Congratulations to Bonnyrigg High School and Marsden Road PS who have successfully applied for 2018-2019 Korean Plant-A-School funding!. We look forward to seeing your Korean programs grow in the coming years.

Thank you to the Korean Education Centre for their financial support of this program.

The NSW Department of Education is delighted to renew its Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea, as represented by the Korean Education Centre of the Korean Consulate General.

Mr Soo Hwan Kang, Director Korean Education Centre of Consulate General of Republic of Korea in Sydney and Ms Lila Mularczyk, Director, Secondary Education signed the MoU, witnessed by Ms Noh Kyoung Kim, Chief of the Governors’ Association of Korea in the Korean Consulate General and Mrs Elisabeth Robertson, Coordinator, Languages and Culture. 

Mr Joseph Kim, General Manager of the Korean Education Centre also attended the signing, with Mrs Janelle Byrne, Language Officer and Ms Amanda Davis, Languages Advisor K-6.

Korean is a language of great importance in NSW public schools. The Korean Plant-A-School Program has enabled Korean language programs to be established and to grow in many schools, and the Korean Bilingual Program at Campsie Public Schools is one of the centrepieces of Korean language education in NSW.

This year, we have seen the introduction of the Stage 6 Korean Beginners course, which is an acknowledgement of Korean’s growing popularity.

The annual Korean Principals’ Study Tour also enables many principals to see the benefits of a Korean language program.

The NSW Department of Education looks forward to many more years working with the Korean Education Centre to support Korean language programs in NSW public schools. 

Expressions of interest are invited from primary and secondary schools which would like to receive funding to introduce a Korean language program at school.

The Korean Plant-a-School Program assists NSW public schools to seed and sustain the teaching and learning of the Korean language by providing financial support. The program is facilitated by the Learning and Teaching Directorate and funded by the Korean Education Centre of the Korean Consulate General. For further details on the program, please refer to the flyer below.

If interested, please apply using the attached Expression of Interest form and submit to Elisabeth Robertson by 12 December 2016.

For further details, please contact Elisabeth Robertson.