The Crane, 20 June 2020

20Jun 2020 by Damian Rentoule

Items:

  • MYP Musical Performance;
  • Jump Rope Challenge video;
  • A note about my book.

Principal’s Message

Dear HIS Community

Thank you very much for a great year which presented many challenges to us as a school as well as to you all as families. I would like to express my appreciation for your resilience and positive mindsets during the uncertainty that we faced. Please take care and stay safe over the summer holidays and I look forward to seeing you all back after the break. There are a few more messages that I will be sending out next week so you haven’t heard the last of me. I hope you are all enjoying this lovely weather.

Regards

Damian Rentoule

Crane Video

The Crane video comes from Gr8 this week with an important message for the holidays.

MYP Musical Performance

The grade 9/10 music students organized a project called the “Hiroshima International School 輪になれ広島 orchestra”. The purpose of this project was to lighten up the people in our community who may be struggling with the current COVID-19 outbreak. As the grade 7-10 orchestra has been practising the piece “Canon in D” by Johann Pachelbel for our annual Spring Concert, we thought that it would be a perfect digital platform to share the results of our efforts. To view the whole video please visit the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGzgMWdSBWA&feature=emb_logo

広島インターナショナルスクール中高生オーケストラいちどきりの「カノン」

記念合奏収録　音楽の役割を問う

広島インターナショナルスクールで高校生音楽選択の生徒らが主導で、同校中高生オーケストラによる記念演奏が行われました。新型コロナによる臨時休業で学校に通えなかった3ヶ月の間生徒らは５月開催予定だったスプリングコンサートに向けて独りの練習をしいられてきました。目標の演奏会は叶わず6月18日には年度末を迎える中、分散登校中の6月12日いちどきりの記念合奏収録会が実現し、パッヘルベルの「カノン」を合奏、学びの集大成をビデオに編集し全校に公開する運びとなりました。

企画を担当した高校生は音楽選択の9,10年生。学校というひとつのコミュニティのなかで音楽が果たせる役割は何かについて考え、企画につながったものです。「みんなで支え合おう」＃輪になれ広島の趣旨にも後押しされ、このニュースを発信しています。#輪になれ広島

Jump Rope Challenge Video

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Jump Rope Challenge. That was a lot of jumps!

A note regarding my book

Thank you to Kathryne who shared a very nice review of my book, Conversations for a Global Child. A couple of people have mentioned to me that they have ordered a copy, so thank you for that. There is a Japanese version and an English version and I wanted to mention something about the Japanese hard-copy version. I just received the hard copy of the Japanese version and there was a problem with the printing. It was printed from left to right instead of right to left. The error has been fixed now with the printer, but I just wanted to let you know that if anyone did order the Japanese hard copy version and it arrives with backwards pages, please let me know and I can replace it for you.

Also, I thought I would share digital proof copies of the book with you if you would like to read over the summer. If you do, I hope you enjoy it:

HIS Community Copy (English) – Conversations for a Global Child (This is the proof that was later formatted for printing.)

HIS Community Copy (Japanese) – Conversations for a Global Child (This is what the Kindle version looks like.)