LOTE LOTE WEEK 2016 SJC’s first LOTE Week took place 1 - 5 August celebrating languages and cultures from around the world. Lunchtime activities were organised for all students including Chinese and Italian movies, soccer competitions between Italian and Chinese students, Italian card games and food vans. Year 7s had the opportunity to learn about Chinese and Italian culture by viewing a live performances. Italian students watched Commedia dell’arte and Chinese students learnt about the Chinese Lion dance and had an opportunity to perform it. A Language Perfect competition was also run, open to all LOTE students. 7H earned the most points during the week. We look forward to a bigger and better LOTE Week in 2017. YEAR 10 Students had the opportunity to develop their appreciation of both cultures and languages through not only classwork but also excursions and incursions. Year 10 Italian students attended LOTE camp with Sacred Heart College. At LOTE camp students spent 2½ days practising their oral, aural, reading and writing skills. During LOTE Week Year 10 students had the opportunity to participate in a language incursion day, Italian students with St Ignatius College and Chinese students with Geelong College. At both language incursions students completed cultural and language based activities, to help improve their skills and confidence.
Students spent three weeks at a school in Nanjing as well as three weeks travelling around China.
THE STUDY TOUR OF ITALY At the end of last year, a group of 22 students in Years 10 & 11 from St Joseph’s and Sacred Heart took part in the study tour of Italy. The students had the opportunity to attend an Italian high school for a week in Milan. Following their homestay the group travelled around Italy for the remaining two weeks. Students were able to immerse themselves in the language and culture of Italy and had the opportunity to visit important Italian cities like Venice, Verona, Florence, Rome, Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast to name a few. In July St Joseph’s College hosted seven Italian exchange students from two of our sister schools in Milan.The study tour of Italy is run every two years, current Year 9 and Year 10 students of Italian that continue with their language studies in 2017 will have the opportunity to attend the next LOTE Week – coffee trip.
Year 10 Language
THE CHINA TRIP This year during the September school holidays a group of 36 people, including teachers, parents and students attended the cultural trip to China. The group travelled around China for two weeks and saw the sights and learnt about the culture of a few Chinese cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Luoyang, Shaolin, Kaifeng,Tong Li and Xi’an.The next Chinese cultural trip will run in 2018, this trip is offered to all students and parents interested in experiencing Chinese culture. I would like to thank my colleagues of the LOTE Faculty for your continued hard work and support. Caterina Giacomazzo – LOTE Coordinator
YEAR 9 incursion - St Ignatius LOTE students at Westcourt were also very busy. Chinese students completed Community Service in Melbourne at an aged care facility, which houses elderly people with a Chinese background. STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCE Students organised and ran activities in Chinese Year 11 Chinese students have enjoyed a successful for the residents. Italian students took part in the year in our acquisition of the language. We have ‘Italian Urban Experience’ for a second year in a furthered our language abilities in the areas of row. Students participated in both cultural and reading, writing, speaking and listening, while also language based activities in Geelong, Melbourne continuing to learn about the rich and diverse and Daylesford over the course of three days in Chinese culture. We have worked hard each week Term 4. Some of the activities completed during the to build our vocabulary, reading detailed passages Urban Experience included students visiting Holy Year 7 Chinese on various topics and practising complex character Spirit Primary Schools and assisting the teacher as writing. Furthermore, the opportunity for students well as organising activities for the class. Students to attend the Chinese Conversation Lounge at also visited the Old Macaroni Factory and Lavandula Farm in Deakin University each week ensured that each boy was able Daylesford. In Melbourne students took part in a ‘foodie tour’ to improve his speaking and listening skills by conversing with of Lygon Street and visited the Motorclassica exhibition. Year native-born Chinese students from Deakin. We have also been 9 Chinese students had the opportunity to partake in ‘The very fortunate to travel on cultural excursions, such as attending Victorian Young Leaders to China Program’, an intensive 6 the Australian Centre for Moving Image to watch a Chinese film week language course completed in China during Semester 1. festival. – Liam Jelley, Year 11 Chinese Year 10 Language incursion - St Ignatius
Year 7 Italian Performance
Year 7 Chinese lion dance
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