NIHONGO NEWS

It’s hard to believe that we are fast approaching the end of the 2023 school year! As we reach mid-term, there have been a number of celebrations in the Japanese faculty recently.

FSSC Japanese Art Contest

Each year, the Japanese faculty runs an art contest where students are inspired to recreate their own version of the famous Japanese artwork ‘The Great Wave Off Kanagawa’ by Hokusai.

This year’s entries were amazing and we would like to congratulate our contest winners:

Students were pleasantly surprised to hear their names announced and received their certificates and prize packs at our full school assembly last week.

Congratulations and thank you to all entrants for sharing your creativity!

Year 9 and 10 Japanese Dinner

To celebrate language learning in Years 9 and 10 Japanese PECs, students were offered the opportunity to participate in a Japanese dinner at Kamikaze Teppenyaki restaurant. This was a popular activity, with our group having enough students to fill the entire grill while we dined. Students thoroughly enjoyed the company of their peers, as well as the ‘oishii’ (delicious) meals, which included miso soup, Japanese salad, rice and teriyaki grilled chicken.

We look forward to offering students this opportunity again in 2024.

WIN Time

As we approach assessment time, students can access additional support from the Japanese Team. For help with revision or classwork, or simply some extra time to work on learning vocabulary with EP, students are welcome to join Japanese tutorials at the following time:

Wednesdays:           11:45pm – 12:30pm in the Learning Hub (upstairs)

Home Support

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

The Japanese team 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. It is also extremely useful and important way to ensure key vocabulary is learnt in preparation for students’ upcoming exams.

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