After a 22-year pause on South Australian schools visiting Indonesia, students from Le Fevre High School have returned from a cultural exchange with their sister school in Jakarta. The students participated in traditional greetings, visited local schools, and performed in a grand concert celebrating cultural awareness.
Le Fevre High School students have visited their sister school in Indonesia for the first time since the 2002 Bali bombings.After a 22-year "pause" on South Australia n schools visiting Indonesia , 13 students from an Adelaide high school have returned from a cultural experience they will never forget.
"We visited some of the younger classes with little five-year-olds in there, and they speak almost fluently.Year 10 student Aislin Weir said another "surprising" difference was how teachers would undertake a traditional greeting with each student as they entered the school gates in the morning. But for most, the biggest highlight was their active participation in a Sekolah Pilar concert named Raja Ampat to celebrate cultural awareness.Le Fevre's languages and intercultural relationships coordinator Pru Pole, who was this week handed a National Award for Intercultural Excellence by not-for-profit organisation Together for Humanity, said the biannual event was "bigger than Broadway".
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