Winter Camp
A big thankyou to our families who joined us for winter camp this year.
We hope your children enjoyed the time, we certainly did, it was a very nice week!

 

Happy Holidays and School Choir Video
Happy holidays to all of our families we hope you all have a relaxing and enjoyable holiday season. See you all again on the 11th of January for the first day back.

Please click here to enjoy a Christmas video from the school choir!

After School Clubs

Starting from February, Semester 2

Many thanks for the feedback in our recent survey about clubs, language lessons and after school care. We had a very good number of responses, so thankyou very much. We have taken your ideas and comments and are currently making our schedule which we will publish in January. We will also give information about how you can sign your child up for clubs by online registration. One change from previously, we will try and offer clubs for all age students from kindergarten upwards every day, so not only just for primary students!

We will also be extending our care hours to 5.00pm as there was a lot of positive feedback for this. The 6.00pm option was not requested so much, so we plan to offer this in the new school year from August if there is still a need. We are also looking at how we can offer a second school bus round departing at 6.00pm if this would help families.

Parent Clubs

Our pre-covid families may remember our parent programme, we offered English, German and Japanese lessons for parents, bollywood dance classes, boxercise and wine tasting! We would like to start parent clubs up again, so please watch out for this.

- If any parents woud like to run a parent club, let us know!

English lessons for parents are still running with Ms Rashidova, we will send out a semester 2 sign up in January.

Parent Handbook

We will update and publish our parent handbook for semester 2. If we have missed anything you feel should be included please give us suggestions here.

 

School Lunches

Deadline – Wednesday, December 15

We will continue to have a catered school lunch from Pizzeria del Rokko.

This time the lunch period will be between January 11 and March 31, 2022.

Orders can only be processed after payment has been made and confirmed.

Please be aware that in case of the absences or sickness of the child during the period the fee cannot be refunded.

The lunch will not come with chopsticks or fork. Your children need to bring them from home.

Early Years and Pre-School

The Early Years and Pre-School children’s lunch is Y500 each and the total cost is Y25,500

please click here

Grades 1 - 6

The G 1 ~ G 6 children’s lunch is Y600 each and the total cost is Y30,600.

please click here

 If you would like to order the lunch for your child, please submit an order form and make a payment by Wednesday, December 15. 

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Last School Day
17th December
1.00pm Finish
Just a reminder our last day will end at 1.00pm. Students will have lunch again before leaving, and the school bus will run at 1.00pm (drop off times will be sent later).

Thankyou to Artsana Group!

We are very happy to let you know that the Playgroup and Pre-Kindergarten children received some exciting toys as Christmas presents to play with at school.

The fun and educational toys made by Chicco were kindly given to our teacher Ms.Anita U.Mönch for the children by our school sponsor. Mr.Christph Penkhues, Managing director of Artsana Group (which includes the Chicco and Recaro companies) who also donated the Recaro seats for our school bus.

The children love the new toys ! 

Thank you very much, Mr.Penkhues for this kind gift!

Last School Day
17th December
1.00pm Finish
Just a reminder our last day will end at 1.00pm. Students will have lunch again before leaving, and the school bus will run at 1.00pm (drop off times will be sent later).

Art Gallery

Please click the Art Gallery tab at the top of the blog to see our works on display, we will continue to add as we go through the year. Please enjoy!

Visit from the German Ambassador to Japan, Dr von Goetze. 
We were very happy to be able to show the new ambassador to Japan around today, He and his wife came to see our school and what the students were doing. Pre-kindergarten and kindergarten performed a special welcome song and our school choir sang at the end. It was a very nice visit, many thanks to our teachers and students!

 

Winter Camp

20th - 23rd December

9.00am - 3.30pm

Now open for 3 years old!

We are happy to announce that registration is now open for our winter camp!

We are happy to have students from 3 - 12 years old. We will have a mixture of art  and craft, games and fun.

Fee 50, 000 yen per child, lunch included.

Please ask about school bus if you need it

Please click here for registration.

Christmas Tree Lights Switching on

Many thanks to our PTA for the fantasic advent calendars made for each class which were given out at the tree lighting ceremony - and the lights look great!

 

Grade 3 and 4 Unit on Goods and Services

Our students and have made a great display showing their research - please enjoy a video here!

Christmas Decorations

Many thanks to our PTA again for decorating our school and making it so festive.

We will have a ceremony for each class on the 25th November for switching the Christmas Tree lights on and PTA will be donating a special advent calendar to each class. Thankyou very much! 

Winter Camp

20th - 23rd December

9.00am - 3.30pm

Now open for 3 years old!

We are happy to announce that registration is now open for our winter camp!

We are happy to have students from 3 - 12 years old. We will have a mixture of art  and craft, games and fun.

Fee 50, 000 yen per child, lunch included.

Please ask about school bus if you need it

Please click here for registration.

After School Clubs Survey

We hope that as we metioned before, clubs will be back for semester 2.

We would like to hear about your interest in after school activites and club ideas.

We are exploring ideas for new clubs, please tell us what you would be interested in here.

Art Gallery

Please click the Art Gallery tab at the top of the blog to see our works on display, we will continue to add as we go through the year. Please enjoy!

 

Winter Camp

21st - 23rd December

9.00am - 3.30pm

Now open for 3 years old!

We are happy to announce that registration is now open for our winter camp!

We are happy to have students from 3 - 12 years old. We will have a mixture of art  and craft, games and fun.

Fee 50, 000 yen per child, lunch included.

Please click here for registration.

After School Clubs Survey

We hope that as we metioned before, clubs will be back for semester 2.

We would like to hear about your interest in after school activites and club ideas.

We are exploring ideas for new clubs, please tell us what you would be interested in here.

Coronavirus Policy Update
We have updated our policy to reflect the new travel requirements. 

Our policy previously required a statutory 14 day isolation period when returning to Japan as per government rules. Given the requirements are now different depending on where you go and the isolation period can be much shorter it now reads - 

Section 9

I or a family member has returned from a trip overseas, what should I do?

Any family member who has recently returned to Japan needs to follow the government requirements for isolation. Children need to be kept home during a parent's isolation period. Please inform the school office about the person, the trip and isolation period for the school to check and validate.

Art Gallery

Please click the Art Gallery tab at the top of the blog to see our works on display, we will continue to add as we go through the year. Please enjoy!

St Martins
Many thanks to our staff and PTA who made yesterday a really great day. The students had a very nice time doing the different activities, using their lanterns and enjoying the traditional bread snacks. One of our PTA members, Kazuna, donated water bottles for St. Martin, thankyou very much Kazuna!

St. Martin Celebration
11th November
St. Martin is around the corner and we would like to celebrate it again with the students this year but in a different way. With Covid-19 restrictions in place, St. Martin’s celebration this year will take place in school and throughout the school day instead of after school.
 
Similar to the Oktoberfest this year, there will be different stations about the life of St. Martin and about the meaning of the lanterns that the students will prepare in the week beforehand as well as songs and sharing sweets.
 
St. Martin is a Christian holiday in Germany and especially popular with children. Please click here to find out more about the history, who St. Martin was and why we celebrate it.

Winter Camp

21st - 23rd December

9.00am - 3.30pm

We are happy to announce that registration is now open for our winter camp!

We are happy to have students from 4 - 12 years old. We will have a mixture of art  and craft, games and fun.

Fee 50, 000 yen per child, lunch included.

Please click here for registration.

Flu Shots

Any families who would like flu shots this year are welcome to contact Dr Adachi at his clinic for an appointment.

(TEL: 078-855-2753). 

Kobe Tsunami Emergency Drill

You may have received an alert on your phones today regarding a Kobe city practise drill for tsunami evacuation. Here at school we took part in this and all students left the building and went to our assembly area in the fashion museum building. All went smoothly, all classes did a great job.

 

St. Martin Celebration
11th November
St. Martin is around the corner and we would like to celebrate it again with the students this year but in a different way. With Covid-19 restrictions in place, St. Martin’s celebration this year will take place in school and throughout the school day instead of after school.
 
Similar to the Oktoberfest this year, there will be different stations about the life of St. Martin and about the meaning of the lanterns that the students will prepare in the week beforehand as well as songs and sharing sweets.
 
St. Martin is a Christian holiday in Germany and especially popular with children. Please click here to find out more about the history, who St. Martin was and why we celebrate it.

PYP Information and Parent Cafe
We have updated our Primary Years Programme Information page please check in as we go through the year to see new posts.

Many thanks to our parents who attended the Parent Cafe this week on Support for Inclusive Education at DSKI.

We have posted the slide show here.

Halloween

Many thanks to our staff and PTA for the amazing halloween today. It was a great event and we all had a scary fun time! Well done our competition winners and special well done to Kindergarten 2 for the overall best door winner. Pictures will be on the class blogs!

 

Picture of the Week

Kindergarten had a cow visit yesterday, so they could find out how we get milk and make butter!

Parent Cafe

20th October
11.00 am- 12.00pm Via Zoom
Support for Inclusive Education at DSKI (Special Education Needs / English as a Second Language)

Please join Ms. Faye for a Parent Tea session to talk about how DSKI is supporting different learners with different specific needs. We will also look at our revised English as a Second Language programme.

https://zoom.us/j/94173903131?pwd=bmFHNTNOUXRWNnBIcGs3cFJNYTUvUT09

You can see the slide show for our first parent cafe - The PYP Framework here

Halloween Party 

October 22, 2021 

The school will celebrate Halloween 2021! There will be Door Decoration Contest for all grade levels and the class winner will get a trophy! For the best in costume, each class will have two winners and prizes will also be given to students with the SPOOKIEST or MOST CREATIVE costume! Make sure that your child comes to school wearing a costume. PTA will also give treats for all the students. 

Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition

At the Kobe Club

If you are free this weekend why not go along to see The Tolman Collection exhibition?

 

18th October  
School ends at 1.00pm
Just a reminder that we will finish early on the 18th to allow time for parent teacher conferences. As our classes are bigger this year it is getting difficult for our teachers to fit all meetings in the week after classes end.

Lunchtime will be from 12.30pm - 1.00pm for all students, and then will be brought to the gate for pick up by homeroom teachers at 1.00pm.

You will get invitations shortly from your teachers for booking meetings - which of course will be online.

Parent Cafe

20th October
11.00 am- 12.00pm Via Zoom
Support for Inclusive Education at DSKI (Special Education Needs / English as a Second Language)

Please join Ms. Faye for a Parent Tea session to talk about how DSKI is supporting different learners with different specific needs. We will also look at our revised English as a Second Language programme.

https://zoom.us/j/94173903131?pwd=bmFHNTNOUXRWNnBIcGs3cFJNYTUvUT09

You can see the slide show for our first parent cafe - The PYP Framework here

Oktoberfest
A very big thankyou to our Oktoberfest team of teachers and our fantastic PTA for organizing the Oktoberfest day today. It was a lot of fun, with costumes, pretzels and games! Its been a super alternative to the Saturday event. Please enjoy the videos and pictures below.

Message from lower primary school

Message from upper primary school