Che escursione eccellente, informativa e produttiva!
Italian Language and Culture Immersion Day
Panorama House, Bulli Tops
27 February, 2019
Our Year 10 Italian class set off for a jam-packed day of language learning and cultural immersion at Panorama House, an Italian function centre perched on the edge of a cliff with views forever. The day was aimed at developing students’ Italian speaking and writing skills through interactive, competitive and fun learning experiences.
A variety of literacy and numeracy skills were focused on throughout the day, such as, grammar, punctuation, spelling, international currency, cognates, reading comprehension and much more. The dress-up role plays were entertaining and a lot of fun. Year 10 were just like Italian teenagers. The delicious Italian morning tea and buffet lunch were a highlight as well as the huge range of prizes, especially the mystery ones that were described in Italian.
Here are a few comments made by our students of Italian:
“I really enjoyed the last activity. We went shopping “in Italy”.
“I really liked the Italian excursion as we did really fun, different activities in an Italian location. It was fun and nice to hang out with friends and take photos with that beautiful view.”
“I loved the Italian bread and I liked the bus ride there.”
“Throughout the challenges that were set for us by our wonderful teacher, I learnt many different things about the people in Italy. It was refreshing to learn about a different culture. My favourite part was the fun games and activities but also how everyone was participating and how it made everything enjoyable.”
“I really liked the shopping activity and the bus ride together.”
“I loved the Italian hot bread. The competitions were fun and I really enjoyed a fun class type of thing in an Italian location.”
“I enjoyed the open buffet. The Italian hot bread was amazing.”
“During the Italian excursion I learnt a lot about the Italian language and culture. I had fun xo :)”
“It was really cool because it had beautiful views, great food and we learnt so much about the language and culture.”
A huge thank you to our very generous Support Unit who organised their day around our excursion to ensure we could make use of the school bus! Thank you to Mr Brookfield who drove us to Panorama House. To Mrs Green (Year 10 Adviser), it was wonderful to have you with us for the day. Your support and your company was appreciated! Mr Alfonsi,
thank you for picking us up at the end of the day.
Thank you so much everyone. It truly is amazing when we all work together to create happy memories. Thank you also goes to our incredible students who were respectful at all times, behaved in the most responsible ways and ensured a successful Italian Day was had by all! GRAZIE!
Che escursione eccellente, informativa e produttiva! Bravo, studenti!
A Koloveros, Italian teacher