Language - Japanese

LANGUAGE - JAPANESE (日本語)

Konnichi wa! 

In the classroom and outdoors in the Japanese Cultural Garden, our students have embraced language learning while enjoying traditional Japanese summer festival activities, origami and games. 

Year 12 Japanese Beginners

Year 12 students will sit their HSC Speaking examination on Saturday, September 7. Students will participate in a 5 minute conversation in Japanese about their personal world (family, leisure, future aspirations etc). Ganbatte kudasai (Good luck!)

Year 7 Language

The Term 2 unit of study was Snack Attack. Students learned about Japanese food and how to talk about food they do and do not enjoy. The images below showcase Japanese menus created by various students for their assessment and samples of Japanese food items made from modelling clay in their studies about obentou (lunch boxes).

Tanabata Star Festival

Year 7 students enjoyed learning about the Star Festival called Tanabata. A festival tradition is to write tanzaku (wishes) and hang them on bamboo trees. We have a magnificent clumping bamboo tree in the Japanese Cultural Garden, perfect for tanzaku. Hopefully, the lucky bamboo will make all of their wishes come true. 

Peace Day 

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony is held each year on the 6th August to remember the victims of the atomic bombing and to pray for the realisation of lasting world peace. The story of ‘Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes’ inspires people all over the world to make paper cranes in memory of those who lost their lives. Students had the opportunity to make an origami crane, a symbol of hope and healing. A crane is quite difficult to fold for those who don’t regularly do origami. However, with patience and perseverance, most managed the task and were very proud of their efforts. 

Technology GO!! 

Congratulations to the students who are consistently arriving to lessons with charged devices, ready for learning. It is important that devices are charged each evening so students have access to their Google Classroom and other language learning sites. If students are absent from a lesson, they are able to access the work on their Google Classroom.

All students learning Japanese at FGHS have access to Japanese content on Education Perfect. This learning tool is used in the classroom but is also a great tool that students can access anytime if they want to reinforce and/or extend language learned in class. 

六月・七月 June and July Samurai　　 

omedetou gozaimasu! (Congratulations!) to the following students for selection as the June and July Samurai in your respective classes. 

  This title recognises students for

• positive engagement in Japanese lessons.
• consistent demonstration of the FGHS values of Respect, Responsibility, Cooperation and Commitment to achieve their potential.

Mrs S Waller