Inclusive Community
At JPC students and parents from culturally diverse backgrounds are learning to embrace and celebrate their home languages.
The Home Language Club brings together students from a different cultural background once a term to socialise and network (Home language is a term used to describe the language a person learned first and uses the most).
The program has been enthusiastically received by families with more than 45 mother tongue languages spoken within the school, including Mandarin, Korean, Thai, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi and Cantonese.
Parents and students are invited to take a lead role. All Home Language Club attendees are encouraged to communicate in their own home language while they are at the 45-minute sessions, which coincide with the College's lunch break. Gatherings are often linked to culturally significant celebrations, in which parents and senior students from those communities take active organising and leading roles.
The club has been running since 2017 and its popularity continues to grow. A Chinese New Year event in February for Mandarin-speaking families attracted more than 90 students, parents and teachers. It has also had both subtle and tangible flow-on effects for both families and the wider school community.
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