Welcome to the Sutherland Shire, Sydney - Lakewood, Denver U.S.A. Sister City Home Page. This Home Page has been setup as a common Bulletin Board for families from both Sutherland and Lakewood to keep up to date with what is happening in our Sister City Programs.
Since 1978, Sutherland Shire has had a Sister Cities Agreement with Lakewood, Colorado, USA. This agreement is culminated with the Sutherland - Lakewood Student Exchange Program, a unique exchange program in that it is a "twin" exchange. Australian students are paired with an American student and family. Sutherland students then travel to Lakewood to stay with their American family for the last six months of the year, and this is reciprocated by the American student travelling to Sutherland and staying with their host family for the first six months of the next year. This provides a unique opportunity for students from each country to experience life overseas with another family.
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Cronulla, Australia
Denver, Colorado
Information Evening for Student Exchange Program Wednesday 9th February at 7pm Sutherland Shire Council Chambers
Students living and going to school in the Sutherland Shire have been invited to apply to the 2010-2011 Student Exchange Program. Each year we send students to Lakewood Colorado to have the experience of a lifetime. Successful applicants will be given the opportunity to experience the friendship and hospitality of our Sister City of Lakewood in Colorado for 6 months. Students who will be in year 10 in 2010 will have the chance to experience Colorado attending school and living like a local and then they will return to Australia with their American partner and return the hospitality for 6 months showing their American student what is great about living in the Shire and Australia. If you have enjoyed sharing in any of our students journeys, maybe its time to start your own journey. Join us at our information night and meet the returned students and their partners. Applications can also be handed in at this meeting. To find out all of the details and check on the Council pages of the Leader and in the Our Shire Magazine and also on the website. For further details contact E Clisby on 95213691. Also check out photos of the group in the NEW Photo Gallery!
Kaleidoscope News
The Kaleidoscope group now home with their partners and enjoying introducing them o our Australian culture. Most students have been to the beach and one has also experienced the shark warning sirens
We look forward to getting to know Aleah, Brandon, Hannah, Maddie and Riley a lot better and spending time with them at Bendalong and Nelson Bay in the next couple of weeks. photos of the group in the NEW Photo Gallery!
The Kaleidoscope students are:
- Stephanie Alchin, Barden Ridge (Lucas Heights Community School) & Brandon Yale, Lakewood (Green Mountain High)
- Laura Barendregt, Barden Ridge (Lucas Heights Community School) & Riley Vinnola, Littleton (Chatfield High)
- Kristina Munro, Bonnet Bay (Jannali High) & Aleah Radovich, Golden Gate Canyon (Wheat Ridge High)
- Eden Tollis, Alfords Point (Menai) & Hannah Phalen, Littleton (Lakewood High)
- Louise Unwin, Jannali(Jannali High) & Madalyn Page, Evergreen (Evergreen High)
- Sydney Coordinators - Jeanette Mallet, Lynda D'Arth-Weston
- Lakewood Coordinators - Peggy Moulton, Ana Tolentino
The Kaleidoscope Exchange Program for 2009-2010
