This semester, Year 6,7 and 8 class started learning about Japanese sentence structure. For their first task, students had to create a slideshow that explained their daily routine in Japanese. This gives them practise in constructing Japanese sentences for their next task.

The second and the biggest task for the semester is to 'Plan a Japan Trip'. Students have to work out their trip to Japan including 3 places to visit, which air company they are flying with, where to stay, how long to stay, how to get to different places and how much it costs. Their budget is $4000. They will be putting all this information together and presenting the task in English, and then explaining their plan to visit 3 places in Japanese.

Hiragana competition

On Tuesday, this week, Ahna, Charlee, Sebastian, Wesley and James participated in the annual Barossa Light and Gawler Hiragana Competition. Students competed against 9 other schools in the Barossa demonstrating their Hiragana knowledge. Congratulations to all these students who participated very well throughout the day demonstrating their best behaviour and showing sound knowledge of Hiragana. As a result, we came 4^th out of 10 schools, which is the highest result in SRAS history. Here are their comments:

Ahna: This was my 3^rd and final year because I’m going into high school next year and it was the best year yet. We came 4^th out of 10 schools, so I’m pretty proud. The first year I did it, we came 8^th and the second year we came 10^th so this is the best I’ve done. I’m also thankful for the teachers hosting and helping on the day, Mrs E for getting us food and letting us go to the Japanese restaurant and Mrs Williamson for taking us there. Overall it was a great day.

Charlee: It was a good opportunity and there were kind people and it was fun. The Japanese teachers were nice and it was a good challenge.

Sebastian: I loved the Hiragana competition because it was an opportunity to learn Japanese.

Wesley: It was fun because we got to eat marshmallows and I liked the challenges of the whole thing.

James: I loved the Hiragana competition because I liked the challenges and the marshmallow race (the chopstick race) was good.

Mrs Yuka Endersby
Japanese Teacher