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Elementary Program at Katoh Gakuen
 
Katoh Elementary School

The elementary immersion program at Katoh started in April 1992. It is based on successful immersion programs from US and Canada where foreign language is taught not as a subject but rather used as the medium of instruction. Our program is a partial immersion program: students spend between 50% - 70% of their day studying in English and the other part of their day studying in Japanese.

   

The program follows the regular Japanese curriculum and is accredited by the Japanese Ministry of Education. We currently have 260 students enrolled from grades 1 – 6 with approximately 45 students at each grade level. Grades 1, 2 and 3 have two native English speaking homeroom teachers and one Japanese homeroom teacher. Grades 4, 5 and 6 typically have, one native-English speaking homeroom teacher and one Japanese homeroom teacher.

Katoh Elementary's campus

 

Grade 1 Math Class

The school has a number of support personnel as well. We have teachers who support in the computer/technology area, English classes, Art, Music, PE, and a Reading Intervention program. Subjects are generally divided by language. It is rare to split a subject area between the two teachers and teach part of the subject in English and part in Japanese. The general principle of the school is that some subjects are allocated to the English-speaking teacher and entirely taught in English.

 

The other subjects are taught by the Japanese teacher and taught in Japanese. The English speaking teachers and the Japanese speaking teachers have their own classrooms and the students move between these to study different subjects with each of their homeroom teachers. Our school day is broken up into six 45-minute periods with a 5-minute break between each. Special after school classes are also offered to assist where necessary.

Grade 3 English Class

 

From grade 3, all immersion students participate in weekly cultural and sporting club activities together with the students from the regular program.

 


1361-1 Nakamiyo, Ookanomiya, Numazu, Shizuoka
Tel: 0559-24-3322  Fax: 0559-24-3352

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