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MYOJO HOMESTAY 2024

This morning we farewelled our friends from Myojo Gakuen.   After 15 years of visits, it still doesn’t get easy to say goodbye.  We are sure that they feel the same. What a wonderful 8 days we have enjoyed with our… Continue Reading →

Myojo Hosting Opportunity for March 2024

We are very fortunate here at Woodend Primary to have a long-term Sister School relationship and exchange with Myojo Elementary School in Tokyo. Myojo students and staff have been visiting Woodend since 2008, when we began the home-stay program. We… Continue Reading →

District Hiragana Reading Competition 2023

We  love it when our students put in tremendous effort and strive for excellence and we saw this during the competition. Today our school took part in the annual Hiragana Reading Competition, held at Reynella East College. We took 2… Continue Reading →

Myojo Gakuen visit 2023

Yesterday we farewelled our friends  from Myojo Gakuen.   After 14 years of visits it still doesn’t get  easy to say goodbye.  We are sure that  they feel the same, back in Tokyo. What a wonderful 10 days we have enjoyed… Continue Reading →

Welcome to our sister school, Myojo Gakuen

On Tuesday evening we welcomed 23 students and 4 staff members from Myojo Gakuen, our sister school in Tokyo, Japan. After waiting 3 years, it was so wonderful to see the joy on the faces of both our students and… Continue Reading →

State Hiragana Reading Competition 2022

As mentioned in a previous post, https://woodendprimaryschool.edublogs.org/2022/09/15/southern-district-hiragana-reading-competition-success/ we had 2 teams from Woodend place 1st and 2nd in the district Hiragana Reading Competition in September, last term. The Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of SA held a State Hiragana Competition, inviting those… Continue Reading →

Myojo Sister School Homestay Opportunity March 2023

We are very fortunate here at Woodend Primary to have a long-term Sister School relationship and exchange with Myojo Elementary School in Tokyo. Myojo students and staff have been visiting Woodend since 2008, when we began the home-stay program. We… Continue Reading →

Southern District Hiragana Reading Competition Success

We  love it when our students put in tremendous effort and strive for excellence and we saw this during the competition. On Wednesday of this week our school took part in the annual Hiragana Reading Competition, held at Reynella East… Continue Reading →

MAGNIFICENT MYOJO ZOOM LESSONS

We are very fortunate to have a fantastic sister school Myojo Gakuen in Tokyo, Japan. Pre covid we took a group of senior students to Myojo every second year for a 12 day Study Tour and homestay programme. Myojo students… Continue Reading →

Myojo Sister School Home-stay and hosting information

We are very fortunate here at Woodend Primary to have a long-term Sister School relationship and exchange with Myojo Elementary School in Tokyo. Myojo students and staff have been visiting Woodend since 2008, when we began the home-stay program. We… Continue Reading →

Zooming with Myojo, our sister school in Tokyo!

This term we have been very fortunate to have the wonderful opportunity to have a Zoom lessons with our sister school, Myojo Gakuen and their Year 4 and 5 classes. Four classes were able to have the opportunity and connect… Continue Reading →

Southern District Hiragana Reading Competition 2021

This year we were again able to take part in the annual Hiragana Reading Competition, held at Reynella East College. We were able to take 2 teams of 4 to represent our school. It was a highly sort after position… Continue Reading →

Nihongo (Japanese) at Woodend

konnichiwa!  こんにちは! Welcome to Nihongo at Woodend. We, Sarah Vinall and Rieko Woodley, currently have the pleasure of teaching your child/ren Japanese. Many of you may know of us as Vinall sensei/Woodley sensei or just sensei! We are passionate about… Continue Reading →

MYOJO VISIT UPDATE

Each year we enjoy hosting Japanese students from MYOJO Gakuen Elementary School in Japan. This is a program that we have enjoyed over more than a decade and provides opportunities for our students to form strong friendships which has happened… Continue Reading →

Myojo Host Family opportunity for March 2020

The time of year has come around again and we are looking for host families for our visiting Myojo students who will be here from Saturday, 21 March 2020 through until Monday, 30 March, 2020. We have always had wonderful support… Continue Reading →

State Hiragana Reading Competition

As mentioned in a previous post, we had 2 teams from Woodend place 2nd and 3rd in the district Hiragana Reading Competition in September, last term. This year was the third year the Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of SA have… Continue Reading →

DISTRICT HIRAGANA READING COMPETITION SUCCESS

Last week on Wednesday September 18th, Woodend competed in the 16th annual Southern District Hiragana Reading Competition. After holding our own school run offs which involved all Year 7 students, we took along our top 4 teams of 4 to… Continue Reading →

WOODEND STUDENT STUDY TOUR to MYOJO GAKUEN SEPTEMBER 2020

We are now planning the fifth biennial Woodend @ Myojo Study Tour for September 2020. Our current Year 4, 5 and 6 students have a wonderful and unique opportunity to travel to Myojo Gakuen, Tokyo, and be hosted by their… Continue Reading →

MYOJO HOMESTAY 2019

What a wonderful 10 days we have recently enjoyed with our 19 Myojo students and 3 staff joining our Woodend community. This year was the 13th visit for Myojo Gakuen students and staff. All of the Myojo students were visiting… Continue Reading →

Years 4/5 Obento Master

Years 4/5 Obento Master   As a part of Japanese education at Woodend Primary School, we give our students various kinds of Japanese education opportunities where possible.  This time Mr Freeman and I took 8 Years 4/5 students to a… Continue Reading →

MYOJO HOST FAMILY OPPORTUNITY 2019

Hosting a Japanese student is a wonderful experience for your family. It is an opportunity to have first hand exposure to Japanese people and culture as well as share Australian life with a Japanese student, offering them a memorable Australian… Continue Reading →

State Hiragana Competition

As mentioned in a previous post, we had 2 teams from Woodend place 1st and 2nd in the district Hiragana Reading Competition in September, last term. For the second year the Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of SA held a State… Continue Reading →

MYOJO STUDY TOUR 2018

What a fantastic experience for 15 of our Year 6/7 students! We left Adelaide on Saturday, September 8th with a group of excited students. Arriving in Japan at 5.30 in the morning and being greeted by hot, humid weather, we… Continue Reading →

HIRAGANA CHALLENGE SUCCESS

Each year Woodend competes in the Southern District Hiragana Reading Competition. This year on Friday August 17th, after our own school run offs, we took along 4 teams of 4 to compete against 8 other schools and 19 other teams…. Continue Reading →

Japanese Quiz Day

Recently, 12 Year 7 had the opportunity to take part in a statewide Japanese Quiz afternoon. As groups of 3, our students joined with other students from 2 other schools to form teams of 9 students. There were 10 teams… Continue Reading →

MYOJO VISIT 2018

This year was the 12th annual visit from our sister school, Myojo Gakkuen. We had 16 students and 3 staff joining our school and being part of fabulous host families for just over a week.    It was a very… Continue Reading →

STATE HIRAGANA EXCITEMENT

As mentioned in a previous post, (read here) we had 2 teams from Woodend place 1st and 3rd in the district Hiragana Reading Competition in September. This year the Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of SA held the first State Hiragana… Continue Reading →

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