Languages: Japanese
At Our Lady Help of Christians Parish School, children in Levels 3 - 6 participate in a one hour Languages : Japanese class each week.
The Languages curriculum aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to ensure that students:
The Communicating and Understanding Strands are intimately linked. Communicating in a language other than English allows learners to reflect on language as a system and gain cultural insight. In turn, Intercultural knowledge and language awareness can provide cultural guidelines for effective communication. Communicating in a language other than English In the Communicating in a language other than English dimension, students learn the knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to the specific language being studied.
The skills of this dimension include: listening, speaking, reading, viewing, writing, and the use of body language, visual cues and signs.
Students explore a number of topics by researching, sharing, presenting and evaluating. Term one focuses on basic greetings, classroom instructions and how to introduce ourselves, through communicating and role playing.
Terms 2 - 4 focus on life in Japan - festivals and seasons, house, food, clothes, pets and animals, hobbies and family. The main purpose is to understand the cultural differences between Japanese cultural the students' own culture.
Students learn the 46 Japanese character set "Hiragana" through the year, both reading with clues and writing with the correct stroke order, using online Japanese games such as Zondle and other apps.
We participate in the annual Japan Challenge competition across primary schools in Ballarat, creating posters about Japanese cultural related topics.
The Languages curriculum aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to ensure that students:
- communicate in the language they are learning
- understand the relationship between language, culture and learning
- develop intercultural capabilities
- understand themselves as communicators.
The Communicating and Understanding Strands are intimately linked. Communicating in a language other than English allows learners to reflect on language as a system and gain cultural insight. In turn, Intercultural knowledge and language awareness can provide cultural guidelines for effective communication. Communicating in a language other than English In the Communicating in a language other than English dimension, students learn the knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to the specific language being studied.
The skills of this dimension include: listening, speaking, reading, viewing, writing, and the use of body language, visual cues and signs.
Students explore a number of topics by researching, sharing, presenting and evaluating. Term one focuses on basic greetings, classroom instructions and how to introduce ourselves, through communicating and role playing.
Terms 2 - 4 focus on life in Japan - festivals and seasons, house, food, clothes, pets and animals, hobbies and family. The main purpose is to understand the cultural differences between Japanese cultural the students' own culture.
Students learn the 46 Japanese character set "Hiragana" through the year, both reading with clues and writing with the correct stroke order, using online Japanese games such as Zondle and other apps.
We participate in the annual Japan Challenge competition across primary schools in Ballarat, creating posters about Japanese cultural related topics.
