French Exchange Trip

France Trip 2016

The Languages Learning Area is planning a tour to France in September 2016. The tour group would leave on the Sunday before the last week of term three and return towards the end of the school holidays.

 This proposed trip will begin with five days in Paris (including Versailles), before we board our coach and travel to the Loire Valley, Mont St Michel and Brittany where we will stay with host families for several nights and visit a local school, Lycée Auguste Pavie. The homestay and school program will be organised by a former Matthew Flinders French assistant who now teaches English at the school. On leaving Brittany we will return to Normandy to see the medieval town of Dinan and the Bayeux Tapestry, before heading for the WW1 battlefields of the Somme to visit the Australian Memorial and the Franco-Australian Museum at Villers-Bretonneux.

On returning to Paris, we will spend a day at a theme park before boarding a high-speed TGV train to discover the beautiful countryside of Provence, the famous Roman architecture in Orange, Nîmes and Le Pont du Gard, the hill-side medieval village of Les Baux-de-Provence, which is considered to be one of the most beautiful villages in France, and Nice on the Riviera from where the group will fly home.

Cost: Approximately $6,900 includes return airfares, all land costs, transfers, accommodation, all meals, taxes, travel insurance, entry fees and guided tours.

Not included: passport applications, spending money

Payment schedule: A non-refundable deposit of $1750 will be required before the end of the school year. The balance can be paid in instalments until mid-June 2016.

 Who can go ? Open to all students who will be in years 9-11 in 2016

(French and senior students will have preference if the number interested in the trip exceeds 25)

 If you have any queries, please contact Michael Keast at the College.