JTCC Koshigaya Connection
John Therry students help keep the connection alive.
The city of Campbelltown has had a sister city arrangement with Koshigaya, Japan for 38 years and it involves the sharing of language and culture through an exchange program. Unfortunately due to Covid restrictions these trips are currently unable to happen, so on Saturday, four Year 8 John Therry students participated in the next best thing...Zoom.
Marcus F, Isabella S, Corey M and Claire J were four of 16 Campbelltown students who talked with 16 Japanese students about a variety of things such as favourite sports, foods and animals. It gave the students a great opportunity to introduce themselves in Japanese and meet Kiya Masahiko, the Consul-General of Japan in Sydney.
Here at John Therry, students in Yr 8 Japanese have been learning the Japanese script of hiragana and using household objects to recreate them.
Students also tried their origami skills when learning about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by folding the origami crane. The kanji characters for peace - 平和 were also created.
Making use of our language skills - and a flashback to Term 2!
Recently our Year 8 Chinese students have been revising their language skills based on the topic “Food and Drinks” where they learnt the vocabulary and sentence structures to order their own Bubble Tea, and to express which foods they like and dislike. Although this term all of this work is done remotely, we can still flash back to last term when we put our new language skills to the test!
Last term, we welcomed Bubble Tea expert “Stig” from “Never Fail” Bubble Tea shop who gave us a workshop on the origin and types of Bubble Tea and how they are made. He then ran a pop-up shop where students had to use their Mandarin skills to order the Bubble Tea flavour they wanted.
We also had a ‘Dumpling Day’ where we ordered dumplings as if we were in the restaurant and put our chopstick skills to the test!
