Sydney Japanese International School

Sydney Japanese International School
シドニー日本人学校
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Sydney Japanese International School
Sydney Japanese International School
Sydney Japanese International School
112 Booralie Road
Terrey Hills, 2084
Australia
Coordinates Coordinates: 33°40′32″S 151°12′07″E / 33.67556°S 151.20194°E / -33.67556; 151.20194
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Website sjis.nsw.edu.au

Sydney Japanese International School (SJIS) (シドニー日本人学校, Shidonī Nihonjin Gakkō) is a Japanese international school located in Terrey Hills within Northern Beaches Council, New South Wales, Australia, in the Sydney area.[1]

The school serves elementary and junior high school levels. The school accepts non-Japanese students,[2] offering them international classes. Australian students take entrance examinations to enter these international classes while Japanese students are automatically accepted into the classes.[3] SJIS is the only Japanese international school in the world to have an English-language division.[4]

The international classes follow the New South Wales curriculum, while there is also a Japanese division following the Japanese curriculum.[4] Tetsuo Mizukami (水上 徹男 Mizukami Tetsuo[5]), author of The Sojourner Community: Japanese Migration and Residency in Australia, wrote in 2007 that the international classes are "so popular" that Australian parents have requested that the SJIS introduce them at the high school level.[3]

Curriculum and instruction

Each division of SJIS focuses on one stream of Education. The International Division delivers the New South Wales Curriculum from Kindergarten through to Grade 6. The Japanese Division delivers the Japanese Curriculum from Grade 1 to Year 9. Japanese division students, as of 2014, do five hours of English each week. International division students, as of 2014, do five hours of Japanese instruction each week.[4]

The students in both divisions combine classrooms in three of their subjects: Music, Physical Education and Visual Arts.[4]

Bilingual assemblies are held weekly and all students study and play on the one campus allowing for friendships and interaction throughout the day. By mainstreaming the two divisions the students feel very much part of one school.

Bilingual Education

At SJIS significant advances in second language teaching and learning are made through an affiliation with the Centre for Language Teaching Research at Macquarie University (Sydney). Curriculum development is monitored by some of Australia’s top researcher’s in second language acquisition to ensure that our approach is the finest on offer.

All SJIS students from Kindergarten to year 6 are enriched by a 45-minute language lesson and high school is 50 minutes either Japanese or English.

As of 2005 the school usually places two or three non-Japanese students in each class.[6]

History

SJIS, the first overseas Japanese school not in an undeveloped country, opened in May 1969 in one room in a Lindfield church.[7] The school was established due to an increase in the Japanese population in the Sydney area,[2] and it served elementary and junior high school levels using a Japanese curriculum. SJIS moved to its permanent location in 1971. It began having the Australian curriculum division for kindergarten through grade 6 in 1975. The school acquired an additional 5 acres (2.0 ha) of land in October 1984. It established a kindergarten in January 1997.[7]

Campus

The school is on a 14-acre (5.7 ha) campus located 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of the Sydney CBD.[8] An two storey classroom and office building was built in February 1996.[7] It includes a soccer oval,[8] and a 200-metre (660 ft) running track. the school installed the track in 1993.[7]

Classrooms include smartboards and telephones connected to the school’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) system. The campus has computer rooms, science laboratories, and special subject rooms such as those for music and home.

Operations

Students are required to wear school uniforms. As of 2014 the annual tuition is $9,000 Australian dollars per child.[4]

Student body

As of 2014 the international division has 87 students while the Japanese division has 79 students.[4] As of January 2018 the total number of students at SJIS is 226.

See also

References

  • Mizukami, Tetsuo. The Sojourner Community: Japanese Migration and Residency in Australia (Volume 10 of Social sciences in Asia, v. 10). BRILL, 2007. ISBN 9004154795, 9789004154797.

Notes

  1. ↑ "School Location." (Archive) Sydney Japanese International School. Retrieved on 4 January 2014. "112 Booralie Road, Terrey Hills, NSW 2084 Australia"
  2. 1 2 Mizukami, p. 140. "A well-known example of a Japanese school, which accepts local non-Japanese students, is the Sydney Japanese School. In response to the increase of the local Japanese population, a full-time Japanese school was established in 1969,[...]"
  3. 1 2 Mizukami, p. 161.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ham, Melinda. "Bilingual bonus for families" (Archive). Sydney Morning Herald. March 1, 2014. Retrieved on February 28, 2016.
  5. ↑ "水上　徹男." Rikkyo University. Retrieved on March 5, 2015.
  6. ↑ (in Catalan) Fukuda, Makiko. "El Col·legi Japonès de Barcelona: un estudi pilot sobre les ideologies lingüístiques d'una comunitat expatriada a Catalunya" (Archive). Treballs de sociolingüística catalana > 2005: 18 (2004). See profile at Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert (RACO). p. 216: "8. El Col·legi iapones de Ciutat de Mèxic i el de Sidney són els casos excepcionales: el primer ofereix un curs destinat als fills de les parelles nipomexicanes i als de família mexicana, i el segon obre el centre de manera que es distribueixin dos o tres alumnes no japonesos a cada classe."
  7. 1 2 3 4 "History." Sydney Japanese International School. Retrieved on 17 July 2018.
  8. 1 2 "Facilities." Sydney Japanese International School. Retrieved on 4 January 2014.

Further reading

  • 原 博男. "オ-ストラリアの"小さな日本"—シドニ-日本人学校 (トライ・アブロ-ド--学校から世界へ<特集>)." 教育評論 (493), p26-29, 1988-07. アドバンテ-ジサ-バ-. See profile at CiNii.
  • 秋山 和規. "キャンベラの教育事情とシドニ-日本人学校 (オ-ストラリアの教育--クィ-ンズランド州・南オ-ストラリア州)." Journal of Overseas Education (海外の教育) 23(5), 20-21, 1997-05. 全国海外教育事情研究会. See profile at CiNii.
  • 山本 哲生. "シドニ-日本人学校の教育と課題 (世界教育連盟オ-ストラリア大会に参加して)." Bulletin of the Culture Research Institute, Educational System Research Institute (日本大学精神文化研究所・教育制度研究所紀要) (8), p231-254, 1977-03. 日本大学精神文化研究所〔ほか〕. See profile at CiNii.
  • 江沢 誠一. "開かれた日本人学校の息吹--シドニ-日本人学校 (海外子女教育<特集>)." The Monthly Journal of Mombusho (文部時報) (1196), p68-73, 1977-01. ぎょうせい. See profile at CiNii.
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