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| The Japanese School of Amsterdam アムステルダム日本人学校 De Japanse School van Amsterdam | |
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| Address | |
| Karel Klinkenbergstraat 137, 1061AL Amsterdam Amsterdam Netherlands | |
| Coordinates | 52°22′05″N 4°50′07″E / 52.3680°N 4.8353°E / 52.3680; 4.8353 |
| Information | |
| Type | Japanese international school |
| Website | jsa |
The Japanese School of Amsterdam (JSA, Dutch: De Japanse School van Amsterdam, Japanese: アムステルダム日本人学校 Amusuterudamu Nihonjin Gakkō) is a Japanese international school in Amsterdam. As of 1997 the JSA is the Japanese school for about 66% of the Japanese nationals in the country.
The Japanese government subsidizes the school.
History
It was founded in 1979 with 42 students in elementary and junior high school levels.
Its original location was on Frans Halsstraat.
The school was established to provide a Japanese-style education to children of Japanese national employees living in the city. It had 320 students in 1989.
As of April 2022, there were about 170 students enrolled at the JSA.
Culture
As of 1989 the students at the school had some baseball tournaments in which local Dutch schools and international schools using the United States system were opponents, but otherwise, according to Rozemarie de Ruiter of Leeuwarder Courant, the students did not mingle with local children often.
Curriculum
Students in grades 1-5 are required to take Dutch classes. In 1989, each student, every week, had two hours of Dutch as a second language classes. The school also has English classes.
Demographics
Most of the students' parents are diplomats, businesspeople, and teachers. As of 1989 many students return to Japan after the final year of junior high school.
Operations
The school has had a longstanding exchange programme with the Oudvaart School in Sneek. The programme originated from the parents of one student who previously attended the Fenneport School but later transferred to JSA; they continued to have contact with their child's former school and developed contacts between the two institutions.
See also
Portals:
References
- "JSA-tope.htm."The Japanese School of Amsterdam. Retrieved on 2 February 2014. "Karel Klinkenbergstraat 137, 1061AL Amsterdam"
- ^ Farber, Jules B. ... But give me Amsterdam (4th Edition). Kosmos-Z & K Uitgevers [nl], 1997. ISBN 9021593769, 9789021593760. p. 96 (See View #2). "The Japanese School of Amsterdam, founded in 1979 with a primary and junior high school curriculum for an initial 42 students, now has circa 350 pupils and serves two thirds of all the Japanese in the Netherlands. The parents are primarily businessmen, educators, and diplomats. Dutch language classes are mandatory for the first 5 grades. An exchange"
- ^ "Eerste Japanse school open". Het Vrije Volk (in Dutch). 27 April 1979. p. 5. - JPG, text, PDF of whole paper (PDF page 5/32)
- ^ Ruiter, Rozemarie de (1 July 1989). "Japanse kinderen maken lange dagen op school". Leeuwarder Courant (in Dutch). p. S&S 17.
De school is tien jaar geleden gebouwd omdat in Amsterdam veel Japanners werken, De school telt 320 leerlingen tussen de zes en vijftien jaar.Want veel ouders gaan terug naar Japan als hun kinderen naar de senior highschool moeten.
- JPG, text, PDF of whole paper (article on PDF page 43/52) - "学校紹介;アムステルダム日本人学校". www.jsa.nl. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
- "Uitwisseling Oudvaart-Japanse School Amsterdam". Sneeker Nieuwsblad [nl] (in Dutch). 13 December 2014. Archived from the original on 17 December 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
External links
- The Japanese School of Amsterdam (in Japanese)
- The Japanese School of Amsterdam at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
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