Students'+of+Japanese+Achievements

= = =There are many monetary scholarships, exchange programes and opportunities available to students of foreign languages. The following students have been sucessful in their applications.=

__Japan Tour 08__
==Congratulations to Hayden Needs. Hayden applied for a grant through New Zealand Japan Young People's Exchange Programme (nzjypep) and was successful! His excellent grades supported his well prepared application. Great work and well deserved. There is infomation about this grant on the wiki. Feel free to check it out.==

__Year 10 Japanese 2008__
==2 Week Exchange to Kurashiki for Year 10 students, Christchurch's Sister City in Japan. A big Thank You to the Christchurch City Council for providing this opportunity. We hope to post details of the trip once the boys get back.==


 * Sam Douglas
 * Chris Faletanoa'i
 * Nick Tolchard

The following sites tell you a bit more about Kurashiki and the exchange our boys are going on.
http://www.christchurch.org.nz/SisterCities/Kurashiki/ http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e5750.html

To find out if you might be interested in this award click on the following link
http://www.afs.org.nz/nzl_en/focus_on/volunteer

=__2009__=

Geoffrey recieved a prestigious scholarship to study Engineering for 4 years at the University of Singapore
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=__Extension Opportunities for students of Japanese__=

==Over the last few years we have had some boys who have shown considerable talent in Japanese so through our gifted and talented programme and Star Funding have been able to do studies at Christchurch Polytehnic Institute of Technology and at Canterbury University.==

Lukas Bolam Smith completed NCEA Level 3 as a Year 12 student last year and will attend the second semester of Japanese first year at Canterbury University this year.
==__2007__ Gary Davis (Yr 13) attended Canterbury University and took 2nd year papers. He also attended CPIT and took a paper on Level 2 Japanese Proficiency Test. Gary sat and passed the Scholarship Examination for Japanese. This Year Gary is a 1st year student at Canterbury University but is already doing 3rd year Japanese. Gary has recently been selected to attend a Japanese Language School in Osaka, Japan.==

__2006__ Callum Johnston and Matt Jaundrell recieved a short term Rotary Exchange to visit Osaka over the Christmas Holidays. A big Thank You to the Rotary Club.
==__2005__ Toby Cartwright spent 9 months at our sister school, Toho High School, in Nagoya on a Student Exchange. He returned in 2006 and did very well in Year 13 gaining three Scholarship passes one of which was Japanese.==