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What a great start to the year it has been for the Languages Department. The students have returned from their overseas trip to Italy with a renewed outlook. It was such an amazing experience for them to go to an Italian High School and experience life in Verona like a ...

Chinese Results At the end of last year, our Year 9 – 11 (now Year 10-12) students took the HSK Chinese proficiency tests Level 2 and 3 (internationally recognised). The following students have successfully passed the exam. If you see them, please congratulate the...

Study Trip to China During the September school holidays, Mr Chen and 8 students from St Andrew’s Catholic College participated in a study tour to China. It was the College's first study tour to China. Students had the opportunity to experience firsthand the rich ...

Cairns Speaking Competition This term students from Year 6-12 of Chinese, French, Italian and Japanese took part in the Language Speaking Competition at Distance Education run by the Modern Language Teachers Association. There were over 300 students present buzzing with...

Language Ambassador’s Conference at JCU On Monday 29 May 2017 the St Andrew’s Language Ambassadors took part in the Young Language Ambassador’s conference at James Cook University. Our school, with 15 students from Junior, Middle and Senior years, was ...

Language Perfect World Championships On Friday 19 May 2017 from 2:45pm until 5:30pm, students studying French, Italian, Chinese and Japanese from Years 6 to 12 took part in the Language Perfect World Championships along with other students from hundreds of schools in Au...

CHINESE Study Tour to China Tourism Confucius Institute at Griffith University and Cairns School of Distance Education are organising a study tour to China 14th – 28th September 2017 and our students are invited to take part in this wonderful opportunity. Who Can...

”A different Language is a different vision of life” Federico Fellini Chinese  Chinese New Year On Wednesday 25 January the Years 6 and 7 Chinese Language students took part in Chinese New Year Celebrations at the College.  The Confucius Inst...