Cleveland Street Intensive English High School (CSIEHS) is a new type of school within the NSW Department of Education and Training’s system of secondary schools and was created within the revitalization of inner city schools strategy, June 2001.
Our students
Students attending the school can come from as many as 100 different countries, bringing with them a great diversity of languages, customs and beliefs. Our students are all newly-arrived, non-English speaking background students of high school age. They spend approximately three to twelve months at the school. When they are ready to leave our school most students transfer to other government high schools in order to complete their studies in the school certificate or higher school certificate. Some students will choose to begin other courses of study at other institutions, such as Technical and Further Education (TAFE), and some may go directly to work.
Our staff
The staff consists of a principal, deputy principal, head teachers, classroom teachers, specialist migrant counsellors, school assistant support staff (administration and bi-lingual) and general assistant. All teachers at this school are trained in at least two methodologies, English as a Second Language and other subject areas. Many of the teachers are also bi-lingual.
Cleveland Street Intensive English High School's mandate is to:
provide intensive English language tuition to secondary-aged, newly arrived permanent, refugee, long-term temporary resident and international students;
develop innovative new arrival English language, orientation, settlement, welfare and transition programs;
provide English as a second language (ESL), key learning areas (KLA), outcomes-based, transition to high school programs. ESL is taught through the content areas of the English, Mathematics, Science, Human Society and Its Environment (HSIE), Creative Arts (including Visual Arts, Music), Technology and Applied Studies (TAS) (including Information Communications Technology, Food Technology) and Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) KLAs;
develop and deliver online program support to new arrival ESL secondary students and teachers in rural and isolated schools;
create and implement community programs for parents;
develop program links with tertiary educational providers;
develop program links with the Sydney Secondary College.
