Humanities Tour Sept/Oct 2020
The English and HSIE Faculties are excited to introduce our Humanities Tour to Europe in 2020! We are passionate about the opportunities travelling abroad can offer our students. We will be touring three countries – England, France and Italy – visiting key cultural and historical sites relevant to our students’ studies in both English and History (Modern and Ancient). The trip will take place over the September/October school holidays of 2020, giving our families time to plan and budget for this amazing learning opportunity.
London
Some of the key places we will be visiting include London, Stratford Upon Avon, the Cotswolds, Bath, Paris, Naples, Pompeii, Herculaneum and Rome. We will have expert guides with us as we explore Shakespeare’s birthplace, the Globe Theatre, Tower of London, British Museum, WWI Battlefields of the Somme, Eiffel Tower, Pompeii, the Colosseum, John Keats’ Apartment, the Vatican, and many more. This tour plans to give our students the chance to see first hand many of the sites, societies, texts and writers we study in the History and English courses.
The tour is aimed at students who have a sense of adventure and are open to travelling and experiencing new cultures, places and people. They need to have a sense of curiosity and willingness to learn through travel. We are initially targeting students who will be Year 11 and 10 in 2020 and are enthusiastic students of English and/or Modern and Ancient History. However, we encourage eager students in Year 8 and 9 in 2020 to express their interest and come along to our information sessions in case we have spots available to bring them along too. It will all depend on how popular the tour is and how many students take up the opportunity.
Students have been emailed an information sheet outlining the approximate costing. However, please feel free to contact either Ms Treanor or Mrs East for more information on atreanor@saintpatricks.nsw.edu.au or least@saintpatricks.nsw.edu.au.
Ann Treanor - English Coordinator
