Welcome to NANZAN 2020
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- Cultivation of Sensibility We strive to cultivate our students’ sensibility through the study of the arts, especially music. In the first year of junior high school, students learn to play the violin. Over the course of the year, students put on orchestral and choral performances, including the renowned Christmas Concert in December. Every year on Christmas Eve, about 600 students convene to hold this well-known event, which has been continuing for over 35 years. The aim of this and other musical performances is to nourish in the students an appreciation for harmony and a sensitivity to beauty. Foreign Language Education Team teaching is introduced in the first year of junior high school, so students are able to receive more individual instruction from their teachers. In the second and third years, conversation classes with native speakers begin. Classes are divided into two groups so that students have increased opportunities to communicate orally and focus
on improving pronunciation and other linguistic elements. In senior high school, classes are reorganized according to students’ proficiency, with the aim of more effective teaching in the limited time available.
International Exchange Programs
During the summer holidays, students have the opportunity to go on a study trip to Australia or Ireland. The purpose of both programs is to help students gain an understanding of another culture and an international perspective through homestays and other experiences. Students chosen from 9th and 10th grade study and experience school life in Australia at our sister school, Mount St. Joseph Girls’ College in Altona, Victoria. In exchange, students from Mount St. Joseph Girls’ College visit our school every other year to make friendships and experience Japanese culture. In addition, 10th and 11th grade students going to Ireland study English at a language school in Dublin for two weeks while staying at local homes. These students study together with students from around the world and focus on improving the quality of their English.
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