International Exchange Trips
In accordance with the mission of St. Paul’s School for Girls to prepare girls to “embrace the extraordinary opportunities of our complex world,” SPSG will offer a variety of cultural exchange opportunities for the 2012 -2013 academic year. In the coming school year, SPSG will welcome student groups from our sister schools in China, Argentina, Australia, France, and Japan. We will also provide an opportunity for our students to visit our Chinese, Japanese, and Argentinian sister schools this year.
For more information on any of these trips or to host an exchange student, please contact Bob Campuzano.
Marseille, France, Collège et lycée Marseilleveyre
Open to Grades VIII-XII, SPSG and SP.
SPSG students are not traveling to France this year.
This coed program began in the spring of 2010 and is a language-based exchange. Students from Marseilleveyre first visited us in March 2010. This program is offered every two years. Students in upper-school French classes are invited to travel to France, or host French exchange students at their homes.
This year, students from Marseilleveyre will be traveling to SPSG from April 3-13, 2013. Application to host an exchange student is closed.
Yokohama, Japan, Suiryo High School
Open to Grades VIII-XII
June 12-26, 2013
Application is closed.
Trip Details
The primary objective of the SPSG / Yokohama Suiryo Exchange is to provide SPSG students the opportunity of experiencing Japan as an exchange student at SPSG’s sister school, the Yokohama Suiryo School, located in the second largest Japanese city of Yokohama. While each student will live with a family and her host student and attend school on eight days, SPSG students will also have the opportunity to go to Tokyo and visit such sights as the Sensoji Temple and the Tokyo Tower as a group. Program participants will experience Japanese life, practice their language skills, and live Japanese culture as part of living with a Japanese family.
Japanese Exchange students will visit SPSG from March 20 – April 3, 2013.
Host Family Application - Due to Ms. Okamoto by Friday, January 4, 2013!
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Open to Grade XI
March 2 – 22, 2013
Application is closed.
SPSG will send two juniors to our newly established sister school in Argentina, St. George College School, Quilmes, Argentina, from March 2-22, 2013. Students from St. George will also travel to the U.S. from February 2 – March 2, 2013. Girls who travel to Argentina usually host the exchange students upon their arrival.
Hangzhou, China, Hangzhou Entel Foreign Language School
Open to Grades IX-XII
June 12-22, 2013
$3,400
Trip Details Students will visit SPSG's sister school in China, the Hangzhou ENTEL Foreign Language School in Hangzhou. The first half of this trip focuses on sightseeing and exploring Beijing, including Tiananmen Square, the Temple of Heaven, the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, and Great Wall. Students will then have a chance to experience school in China at our sister school and to visit other cities.
For more information, please contact SPSG Chinese Language teachers Fen-Whey Koh or Eileen Lin.
HOST AN EXCHANGE STUDENT IN YOUR HOME, 2012-2013
Welcoming a student from another country into your home is a wonderful opportunity to engage with your daughter in learning about another culture. These opportunities to host are open to students of SPS and SPSG. We are looking for families to host exchange students on the following dates:
- February 2 - March 2, 2013 - SPSG welcomes for the first time a student from our newly established sister school, St. George College School, Quilmes, Argentina
- March 20 – April 3, 2013 - Students Suiryo High School in Yokohama, Japan, will be visiting SPSG. Grades VI-XII.
- April 3-13, 2013 - Students from Collège et lycée Marseilleveyre in Marseille, France, will be visiting SPSG. Grades VIII-XII.
- April 6 – May 5, 2013 - SPSG will welcome students from our sister school, St. Hilda’s School of Australia, Brisbane, Australia.
Service Learning Trips
Service Learning Trip to Heifer International
June 17-21, 2013
$400
Open to rising IXs and Xs
Application is closed.
Click here for applications, deadlines, and more information.
The summer service learning trip takes them to the Heifer International Learning Center at Overlook Farm in Rutland, MA. Here, SPSG students have the opportunity to learn about the mission of Heifer International, which is “To work with communities to end hunger and poverty while caring for the world.” During the week, girls participate in the life of the farm by caring for animals, tending the gardens, doing farm chores, and helping the staff. Through all of their experiences, they learn about hunger, sustainability, the global economy, fair trade, organic and local farming practices, as well as different cultures. Midweek, they spend one day and night in Heifer’s Global Village, where they experience daily life in a culture different from their own. It is quite a powerful trip and the girls who have gone in the past have been extremely moved by their time there.
Academic Enrichment Trips
Middle School Spring Break Trip to Costa Rica
March 2013
Open to: Grades VII and VIII
Application is closed.
Every other Spring Break, SPSG offers an exciting opportunity for seventh and eighth grade students to journey southward for an adventure in environmental stewardship and culture in Costa Rica, Central America. They learn about local wildlife while hiking through rain forests, assist sea turtle populations while saving their eggs from poachers, and learn a new culture while visiting with an indigenous community. This trip is coordinated by EcoTeach, which has specialized in educational trips to Costa Rica since 1994.
Saints International Travel
March 7-14, 2013
Every other year, over Spring Break, the upper-school choral group, the Saints, led by Ms. Alice Mack, travel abroad to perform and explore. Most recently, the Saints traveled to Paris and performed in the Notre Dame Cathedral.
Over Spring Break 2013, the Saints will travel to Ireland!
Watch videos from the Saints' trip to France in 2011.