Osaka City
Higashiyodo
Technical High School
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Higashiyodo
Technical High School, Osaka
Higashiyodo
Technical High School was founded in Osaka in 1959 by the city of Osaka.
Originally, it had three faculties of ‘machine and technology’, ‘electricity
and technology’ and ‘chemistry and technology’. But, it has changed in later
years to ‘machine and engineering’, ‘electricity and engineering’ and ‘science
and engineering ’.
Now, we
offer nine courses. These are “Machine System course”, “Mechatoronics”, and “English
and Math” in ‘machine and engineering’, “Electrical Energy course”, “Multimedia”,
and “English and Math” in ‘electricity and engineering’ and “Science and Math
course”, “Science and Engineering” and “Biotechnology and Environment” in ‘science
and engineering ’.
High
school in Japan offers three years of education. At Higashiyodo Technical High
School, each class is made up of 40 students. Therefore, some 720 students are
presently studying high technology in 18 classes under the instruction of some 100
teachers and administrative staffs, c.85% of whom are fulltime teachers.
More
than 40 percent of our students continue to study in institutions of higher
education (universities, colleges, and professional and vocational schools). Some
students go to foreign countries; United States, New Zealand and so, to study.
The
academic year for Higashiyodo Technical High School begins in April and ends in
March. It is divided in two semesters; the first term lasts from April 8th
to September 30th, thesecond term from October 1st
to March 31st.
Throughout
the year, we have various school events; entrance ceremony in April, PE day in May,
open school day in September, school festival in November, school excursion
(Hokkaido) in January, and graduation ceremony in March.
Every
weekday, students study six periods a day; four periods in the morning and two
in the afternoon. Each period consists of 50 minutes and students have a ten or
fifteen minutes’ break between the classes. School begins at 8:30 and finishes
at 3:15 p.m. including a 30 minute lunch break. Saturday and Sunday are
holidays for all public schools in Japan.
Besides
class studies, our school offers a variety of extracurricular activities:
sports clubs such as athletic sports, basketball, volleyball, soccer, handball,
tennis, table tennis, baseball and so; cultural clubs such as photograph,
computer, art, light music, comic, newspaper, broadcasting and so.
“Kindness”
and “Hospitality” are the mottos of our school. When you come to our school,
you will be welcomed by our students and staffs.
In order to succeed, we must first
believe that we can.
Michael Korda
