Today Adelaide High School welcomed a group of staff and students from our Sister School, Lycée Saint Sauveur, from Redon in the region of Brittany in France.
The 16 students and two accompanying teachers, Madame Isabelle Derunes and Madame Colette de Carville, were warmly welcomed at an Assembly by their homestay students – many of whom they met last year when Adelaide High School students and staff visited their school as part of the France Study Tour, members of the school Leadership Team and all students of French.
The students from Lycée Saint Sauveur will be with us until the end of the month and will spend time in our classrooms as well as in the homes of the hosting families. They will quickly learn about some of our different cultural practices and habits. Their mornings might begin with Vegemite on toast instead of Nutella. They might get to try kangaroo on the "Barbie" or eat a lamington in our school canteen. Our students might be envious of the 3 course cafeteria-style lunch lasting for an hour and a half that students have in France. School uniforms are not worn in France but the school day is longer. French students study considerably more subjects in their final years in high school than we do.
The experiences they have at school and with their hosting families will do much to broaden the cultural horizons of our students as well as those of the French, as they discuss and maybe even debate the pros and cons of both schooling systems.
The exchange group will be involved in a number of excursions to cultural institutions in Adelaide as well as undertake a 3-day visit to Kangaroo Island.
AHS Principal, Anita Zocchi, and Senior Leader 2, Phil Wilson, with Madame Isabelle Derunes and
Madame Colette de Carville from Lycée Saint Sauveur.
Mme Anna Judd
Teacher of French