Education & curriculum related
mima - Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
Potty about Japanese ceramicist Takeshi Yasuda
July - November 07
At mima new art methods were taught to gifted pupils with a focus on Japan and artist Takeshi Yasuda.
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British Haiku Society - Yorkshire-Lancashire Haiku Group
Haiku Workshop For Kids (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
August 2007
At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a branch of the British Haiku Society put up a Haiku workshop for children targetted at age 10-12. Haiku games and performances were on show, and to top it off there was even an interview from Festival Radio.
Institute of Historical Research
5th Anglo-Japanese Conference of Historians
September 2006
The conference aimed to developing contact and intellectual exchange between Japanese historians of the UK and their British colleagues. The 2006 conference dealt with "Migration and Identity in British History".
University College London, Primary Care Nursing Research Unit
Seminar for Visiting Researchers from Chiba University School of Nursing
September 2006
People from the Chiba University School of Nursing held a seminar in which participants were given an overview of health care for older people in Japan including health policy, the long-term care insurance system, and home care nursing in Japan.
Japan Desk Scotland
Japanese Class in Glasgow
ongoing
A Japanese class for mixed ages is held in Glasgow on Saturday mornings. The programme includes learning hiragana, katakana and a few kanji but also playing Japanese games and singing Japanese songs.
Japanese Language Committee, ALL
Japanese Speech Contest
June 2006
The final of the 2006 speech contest was held at the Japanese Embassy.
Hertford Regional College - Helen Turner
Collecting Teaching Resources in Japan
June - July 2006
Ms Turner visited Japan to develop teaching materials for Japanese.
Parklands High School, Chorley
Family Learning - Follow-up course
November 2005 - February 2006
Leicester University
East Meets West
April 2005
A multi-disciplinary conference designed to provide a two-way view of cultural, organisational, physical and social issues, with particular focus on western and eastern approaches to education, management and the workplace.
Japanese Language Committee, ALL
Japanese Speech Contest
April 2005
The second annual speech contest for secondary pupils learning Japanese in the UK was held at the Embassy of Japan. Finalists in Key Stages 3, 4 and 5 gave original speeches in Japanese on the theme Friends in front of an audience of fellow pupils, teachers, parents and invited guests from the UK-Japan and educational fields.
Parklands High School, Chorley
Introduction to Japanese
March - May 2005
The school ran a ten-week course to introduce Japanese language and culture as part of its Family Learning Programme. The course proved very popular among the fifteen who attended.
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Kirkham Grammar School, Preston
Japanese Club
November 2004 - July 2005
A weekly lunchtime club was set up for pupils interested in learning Japanese and working towards the WJEC Level 1 Certificate. Due to the popularity of the club, it has been extended from one to two weekly sessions and a new beginners' course was established in January 2005.
School of Architecture, University of Plymouth
(re) encounter
November - December 2004
Architectural students developed a design proposal for an addition to a shinto shrine in Osaka. The project finisedh with an exhibition of student work.
Barrhead High School, East Renfrewshire
Japanese Cookery
Autumn 2004
Cross-curricular links have been developed between Geography and Home Economics with a series of cookery workshops for pupils in S2.
South Lanarkshire Council
School Visits by Azami Club
October 2003 - June 2004 and ongoing
Visits are offered to primary schools studying Japan, giving children an introduction to origami, calligraphy
language, costume, daily life and food.
King Edward VII School, Sheffield
Workbook & CD for young learners of Japanese
(2003 - 5)
The school has developed a practical exercise booklet for KS3 learners of Japanese in the UK and a CD to support the teaching of WJEC Level 1 Certificate for Japanese. Although initially designed for in-house use, the workbook and CD have the potential for wider dissemination in the future.
Priory CE Primary School, Wimbledon
Japan Curriculum Enrichment Project
Summer 2003
Y6 pupils studied aspects of Japanese culture and history as part of a curriculum initiative to enrich
their knowledge and understanding through the arts. Pupils engaged in a term's work with input from
staff and visitors, culminating in a 3-day taiko workshop and pupil performances.
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