International Exchange

School-based Exchange

Our school dedicates on international education, including international volunteers, international exchange, overseas study tour and international scientific symposium, etc. To cultivate students into diverse cultures and international perspectives. This is the target we are continuously striving for.

International Trip : School-to –school Experience

　　SIN & SHA school Internship Learning Camp

　　Taiwan & Singapore Scholarly Exchange

　　Taiwan & Japan Interscholastic Visit

International Educational Travel

　　Eductaion Trip to Japan

　　Education Trip to Korea

　　Educraion Trip to Dallas, U.S.A

　　International Symposium

Brief Introduction to International Student Science Conference(ISSC)

The 12th International Student Science Conference was held by the Don School, India. The School is located at the northern India where is close to Dehradun city around Himalaya Mountains.

The conference was on October, 24th ~29th. This time, there were 6 schools from 6 countries including The Don School, Stella Matutina Girls High School, Taiwan, Tianjin Nankai High School, China, St Pauls Co-Educational College, Hong Kong, The Hutchins School, Hobart, Australia, Liceo Classico “Marco Foscarini”, Venice, Italy and the host school : Welham Girls’ School, Welham Boys’ School and Unison World School.

There were total 9 schools participated in the 12th International Student Science Conference

Tr. Wan-Ling Chong was the tour leader and advisor who leaded 2 groups with a total of 6 grade 11 students to present the findings of their study. There were other 3 interns who were the grade 10 students introducing Stella Matutina Girls High School, Taiwan to the Don school in the conference.

At the very beginning, the school was highly concerned about safety issue in India, but we did some research about the Don School and local travel information, we decided to let our students participate the 12nd International Student Science Conference.

During the conference, we could understand the Don School was really showed their professional and dedication to this international conference. Stella girls showed their good manners and positive attitudes for their report in the conference and gained good results and administration from other schools. All of us not only learned from the precious experience, also make many international friends from other countries.

• CEI

• STSY

• Scientific Forum

• Culture Tours

• MUN

• ISSC

International Volunteers

Brief introduction

Stella Matutina was established over half a century ago. Over the years, our school, imbued with the spirit of love and religious sacred love, has upheld the belief in grooming its students in ways that they would joyfully dedicate themselves to spreading love to all communities so that those who need help may feel warm and loved by the Lord. Back in 2012, Principal Sister Chu of Stella Matutina accepted from Mongolia’s Catholic Bishop Huang a challenging proposal of fundraising for new schools to be set up with new windows installed in Mongolia. With the aim at promoting local education, the Religious Counselling Office at Stella Matutina started the activity of “sending love to Mongolia” through fundraising.

Donations from the teachers and students had helped Bishop Huang one step closer to fulfilling his dream of building schools with new windows installed. All the love and donations had moved Bishop Huang immensely that on the second year he pushed forward another new project named “Painting a rainbow across Mongolia”, helping raise funds to have schools painted new and encouraging students to offer their services as volunteers in Mongolia.

All the above served as the prelude to international volunteer groups in our school. In 2014, Interact Club initiated a project called “Sim-bodia, Simple Dreams (a pun intended in Chinese): Simple Dreams in Cambodia”, in cooperation with Vision Youth Association, to provide English teaching services incorporating aesthetic arts, cuisine arts and the interaction between beauty and power in Cambodia, With all different activities provided simultaneously, this project had become versatile and enriched students’ servicing experience.

With extensive and persistent service passion from Mongolian International Volunteer Group, a new undertaking between Mongolian counterpart and Stella Matutina was brought to life in 2014 with a task for Stella Matutina to send books to Mongolia and in the following year, 2015, another one to give out blankets to Mongolian students to warm up their hearts. Through these undertakings, Stella Matutina and Mongolian counterpart have slowly but surely set up the communication bridge for all sorts of exchanges.

In Cambodia, the “Sim-bodia, Simple Dreams: Simple Dreams in Cambodia” has been in teaching service locally for 3 years. The passion and enthusiasm of the teachers and students remain strong. Since 2016, Stella Matutina has started working with Hung-Jen Catholic Girls’ High School in Chia-Yi City to provide diversified services, including helping record complete local epic archives, in Northern Thailand.

Through volunteering, our students not only have gained further understanding of those local cultures, but also have learned how to interview people, set up archives and decorate museums of fine arts. What our volunteers have done may seem a small step, but it signifies a giant leap to their learning experience: they experience living a simple life, learn the war-time spirit and familiarize themselves with the extraordinary deeds of heroes in war times.

“Love is beyond borders." Stella Matutina’s teachers and students have always and continuously upheld their belief in international volunteerism by dedicating their life and time to caring for youngsters and accompanying elders. Throughout the whole process, they are in turn cultivating themselves morally and virtuously, and internalizing their hearts to be tenderer and their action to be more amicable. They have also learned to appreciate and cherish their good fortune, and further to pay forward their love. Thus they have realized the ultimate mission of Stella Matutina founded as a religious establishment, which is “the Lord is love and let live a life in love.”

　　Mongolia Volunteer Service

　　Cambodia Volunteer Service

　　Northern Thailand Volunteer Service

　　Shangri-La Volunteer Service( Province Yun-Nan ,Mainland China)

Overseas Study Tour

With the rapid intensification of globalization, many schools have shown an interest in supporting students to extend their cross-cultural understanding and communication skills for learning with people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Study tours can provide such support. No matter how diverse their backgrounds, our students share one thing in common: a willing to try new things and take an adventurous spirit of learning. As our students seek academic advancement, they can also improve their English language skills and benefit from cultural exchange and understanding. Therefore this is an open window opportunity to make friends with the world. For this decade, SMGHS has the overseas study tour as follows:

　　Australia & New Zealand

　　U.S.A.

　　Canada

　　England & Italy