2011 School Magazine

International Affiliate Schools Programme Girls Grammar has been involved in eXchange programmes with overseas schools since the late 1970s and it is part of a long tradition of language and cultural education in our School. Across the year, visitors from our overseas Affiliate Schools loin our families and classes for a number of weeks. The annual visits begin with students from Lycee Saint Paul in An gou16me France here for almost three weeks, their presence marked by the Inclusion of boys in the group, adding another dimension to our girls' school. The next traditional period for visits is Term 111 and this year we welcomed students from Maria-Wachtler Gymnasium in Essen Germany and from both Mie High School in Matsusaka and Seirinkan High School in Nagoya, Japan. The 'host sisters' at the School often already know their overseas visitor through their own previous visit to our International Affiliate Schools and so the link of friendship at both the school and student level heightens the connection of communities across the world

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I Mrs N Smith, Director of international Studies I

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the rest of us wish we'd done as it was boiling hot around the largely unshaded sites. We also visited the Killing Fields and Tu0151eng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh. Some lucky girls and teachers got to sample the regional delicacy of deep-fried spiders in Skuon, "Spider Town" The Community Service project was the most important part of the trip for most of the girls - a school called My Grandfather's House. The groups worked extremely hard in very hot and humid conditions, building two entirely new classrooms, laying bricks, moving bricks, breaking rocks, painting, digging trenches for drainage, and converting the unused top layer of the building into a beautifully colourful and well-resourced library. Our fundraising money goes a long way here The trip was an incredible experience for students and staff

Antipodeons - Cambodia After a 4.00 am start at Brisbane airport on 2 December 2010, the Antipodeans group arrived in Cambodia. The first night's accommodation had been organised for us, but after that, the accommodation, transport and food arrangements were all up to the girls. This is part of the adventure that is AntipodeansI We travelled in three groups of twelve to fourteen girls each for eighteen days Sightseeing for all of us included the Kingdom of Angkor, the ruins of which are located amidst forests and farmland, and archaeologists suggest that Angkor was the largest preindustrial city in the world. Dr Stephens' and Ms Hills' group designed their itinerary so that their trek would also incorporate cycling around the remains of these magnificent temples - something

I Ms S MCGarry, Co-ordinatoT I