Friday, 27 September 2019



School Closed for the Coronation
22nd of October
We are happy here at DSKI to celebrate the coronation of the new Japanese Emperor Naruhito. It will be a public holiday, and so we will be respecting the day and the school will be closed.

Our teachers will be talking to our students about the coronation, so both Japanese and overseas children can understand and enjoy the event.

Oktoberfest 2019
12th October 11.00am - 4.00pm

We ask each class to please have one area of responsibility - Please sign up to help out!

Early Years - Kids Room (Team leader Anita Moench)
Pre-School - Cake Team (Team leader Hee-ja Oh)
G1/2 - Tombola team (Team leader Daniela Rost)
G3/4 - Drinks team (Team leader Maiko Gardiner-Elko)
G5/6 - Food  Team (Team leader Ingrid Brabeck)
Whole school - set up on the 11th (Team leader Justin Pecora/Ingrid Brabeck)


- Please can all families bring a cake on the 12th

- Kids Room Bingo please could you donate a small prize

- Please come along on the 11th at 9.00am to help set up and help with food preparation. We need as many people as possible!

Message from the Oktoberfest cake team - 
Every year we ask all school members and parents for a cake donation.
They are always very popular and sell fast so we need many!! (The goal is 80 whole cake)
If you would be happy to donate a cake, either home made or shop.
As we already informed you before, please submit reply here.
If you have any questions, please contact G1 parent Heeja(Saran’s mom) at  

Just for your information,the baking Cake Prep also planned by Ms.Daniela Rost on 9th of October start 3:45p.m **.(Change Time)** Pleases check the shifts.
Let’s enjoy baking together !!

Thank you for your cooperation.

The Oktoberfest Cake team

New Board of the Association of the Deutsche Schule Kobe International
We are very happy to announce that our new board has been elected and is now in place. To make their work more transparent, we will be adding a new tab at the top of our blog for Board Meeting Minutes, where all the minutes for the public part of the meeting will be posted.

Our board members are as follows -  

Chair of the Board
Ms P. Steiners
Vice-Chair of the Board
Mr T. Baumann
Treasurer
Ms M. Tabuchi (Gardiner-Elko)
Vice-Treasurer
Mr F. de Montfort
Secretary
Ms B. Jeschke
Vice-Secretary
Ms B. Verant
Human Resources
Ms M. Sparrow
Bus and Building
Mr B. Morineau
Marketing
Mr A. Nazarov 

INAC Football Club Trails
We had have an offer from INAC Kobe football club, that if any students would like to have a trial at the club house they are welcome. It will be on any Monday evenings at 4.00pm - 5.00pm. The club house is very close to school, just 5 minutes walk away.

Please contact Ms Kiyoko Takabe takabe@inac-kobe.com