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Hi everyone!

I hope everyone found the Open Night last night informative and useful.

Thank you to all who voted in our new officers for the PTA. Once more, and with their new contact details, the four elected members are:

President Jackie Ikegami             hisptapresident@gmail.com

Vice President Fuyuko Ruetenik        hisptavicepresident@gmail.com

Treasurer Barbara Scheerer        hisptatreasurer@gmail.com

Secretary Hisako Shiji                  hisptasecretary@gmail.com

Please use these new e-mail addresses from now on for PTA related matters.

We are happy to answer any questions about PTA events or organisation.

The Board of Trustees are still looking for 2 volunteers to fill the vacancies. If you are interested in influencing how the school is run, please contact the Principal, Mr. Mackenzie, or Nicky Biwaki for details.

Please try to check back here for updates about once a week, if you can.

CAN I ASK ANYONE WHO HAS NOT FILLED IN THE SIGN UP SHEETS FOR THE SCHOOL DIRECTORY TO PLEASE CONTACT ONE OF THE  ABOVE PEOPLE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. WE DON’T WANT TO FORCE PEOPLE TO BE INVOLVED. HOWEVER, WE DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO MISS THE CHANCE TO BE INCLUDED. COULD YOU LET US KNOW SPECIFICALLY THAT YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE INCLUDED SO WE CAN STOP BOTHERING YOU.

IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT THIS IS ABOUT, PLEASE CONTACT JACKIE IKEGAMI OR TERESA KUO AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Thanks!

Jackie

Welcome to music class!

This week, students have completed preparing new learning materials and have had orientation session on each year level coursework. For G2 through G8 classes,  they have reviewed ‘Guideline’ documents that explains the class expectations, overviews, etc. Highschool students have been introduced to their Syllabus . I hope you had a chance to share reading. The information will help us all to be on board supporting our student’s learning.

Hope to be able to see you at Open School Evening.

Regards,

Takako Tokunaga

PTA役員

HISPTAを、サポートして下さっている皆さん、ありがとうございます。うれしいことに、PTA役員の候補者4名が決まりました。

9月8日のオープンイブニングで、4名の候補者を、皆さんに、紹介する予定でいます。

候補者指名：　会長　－　Jackie Ikegami

副会長　－　Fuyuko Ruetenik

セクレタリー － Hisako Shiji

会計 － Barbara Scheerer

上記候補者の信任投票をお願いします。他にも意欲のある方がいらしたら、お知らせ下さい！

PTA名簿/コンタクト・リスト

学校に在籍している方の名簿の作成を、計画しています。名簿があると、誕生日会などの学校外でのイベントや、

何か情報交換したい場合、お互い連絡が取りやすくなると思います。また、名簿があると、PTA 主催のイベント、

イベントに必要なボランティア募集、更には、予算をどのように使っているかなどの情報が、

皆さんにスムーズに行き渡ると思います。イベントを催すにあたって、建設的なご意見をお持ちの方、お知らせください。

オープンイブニング会場に、PTA名簿への記入用紙を用意しておきます。以下の3つから、希望に合うものを選んで下さい。

1） PTA名簿に名前を記載

2） イベントや催し物、決定事項など、PTAに関する情報のみを受け取る

3） PTA友の会に参加する。この場合、PTAの相談役として、ご意見を伺うことになりますが、時間的な負担はありません。

また、上記のどれに該当しなくてもOK。記入を、よろしくお願いします。

もし、火曜日に来られない場合、希望の番号をメールして下さい。

では、よろしく！　ジャッキー　jax@ck9.so-net.ne.jp

There was a technical hitch this week, and the Japanese version was not published in the Crane this week. Apologies for inconvenience, and please let anyone who needs this information know that they can see it here.

Thanks

Jackie

I hope you all enjoyed the summer holidays. Now we are back in the swing of things, and it’s time to further our explorations. Here are some questions to get you thinking:

Have you every wondered why there are so many words in the English language, or why English speakers from different areas around the world use different words for the same item? If not, take a walk around our school and ask a couple of different teachers the same questions (for example, what is a “cooler"? How many different names can you find for a cooler? I discovered many variations of this word on my first camping excursion last year).

… so, I have decided to begin this year’s ELL blog with some information about the evolution of the English language.  This information is brief, yet I think it is a nice introduction.

http://www.esldepot.com/page.php?xPage=free-esl-history-english.html

Happy reading!

K. Rhodes

Everyone seems to have settled in really well to their first two weeks of school. We have been exploring the topic of Buildings and Structures and the students have been undertaking lots of explorations and asking a lot of questions as well!

We have also started homework this week, and this should be completed by the Friday or the following Monday. It will be issued each Monday for now.

Open Night is on Tuesday 8th September, and I look forward to meetiing as many of you as possible.