| Program Guidelines 2010 – 2011 Applications have closed |
Thank you for applying for our Japanese-Language Education Overseas Grant Programs. Applicants will be contacted by April 2010 with results. |
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| Art Speaks Japanese Comes Alive! Winners announced! |
 Applications for our new national art contest, 'Art Speaks Japanese Comes Alive!' have closed. It was great to see so many fantastic artworks with their own Japanese flair. This year we were able to fill our entire gallery!
To view all artworks, click here. |
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| 2009 JENESYS Young Japanese Teacher Dispatch Program |
Six young Japanese teachers participated in this program in 2009, working in Secondary schools in Australia and New Zealand as assistant language teachers. As their time in Australia comes to an end, they have reflected on their experiences and would like to share their thoughts with Omusubi readers.
Click here for their reports. |
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| Japanese Film Festival free screening of Happy Family Plan |
At present the Japan Foundation, Sydney is producing a Japanese language and culture DVD resource comprising two discs.
Disc 1 contains the Japanese movie 「しあわせ家族計画 (Happy Family Plan)」and Disc 2 contains Japanese language and culture learning activities based on the movie. This DVD will be released in early 2010. To promote this exciting new project, we held 2 free screenings of the film as part of the 13th Japanese Film Festival in Sydney. These free screenings were held at the Japan Foundation, Sydney and we introduced some chapters from disc 2.
These are some comments on the film and the language and culture activities: ‘A fun introduction to Japanese culture’. ‘This film is great for all types of people and age groups. Many people can relate to it’.
On this day we also showed some video works from ‘Video Matsuri’ and held the ‘Art Speaks Japanese Comes Alive!’ exhibition at our Gallery. This was an exhibition of art works made by Japanese language students using their Japanese language and creative skills.
Please click here to view artworks. |
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| Video Festival Contest Oscars for division winners |
 Thank you for all the great videos you entered in our first Video Festival Contest. The winners of each division won their very own Oscar! We look forward to seeing all entries for 2010.
For details of winning entries and to view videos, please click here. |
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| 2010 Centre Visit Programs New! |
 We have revised our popular centre visit packages for 2010. In addition, task sheets for ‘The Girl Who Leapt Through Time’ have been uploaded.
For details and task sheets click here.
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| Japanese Film Festival School Screening - Background information sheet uploaded |
 The film ‘Summer Days with Coo’ is being shown in this year’s Japanese Film Festival in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Hobart and Canberra. We have made background information sheets for use in the classroom in conjunction with this popular animation. Teachers can download the sheet from our website, and view screening information at http://13th.japanesefilmfestival.net/f-coo2.html |
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| Sensei’s Pages – Spring 2009 |
‘Classroom Ideas – Language Discovery Online: Australian students communicating with students in Japan’ has been uploaded. Activity ideas for secondary classes are available.
Click here for details. |
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| Workshops by our Language Consultants |
| On 16 and 17 November, one of our language consultants presented workshops at the Japanese Professional Learning Seminar conducted by the Department of Education and Training in WA. Thank you for attending the seminars. |
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| Online Courses for 2010 |
In 2010, we will offer all stages (1-4) throughout all terms.
A writing course is also available each term.
For more information please click here.
Term 1: Feb 8 – Apr 4
Term 2: May 3 – June 27
Term 3: July 26 – Sep 19
Term 4: Oct 18 – Dec 12 |
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| 11th World Children's Haiku Competition by JAL Foundation In Japan! |
 JAL Foundation bienially organises the ‘World Children’s Haiku Contest’, and we are happy to announce that the 11th contest is to be held this year. All winning haiku will be collected and published next year as an anthology titled 'Haiku by World Children''.
Click here for competition details and application form. |
