Languages 

Year 9 Japanese - Japan Foundation Workshop

Students from the year 9 elective class went on an excursion to the Japan Foundation on Thursday September 11th of Term 3. Located 15 minutes walk from Central station, the Japan Foundation runs workshops and also features a bilingual library with texts in both Japanese and English. Our students participated in a workshop about “furoshiki”, a traditional cloth used to wrap gifts and bento boxes among other things. Students used the cloth to wrap their water bottles and a prop gift that they would use in the second half of the workshop. The students then performed a roleplay about visiting a Japanese home. Students used the furoshiki they wrapped as a gift for the person they were visiting.