Category: The Crane

1. Principal's Message Dear HIS Families It has certainly been a busy week with all of the preparations for the HIS Festival underway. Thank you to our PTA and all the volunteers who have been working so hard to make the HIS Festival possible. We are all looking forward to a great day tomorrow and it looks like we may even get a little bit of sunshine. See you at the HIS Festival tomorrow. Kind regards Damian Rentoule (Principal) 2. The Crane Video 3. Spring Secondary Dates Some spring dates have been recently added to the HIS online calendar for our secondary program.  Here is a brief summary: May 29-June 2: End of year exams (Structured revision will take place the week before) May 19 DP Exhibition with Spring Concert. We…

1. Principal's Message Dear HIS Families We said goodbye, today, to our Comenius College visitors from the Netherlands. It was s great experience for our students and we hope to continue the relationship built with the school through this trip and send some of our students to visit them next year. Thank you again to all of the homestay families. We also have another school group visiting us on Monday - Westridge School Glee Club and parents are invited to come and see the performance. The details are below. Thank you to Takako sensei for organizing this great even once again.  Now we enter into the very busy lead up to the HIS Festival. Thank you to the PTA for all of the work that has been going into this…

1. Principal's Message Dear HIS Families I hope you are enjoying some wonderful spring weather. Preparations are well underway for the HIS Festival, so I would like to thank all of the PTA for the hard work that is going into this event. We are all looking forward to it. Congratulations to our Cooking Club who were stars in a cooking show on TV, Thank you very much to both Jenny and Yumiko for your work with the Cooking Club. The show was great. Enjoy your week. Regards Damian Rentoule (Principal) 2. The Crane Video 3. Actor Mr. Rob Houchen Workshop @ HIS Tuesday, March 28  Mr. Rob Houchen starred as Marius, Les Miserables in London, West End.  Parents are invited to attend the Finale scene from 2:45pm in the Gym. I…

1. Principal's Message Dear HIS Families I saw a lovely graduation ceremony at Kurakake Primary School this morning. Congratulations to our Grade 6 neighbors. We have several of our HIS students attending Kurakake Primary School during summer holidays and they have been good friends to HIS over the years. I hope you all enjoy your long weekend. Kind regards Damian Rentoule (Principal) 2. The Crane Video 3. Actor Mr. Rob Houchen Workshop @ HIS Tuesday, March 28  9:00-15:15 Mr. Rob Houchen starred as Marius, Les Miserables in London, West End.  Secondary students who are interested in taking part as group/solo singers and actors are invited to sign up on the desk outside the Music Rm by Friday, March 17th. G3-6 (last year's group) choir will be joining for the Finale scene.     This is…

Dear HIS Families We are coming into an exciting part of the year with the upcoming HIS Festival. These types of major school events are organized by our volunteer PTA, and often a small group of people perform a very large amount of work. This group currently needs some support from our wider HIS community. Volunteers are needed for the HIS Festival. You can contact the PTA via the email provided in the PTA message below. Regards Damian Rentoule, Principal The Crane Video PTA News (Translated) 2017 HIS Festival  （日本語は以下に） We need more volunteers! - 10 or more volunteers for Game Corner( leader: Sumiyo Noji) - 4 volunteers for 100 yen Shop ( leader: Yasuko Yamashiro) Even a short period of time is fine.  If you have not signed up yet,…

1. Principal's Message Dear HIS Families It has been another busy week at HIS as you can see in the notes below. Congratulations to our secondary students who attended the Model United Nations (MUN) event. MUN is a challenging event and our students did a wonderful job with lots of support from Ms Levasseur. I hope you all enjoy your Spring Break. Kind regards Damian Rentoule (Principal) 2. Crane Video 3. Model United Nations (MUN) Here are some pictures MUN. All delegates participated actively in the creation of resolutions in their committee and some even took the floor during the General Assembly in the afternoon. I was very proud of them. On day 2 of the conference our delegates were very busy. Everybody got up to speak at least once during the General Assembly and…

1. Principal's Message Dear Parents I would like to thank all of the parents and Board of Directors (BOD) members who came to the strategic planning meeting last weekend. It was wonderful to be see everyone working together and hearing all of the great ideas. If you would like to contribute, you can add your thoughts at this link. These are the questions that we focused on: 1. What would you consider the current strengths of HIS? (We have control over these.) HISの強みは何だと思われますか？ 2. What would you consider the current weaknesses of HIS? (We have control over these.) HISの弱い所は何だと思われますか？ 3. What would you consider the current opportunities for HIS? (We don't have control over these.) HISにとっては現在何がチャンスだと思われますか？ 4. What would you consider the threats to HIS? (We don't have control over…

1. Principal's Message Dear HIS Families I hope you enjoyed your week. If you are reading this, I would like to say, thank you. The Crane is our main form of communication with HIS families. I have been told on many occasions that 'people don't read the Crane' and although this is an issue in many schools, I would ask you to help us out by encouraging others to follow your good example and take the time to look over this newsletter one a week. Thank you. I am in Hong Kong this weekend delivering an IB workshop on creating inclusive classrooms to a group of teachers from a range of countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The IB has a great system of bringing teachers together for ongoing professional development…