Category: The Crane

Festive Eve 2019    Saturday, Dec. 7th  Doors Open 13:30 Curtain 14:00 Program:  This year, we will be presenting WICKED, the untold story of the Witches of Oz. The choir (all G2-5) will be singing selected pieces during the musical, all primary classes will be presenting class dance acts. G6-12 orchestra will be performing an overture. The cast are supported by the backstage crew who are taking all areas of responsibilities behind the scenes as stage directors, music directors, stage managers, choreographers, musicians, lighting, scenery prop design, costume/hair make-up, audio technicians. Families and friends are encouraged to join us at school on Saturday, 7th December at 13:30 for a  14:00 start.  Costumes & Concert Attire:  CAST MEMBERS   Final Dress Rehearsals will be on Thursday, Dec. 5th and Friday, Dec. 6th,…

Items: Congratulations to Sora; Amy & the Pope's Visit; Festive Eve - Wicked; Koto Workshop; Teacher/Parent/Student Volleyball; AED Machine; Water Bottle Filling Station; New Building Update; PTA Nominations. Principal's Message Dear HIS Community I hope you have all enjoyed your week. Just a reminder that we need a name written on all clothing that students wear to school, especially jumpers. Children take them off and leave them in all sorts of places as you can imagine. If they have names, they will find their way back. If not, they tend to gather in large, smelly piles in our lost property box. A simple name is a better option for all involved. Festive Eve is coming together. It has been an amazing effort so far. Thank you to Elin, Amy &…

ITEMS: Council of International Schools (CIS) Community Survey for Parents; MYP/DP Parent Information Session; PYP Parent Information Session Slides. PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE Dear HIS Community Thank you to all of the parents who attended the PYP parent information session. The IB curriculum model in all three of our programs is very different than what many of us may have experienced in our schooling as children, so these sessions are a great time to learn about your child's program. Thank you to Marisa (Ms V.) our PYP Coordinator for the great session. We had our Secondary Camp this week and you will see some images in the Crane Video. It was a great three days and with the Gr4/5 camp in September and the volleyball trips all finished, our major overnight activities…

ITEMS: Parent-Teacher-Student Conferences; American Scholastic Mathematics Association (ASMA) Contest 2019-2020. PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE Dear HIS Community We are not far away from the October Break and with the parent-student-teacher conferences on Monday, all Secondary students out on camp next week (Tuesday-Thursday) and both Boys and Girls Varsity Volleyball teams playing tournaments in Nagoya and Kobe on Friday and Saturday, it is a busy week to send us into the break. For this week's TED Talk, I really liked the ideas presented here by Elif Shafak and with our identity at HIS so closely tied to Diversity, Inclusion and Peace, it is very relevant to us. The speaker askes why we underestimate feelings and perceptions and this reinforced the importance of the Social, Emotional, Ethical (SEE) Learning program that we have been…

ITEMS Halloween Decorations Congratulations to a National Chess Champion PYP Parent Information Workshop Baseball Glove Donations PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE Dear HIS Families I hope you have enjoyed the week. We had some great news earlier in the week which was the decision by the Board of Directors after receiving input from the Board of Trustees to proceed with construction of the new building. The new space will be a great improvement to our facilities with a series of larger classroom spaces.  We now have the opportunity to fine-tune the final design and we will be asking members of the school community to help us with the final details.       We will partly fund the project from existing reserves and also a bank loan.  This will ensure that operational costs associated…

ITEMS: HIS Hoodie Order; BOD & BOT Meetings; Nominations for BOT: PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE Dear HIS Community It has been a very interesting couple of weeks in terms of climate change action with quite a few of our students being inspired by Greta Thunberg and the global action that she has prompted. I posted a TED Talk by Greta Thunberg on the Crane last year and it was quite a remarkable talk. It was just over a year ago since she walked out of her school to organize a school-strike to raise awareness of global warming, protesting outside the Swedish Parliament. This address, below, to the UN Climate Change Summit a year later has an added note of urgency. A group of HIS students spoke with me yesterday with some ideas…