A Day in a Life in Japan

For our third activity for the Summer Learning Journey Prep. The task is: You and your family decide to go out and visit a local market. When you’re there you meet a student who tells you all about what it’s like to go to school in their country. The student also gives you a page from their diary that shows you what a typical school day is like for them.

So I searched up, 'Japan school timetable', and on Quora, it came that, 'In Japan school starts at 8 AM'.

The first 20 minutes, they do silent studying/reading or homeroom activities. The first period starts at 8:30-8:40. There are about 6 periods a day, there may be 5 on a special schedule day. Elementary school classes are 45 minutes long, junior high classes 50 minutes long.

There are four classes in the morning, then there is a break for lunch. Lunch is prepared and served in the classrooms, by the students. Lunch break is separate from eating time and it is about 45 minutes. Usually, after lunch, there are 10-20 minutes of cleaning. Sometimes it is at the end of the day instead or may be skipped because of homeroom activities.

Then it is the 5th and 6th period. The 6th period in junior high finishes around at 4 PM, about 3:45 PM at an Elementary school. Next, they usually have a 'going home' meeting with their homeroom.

Older Elementary school kids leave school around 4 PM. At Junior High, kids who aren't in any clubs can leave school at around 4:30 PM. Kids with club activities have a short break and then practice until around 6 pm. Junior High kids are often at school more than 10 hours a day.

So I hope you like my post about 'A Day in a Life in Japan'. Comment down below if you learnt something about time at school in Japan. Have a cool day!! Bye!!