5Y11M 4Y2M 日本人学校 Japanese School

来年４月に日本人学校に入学する学齢児対象のトライアルに行った。

１年生の教室をちょっと覗いたが、１５人ほどの少人数で雰囲気はとてもよい。先日見学に行った中華系小学校は一クラス３０人程で、私が子供の頃に比べたらそれでも少人数なのだが、日本人学校のこじんまりさはかなりポイントが高い。

体育館で名前の順に並んでいたことを後から聞かされた。それは名字順！それも私の！アラタの名前はなんだか別人のようだし、ファーストネームに慣れてしまった私にとってはとても新鮮でした。

Arata went to a trial session of Japanese school. It was targeted to the children who are starting the Primary from next April.

I had a look at the Year 1 class. There were only 15 children and the atmosphere was quite relaxing and nice. Compared to the Chinese Primary school I went to visit last month, the class size is smaller thus better. (Well, even the Chinese school I went only had 30 pupils per class and considering the fact that we had about 45 pupils in a class when I was a child, the Chinese school has also smaller classes.)

When potential children were sitting in a big hall, they were lining up by alphabetic name order, I learnt this later. Interestingly, it's not by their first name but their family name, and of course it's 'my' family name! I'm so used to the Western way and it was a fresh surprise!