During the October school holidays, the Year 12 Integrated Learning Class travelled to Cambodia.

The Year 12 Integrated Learning Class consisted of Molly Crouch, Josh Pope, Riley McMullan, Brooklyn Fitzgerald, Shae Hopgood, Lily Mathews, Sophie Matters, Muzammil Rezaie, Laura Johnson along with staff Tony Hill, Charlene Grant and Tammy Schinckel. We would like to sincerely thank the following people and local businesses for their contributions and support with our recent trip to Cambodia:

Pearl Continental Indian restaurant Naracoorte, Naracoorte Hotel, Andrea Henschke, Chris Schinckel and Family, Laundry Hub Naracoorte, Cape Jaffa Wines, Naracoorte Homemakers, Mini Jumbuk, Lions Club of Naracoorte, William McIntosh, Trev’s Bargain Emporium, Tender Cuts, Selig’s Hairdressing, Pure Luxe Robe, Loophole Brewery, Salubrious Hour, Castec, D’Lush Beauty, Sea Mist at Robe, Longbottom Family, Treasury Wines, LCA Naracoorte, Fitzgerald Family, Beauty at Rivioli, Always Blossom.

Thank you to the families and friends that helped out or attended the many fundraisers the students organised as part of their Year 12 Summative Tasks.

And thank you to our Cambodian team led by Vuthy Kuy, Shreyleap Soth, Sokhem Doung and family, Soth Panha and family, Para Panha and family, Khem Panha and family, SaLin and Michael, Tohor Gakusei, Soth Leakana, Kylie Ferguson, Tammie Powell, Jane Dinnison, Mr Panha, Mr Kong, Mr Sokha, Sela, Sopha.

Everyone who bought raffle tickets or lucky squares throughout the year to support us, thanks for your support. As well as everyone who got their car washed by us or bought a bag or two of rice for us to deliver when we were in Cambodia.

The students have returned after undertaking a comprehensive trip that included a day at Cosi’s farm Cows for Cambodia, a Rice Run, delivering 60 x 25kg bags of rice to a rural village, supporting English classes as Treak Community School, delivering hundreds of patterns from our community to the sewing school of Treak, participated in a Khmer cultural and language workshop, making local Cambodian cakes with a local family and helping them sell them in the local Khmer speaking markets and giving the money made to the family they worked with. We visited Angkor Wat, Ta Phrom and Bayon Temples, visited Apopo, The killing fields and war museum, visited sticky rice village, the floating village and Tole Sap Lake, toured Singapore, visited a lotus farm, made pottery bowls using a manual operated pottery wheel, consumed beautiful meals at social enterprise restaurants, worked on three different Summative Assessment tasks for Year 12 Integrated Learning, and participated in a self development program.

Students went without their mobile phones or technology for 12 days, survived constant 33 degree temperatures and 80% humidity, learned a lot about themselves, Cambodia and the Cambodian people and created friendships that could last a lifetime.

Tammy Schinckel
Integrated Learning Teacher