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 Redfield has frequently hosted visits from, and sent students to, Mikawadai College in Nagasaki, Japan, and three schools in Spain: Colegio Viaro in Barcelona, Colegio Gaztelueta in Bilbao and Colegio Los Robles in Oviedo. In recent years boys from Monte VI in Montevideo Uruguay and Colegio Penalba in Valladolid have also visited each year as well as a class of students from Tak Sun College in Hong Kong. Boys are billeted with families.
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Since 1989 Japanese students have been hosted at Redfield in class groups. Their stays, usually in late July to early August, are limited to a fortnight during which time Redfield organizes a welcome concert, some special classes and activities, and a camp with Year 8. |
Lately, students from Colegio Gaztelueta in Bilbao and Penalba in Valladolid have visited Redfield over the mid year break and into the first weeks of August. While in school, they have special language classes but for the most part, they attend normal classes. To all intents and purposes they are normal Redfield students while here and should be treated as such.
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| In recent years small groups of Redfield students from Year 9 travel to Europe, Asia and South America for period of 6 or 7 weeks. The aim of the trips to Spanish speaking countries is to increase the boys’ facility with the Spanish language, enable them to experience a culture that has similarities to our own but very big differences also. It is also a chance to experience another Christian culture. The boys are typically billeted with families having boys in schools our boys attend while on exchange. At the end of the stay in Spain the boys travel as a group to Rome and spend a week there at the heart of Catholicism and western civilization. |
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Participants of the Asian Study Tour typically spend a month in each of Nagasaki and Hong Kong, attending Mikawadai and Tak Sun College. |