Japanese Food Tasting

"This is one of those lessons that we will remember forever… We will look back on this when we are in Year 12 and remember how fun it was!"

The end of Term 3 was an exciting time for our Year 8 students, who experienced Japanese food tasting as a culmination of their learning. Throughout the term, students learnt language related to dining out and eating at home, and created multimodal presentations in Japanese.

Upon completion of their assessment, the Japanese teaching team facilitated Japanese food tasting for students with a range of traditional Japanese condiments including:

• Rice
• Umeboshi (sour pickled plum)
• Nattou (fermented soybeans)
• Furikake (tasty rice seasoning)
• Takuan (pickled radish)
• Nametake (soft enoki mushrooms)
• Gohandesuyo (seasoned seaweed paste)

Students were brave in their food choices and pleasantly surprised at what they enjoyed. They learnt not to ‘yuck someone else’s yum' and enjoyed recording their responses to the foods to share with family and friends.

We look forward to sharing this experience with our classes in 2023 as well.

WIN Time

The Japanese Team will be offering WIN time sessions from Week 4 to support students in their learning. For additional support or simply some extra time to work on Japanese language skills, students will be welcome to join these sessions at the following times:

Thursday:      12pm – 12:25pm in H3.33

Friday:           8am in the Junior Learning Hub (downstairs)

Friday:           11:30am – 12:20pm in E2.17

Home Support

Keen to know how you can help support your child in Japanese?

The Japanese team often have EP tasks assigned to students to help them learn key vocabulary for each unit. This is a quick and easy way for students to consolidate their class learning.

Please see below for some other prompts to help check in with your child about what they are learning in Japanese.