The meeting with Ion Creang High-school was held

 

○date                             Tuesday, June 16, 2015    15:30 ~ 16:30

○location                        Ehime University High-school, gymnasium

○participants                  All students

○activities and goals

We had a pleasant gathering with Ion Creang High-school which we have a comprehensive agreement on International exchanges. We talked about “How to spend Summer vacation”, “Summer festivals”, “Summer sports”, “High-school life”, “graduation ceremony”, and “Future path”. We celebrated students from  Ion Creang by singing Ehime University High-schools school song because they’re having their graduation ceremony in two days.

 

 

<Ion Creang High-school: Information>

school name (country name) / Ion Creang High-school (Romania)

address / Strada Cuza Voda (Constantin Radulescu Motru), nr. 51, Bucuresti, Sector 4, Romania

school kind /  national high-school

name of departments / Department of Romanian Literary, Department of Mathematics, Department of Geography and History, Department of English and Japanese, Department of French and German, Department of Science, and Department of Informatics

the period of attendance at school  4 years (14 to 18)

school classification / school centered on preparing students to get into university

 

number of students / 584 girls, 293 boys, total number 877

history and features / Established in 1926, the school is name after a writer in Romanian literature. This school forms the base of Japanese education in Romanian as well as Universitatea din București which holds a department for Japanese Education.

Ion Creang High-school launched their Japanese education program in 1996, and its students have been increasing ever since.

This was a voluntary subject at the beginning, but now 9th and 10th graders are taking 4 hours of Japanese class a week, for 11th and 12th graders 8 hours a week, as a compulsory subject. The contents of this class are Japanese conversation, Kanji, culture, literature and so on. This school owns a Japanese related library, and has many magazines, dictionaries, books, and learning materials thanks to the support from the Japanese Embassy in Romania and others.

In addition, they have yukata (an informal cotton kimono (for summer wear), kimono, instruments, origami and so on. An environment to enjoy many types of Japanese cultural experience is arranged.