School information
Organization
The legal name of the organization: The Weekend Japanese School in Perth Pty Ltd.
School name (if applicable): The Weekend Japanese School in Perth
Postal address: 30 Marapana Road
Suburb: City Beach
Postcode: 6015
Telephone: 0437 406 039
Website: http://www.wjsperth.org/

Head of Organization 2022
Name: Mr. Ken Morishita
Position: Chairperson, WJSP board

Director
Tsuneo Tatsumi
Ken Ezuka
Yoshikazu Teramoto
Shinya Nagashima
Mitsuo Asaka

Committee member
Chiharu Fukumoto
Sadahiro Ito

Head of the School 2022
Name: Mr. Chiharu Fukumoto
Position: Principal

Teacher information 2022
Number of Deputy principal: 2
Number of Administration manager: 1
Number of teaching staff: 22
Number of teaching assistants: 10
Administration officers: 3

Tuition fees per student per year in 2022
Kindy $310
Primary School: $320
Junior Highschool: $330
Background ATAR Y11: $400
Background ATAR Y12: $440.

Average tuition fees per family per year: $1592 per family

School program information

Number of students enrolled in the 2022 school year: 353

1. Class locations
City Beach School: Japanese School in Perth 30 Marapana Rd. City Beach
Subiaco School: Perth Modern School 90 Roberts Rd. Subiaco

2. Student Attendance
Year level Number of students The average number in each class
Kindy, PP 130 15
PS1-6 207 10
MS.SS, JSL 79 7

3. Term dates
Term From date: To date:
Term 1 30/4/2022 2/7/2022
Term 2 23/7/2022 24/9/2022
Term 3 15/10/2022 10/12/2022
Term 4 4/2/2023 25/3/2023

School report summary
Achievement of common goals: All students had a great opportunity to obtain Japanese linguistic skills in speaking, reading, writing, and listening through the acquisition of Japanese cultural norms including virtues, attitudes, and traditions.

Goals for short-/medium-/long-term residents: On the assumption that those students will go back to Japan in the future, the WJSP has expected the students to obtain the Japanese knowledge/skills as much as those who live in Japan and learn Japanese there. As one of the initiatives to achieve this goal, the WJSP has run Kanji Kentei (or The Japan Kanji Aptitude Test in English) for all year levels, qualified by the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation. The school has encouraged the students to sit in the tests; more than 80% of the students of type 1 have taken the tests and more than 80% of them have passed their levels.

Goals for permanent residents/Australian citizens: Before a new school year starts, all the teachers were required to set learning goals for their class in 4 areas; speaking, readings, writing, and listening, referring to the WA curriculum and Japanese curriculum. In order to check the progress of each student, the teachers evaluated their students’ level at the beginning of the school year as the benchmark, and measured their progress every semester, through weekly lessons, homework, and class tests. Each student’s progression was recorded and reported to their parents on a semester report.

Activities/events:
1. Due to the influence of COVID-19, the school entrance ceremony has held in Term 1 with Year 1 students and parents without other students from other grades.
2. The school assembly and presentation for the Semester 1 award at the end of the Term 2.
3. The WJSP has reopened the school library and all students have been encouraged to borrow Japanese books after the lesson.
4. Internal PD workshop for staff and teachers; in order to keep the quality of teaching and administration, child safe and safety management at the WJSP and PD workshops
5. ATAR Japanese Background Support Class has started from Term 3. This is an annual course from October to September of the following year. Target students are Year 10, 11 and 12 students who are going to sit for the ATAR Japanese Background as private candidates.
6. Wasou Day (or Traditional clothes day in English); the school and P&C organized Wasou Day and invited the community members including teachers and the Principal of the local primary school in December 2022. This is an annual event; the students participated in some activities, such as photo shooting and Japanese folk dance.
7. Lockdown drill was held in Term 3.

Structure of school and P&C
Below are our P&C and Library Committee Organization Correlation Chart we created this year to make the relationship clearer. It was shared with all school staff and parents.

Staff code of conduct
The purpose of the code of conduct is to be available and to express the standard of behaviour expected from all members of the school staff including, contractors and volunteers. The code of conduct has been developed to ensure the safety and well-being of students, families and staff at the school and includes guidelines on what is expected of staff. All staff members are required by employment regulations to follow the staff code of conduct, which is available to all staff members at any time on the school website.

Child safe assessment
WJSP used the self-assessment tool, is based on the ten National Principles for Child Safe Organisations and has been adapted from the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Introductory Self-Assessment tool to provide a more tailored approach to arts, culture, sporting and community organisations in Western Australia.

Purpose
● Checking to identify areas that WJSP is doing well, and where improvements can be made in child-safe policies, procedures and practices;
● We learn more about the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations.
● We commit to future action and monitor improvement.

Anaphylaxis Management Policy and Procedure

Purpose
The Weekend Japanese School in Perth (WJSP) believes that the safety and wellbeing of students who are at risk of anaphylaxis is a whole-of-community responsibility. The aim of this policy is to: Provide, as far as practicable, a safe and supportive environment in which students at risk of anaphylaxis can participate equally in all aspects of the student’s schooling.
Raise awareness about anaphylaxis and the school’s anaphylaxis management policy and procedures in the school community.
Engage with parents/guardians of each student at risk of anaphylaxis in assessing risks, developing risk minimisation strategies for the student. Ensure that staff have knowledge about allergies, anaphylaxis and the school’s policy and procedures in responding to an anaphylactic reaction.
The Individual Anaphylaxis Health Care Plan are in place as soon as practicable after the student is enrolled and where possible before their first day of school.

ASCIA Action Plan.
Education and awareness programs of students of the risks, allergen triggers and the response plan. All staff to have completed anaphylaxis training and accreditation including practice with Epi-pen. They are also trained to provide an emergency response to anaphylaxis should be readily available. All staff members can access the provided student’s ASCIA Action Plan online. Also, the school rule has no trading or sharing of food policy