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In case parents cannot take care of children below school age in the daytime because of work, illness, etc., nursery schools can take care of such children instead.<\/p>\n
School fees of classes for children of 3 years old to 5 years old are free. School fees of classes for children of 0 year old to 2 years old are determined according to the amount of income tax or municipal tax paid by the parents<\/p>\n
Applications and consultations are accepted at Kodomo Kibo-ka of the Kakegawa City Office and each of the nursery schools.<\/p>\n
Inquiries;\u00a0Kodomo Ikusei Kakari of Kodomo Kibo-ka (Child Affair Section) at Kakegawa City Office. Ph.0537-21-1205<\/p>\n
Kindergartens are educational institutions for children of 3 years old to 6 years old who have not yet entered elementary school.<\/p>\n
Children who live in Kakegawa can apply for entrance into any public kindergarten in Kakegawa.<\/p>\n
School fees are free.<\/p>\n
Apply for entrance directly to the public kindergarten you want your child to enter.<\/p>\n
For information about private kindergartens, ask at any private kindergarten.<\/p>\n
In Japan, elementary school (6 years) and junior high school (3 years) are compulsory education.<\/p>\n
For public elementary and junior high schools, lessons and textbooks are provided free of charge.<\/p>\n
You must pay for school lunches, learning materials, and school excursions.<\/p>\n
Children of foreign residents are not obliged to attend elementary and junior high schools in Japan, but they can attend these schools if they choose.<\/p>\n
In such a case, apply for school entrance at the School Education Section (Gakko Kyouiku-ka), Board of Education.<\/p>\n
You need to bring the child(ren)\u2019s\u00a0residence card (\u201cZairyu Card\u201d) and a seal (\u201cHanko\u201d) for the application.<\/p>\n
The school your child(ren) attend(s) is determined according to your address.<\/p>\n
\uff1cEntrance into Elementary School\uff1e
\nIf you are the parents of registered child(ren) of Kakegawa who will reach an elementary school age in April the following year, a guide to public school attendance is sent to you in August.\u00a0 If you wish to have your child(ren) enter the school, please fill out \u201cKoritsu Gakko Shugaku Negai (Application for Public School Attendance)\u201d and submit it to the School Education Division (Gakko Kyouiku-ka), Kakegawa City Board of Education.\u00a0 Please bring your applicable child(ren)\u2019s Zairyu Card or alien registration certificate and a seal (\u201cHanko\u201d).\u00a0 Notices of pre-entrance medical checkup are sent in the middle of September to the parents of the child(ren) who have submitted the application for school attendance.\u00a0(The pre-entrance medical checkup is conducted from the middle of October to November at each school.)<\/p>\n
Notices about school entrance are sent later by the middle of February.<\/p>\n
\uff1cEntrance into junior high school\uff1e
\nA guide to public junior high schools is sent in November to sixth graders who are about to graduate from public elementary schools. If you wish to have your child(ren) enter the school, please submit \u201cKoritsu Gakko Shugaku Negai (Application for Public School Attendance)\u201d to your child(ren)\u2019s school.
\nNotice about entrance into junior high schools are sent in the middle of February to the applicant\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
For more information, please contact School Education Division(Gakko Kyouiku-ka), Board of Education.<\/p>\n
Financial aid is provided to families which have financial difficulties in having their children attend schools.<\/p>\n
Such families can get financial aid for part of their children\u2019s expenses for school supplies, school lunches and so on.<\/p>\n
To apply for the aid, you have to submit documents to certify your financial difficulty.<\/p>\n
Whether you can receive the aid or not is determined through examination.<\/p>\n
If you are in need, consult with the school or the School Education Section\u00a0(Gakko Kyouiku-ka), Board of Education.<\/p>\n
Inquiries; School Education Section (Gakko Kyouiku-ka), Board of Education\u00a0Ph.0537-21-1156<\/p>\n
In Portuguese, contact Foreign Student Support Center (Gaikokujin Shienshitsu), 4th<\/sup> floor, Daito Branch (0537-72-1343) from 2:00pm to 5:00pm.<\/p>\n Elementary school children whose parents are working during the daytime and there is no choice for the parents but to leave the children somewhere safe after school.<\/p>\n For further information, inquire at\u00a0Kodomo Kibo-ka (Child Affair Division), or each of the after-school care institutions.<\/p>\n Inquiries: \u00a0Kodomo Katei Kakari of Kodomo Kibo-ka at Kakegawa City Office Ph.0537-21-1144<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nursery schools In case parents cannot take care of children below school age in the daytime because of work, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kakegawa-life.com\/guide\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kakegawa-life.com\/guide\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kakegawa-life.com\/guide\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kakegawa-life.com\/guide\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kakegawa-life.com\/guide\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/kakegawa-life.com\/guide\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"https:\/\/kakegawa-life.com\/guide\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kakegawa-life.com\/guide\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kakegawa-life.com\/guide\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kakegawa-life.com\/guide\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}After-school care of children<\/h4>\n