Japanese students visit Umina campus

Umina campus of Brisbane Water Secondary College has welcomed 19 students and three teachers for a week's visit from Fujimi Mura Junior High School in Japan.

The school is a middle school like the Umina campus and is located about one and a half hours north west of Tokyo.

The students who visited were Year 9 students and were billeted in the homes of Umina students and their families.

During the visit, the Japanese students received English lessons on the campus and enjoyed a range of games, barbeques on the college farm, and general sharing in the day to day life of an Australian school.

This visit also included trips to a number of local attractions including the Australian Reptile Park, Terrigal, and Erina Fair.

"From the very beginning of the visit, students from both schools established an immediate rapport and despite some spoken language difficulties they found that using that international teenager language communication was no problem," college principal Mr Pat Lewis said.

Mr Lewis said as the visit proceeded students' language skills on both sides improved considerably.

"As an activity underlining the college's values of international co-operation, tolerance and inclusion, the visit was a great success," Mr Lewis said.

The college thanked the families who hosted a student in their homes and Ms Rose from Umina campus who co-ordinated the visit.

Press release, August 30 Pat Lewis, Brisbane Water Secondary College