Seven students and one teacher from Kunshan Yushan Middle School in Jiangsu Province arrived in the College on 4 August and spent one week with our students.

During their English sessions with our EAL teacher, Ms Miller, our Chinese visitors enjoyed playing Chinese whispers and Celebrity Heads. They later created some entertaining short stories that included some of our well-known local natives.

Monday 7th August saw the Japanese Club practise for the Paper Plane competition.

Year 8 students were inspired by the movie Paper Planes, which they watched during Japanese Cultural Day, creating some very interesting looking planes, which could do some interesting manoeuvres in the air.

On Tuesday July 25, Lilydale Heights College hosted the International Middle Years Mathematics Olympiad. Over one hundred and twenty students from Asia and surrounding schools competed in the one-day event.

Tomomi Matsubayashi has been our latest Japanese Assistant and will finish her year here at the end of the term.

Broadening students’ perspectives and intercultural understanding

Students in 8C/D Japanese learnt the art of flower arranging from our resident expert, Tomomi Sensei.​​​

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