Sydney Japanese International School

Sydney Japanese International School
シドニー日本人国際学校
Shidonī Nihonjin Kokusai Gakkō
Sydney Japanese International School; シドニー日本人国際学校; Shidonī Nihonjin Kokusai Gakkō
Location
	112 Booralie Road, Terrey Hills, Northern Beaches, Sydney; Australia
Coordinates	33°40′32″S 151°12′07″E / 33.67556°S 151.20194°E
Information
Former name	Sydney Japanese School
Type	Independent co-educational Nihonjin gakkō (Japanese international) primary and secondary day school
Established	May 1969; 55 years ago
Oversight	New South Wales Department of Education; Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology;
Specialist	Bilingual education: Japanese–English
Principal	Shinya Ikawa
Years	K–9
Enrolment	226 (2018)
Campus size	6 hectares (14 acres)
Campus type	Suburban
Website	sjis.nsw.edu.au

The Sydney Japanese International School (abbreviated as SJIS, Japanese: シドニー日本人国際学校, romanized: Shidonī Nihonjin Kokusai Gakkō), formerly known in English as the Sydney Japanese School,^[1] and in Japanese as シドニー日本人学校 Shidonī Nihonjin Gakkō, is an independent co-educational Nihonjin gakkō (Japanese international) primary and secondary day school, located in Terrey Hills within the Northern Beaches Council area of Sydney, Australia.^[2]

The school serves elementary and junior high school levels, from Year K to Year 9. The school accepts non-Japanese students,^[3] offering them international classes.^[4] SJIS is the only Japanese international school in the world to have an English-language division.^[5]

The international classes follow the New South Wales curriculum, while there is also a Japanese division following the Japanese curriculum.^[5] Tetsuo Mizukami (水上徹男 Mizukami Tetsuo^[6]), author of The Sojourner Community: Japanese Migration and Residency in Australia, wrote in 2007 that the international classes were "so popular" that Australian parents have requested that the SJIS introduce them at the high school level.^[4]

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,^[3] 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]

Admissions

As of 2019^[update] the Japanese division accepts Japanese passport holders who have long-term visas in Australia. Students with other citizenships may be accepted into Japanese division depending on the school's decision.^[8] The international division accepts students with any citizenship so long as they at least have the right to live in Australia long-term and if their parents reside with them. The deputy principal conducts a language examination.^[9]

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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[5]

The students in both divisions combine classrooms in three of their subjects: Music, Physical Education and Visual Arts.^[5]

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.

All SJIS students from Kindergarten to year 6 have 45-minute language lessons; high school language lessons, 50 minutes per class, are for either Japanese or English.

As of 2005 the school usually placed two or three non-Japanese students in each class.^[10]

Campus

The school is on a 5.7-hectare (14-acre) campus located 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of the Sydney central business district.^[11] A two-storey classroom and office building was built in February 1996.^[7] It includes a soccer oval,^[11] 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 A$9,000 per child.^[5]

Student body

As of 2014 the international division has 87 students while the Japanese division has 79 students.^[5] As of January 2018 the total number of students at SJIS is 226.^{[citation needed]}

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

^ "学校案内". Sydney Japanese School. 13 April 2001. Archived from the original on 13 April 2001. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
^ "School Location." (Archive) Sydney Japanese International School. Retrieved 4 January 2014. "112 Booralie Road, Terrey Hills, NSW 2084 Australia"
^ ^a ^b Mizukami, p. 140 Archived 12 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine. "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,[...]"
^ ^a ^b Mizukami, p. 161 Archived 13 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Ham, Melinda. "Bilingual bonus for families" (Archive). The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 March 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
^ "水上　徹男 Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine." Rikkyo University. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "History Archived 2018-07-16 at the Wayback Machine." Sydney Japanese International School. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
^ "Japanese Division Enrolment Process Archived 2019-01-13 at the Wayback Machine." Sydney Japanese International School. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
^ "International Division Enrolment Process". Sydney Japanese International School. Archived from the original on 12 January 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
^ (in Catalan) Fukuda, Makiko. "El Col·legi Japonès de Barcelona: un estudi pilot sobre les ideologies lingüístiques d'una comunitat expatriada a Catalunya. 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."
^ ^a ^b "Facilities Archived 2014-12-04 at the Wayback Machine." Sydney Japanese International School. Retrieved 4 January 2014.

External links

Sydney Japanese International School English Version
Sydney Japanese International School Japanese Version
Sydney Japanese School at the Wayback Machine (archive index)

[1] "学校案内". Sydney Japanese School. 13 April 2001. Archived from the original on 13 April 2001. Retrieved 12 January 2019.

[2] "School Location." (Archive) Sydney Japanese International School. Retrieved 4 January 2014. "112 Booralie Road, Terrey Hills, NSW 2084 Australia"

[Mizukamip140-3] Mizukami, p. 140 Archived 12 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine. "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,[...]"

[Mizukamip161-4] Mizukami, p. 161 Archived 13 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine.

[HamMel-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Ham, Melinda. "Bilingual bonus for families" (Archive). The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 March 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2016.

[6] "水上　徹男 Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine." Rikkyo University. Retrieved 5 March 2015.

[Hist-7] "History Archived 2018-07-16 at the Wayback Machine." Sydney Japanese International School. Retrieved 17 July 2018.

[8] "Japanese Division Enrolment Process Archived 2019-01-13 at the Wayback Machine." Sydney Japanese International School. Retrieved 12 January 2019.

[9] "International Division Enrolment Process". Sydney Japanese International School. Archived from the original on 12 January 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2019.

[10] (in Catalan) Fukuda, Makiko. "El Col·legi Japonès de Barcelona: un estudi pilot sobre les ideologies lingüístiques d'una comunitat expatriada a Catalunya. 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."

[Facilities-11] "Facilities Archived 2014-12-04 at the Wayback Machine." Sydney Japanese International School. Retrieved 4 January 2014.

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