-600
Type of school	Co-educational
Location	Sydney metropolitan
Religious affiliation	No
Languages taught	Chinese, Korean, Tamil
Cultural diversity	1% of students from English speaking backgrounds 99% of students from language backgrounds other than English 0% of Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander student 0% of refugee students 0% of international (overseas) students
Most commonly spoken language(s)	Chinese Korean Tamil
Most commonly represented religion(s)	Buddhism Hinduism
School IT facilities	Email Internet facilities
Additional information about your school community. For example, nature of the community and special features.	Homebush P.S. is a high achieving school with a large LBOTE (99%) population.
Proposed program
Describe the kind of program you would like to conduct and the outcomes you hope to achieve.	We would like to connect with a school with a population that is very disparate to our own. It would also be very worthwhile for our students to connect with a school outside the metropolitan area to experience life beyond Sydney. It would be a valuable cultural outcome for our students to mix with a school from a much more traditional Australian community.
Briefly describe the type of school with which you would like to conduct your cultural exchange program. The description should include aspects of a school relevant to the success of your proposed program.	Bateau Bay PS located on the NSW central coast would provide an opportunity to mix with a traditional Australian community in a beach side setting that is very different from our suburban location. Opportunities would be provided for email links and in the near future the connected classroom would further enable valuable social links culminating with interschool visits for the two communities.
Target student groups	Year 5 Year 6
Proposed activities	Visual arts Email or chat Exchange visits Sports competition
Curriculum focus	Personal Development, Health and Physical Education
Cross-curriculum focus	Cross-cultural understanding Intercultural awareness Multicultural perspectives
Exchange term(s)	Term 3
Exchange year(s)	2009 2010
Is your school already involved in a cultural exchange program?	no
Has your school conducted a cultural exchange program before?	no