Welcome to the LOTE (Japanese) program at Mount Waverley Primary School! All students have the opportunity to be involved in LOTE sessions in Japanese based on the Australian Curriculum. The program offers students a dynamic and engaging way to learn Japanese. Through songs, games, and hands-on cultural activities, students from Foundation to Year 6 immerse themselves in the Japanese language and culture.

Highlights of our program include celebrating traditional festivals, creating origami crafts, and participating in interactive language exercises. We explore the richness of Japanese language and culture together. The program will be organised into the two dimensions of communicating and understanding.

Communicating will involve students in learning the knowledge, skills and behaviours through speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Understanding will develop students’ knowledge of the connections between language and culture.

Students learn aspects about Japanese culture and language through the means of:

• Basic greetings and gestures
• Singing
• Role playing
• Researching
• Cooking
• Making a variety of Japanese crafts