{"id":394,"date":"2010-01-11T05:36:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T23:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=394"},"modified":"2010-01-11T05:38:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T23:38:56","slug":"bilingual-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/394","title":{"rendered":"Bilingual Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of this year, NSW will have 4 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.smh.com.au\/breaking-news-national\/nsw-schools-to-offer-bilingual-education-20090615-c82y.html\">bilingual schools<\/a> where lessons are to be given in both English and an Asian language.  I spoke to the principal of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbntv.com.au\/index.php\/2009\/11\/09\/scotts-head-students-study-indonesian\/\">Scotts Head Public School<\/a> , which specialises in Indonesian and found out that all new students will be taught the normal curriculum in Bahasa for at least 1.5 hours per day.  They&#8217;ll also offer language lessons by videoconference to nearby schools where Indonesian isn&#8217;t offered.  And to further improve the language skills of their students, they&#8217;re planning to set up a wiki with their sister school in Lombok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of this year, NSW will have 4 bilingual schools where lessons are to be given in both English and an Asian language. I spoke to the principal of Scotts Head Public School , which specialises in Indonesian and found out that all new students will be taught the normal curriculum in Bahasa for at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/394\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bilingual Schools<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}