Chibatman

This is Chibatman, he is a 40 year old businessman that wanted to raise spirits after the tsunami in 2011. He rode around the city of Chiba in his 'batpod' and earned the title of Chibatman.

Here is the link to follow!

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Chibatman&safe=vss&es_sm=122&biw=1034&bih=595&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ei=R06tVPi_JI3tapO4gqAH&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg

by Jai 

Tokyo tower by Georgina Shay

I really enjoyed japan! Especially tokyo tower so I thought I would share a picture of it! 

By Georgina Shay

Japanese Exchange at Rossett 2014 by McKenzie Collins

Japanese Exchange at Rossett 2014-2015 (November 2014)

It was great to meet the Ishigami Junior High School students and to teach them about our culture, as well as letting them talk about theirs! The Japanese learnt from the Japanese club helped to start conversations, switching to online translators if required. Overall, I had a great time with everyone and I can't wait to see them again in Japan!

McKenzie Collins

Japanese exchange in Harrogate 2014-2015 by Joshua Wilson

Japanese exchange in Harrogate 2014-2015 (November 24th to November 27th 2014)

Where did you go? ---- what do you do?
On the Japanese exchange in Harrogate 2014, we went to York and Harrogate with our lovely exchanges from Japan. We spent time at the York Minster and visited the shambles with or new friends; we also went to the national railway museum which was a lovely experience as the guys loved the trains! We also had a little look at the 1962 bullet train which we will be going on in Japan, (hopefully it the little bit newer 2011 model we go on though). In Harrogate, we visited the council chambers and be the mayor, Oliver's exchange got up with two girls and dressed up as traditional English mayors and councillors; they looked really cool! As well as all this we went to the pump rooms which we very smelly but interesting, later me and Yuma walked home.

What did you do with your exchanges after school?

Me and my exchange, Yuma Endo played basketball for at least an hour each night and we also went to activities organised by Mr Bulmer and Mrs Horsfall, such as bowling and a quiz! It was all so fun!

By Josh Wilson

HOW TO MAKE AN ORIGAMI SHURIKEN by Bram Fisher

HOW TO MAKE AN ORIGAMI SHURIKEN!!!

1)Get a square piece of paper (any colour, any size).
2)Cut it in half.
3)Fold both pieces in half again (top to bottom) then unfold it.
4)Make a diagonal crease so the bottom of the paper touches the fold on one piece of paper and on both ends. Fold it on the other side at the bottom.
5)On the other piece of paper do the opposite eg if on the first half of paper you folded the top left to the middle you would fold the top right to the middle. They should now look like a diamond shape.
6)Slot both halfs of paper together and tape it if needed so it won't fall apart.

By Bram Fisher

Today's word

Have you looked at our twitter? Please follow @Japan_Rossett

@Japan_Rossett: Today's word:男子(danshi) and 男(otoko) and both means boy. If you are going to the toilet in Japan especially, you better know these letters!

Japanese Club by Bethany

Japanese club is great fun and interesting. We learn all different kind of phrases like Konkiwa and so on that means and hello.  

When the Japanese students came to visit rossett school, they sang a great song. They did it really well and when the Japanese club did the assembly in the sports hall, they gave us some toys to play with. 

It's great to have Japanese students and their culture and other cultures in the world!

Kendama けんだま

We enjoyed Kendama which was a gift from Ishigami school.

This is so addictive!

日本語クラブで、けん玉に挑戦しました。

石神中学校からのプレゼントです。

ありがとうございました。

はまっています！

Well done! WEJC QCF Japanese

Well done, Emilia for passing her oral assessment!

She has passed WEJC QCF oral assessment in Japanese.
The certificate has now arrived. At Rossett School, few students took this assessment and they have passed their assessment.

Omedetou!

日本語クラブでは、4月に、WEJC QCF oral assessment in Japanese (日本語の会話のテスト)を受け、やっと認定書が届きました。
数名の生徒がエントリーし、見事合格しました。

おめでとう！

写真は、エミリアさんです。

また来年も違うトピックでエントリーします。
がんばろうね！

わたなべ

Thank you for the great time!

Ishigami JHS Students went back to London this morning. They will be catching their airplaine tomorrow to get back to Japan!

It has been a great time!

We will keep updating our photos and our blogs!

石神中学校の皆様、ありがとうございました！
次は来年の2月に日本でお会いしましょう。
楽しみにしています。

Welcome ようこそ！

石神中学校の皆様、遠いところお越しいただきありがとうございます。

この日が来るのを楽しみにしていました！

(レセプションのディスプレイ)

昨日の夕方ハロゲイトへ到着し、各自ホームステイ先へ。

今日は1日ヨーク市内を観光した後、夜は学校でクイズとフィッシュアンドチップスです。

明日はレッスンを受け、学年集会のあと、ハロゲイト市内へ行きますよ。

European Day of Languages

The European Day of Languages was a huge success!

Please click the link to see the our multi lingual staff in action – they didn’t just stick to European Languages!  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2jGCFJx3JU&sns=em

2014-2015 Academic Year!

Konnichiwa!

新学期が始まりましたね。イギリスもすっかり秋です。
秋といえば、イギリスでは、プラムやりんご、洋梨にイチジクが旬の季節となりました。

Our 2014-2015 year has started in September and our Japanese club welcomed some lovely new students.

On 26th September, our school did the sponsored walk and walked 13miles.

I also walked with students wearing Ishigami School, our partner school's PE top with my name on.

http://www.rossettschool.co.uk/category/news/sponsored-walk/

There are some videos and photos, so please take a look!

Matane!

Watanabe

Tour de France 2014

みなさん、こんにちは。
ツールドフランスという言葉を聞いたことがありますか？

http://www.jsports.co.jp/cycle/tour/about/

これは、世界で3番目に大きいスポーツ競技だそうです。が、第一レースの最終点がなんとここハロゲイトなのです。

http://www.letour.com/le-tour/2014/us/stage-1.html


街中は、黄色にペイントされた自転車(これらはのちにアフリカなどに寄付されます)やTシャツの形に編んだ旗でそれは素敵にデコレーションされています。

まずは、ここロセット学校でのデコレーションをお見せしますね。

生徒が作りました。

How to Take Care of Ducklings

Konnichiha!

Sorry it has been a while since my last update.
We had GCSE exams and A level exams. Well done for who took the exam this year.

At school, it is getting close to the end of the whole school term. Year 11's and 13's has left but we have got some lovely news.

Ducklings!

Rossett Nature Reserve is again proving popular with our returning duck visitor, who has successfully nested and produces 6 ducklings in the courtyard!

Matane!
Watanabe

consumption tax rate 消費税について

日本では消費税が８％に値上がりしたんですね。

Q)　みなさん、イギリスの消費税はどれくらいか知っていますか？


http://bizacademy.nikkei.co.jp/blog/blogdetail.aspx?cd=922C6F3D16FA4D249DA67468F237AB16&page=1&pid=64
（日経Bizアカデミー　リンクです）

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/26830486
（BBC News）


Japan raises sales tax for first time in 17 years (link above).



（Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo from BBC News)

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（答え）

イギリスの消費税は日本の倍以上の、２０％です。
詳しくは上記リンクを参照してくださいね。

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それでは、素敵な連休をお過ごしくださいね。
Have a good long weekend!

Watanabe

Sakura 桜 (写真を追加しました)

ハーフタームが終わったと思ったら、もう5月ですね。
日本のみなさんはゴールデンウィークですか？
イギリスにはゴールデンウィークも子供の日もないですが、月曜日はこちらも祝日です。

さて、ロセット学校にもきれいな「しだれ桜」が咲いています。

桜はきれいですね。

でもまだまだ寒いです。

At Rossett, we have beautifuk Shidare Sakura.

Sakura is beautiful.

今日は、「た」から「と」まで学習しました。

Today, we have learned ta to to line.

さて、先週は、WEJCの日本語の会話のテストを受けました。
私たちにとって、最初の日本語の試験でした。
みんな上手にできましたね。

ではまた次のトピックをがんばりましょう！

わたなべ

Stray FM and have a lovely Easter!

Konnichiwa! Genki desuka?

We were on the radio today and you can hear us from this link!

Rossett School, Harrogate - 04.04.14

The Stray FM team have been out and about again invading a local school and this week it is the turn of Rossett School in Harrogate.

http://www.strayfm.com/your-community/school-dinners/schoolshowrossett.php.

We will be on our Easter break and back to school on 22nd April.

Hope you all have a lovely Easter!

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What is Easter?

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/easter.html

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Matane!

Watanabe

WEJC

We are currently working very hard towards WEJC Japanese oral assessment.
These are some phrases which we have been studying with our school and the primary school nearby.


Namae wa？ 

Toshi wa ikutsu？

Okuni wa doko？ 

Anata no gakkou no namae wa？ 　

Denwa bango wa？

E melu no adolesu wa？ 

Have a go and check whether you are comfortable of those questions or not.

Ganbatte!

Watanabe

Japanese Silk Paint

Today, I was involved one of our Art Day.
I did the Japanese silk painting!

Japanese silk painting was run by Katy who has her business called Japan Crafts.
She has lots of knowledge about Japanese textiles and she goes to Japan twice a year for business.

This is how we do it.

We will be given some fabric paint and Japanese silk painting sheet.

Then, really, we colour them in.

Good thing is about this golden outline, it stops the colour goes over, so the finish will be so nice and neat.

Now, these are the picture of half way through.

Can you see....?

Lovely colour coordination! 

Blending, fading... You will thoroughly enjoy the texture of silk.

You could also have a lovely effect using rock salt, too.

After you put some paint, you then put some rock salt on the top and wait for 10 min.

You will see that these rock salt absorb some paint, so this makes the picture some sort of shining affect.

Then you can make it into a greeting card.

Hand made card... Sounds nice, isn't it!

This one is so beautifully done!!!

Japanese silk painting was so calming, relaxing... really beautiful. We had such a good time.
Every students were so engaged and really happy enjoying this painting.

Thank you, Katy.
This is her website.

(Japan Crafts)
http://www.japancrafts.co.uk/

You can buy them online, too.

Jya matane!
Arigato!

Watanabe

Year 8 Arts Activity Days!

Year 8 Arts Activity Days!

The Year 8 Arts Activity Days took place today and the students took part in a series of workshops.

The workshops were run by visiting professionals and will be based around Arts of the Far East.  These will include:

Music – Japanese Taiko drumming
Dance – Japanese dance workshop delivered by Phoenix Dance, part of Northern Ballet
Art – Oriental calligraphy
Textiles – Japanese silk painting
Martial Arts – Qi-Gong, a Chinese Martial Arts/movement-based session

It was amazing!!!

I will update what I was involved.

Japanese silk paint!

Matane

Watanabe

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, everyone! Are you all ready to come back to school on Monday?

Hope 2014 will be a brilliant year for you all.

あけましておめでとうございます。
今年もよろしくお願いいたします。

わたなべ