Language News
Dromana College
EDUCATION PERFECT- Languages Championships 2019
Every year Dromana College competes in the Global, online language competition. Students can compete in both Indonesian and Japanese. The week-long competition helps the students revise key vocabulary and grammar patterns in their chosen language. They can login and compete at home, or here at school. This year our school finished 206th out of 1,644 competing schools. We also finished 155th in Australia.
A total of 23 Year 7 students won individual excellence awards. Chloe Hildebrand won an elusive Emerald Award and was the school’s highest achiever. Bella Wooden, Tilly Henon and May Lawrence all won Gold awards; and Devan Picone, Julian Nankervell and Jacinta Kellett received Silver awards.
Indonesian University Student Visitors
In October this year, Mehrunnisa Ani Mufti (Nisa), and Rahmad Saputra (Ama), two student teachers from Jogjakarta’s Islamic University of Indonesia, visited the college. They performed traditional dances for students, ran small group activities and assisted in a number of our junior and senior Indonesian classes. They were a brief, but brilliant addition to the Indonesian staff. We wish them the best of luck with the remainder of their studies.
Japanese Halloween Cooking
Miss Gurney’s Year 10 Japanese class had a cultural cooking session to explore the popular Japanese Halloween festivities. The students researched popular culinary creations and then they had the opportunity to replicate them. Check out their amazing work.
Year 7 Japanese Animal Books
Our Year 7 students have been learning the Japanese names for animals. They have also been learning adjectives so they can describe them. Here are some wonderful examples of the animal booklets created by the students.
Year 8 Indonesian Directions
The Year 8 Indonesian students have been learning about place names and how to give and ask for directions. Here is an example of a map made by the students during this unit.
New Head of Languages
We would like to introduce the new Head of Languages for 2020. Miss Rebecca Love will take over the role in JUMPSTART of this year.
Miss Love graduated from Rosebud High School in 2010. She then went on to study Indonesian at Monash University. She also had the opportunity to study on exchange in 2011 at Gajah Mada University, in Yogjakarta, Indonesia.
General Language News
GOOD LUCK YEAR 12’s
‘Semoga Sukses’ and がんばって to our Year 12 Language students for their exam on Wednesday 20th November - we’re all very proud.
2020 HOST FAMILIES
We have Indonesian students visiting in May and Japanese students in August. Please chat to your language teacher if you are interested in hosting.