The Student Exchange Program 20008-09
	Eurocamp Students will have the opportunity to join other boys and girls from over 17 countries in an international summer camp in Germany. Grades 6-8. To learn more about our visit in August 2007, click here.
	Hungary Students in Grades 7 and 8 will have the opportunity to visit Arpad Gymnasium in Tatabanya, Hungary. Arpad is part of the "Circle of Schools" that visited Nativity for The Friendship Project in September 2006.
	International School-to-School Experience Representatives from member schools will meet in Costa Rica in July to determine the partnerships for the next three years. Options include schools in India, Japan, Australia, Peru, Ecuador, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Mexico.
	China Read about our visit to Liuzhou - the beginning of our partnership with Long Cheng Middle School. >>> The History of Our Partnership with Long Cheng Middle School In October 2006 Nativity approached the Cincinnati – Liuzhou Sister City Committee to explore the possibility of a partnership with a Chinese school.  Beth Hoffman Tu, Chair of the Cin – Liu  Sister Cities Committee, identified Long Cheng Middle School as a place to start the conversation.  After months of discussion and negotiation with representatives from Long Cheng, we are proud to announce that we have agreed on the components of a Memorandum of Understanding that will define our relationship through 2012.  Our partnership calls for the following: For students in Grades 7 and 8 the opportunity for a student exchange in the spring of even numbered years.  We will send a delegation to China in March 2008 and host in April 2008. The same for 2010 and 2012. In exchange for immersion in an English language environment along with room and board, a teacher from Long Cheng Middle School will spend a year at Nativity teaching Chinese to our students. Students in Grades 5-6 will have Chinese language instruction 3 times per week. For students in Grade 4 – Chinese language instruction twice a week. For students in Grades K-3 – Two classes per month taught by the Chinese teacher from Long Cheng Middle School that will focus on Chinese traditions and culture. This partnership would not have been possible without the assistance of the Cincinnati-Liuzhou Sister Cities Committee to whom we are deeply grateful.
The Student Exchange Program 2006-07
	Ukraine Working with the Cincinnati-Ukraine Sister Cities Project, Nativity exchanged delegations with School #3 in Kharkov. To read about the Ukrainian Delegation's visit to Nativity and our visit there, click here.

The Global Village
One of the best ways to prepare students to participate in the global community is to provide them with the experience of learning about and getting to know students from around the world. Since 1980 Nativity has worked with schools in 17 different countries to provide that global experience for our students.

Visiting students come prepared to visit each classroom to share their nation’s culture and history with our students through age-appropriate activities. While in Cincinnati they live with Nativity families and attend classes at Nativity to experience American family and school life. Their visit always includes trips to local points of interest. The same thing happens when our students travel to another country. The exchange program is funded by families who choose to participate either as a host family or one who sends their son/daughter abroad.

The exchange program at Nativity is one of the reasons this is A Great Place to Be. What better way to learn about the world than by meeting students in class and on the playground; what better way to build friendships that can last a lifetime.

Mr. Johnson, Mr. Herring

Through International School-to-School Experience (ISSE) we have worked with schools in India, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Bermuda and Jamaica. (isseonline.org). We were partnered with schools in Cannes and Paris through The Association for French American Classes.

Working with the Cincinnati-Kharkiv Sister Cities Project we exchanged delegations with English Specialist School #3 in Ukraine.

In 2005-06 we exchanged delegations with schools in Mexico and Germany; in 2006-07 we worked with school in Finland and Ukraine. The 2007-08 academic year we worked with Otto Hahn Gymnasium in Germany and Long Cheng Middle School in China; we hosted Torkinmaki School in Kokkola, Finland.

Our Memorandum of Understanding with Torkinmaki School calls for an exchange of students, teachers and students' art work.

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Mr. Herring and Mr. Johnson made a presentation on student exchange programs in the elementary school at the Meeting of the International Confederation of Principals in Scotland. (icponline.org)
To read what they had to say and to learn more about this unique partnership, click here.