Thursday 4 October
Today students
studying childcare at Seitoku University in Japan visited the college for a day
of cultural exchange and to find out a little bit about childcare training at
Norland.
Before they
arrived we were all a little nervous about what to expect - although the second
year students had re-assured us it was a fun day.
We set up
activities throughout the college that groups of the Japanese students would
rotate around. Each activity is something we would do with children – mainly
messy activities including shaving foam play, corn flour (or gloop), marble
paintings and sand play. The students seemed to really enjoy getting stuck in
and hadn’t really done any of the activities before.
All of the
students were really enthusiastic and translated our names into Japanese for us
and told us what the sounds of our names mean in Japanese.
Part of the
visit included a cultural exchange where we performed We’re going on a bear
hunt for the Japanese Students – with actions and everything! It was a lot of
fun and they really enjoyed it. Here is a video of our performance.
In return
they performed the Japanese version of It’s a Small World; sang a song that
they sing when they graduate - which was really good and performed a dance.
The day was
really good fun, all the Japanese students were lovely and so enthusiastic
about everything we were showing them. They took hundreds of photos and were
really sad to leave.
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