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Comment (CHILDREN in their first years of primary school will be required to learn and use an Asian language in NSW's first bilingual classes.
Starting in kindergarten, students will take up Mandarin, Korean, Japanese or Indonesian for at least 90 minutes a day, across every class except English and mathematics, according to The Daily Telegraph. Four government primary schools - Rouse Hill Public and Murray Farm in Sydney's north-west, Scotts Head Public on the North Coast and Campsie Public in Sydney's inner-west - have been selected as the first to specialise in an Asian language. The Rees Government committed $2.25 million over four years to the Bilingual Schools Program. "Young children have a far better chance of developing bilingual fluency from an early age," Education Minister Verity Firth said yesterday. "These bilingual schools will teach two classes of students in kindergarten and Year 1 for 90 minutes each day and eventually will be expanded to al...
