Homestay

The Friends' School is a pre-K to 12 co-educational day and boarding school, founded in 1887 and based on Quaker values. Friends' has a strong academic record supported by recognition of the need to provide pastoral care at all levels of the school. Friends' has a total enrolment in excess of 1200, including a senior college catering for Years 11 and 12 on a separate campus. The Friends' School offers students� the choice of the International Baccalaureate, the Tasmanian Certificate of Education and Vocational Education and Training at Years 11 and 12.

For many different reasons, The School attracts local and international students desiring a Friends' School education. Typically, these students enrich the experience of all students attending Friends' by adding to the cultural flavour and global perspectives, something that is valued by the School community and articulated in the Friends' School's Purpose and Concerns.

Families in our School community have the opportunity to support our local and international students living distant to their families through participation in the School's Homestay Program. In seeking homestay families, the School and host family share the responsibility of not only meeting a student's basic living needs, but also ensuring that there is parent-like supervision and that the student feels welcomed through a warm, supportive and inclusive homestay environment involving all family members.

Based on the experiences of families currently involved in the homestay program, we believe that homestay is both special and mutually beneficial to the student and host family, providing new learning and social experiences, possible reciprocal exchanges and global friendships that last longer than the homestay itself. In turn, students learn to live harmoniously with another family, respect personal differences and develop trustworthy and responsible independence and social maturity.

With the support of staff at the School, I invite you to consider such a wonderful opportunity to engage and support an enthusiastic and keen Friends' School student through the Homestay Program.

John Green, Principal