Years 9 and 10
The aim of the course is to enable students to develop communication skills, focus on languages as systems and gain insights into the relationship between language and culture, leading to lifelong personal, educational and vocational benefits. Excursions to the Tanken centre, Japanese film festival, exhibitions and Japanese restaurants deepen participants understanding of Japanese language and culture. Students studying Japanese mentor visiting Japanese school students and these occasions allow them to use their acquired language in an authentic situation. Students who have not studied Japanese before are still able to begin in year 9 as this is the entry level for the course.
Every second year a trip to Japan is offered for students studying Japanese in years 10, 11 and 12. The next trip is in 2019.
