Topics: Festive Eve; Kanji Club update; Japanese Culture Day; Soccer Opportunity; PYP Cleaning Day; Otafuku Visit; Hirosho Department Store; Soccer Coaching in English 1. Principal’s Message Dear HIS Families Thank you to the HIS families who are organizing the Kanji
Supporting Japanese Learning in an English-medium Program
In order to support your child’s Japanese language development at HIS, an understanding of the meaning of an ‘English medium’ curriculum is important. The definition is relatively simple; the language of instruction is English (with the exception of the Japanese
The Crane, 1 December 2017
Topics: Winter Holiday Care Program; Festive Eve; UNICEF Event; MYP Consultation Visit; DP Open Day follow up. 1. Principal’s Message Dear HIS Families We are in the final week of preparations for Into the Woods. Thank you to everyone for
The Crane, 17 November 2017
Topics: Jessy Bosman’s last week at HIS Contributing to HIS web-page DP Open Day MYP consultation visit – parents panel Japanese Workshop follow-up letter 1. Principal’s Message Dear HIS Families I hope you all receive the Crane email this week.
The Crane, 10 November 2017
Items: A Change in the Secondary Program in 2018/2019; Boarding Decision; DP Open Day; A Connection in India; Winter Holiday Program; 1. Principal’s Message Dear HIS Families Thank you to all of our teachers and parents who have been working
The Crane, 27 October 2017
TOPICS: Bonfire Night; MYP presentation resource; Model United Nations; MYP visit; Volleyball Club Season Report; Principal’s Message Dear HIS Families We had some fun Halloween celebrations today so that was a fun way to end the week. In today’s Crane,
The Crane, 20 October 2017
Items: Bentos; Vocabulary Study; Typhoon; Netherlands Student Exchange; Coffee Morning Workshop 27 October; Secondary Halloween Party; Japanese survey; 1. Principal’s Message Dear HIS Families I hope you have all enjoyed your week. I received a question this week at the
The Crane, 6 October 2017
Topics: Exhibition; PE Shirts; Guardians Elections to BOT; MYP & Japanese Workshops; The Netherlands Student Exchange Meeting; Bento Orders; 1. Principal’s Message Dear HIS Families Thank you to all of the parents who came in this morning to help with
The Crane, 29 September 2017
Topics: Boarding Facility Search; ISA Testing; Japanese survey; Bento reminder; HIS Student/Parent Handbook 2017/2018; IB overview documents; 1. Principal’s Message Dear HIS Families We welcome back our Grade 4/5 students and their teacher-chaperones from Hamada Camp. They all had a
The Crane, 22 September 2017
Topics Bento Program; Student Teacher from the Netherlands; PYP Reading Carousel (4 October); PYP Parent Meeting (6 October); PYP Swimming PYP Gr 4/5 Camp at Hamada 1. Principal’s Message Dear HIS Families We were happy to see the safe return