6th March

9.00am MPR
Ascot International School

Secondary school information for upper primary families

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We are very happy to announce that Mr Darrick Mosser will be here at DSKI to talk about how Ascot International School can be a good option for our Grade 6 graduates.

International Book Day
March 6th

We are excited to celebrate with a wonderful day dedicated to the joy of reading! This special event is a fantastic opportunity to inspire a love for books and storytelling in our children.

Cozy Up with a Good Book!
To make the day extra special, children are invited to:

- Wear pyjamas for cozy reading
- Bring their favourite book to share beloved stories with classmates.

Fun Picture Challenge - Please do at home!
Before International Book Day - together with your child to find an odd or unique way to read a book—perhaps inside a basket, under a bed, or in a pillow fort! Capture the moment and share it with your homeroom teacher.

Exciting Activities on the Day
- Drop Everything and Read (DEAR)

A special whole-school moment where everyone pauses to enjoy a book together.

- Storytelling for Early Years

Parents are warmly invited to visit the classroom and read a story to the children in English or their home language.

- Storytelling Carousel in Primary

Invited storytellers will bring stories to life by reading different genres, such as myths and fables, while classes rotate to listen to each one.

This will be a wonderful celebration of books, imagination, and the power of stories. We look forward to seeing our children enjoying a magical day of reading together!

DSKI Culture Week

March 11 - 13

As we celebrate culture and diversity this year at DSKI, we will hold this year's Culture Week with the theme: "Diversity is the only thing we have in common - celebrate it today!"

SCHEDULES:

March 11 (Tuesday) 

Different classroom activities 

March 12 (Wednesday) 

Cultural Activities 

STEM Room

9:00 - 9:45 - Lower Primary

10:45 - 11:30 - Upper Primary

11:30 - 12:00 - Early Years 

To ensure the success of this year's event, we would like to encourage everyone to be a part of this event by volunteering. Let us know if you would like to prepare an activity for the students in the STEM Room to showcase different country's cultures through games, songs, stories, arts, crafts, and other interesting activities for all the students. Please contact Ms. Faye, Ms. Alexia, Marie and Aiko. 

March 13 (Thursday) 

Cultural Parade and Picnic

Rokko Island Park

9:30 - 11:30 

Everyone is welcome to join our Cultural Parade and the picnic to Rokko Island Park. Please wear your national costume to celebrate our school's internationalism and diversity. Come and share your traditional treats or snacks! 

Cultural Assembly 

2:30 - 3:30

MPR 

We have invited professional performers to (teach) and show us an Indian and Korean dance for our Culture Week! 

Kobe Storks Games - Free tickets for DSKI families

March 15th and 23rd

Please click here to sign up for tickets!

Due to our close relationship with the Kobe Storks, we are able to offer all DSKI families and their friends free tickets for their upcoming basketball games!

March 15th - Storks vs Aomori Wats

March 23rd - Storks vs Fukushima

Come along and enjoy the day!

Ski Trip 2025

Welcome back to our upper primary students who enjoyed a great trip away and a very big thankyou to Ms Pam and all our teachers for organizing it and making sure all the students had a super time.

Please click here to watch the video!

No School Monday 24th February
Just a reminder - we will be closed for the public holiday on Monday.

Parent Cafe

26th February 2025

9.00 am STEM Room

As parents, we often wonder how our child will learn best. We motivate, support and help them with schoolwork at home - but it is never easy. We try to understand their pattern of absorbing information and the effectiveness of the learning method at school. But how could you support your child by developing the home environment that best suits the learning style and maximizes your child's potential?

Join us for a Parent Cafe with Ms. Faye as we look at the topic on, "Understanding My Child as a Learner." Identify and understand your child's learning style and apply some strategies to support their educational journey.

International Book Day

March 6th

We are excited to celebrate with a wonderful day dedicated to the joy of reading! This special event is a fantastic opportunity to inspire a love for books and storytelling in our children.

Cozy Up with a Good Book!
To make the day extra special, children are invited to:

- Wear pyjamas for cozy reading
- Bring their favourite book to share beloved stories with classmates.

Fun Picture Challenge - Please do at home!
Before International Book Day - together with your child to find an odd or unique way to read a book—perhaps inside a basket, under a bed, or in a pillow fort! Capture the moment and share it with your homeroom teacher.

Exciting Activities on the Day
- Drop Everything and Read (DEAR)

A special whole-school moment where everyone pauses to enjoy a book together.

- Storytelling for Early Years

Parents are warmly invited to visit the classroom and read a story to the children in English or their home language.

- Storytelling Carousel in Primary

Invited storytellers will bring stories to life by reading different genres, such as myths and fables, while classes rotate to listen to each one.

This will be a wonderful celebration of books, imagination, and the power of stories. We look forward to seeing our children enjoying a magical day of reading together!

Kobe Storks Games - Free tickets for DSKI families

March 15th and 23rd

Please click here to sign up for tickets!

Due to our close relationship with the Kobe Storks, we are able to offer all DSKI families and their friends free tickets for their upcoming basketball games!

March 15th - Storks vs Aomori Wats

March 23rd - Storks vs Fukushima

Come along and enjoy the day!

Culture Week 

March 11 - 13 

Volunteers needed!

1-1 Violin Lessons
Starting March

Please click here to book
We are happy to announce that from March we will be offering 1-1 violin lessons for all DSKI students 

We have a very accomplished violin teacher (Ms Chie Ishibashi) who has performed internationally, including with the German Philharmonic Orchestra who will be on campus Monday, Tuesday and Friday offering private 30 minute lessons (3, 000 yen) for all children from 3 years old to 12 years old, no matter their experience - so beginners okay!

Time slots will be from 8.00am before school up to 12.00pm. So yes, you can book a 1-1 lesson and we will arrange for your child to step out of class to join, so please be aware of the lesson they will miss.

Violins - you may use your own or rent a school violin for an additional fee of 1, 000 yen per lesson.

Expo 2025

We are happy to announce that we are working closely with the German Expo pavilion team and will have student involvement in the event!

More information to follow but in the meantime please click here for pavilion information and please see the pdfs attached to today`s email. 

DSKI Sports Events

We are happy to announce three sport events that DSKI will join together with other international schools. Very exciting for our students, we will send out more information closer to the dates!

March 15th 

Our Soccer Club will visit the One World International School for a futsal tournament. 

May 15th 

The Soccer Club will join a tournament in the Canadian Academy.

May 31st 

DSKI will host a Basketball Tournament here at DSKI in collaboration with our sponsor the Kobe Storks. Our best basketball players will compete with the U12 team of the Kobe Storks and other international schools.

Parent Cafe

26th February 2025

9.00 am STEM Room

As parents, we often wonder how our child will learn best. We motivate, support and help them with schoolwork at home - but it is never easy. We try to understand their pattern of absorbing information and the effectiveness of the learning method at school. But how could you support your child by developing the home environment that best suits the learning style and maximizes your child's potential?

Join us for a Parent Cafe with Ms. Faye as we look at the topic on, "Understanding My Child as a Learner." Identify and understand your child's learning style and apply some strategies to support their educational journey.

1-1 Violin Lessons
Starting March

Please click here to book
We are happy to announce that from March we will be offering 1-1 violin lessons for all DSKI students 

We have a very accomplished violin teacher (Ms Chie Ishibashi) who has performed internationally, including with the German Philharmonic Orchestra who will be on campus Monday, Tuesday and Friday offering private 30 minute lessons (3, 000 yen) for all children from 3 years old to 12 years old, no matter their experience - so beginners okay!

Time slots will be from 8.00am before school up to 12.00pm. So yes, you can book a 1-1 lesson and we will arrange for your child to step out of class to join, so please be aware of the lesson they will miss.

Violins - you may use your own or rent a school violin for an additional fee of 1, 000 yen per lesson.

 A Special Visitor to DSKI

We were very happy to welcome Mr Andrei Ivanovich Moiseenko to our school this week. He is one of the last survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp and we were very lucky to have him as a guest at our school.

Our students in Grade 4 - 6 met him to hear about his experiences and ask him questions about his life. We were also happy to host some students from Canadian Academy who joined us for the meeting.

It was a great experience for all of us and please click our links here to see the videos of his story.

Question and answers with our students, click here to watch the video

NHK News 

Programme Information 

We have updated our programme information page, please take a look here to read about concept based learning.

11th February

German Expo Mini Pavilion Exhibition

Please come along and see an exhibition of what the German Expo pavilion will look like - please click here for more information!

12th February 
9.00am MPR
North London Collegiate School

Secondary school information for upper primary families

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We are very happy to announce that Mr Matthew Williams will be here at DSKI to talk about how the new NLCS school can be a good option for our Grade 6 graduates.

Here at DSKI we want to provide the best secondary school options for our graduates, having these connections to help with your future applications. So please come along and see how it could be an interesting option for you!

Term 2 Club Update Information

Clubs will begin next Monday, February 10th.

Thank you to all who have signed up for student and parents clubs for the 2nd semester. We have a new record number of clubs and participants again this term and many clubs have reached their maximum capacity and some which are very close to reaching it. Unfortunately there were a couple that didn’t reach the minimum as we had to cancel the Chinese Class, Lego for Upper Primary and the Kids Spanish lessons.

Click here to register for student clubs

For parents, the Japanese for Beginners lessons will go ahead, as will the Tai Chi on Thursday mornings. Both are searching for new members. 

Spanish Class for Parents has been moved to Mondays so if you would like to join but didn’t because Thursdays didn’t work out please consider joining on Monday. If we can get a couple more members the Spanish lessons will go ahead but will potentially start from February 17th.

Click here to register for parent clubs