Have you thought about taking your students to the Invictus Games, Sydney 2018? They will see, and possibly meet, amazing men and women from 18 different countries competing in adaptive sports.
 
The NSW Department of Education has tickets available for the sessions listed below:
Tuesday, 23 October – Swimming
Thursday, 25 October – Athletics
Friday, 26 October – Athletics.

Tickets are $40 per student, and include lunch (sandwich and bottle of water), cap, bag (students are not to bring their school bags due to security) and entrance fee.

For further details, log on to https://goo.gl/forms/63LOWag7vlPmtPcf1
 
Teaching and learning resources to complement the games are also available. Whilst there are no languages resources available, this is an incredible opportunity for you and your students.

Registrations for Languages at Sydney: Go Global 2018 close this Thursday 30 November 2017. 
  
This event is an initiative by the University of Sydney's School of Languages and Cultures (SLC) and is catered towards students continuing with a language, as well as students who want to learn a language from scratch, as the event will give them a taste of the programs and languages that the University of Sydney has to offer. Events on the day will include language-specific immersion, career opportunities for languages students, introduction to languages at SLC and a campus tour.

Languages at Sydney: Go Global is for:
- Year 12 languages students (HSC, IB, NSW School of Languages)
- Year 12 students interested in languages at university
- Year 11 and 12 languages teachers and careers counsellors.

Event details
Date: Friday 2 March 2018, 1:30-4:30pm
Venue: University of Sydney

To register, follow the registration link. Every student and teacher will need to submit an individual registration via the registration link.
For further enquiries, contact languages.admin@sydney.edu.au

Year 10 language students are invited to see what university life is like at the University of Wollongong's one day interactive workshop. The workshop is designed to provide an experience that inspires students to achieve greater results at school so that they may successfully study languages in Years 11 and 12.

The Year 10 languages study day is a free event, presented by the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts at UOW. Students are advised to bring all food, drinks and equipment (for note-taking). The event will be held on 13 February and registrations will close on 6 February. Please refer to the flyer for further information. For school registrations, please contact lha-marketing@uow.edu.au or phone (02) 4221 4747

Save the date for this exciting initiative by the University of Sydney’s School of Languages and Cultures (SLC). Whether students are continuing with a language or want to learn one from scratch, this event will give them a taste of the programs and languages that the university has to offer.

When Friday, 2 March 2018 1.30pm-4.30pm
Where The University of Sydney
Registration opens 10 October 2017
Invitation is open to: All Year 11 and 12 students interested in languages at university, languages teachers and careers counselors
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Activities:

• Language-specific immersion
• Introduction to languages at SLC
• Career opportunities for languages students
• Afternoon tea
• Discussions with university languages students

​For further information email languages.admin@sydney.edu.au

Languages offered at the University of Sydney

• Ancient Greek
• Arabic
• Chinese
• French
• German
• Modern and Classical Hebrew
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Latin
• Modern Greek
• Sanskrit

Spanish

We are often asked to advertise on behalf of outside agencies which organise inbound and outbound student travel. DE International oversees student study tours and exchange programs, ensuring that agencies meet compliance with NSW child protection procedures, host family screening, safe and supervised travel, adequate accommodation standards and emergency contact procedures.

We will no longer be advertising inbound/outbound student travel on the Languages NSW site.

The information below can be found on our home page. We are including as a post today, to raise awareness about DE International and their role.

​Study tours and sister schools
All study tours into NSW government schools are managed through DE International.

If your school is contacted by an agent, organisation or overseas group (students, teachers or adults) wishing to visit your school please forward the request to the Study Tours team at DE International.

Sister schools are reciprocal and non-commercial – no payments are made to the school. Establishing a sister school is at the discretion of the principal and does not need to go through DE International. 

For more information see the policy and guidelines for overseas student and group visits, including the implementation document and the link to related documents which has a sample memorandum of understanding for sister schools.

If the sister-school wishes to visit your school and you will not do a return visit overseas, the visit should be arranged as a study tour through DE International.
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Hosting study tours
DE International is always looking for new schools to host overseas groups. Please contact the Study Tours team if you'd like to be involved.

Contact
Senior Study Tours Officer (Melissa Ong)
ph. 8293 6910
melissa.ong@det.nsw.edu.au

Exchange programs
NSW student exchange programs may only be operated by registered student exchange organisations (SEOs). SEOs and exchange programs are registered and overseen by the NSW Registration Committee for International Secondary Student Exchange, through DE International.
 
SEOs must be compliant with both the National Guidelines for the Operation of International Secondary Student Exchange Programs in Australia and the Guidelines for Operation of Secondary Student Exchange in New South Wales. SEOs are required to ensure incoming and outbound student exchange activity is conducted on a reciprocal basis and meet child protection legislative requirements.
 
Exchange students must hold a Visa Subclass 500 and an Acceptance Advice for Secondary Student Exchange (AASES) form to enrol in a NSW school. Principals should confirm their acceptance of the exchange student enrolment by endorsing the AASES Request Form prior to the AASES form being issued by DE International.
 
Students may enrol in NSW schools for a minimum period of one term and a maximum of one year. Outbound students may enrol for a minimum of 10 weeks and a maximum of one year in overseas schools.
 
Shorter international study experiences are not student exchange programs and must operate as a study tour, or be arranged through a sister school agreement or Departmental Memorandum of Understanding.
 
Further information on study tours and sister schools can be found at Overseas students and visitors.
Outbound school excursions or visits to sister schools must comply with the Excursions policy.
If you are contacted by a company offering student exchange, that is not listed on our website, please forward the request to studentexchange@det.nsw.edu.au.

Contact
Secondary Student Exchange Coordinator (Sandra Copeman)
ph. 02 8293 6950
sandra.copeman@det.nsw.edu.au

Languages at Sydney: Go Global 2017 is an event for Year 11 and 12 languages students to discover more about language learning, be immersed in language-specific activities and learn about career opportunities.
The event is held at University of Sydney on Thursday 2 March 2017, 1:30pm - 4:30pm. 
To find out more about the event, go to the School of Languages and Cultures page. 
Complete the registration by 16 February 2017. 
The flyer below can be downloaded and printed.
​For more information, contact languages.admin@sydney.edu.au