Friday, 20 October 2023

 

We wish everyone a nice vacation from tomorrow and look forward to seeing everyone back here on the 30th of October!


Scholastic Book Order

Deadline - TODAY!

Click here to order

Our new Scholastic Book Club is up and running! By placing an order you are helping to build our school library. Every dollar you spend earns our school bonus points to use towards new books for our students!


Many thanks for your support!


Halloween
31st October
We would love to see your children in their fantastic costumes again! There will be awards for the best homemade, spookiest and class favourite costume. 
(It is ok to either come to school in costume or change here).

The children will have the opportunity to trick or treat and show their costumes to the other classes. 

If you would like your child to bring their own trick or treat bag, they are more than welcome to do so.
Halloween Team



Cross Country
Grade 3 - 6
Friday 3rd November
10.00am - 12.30pm
Green Belt on Rokko Island
We are happy to invite all parents of Grade 3 - 6 to our cross country event.
Please make sure that your child wears the school t-shirt, has a hat, an extra water bottle, a coat to keep warm when not running and a nice, healthy snack. 
 
The students will meet at school at 8.30am as usual and move to Rokko Park at 9.30am. Parents should join us at 10.00am at the meeting point.
 
At 12:30pm the children will return to school to eat their lunch and at 1.15pm we will continue with the normal school schedule. Clubs will be running as usual after school until 4.35pm.



German / Japanese Film Festival
3rd November
Josho Hall,  3. Stock, OIT Umeda Tower, Osaka Institute of Technology – Umeda Campus
In the run-up to the 150th anniversary of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Osaka-Kobe, this year's "German Film Festival in Osaka" is dedicated to the lives and work of strong women. Four German films with female protagonists will be shown, followed by a panel discussion with female directors from Germany and Japan.

Entry is free, but registration on the website is required. It is possible to register for more than one film or for both films and the panel event. A confirmation will be sent to your registered email address.


We look forward to welcoming you to the event.
























Marist Brothers International School 
Open Day for DSKI Families 
November 7th
9.00am at Reception

Marist Brothers would like to invite any interested parents to join a DSKI open day exclusively for our families. You are welcome to bring your children who can join one of our secondary classes for a short time. Families will have a tour by student representatives plus an information session by the principal.

If you would like to attend, please click here to register.


Sankt Martin
Friday, November 10th
5.00pm on the school yard
Please join us as to celebrate St.Martins' Day with a short play, songs and a Lantern March around the local area when it is getting dark outside.

The official event will finish as soon as we return to school from the Lantern March but there will be hot childrens’ punch and mulled wine waiting for you outside of school, kindly being sponsored.

- Please note that this is a school event and so there is after school child care available until the beginning of the event at 5.00pm for families who need it.
Please click here to register.

If you would like to prepare for this event with your child/children or would like to know more, here are some useful links:
Who is St. Martin? (in German)
Songs that we are going to sing:
Laterne, Laterne
Sankt Martin

Lichterkinder



DSKI Open Day for DSKI Parents 
23rd November
8.45am - 10.00am
We would like to once again invite all our families to come in and see our school at work. It is a great opportunity for parents of younger children to see what the older children do in our upper grade levels. 

So parents of early years, please take a look in our primary school and lower primary parents please do feel free to have a walk around upper primary school!


Winter Camp
18th - 22nd December 
9.00am - 3.30pm
Ages 3 - 12 years old
50, 000 yen per child
Please click here to register
Come and join us in the first week of the winter holidays for our winter camp. We will be running art and games activities with music fun and a end of camp Christmas dinner party!


Message from our Friends at Marist Brothers International School



Well done!
Well done Leon who spent the last vacation selling lemonade to raise money for Ukraine, thankyou Leon!