School Captains News
CAPTAINS’ REPORT
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
At the beginning of Term Three Grade 6CP welcomed three international students from China. These students' names were Ethan, Vega and Tiffany. There were also many other international students in Year 5 and in Years 3 and 4.
Sadly by the time you read this newsletter our international friends will have returned to China. The international students have helped our class and school grow in understanding, patience and inclusiveness.
Our Year 6 international students have written about their experiences below:
- We can know the different ways Chinese people and Australian people learn
- It’s always fun to make new friends in a foreign country
- We can practise our English skills here at Australia
- We can learn about Australia’s religion and culture while we are here
- There are lots of subjects we don’t have in China, for example Inquiry
- When we go back to China we can share our experiences with our Chinese friends
- We have also made some ‘pen friends’
- Sometimes the Australian ways of doing things are a bit hard to get use to
- The classmates are sometimes a bit too lively and a bit loud!
BOOK WEEK
Last week we celebrated Book Week here at St Kevin’s. On Wednesday 27th August all the students dressed up as their favourite storybook characters. We went to the stadium where each student paraded their costume and told us about their book character.
During the week we all had the opportunity to read some of the short listed books with our teachers and participate in art and craft activities about the books we read.
The best thing in Year 6 was that we got to make chocolate spiders!
Overall we all had a great week and enjoyed reading the new books and participating in all the fun activities.
Thank you to all our teachers who also dressed up and read to us, making Book Week a great week!
Keizen, Arianna, Jonathan and Mya