Just recently, the Illawarra Sports High School Year 8 students have been transported to Bali as they tried to learn performing a kecak dance and music drama and listened to a traditional gamelan band, just like what some of the many private villas in Bali guests have also experienced.
A designated specialist sports high school, Illawarra Sports High School has a broadly based comprehensive curriculum from Years 7 - 12. The school is known to provide a strong comprehensive education and the integrated opportunity for talented sports students to reach elite sporting levels in a wide range of sports, with emphasis on the need to pursue excellence in the academic development of each student through the encouragement of the sporting, visual and creative arts, student leadership and social interests.
Illawarra students have also learnt how to play the angklung, which is an instrument, made of two bamboo tubes on a bamboo frame. They also watched a sila martial arts demonstration by performers from the Australian Indonesian Arts Alliance.
This latest workshop is part of the school’s efforts in preparing students for living and working in what Federal Education Minister Peter Garrett has called ‘‘the Asian century’’.
According to Language and Geography teacher Jennifer Jurman-Hilton, the children starting school this year would be expected to begin work in 2030, which is when many Asian countries are likely to emerge as major world economies.
Jurman-Hilton said, ‘‘Students will need to able to speak Asian languages and understand how to work across different cultures.’’
‘‘Australia tends to see Indonesia through a kaleidoscope of negative images, so I just think [this] serves to break down those stereotypes.’’
Meanwhile, Illawarra Sports High has been recognized by the Federal Government as an Access Asia School and the Year 8 students have been learning the Indonesian national language, Bahasa, since the beginning of the year.
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