International Student News

Happy Birthday to International Students born in April and May

On Friday, 31st of May, the International Student Office held a massive birthday party to celebrate international students who were born in April and May. The 15 international students are: Helios Jiang, Fiona Feng, Ryan Ho, Chao Xie, Thu Nguyen, Christina Yang, Jin Nguyen, Jun Kim, Rae Huynh, Anthony Ye, Michael Tang, Bill Chen, Christen Liang, Eric Pham and Vandy Kuy.

The birthday students enjoyed two huge cakes which had their names written on. This birthday celebration highlight was that two female students, Chau and Jiayi, turned 18, the starting point of their adulthood. They both received well-wish flowers to add more celebration spirit.

Year 9 local debate team demonstrates a debate for International students

On week 6 Thursday in Period 5, the international student debate team had the privilege to watch our Year 9 local student debate team debating on the topic of “whether we should abolish standardised testing (e.g., NAPLAN)” to learn more debate skills from our local students. The international student debate team was very impressed by the high quality debate our Year 9 debate team demonstrated!

What an eye-opening experience for international student debaters! Thanks to Mr Ramsay for organising this observation opportunity. Now the International Student Debate Team is working hard to prepare for their Round 3 debate, on Thursday of week 7. We wish our debate team well and enjoy!

Many thanks to international student debate Team leaders, Isa, Chau, Mia, Anthony, Helena, Mariah, for leading your teams! Your hard work is highly appreciated.

“Painting the Library Red” – Celebrating Language Week

The school library was a happy place at lunch time on Wednesday (Week 7) when students queued up for a face-painting. To help celebrate the school’s annual Language Week, International students LI yizhen (y10) BAO limin (y10) and LI yixiao (y11), who all possessed exceptional artistic talent, held a face-painting session to promote Chinese culture and language. Enthusiastic students chose their favourite cultural symbols - from panda, dragon to Beijing Opera Masks and Tang Dynasty beauty patterns.

The school community is very appreciative to International Student group at the school for making contribution to school events and to help to make school a happy place.       

International Student Office