The Sydney Japanese International School (abbreviated as SJIS, ja, シドニー日本人学校, Shidonī Nihonjin Gakkō), formerly known in English as the Sydney Japanese School, is an independent

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(Japanese international) primary and secondary

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, located in within the

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area of Sydney, Australia. The school serves elementary and

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levels, from Year K to

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. The school accepts non-Japanese students,Mizukami, p
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. "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, .. offering them international classes.Mizukami, p
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. SJIS is the only Japanese international school in the world to have an English-language division.Ham, Melinda.

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''. 1 March 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2016. The international classes follow the New South Wales curriculum, while there is also a Japanese division following the Japanese curriculum. Tetsuo Mizukami (水上徹男 ''Mizukami Tetsuo''), 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.

History

SJIS, the first overseas Japanese school not in an undeveloped country, opened in May 1969 in one room in a Lindfield church.History
." Sydney Japanese International School. Retrieved 17 July 2018. The school was established due to an increase in the Japanese population in the Sydney area, 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 of land in October 1984. It established a kindergarten in January 1997.

Admissions

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. 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.

Curriculum and instruction

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

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(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. Fukuda, Makiko.
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Campus

The school is on a campus located north of the

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.Facilities
." Sydney Japanese International School. Retrieved 4 January 2014. A two-storey classroom and office building was built in February 1996. It includes a soccer oval, and a running track. the school installed the track in 1993. 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

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. As of 2014 the annual tuition is 9,000 per child.

Student body

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

References

External links

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