Okinawa Shogaku Junior High School receives MEXT Minister Prize for largest number of Eiken passers

Okinawa Shogaku Junior High School receives MEXT Minister Prize for largest number of Eiken passers

From left, Okinawa Shogaku Junior High School vice principal Hidekazu Kinjo, principal Masaichiro Nashiro, student council president Asahi Nakahodo, student council vice president Honoka Miyagi, and English teachers Genki Oroku and Yukiko Higa celebrate receiving the MEXT Minister Prize on April 10 at their school in Kokuba, Naha.


April 12, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo

On March 29, the Okinawa Shogaku Junior High School was awarded the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Minister Prize (junior high school division) as the entity with the largest number of people nationwide who passed the Eiken exam (levels 1-3).

A total of 570 people at the school passed the exam.

On April 10, the school held a news session for the media, and its representatives discussed their elation at receiving the prize and their efforts toward Eiken preparation.

Some students passed more than one level of the exam; the school announced that of the highest levels, two passed level 1, eight passed level pre-1, 108 passed level 2, 216 passed level pre-2, and 236 passed level 3.

“Our receipt of the prize is the result of all of our students sharing the goal of passing the Eiken, and each and every student doing his or her best. I believe our students’ motivation will increase all the more as a result of being granted the prize,” school principal Masaichiro Nashiro said at the news session, expressing hope for his students’ continued success.

The school made passing the Eiken compulsory in the 2009 school year, and students at the affiliated high school are expected to aim to pass level pre-1 by the time they graduate.

The school endeavors to cultivate English ability that will serve on any test by conducting classes that focus on the four skills of reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

For Eiken preparation, the school has an agreement with a university abroad that sends its teachers there to hold English classes once a week.

“As a member [of the school], I’m very happy.

I want to pass level 2 or higher by the time I graduate junior high school,” said student council president Asahi Nakahodo, age 15, expressing her ambition.

(English translation by T&CT and Sandi Aritza)

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