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Japan Webpage Contest for Schools
Region: East Midlands [More East Midlands news...]
Posted on: Tuesday, 23 Feb 2010
Enter the Japan Webpage Contest for Schools and win up to £1,000 worth of prizes for your school!
This contest is open to any UK primary or secondary school that is teaching Japanese or doing any kind of project related to Japan. Your school does not need to be teaching Japanese to enter the contest.
To enter the contest, all you need to do is make a simple webpage about the work that your school is doing with Japanese or Japan. This could be a blog, a wiki, or a page that’s part of your school’s website.
You can enter an existing webpage or create a new webpage from scratch. Your page can be made by just one teacher, or by teachers and students working together.
Your webpage could feature:
A project with your Japanese partner school
A report on your school’s visit to Japan
A report on your school’s Japan Day
Japanese or Japan-related resources that you have made to help your students
Japanese language work made by students
Other Japan-related work by students, e.g. from geography, history, art, sports, music, intercultural understanding, cross-curricular lessons
Students’ experiences of learning Japanese or about Japan
An overview of Japanese at your school
Cash prizes and other prizes will be awarded to the best entries.
The aims of the contest are:
- To showcase the various Japan-related projects that UK schools are doing, in order to inspire teachers in other schools, and promote the teaching of Japanese and about Japan to the wider community.
- To raise the profile of Japanese and Japan within the school, and motivate schools already teaching Japanese or doing Japan-related projects to continue this excellent work.
- To motivate the students who have been involved in learning Japanese or about Japan at the school.
- We hope that the contest will benefit participating schools, for example by contributing to teachers’ and students’ intercultural understanding, cross-curricular awareness and ICT skills.
Organiser:
For more details, contact the Japan Foundation London. The Japan Foundation is Japan’s principal organisation for promoting international cultural exchange.
Partners:
The contest is supported by the following organisations:
Association for Language Learning (ALL)
British Council
CILT, the National Centre for Languages
Consulate General of Japan in Edinburgh
Embassy of Japan
The Japan Society
