The English Language Centre hosted six study tours. First term saw visits from the TEDA International School in Tianjin, China, and the Ausland school in Chengdu, China. In third term we were hosts to the Chiben Gakuen School, Japan, and a group of children from various schools in the Namegata Prefecture, Japan. Over one hundred children experienced life in an Australian classroom in an atmosphere of total immersion in the English language.

When not in the English classroom, our guests were shown many of the beauties of the Mornington Peninsula and participated in activities such as trail-riding, bush-walking at Cape Schank and rock-climbing. The students stay with home-stay families while they are in Melbourne and it is touching to see the warmth of the relationships which form between the students and their hosts.