Mudgee High School is currently hosting visiting students from Japan which continues a 12 year relationship with an education area in one of the country’s major cities.
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The 17 students – mostly in Year 11 - and three teachers come from three senior high schools in the northern Osaka region; Suita Higashi, Ohkanmuri, and Hokusetsu-Tsubasa.
MHS has a sister relationship with an education area there, similar to the local Cudgegong Learning Community (CLC) group of public schools.
This is the 12th visit that Mudgee High has hosted and in that time students from eight different schools have come here.
Local students studying Japanese at MHS have the opportunity to travel to Japan every few years.
The visiting students arrived last Wednesday and will leave this Sunday (August 9) and their accommodation is in the form of home stays with families of MHS students.
Mudgee High School Japanese teacher, Melissa Date said that they’re in a jam-packed schedule of seeing what it’s like to live locally.
“They’ve been experiencing the Aussie way with their host families as well as our education system, which is very different to what they’re used to in Japan,” she said.
“They’ve got a massive range of activities while they’re here; art lessons, ESL (English as a Second Language) lessons, cooking, a farm visit with our Ag-plots, music, going across to the primary schools to teach them some things about Japan, classes here at MHS, and wrap it up with a trip to Dubbo Zoo.”