Students participate in student exchanges as part of a group and usually have a cultural or language focus. They vary in length from two to five weeks.
The Ottawa-France Cultural Exchange is a 5-week reciprocal exchange primarily for grade 10 and 11 students to learn more about French culture and to develop their language skills while attending school in the Aix-Marseille-Nice area.
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The Ottawa-Japan Cultural Exchange is a 2-week homestay exchange for students from a few west-end high schools. Students from Yamate Gakuin high school near Tokyo stay with OCDSB students for two weeks in April of every 2nd year. OCDSB students then travel to Japan for 2 weeks to stay with a family in July / August of that same year.
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The Ottawa-China Cultural Exchange is a 10-day homestay exchange for students from any OCDSB high school. Students stay with host families from one of our partner schools in Chengdu, participate in various cultural excursions and school visits and enjoy the amazing people, culture, sites, sounds and smells of this Sichuan province. Students will travel to China each spring. Elementary students from Chengdu visit Ottawa in the spring and stay with families at schools in our district and attend school while here.
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