
VET
VET refers to national vocational qualifications that are endorsed by industry.
All year 8 students study Japanese. Generally, Year 8 students have the same teacher for English, Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) and Japanese. This enables teachers to integrate the learning of Japanese with other areas, such as world history, studies of Asia, literature and the Arts.
After Year 9 Japanese becomes a choice subject.
Japanese is used as often as possible in the classroom because language is learnt when it is used.
Japanese is seen by many people as being totally different from English, because it uses a combination of pictorial characters adopted from Chinese (kanji), and phonetic scripts called hiragana and katakana.
The three scripts of written Japanese offer a challenge which makes learning them both fascinating and highly rewarding.
What is not widely known is that many words used in Japanese have been borrowed from English and other European languages. This has occurred because of the need for modern concepts and names, e.g. konpyuutaa (computer).
Seaton's Japanese program is strengthened and enriched through:
VET refers to national vocational qualifications that are endorsed by industry.
The Program provides different opportunities for young people to be supported as they explore a variety of pathways.