Category: The Crane

Items Arts Gala/Spring Concert & Sports Day - No bento Grade 11 CAS Video PTA News Principal's Message (Japanese below) Dear HIS Community In today's message, which will be a bit longer than usual, I will announce the tuition decision made by the Board of Directors in April 2018. Before I make this announcement, I have a short explanation about finances at HIS and please make sure you have read the HIS Annual Report 20162017 from last year. This document is in English and Japanese. I will try to keep this as brief as possible. In order to understand HIS finances, we can look at a pattern of enrolments over the last four years. We have two types of fees at HIS, private and corporate. The important part of this structure is that…

Items Spring Arts Gala Netherlands Trip Information PTA News 1. Principal's Message Dear HIS Community Over Golden Week, please take a moment to fill out our HIS School Satisfaction Survey. The same survey was used in 2015 and we will be interested in seeing how we are going, as a school. This is an anonymous survey and we welcome your feedback. Enjoy Golden Week. Kind regards Damian Rentoule 2. Crane Video 3. Student-led Conference and Spring Arts Gala General Information for Spring Arts Gala Saturday, 19th May 1:30 p.m. at Hiroshima International School The HIS Annual Spring Concert will be featuring all students in Early Childhood Class through Grade 12 in various performance groups. The program is presented as a way to celebrate student’s learning engagement through music for the school…

Items Student-led Conferences (Secondary) PTA News 1. Principal's Message Congratulations to all of our Grade 10 students who did such great work on their Personal Project, the culminating task of their Middle Years Program. You will see some images in today's video. They presented to the students during the day and parents this afternoon, so they did a lot of talking. Thank you for sharing your wonderful presentations. Also, thank you again to all of the PTA for the great International Festival last weekend. It was a very enjoyable day and an excellent opportunity to bring the community together. I hope you all enjoy the warm weather over the weekend. Kind regards Damian Rentoule (Principal) 2. Crane Video 3. Secondary Student Led Conferences This year, Secondary Student Led Conferences will take…

Items PYP Reading Carousel CAS Activity - Pet Video/Tote Bag PTA News International Deli 1. Principal's Message Dear HIS Community We welcomed twelve new students into HIS this April and I am always very impressed with how welcoming our school community is to incoming families. We will have the opportunity to meet everyone at next weekend's International Festival which is a great event and I would like to thank all of our parents who have been working so hard on preparations. We really appreciate your generosity. We have also welcomed our six visiting students from Comenius College and their three supervising teachers who spent the day in school today. Many thanks to our hosting families. Have a great weekend together. Keep an eye out for next week's Crane where you may even see some…

Items PYP Re-evaluation Visit Celebrations Bento Orders Grade 11 Original Tote Bags Deli Announcement PTA News 1. Principal's Message Dear HIS Community Firstly, as we welcome in the beautiful spring weather I would like to say thank you to all of the parents who have been working on the garden/playground project including the new ball games painted on the paths, additions to the garden space and blackboards on the fence. They are very creative, functional and fun additions that are getting lots of use. It is also great for our students to see the parents collaborating so well. Congratulations to our PYP team who prepared for the PYP re-authorization visit during a full year-long self-study. That is a lot of hard work as we reflect on our practice and ensure…

Outline No clubs next Thursday HIS Idol Madame Butterfly MUN Conference Student-Teacher-Parent Conferences Summer Program PYP Parent Representatives for the Re-evaluation Visit Family Soccer Lesson with Ange Violet players PTA News 1. Principal's Message Dear HIS Community Thank you to the PTA  for all of the work that you have been doing in the Garden. We even had a group of college students come in for three days to do some of the heavy work and thank you to Ms Ganse for organizing that and also for the parents who came in to cook up a delicious lunch for everyone. It is a great project and is making a wonderful improvement in that space. Thank you. Kind regards Damian Rentoule (Principal) Crane Video 3. No Clubs next Thursday We will need…

Items Madame Butterfly Homestays for Students from the Netherlands Staffing update for 2018/2019 Late Arrivals and Early Dismissals PTA News 1. Principal's Message Dear HIS Community As you know, we have 10 Learner Profile attributes that form the basis of teaching and learning at HIS. 'Balanced' is one of these. With all of that wonderful technology that helps us out each day, there is the potential for us to lose some balance in our lives. We are wanting to encourage members of our school community to try out some technology-related challenges. We will be asking ourselves to think of some areas in our lives where we feel that the use of technology is interfering with our sense of balance. For example, sometimes gaming or social media may interfere with sleep patterns or the phone could be a distraction from…

Items: Madame Butterfly; Host Families Needed for April; PTA News. 1. Principal's Message Dear HIS Community Congratulations to our Secondary Model United Nations (MUN) team who visited Kobe this week to collaborate with other schools in the region. The students were very active during debates and collaborated with delegates from other schools to discuss resolutions on issues such as euthanasia and combating terrorism. (Great photo by either Ms Annie or Mr Hardisty) Also, following up on last week, I was wondering if you were surprised by anything in our Academic honesty policy 2017. With a whole public domain of information available to students, ensuring that other people's ideas (including images) are acknowledged takes a broad set of research skills and a commitment to academic honesty. You can talk to your children…

Outline HIS Partnerships - Letter from the Director General MYP Assessment Coffee Mornings Spring Holiday Care PTA News 1. Principal's Message Dear HIS A word of thanks to our volunteers in the HIS community. Volunteers, working silently in the background and generally without receiving much in the way of recognition are a cornerstone of any vibrant school community for it is through such work that the school comes alive. The ski day organized for next week, the valentines beautifully crafted chocolate flowers and the ongoing work surrounding the HIS playground are just a few examples. This week, I also wanted to highlight our academic honesty policy. Do you know what sort of information would be contained within a policy like this? Now is your chance to find out. What skills do…