Overseas Exchanges and Trips
Language Exchange
St Catherine's has a well established program of study abroad for Senior students (Year 10 & 11). During the Christmas vacation, selected students travel to St Catherine's international sister schools, stay with host families and attend school. They improve their language skills and experience the culture of the country through 'immersion'.
The exchange partners receive hospitality from Australian families and St Catherine's when they visit Australia in their summer vacation between June and August.
Language exchanges are carried out with the following Schools:
• Otsuma Gakuin, Tokyo, Japan
• Shukutoku College, Nagoya, Japan
• Lycee Prive Sainte - Marie Des Champs, Toulouse, France
• Collège Sainte Catherine de Sienne - Aix en Provence, near to Marseilles, southern France
Enquires for French Exchanges to Mrs Jane Torii and for Japanese Exchanges to Mrs Fiona Pensabene.
Exchange Program in the United Kingdom, USA and Canada
United Kingdom
St Catherine's School has developed strong links with Queenswood School in the United Kingdom during the past decade. A most successful component has been an exchange program for our Year 9 students where girls spend Term 2 as boarders at Queenswood. Prior to that, they act as host sisters to the Queenswood girls during first term at St Catherine's.
A second English school is being explored.
North America
St Catherine's School has also established exchange programs with schools in the USA and Canada.
Last year students visited the Ethel Walker School in Connecticut, USA and the Havergal College in Toronto, Canada.
In addition, exchanges have been developed with Scotch College, to the Kingswood, Oxford School in West Hartford, Connecticut.
These programs are generally available to students from Years 8 to 10 and girls who participate are expected to host girls from these schools at St Catherine's during return visits.
Enquiries to Mrs Sue Collister, English Exchange Coordinator.
School Trips
An overseas trip is offered every year to enrich the study of areas such as History, Art, Languages other than English, Geography and Science.
A group of students in Years 10 - 12 travelled to the birthplace of the Renaissance - to Venice, Mantua and Florence - in the Term 1 break in 2007. The group studied the way the Renaissance societies planned their cities and civic spaces and took in Renaissance Venetian art. In Florence, students climbed to the top of the Duomo to see the layout of the city, walked the city neighbourhoods and visited the Brancacci Chapel, the Bargello and the Uffizzi to see the development of art from Giotto to Masaccio, Botticelli, Donatello, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. In all these places students could see, touch and imagine how Renaissance cities embodied the aims of their creators.
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