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Expression of Interest Form


To be completed by overseas schools seeking sister school partnerships with a Victorian school. Please email it in MS Word format to .

The information you provide here will help Victorian schools to get to know your school and form a decision if they wish to start the conversation of a sister school partnership. Please answer each question in full. Please type your responses.

_Osaka Prefectural Ibarakinishi High School

VD Government □ Non-Govemment

□ Primary □ Secondary □ Prep-Year 12

VD Other Senior High School (Year 10-12 )

Enrolment Number of students 932 Number of teachers 75_

School registration number 115 / 40099

Name of registration authority Osaka School Board / the Ministry of Education

School Address JO-GS, Shimeien, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan. Zip code: 567-0045_

Fax No 072-623-0289

City Ibaraki State/Province Osaka Prefecture

Country Japan

School Phone Number 072-625-5711

School Website http://www.osaka-c.ed.1p/ibarakinishi

Name of Principal Tom Yamada_

Name of Contact Person Yachiyo Ono_

Position of Contact Person Coordinator, Intemational Exchange Division,

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Sister School Partnerships

Expression of Interest Form

1. Please provide a brief explanation outlining why you wish to establish a sister school relationship with a school in Victoria:

We hear Victoria State puts particular emphasis on education compared with other states and that many students are interested in Japan and the Japanese language. Yamada High school, which I worked for until last March, has a sister school relationship with Bentleigh Secondary College in Victoria. That's why I'd like to establish a sister school relationship with another school in Victoria.

2.  What does your school hope to achieve from a sister school relationship?

To develop friendship and cooperation between two schools and promote mutual understanding and cultural awareness between Victoria, Australia and Japan.

To support the teaching of Japanese in Victoria and English in Japan.

To develop students into citizens who are globally engaged, comfortable with diversity, and with the skills to operate effectively across cultures with different world views and belief systems.

3.  What activities does your school propose to undertake to implement the program?

To visit a school in Victoria and experience a school life in Australia for one week to 10 days to study English every other year. We also expect a partner school to visit our school if possible in order to experience Japanese school life and culture.

To exchange students' e-mails, letters, photos, student newspapers, etc. in order to promote mutual understanding.

To Involve the community through newsletters and websites and inviting parents in order to meet with the visiting students and teachers.

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Our school will make a lot of efforts to maintain student, teacher, administrator exchange programs to provide the opportunity to study, work and live in the sister school community.

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4. What financial and other resources is the school prepared to commit to this program?

Our school has a PTA support system which provides grants to this program.

Osaka Prefectural Board of Education supports grants to maintain the program.

How do you anticipate the program will be sustained by the school?

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I have already had the experience of maintaining the program at my previous high school, Yamada High School. Yamada High School students and teachers have participated in the exchange program with its sister school in Victoria. That's why I anticipate almost the same program as Yamada will also be sustained by our school through the cooperation of both schools.

How does your school intend to evaluate the effectiveness and benefits of the program to the school?

Regularly we intend to review the effectiveness and benefits in various ways. One of the ways of evaluating the program is to have the students complete the questionnaires about various activities of the program.

Tom Yamada

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For more information, please contact:

Sister School Coordinator International Education Division T: +61 3 9637 3947 F: +61 3 9637 2184

E: internationa!(5)edumai!.vic.gov.au

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Sister School Partnerships

Expression of Interest Form

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