Sydney Japanese International School

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 Warringah 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] As of 2007,^[3] according to Tetsuo Mizukami (水上徹男 Mizukami Tetsuo^[5]), author of The Sojourner Community: Japanese Migration and Residency in Australia, 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

It opened in 1969 due to an increase in the Japanese population.^[2]

In May 1969, the Japanese Society of Sydney founded the first Japanese School in Australia to provide the children of Japanese expatriates with Japanese primary school education. The original school was located in a church site in Lindfield, starting with a single classroom with 33 students. It was the first overseas Japanese School in a developed country. In 1971, the school relocated to the current site in Terrey Hills to accommodate the rapidly growing number of enrolments. Up until 1975 SJIS offered one stream of education for students in Year 1 to Year 9 which was the Japanese Government Curriculum, predominately catering for Japanese families. But in 1975 the school recognised a need on the Northern Beaches for a culturally based private primary school. In 1975, SJIS established a second stream of education, the Australian Curriculum for students in Kindergarten through to Year 6. The school purchased the adjoining 5 acres of land in 1984 for further expansion. Since then, further developments have continued. A 200-metre running track was completed in 1993. Three years later, a new double storey building complex was built for administration and additional classrooms. The International Division started a Kindergarten grade in 1997.

Campus

The school is on a 14-acre (5.7 ha) campus located 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of the Sydney CBD. It includes a soccer oval and a track field.^[7]

The campus has 14-acre (5.7 ha) of and including a field track and soccer oval.

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 80 students while the Japanese division has 80 students.^[4]

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

↑ "School Location." (Archive) Sydney Japanese International School. Retrieved on 4 January 2014. "112 Booralie Road, Terrey Hills, NSW 2084 Australia"
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,[...]"
1 2 3 Mizukami, p. 161.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Ham, Melinda. "Bilingual bonus for families" (Archive). Sydney Morning Herald. March 1, 2014. Retrieved on February 28, 2016.
↑ "水上　徹男." Rikkyo University. Retrieved on March 5, 2015.
↑ (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."
↑ "Facilities." Sydney Japanese International School. Retrieved on 4 January 2014.

External links

Sydney Japanese International School English Version
Sydney Japanese International School Japanese Version

International schools in Australia

Canberra	Telopea Park School French-Australian Preschool Canberra Russian Embassy School in Canberra

Melbourne	Section Française de Caulfield Junior College Deutsche Schule Melbourne The Japanese School of Melbourne

Perth	International School of Western Australia The Japanese School in Perth

Sydney	Lycée Condorcet German International School Sydney Italian Bilingual School Sydney Japanese International School

Former schools	American International School of Sydney (Sydney) South Queensland Academy (Jimboomba, QLD)

The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) classifies the Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney Japanese schools as nihonjin gakkō (Japanese international schools) as they are operated by Japanese associations. The former South Queensland Academy was classified as a shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu (overseas branches of Japanese private schools) and was the only Japanese school in Australia to offer senior high school-level education. The Russian Embassy School only serves primary school.

Japanese international day and boarding schools in East, South, and Southeast Asia, and Australia

Currently operating

Nihonjin gakkō	The Japanese School of Melbourne The Japanese School in Perth Sydney Japanese International School Japanese School Dhaka See list of schools in PR China Japanese School of Mumbai Japanese School New Delhi Bandung Japanese School Jakarta Japanese School Surabaya Japanese School (JA) Busan Japanese School (JA/KO) Japanese School in Seoul The Japanese School of Kuala Lumpur The Japanese School of Johor (JA) Kota Kinabalu Japanese School (JA) Penang Japanese School (JA) Yangon Japanese School Islamabad Japanese School Karachi Japanese School Manila Japanese School The Japanese School Singapore Japanese School in Colombo Kaohsiung Japanese School Taichung Japanese School Taipei Japanese School Thai-Japanese Association School Thai-Japanese Association School Sriracha (JA) The Japanese School of Hanoi (JA) Japanese School in Ho Chi Minh City (JA)

Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu	Waseda Shibuya Sr. High Josuikan Bangkok Int'l School

Closed

Closed nihonjin gakkō	Calcutta Japanese School (カルカタ日本人学校) Medan Japanese School (メダン日本人学校)

Closed Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu	South Queensland Academy

Western Asia is not included in the classification of Asia by the Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT). Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu are overseas branches of Japanese schools; these are boarding and day schools which provide sixth form/senior high school level education. Nihonjin gakkō are day schools operated by Japanese associations and, usually, only include primary and junior high school levels. The Shanghai Japanese School is the only such school to have senior high school classes.

Coordinates: 33°40′32″S 151°12′07″E / 33.67556°S 151.20194°E / -33.67556; 151.20194

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