Hi,
I am Japanese and my husband is English. My kids are 5 and 5 (boy/girl twins), and they are in year 1 at a UK primary school. English is their mother tongue but I speak to them in Japanese all the time and they can understand everything I say. Their speaking in Japanese is poor, but this is mostly because they have no need to speak Japanese in the UK.
I want to take them out of school to visit Japan for a month. The goal of the trip is to have them attend Japanese kindergarten*, and immerse them in Japanese culture/language so that a) they understand more about my/their culture/background, b) they come back fluent in Japanese.
- Japanese children attend 'kindergarten' until age 6. It is state sponsored, compulsory, and runs everyday from 9am-3pm.
Does anyone have any experience or ideas about how should I request/explain/justify this trip to the UK primary school? This isn't a holiday so I am very keen to avoid the fine!!
Thanks,
Yuka