A homestay provider is a person who provides care and accommodation to an overseas student when they are not able to be on campus / in their boarding house (for example at exeats, during illness or injury and on School holidays, if they are not flying back to their home country). Students must stay with their homestay provider, or another approved person during times they are not on campus.
This person may be someone nominated by a student’s parents and who is known to the student – an older sibling, a grandparent, an aunt or uncle, or a family friend. In other cases, families may not know anyone in Australia and the School provides an independent homestay provider for the student. This is someone in the GGS Community and may be a School family, former staff or alumni or another community member.
Students aged under 13 years old may not be in homestay accommodation. If they are in Australia and enrolled at the School, they must reside with their parents or a DHA approved relative.
All students who require homestay while at the School must be full boarders at the Corio or Timbertop Campus; day overseas students or day overseas borders must be in Australia with their parents or a DHA approved relative.