Oktoberfest
9th October
Our PTA is busy preparing for Oktoberfest next week. Music from our choir, pretzels and activities in class.

Please dont forget -

• To dress your child in the Oktoberfest colours of blue and white!
• For meals from home families, please send in a German food theme lunch box (sausage, potato, salad). School bento familes, the restaurant will take care.

The school choir - we will send out viewing information in next weeks blog.

Schools to Schools
We had fun this week in Grade 3 and 4 with a video converence to a school in Jakarta exchanging unit of inquiry information.
See our Primary Years Programme Information page for more details!

Flu Vaccines

20th or 22nd October

2.30pm - 4.30pm

Our school doctor, Dr. Adachi will offer to administer flu vaccines here in school. 

If you are interested please could you register here.

Please note the fee is 4,000 yen per child.

Deadline for registration is 16th October

Scholastic Book Club

Deadline 2nd October - Order Now!

Our new Scholastic Book Club is up and running! 

Click here to browse the latest books and order online.

For every $1 you spend on this month’s Book Club, our school will earn 20¢ in Scholastic Rewards.

Please place your order online by Friday, October 2, 2020.

Oktoberfest

9th October 

Our plans are continuing for Oktoberfest, it wont be a big outdoor festival this year but we do plan to mark the event as a day for the students in school.

We are very happy that the PTA will take charge. They will provide a pretzel for each child (please let us know if your child has any allergy) and decorate the school for the day! We will also have activities for the students in class during the day and the school choir will perform online.

Students clothing

Please send your child to school in either traditional Oktoberfest costume

or

Oktoberfest colours - clothes of blue and white, or German flag colours - black, red, gold.

Lunches

For home prepared lunches, if possible please send in a bento box of Oktoberfest themed food for your child. Potato, sausage, salad theme food.

We will take lots of photos, so you can see what happened.

School Choir Uniform

We are very happy to announce that this week we received a very generous sponsorship for our new school choir uniforms from Yamaoka Memorial Foundation, supported by Yanmar. We think they look great and you will be able to see the students wearing them at our online Oktoberfest concert!

The New School Board

Thankyou to all those who attended our Annual General Meeting, we are very happy to announce the new school board for school year 2020-2021.

Chair: Ms Steiners

Vice-Chair: MsPalmer

Treasurer: Ms Tabuchi Gardiner-Elko

Vice-treasurer: Mr de Montfort

Secretary: Ms Medina

Vice-secretary/HR: Ms Kruegel

Bus and Building: Mr Morineau

Marketing: Ms Phan Tran

Parent Teacher Association
We have had our first PTA meetings, you can follow the meetings by reading the minutes on our PTA page of our blog.

School Days 

21st 22nd September

Just to confirm we will be open next week on the public holidays, school as normal.

Annual General Meeting

23rd September 7.00pm

Online

You will have received a pdf invitation from the school board to join the school association Annual General Meeting on the 23rd of September at 7.00pm.

When you join the school your family becomes part of the association and we would be very happy to see you all at the online meeting!

If you havent received the invitation, please let us know.

Scholastic Book Club

Deadline 2nd October

Our new Scholastic Book Club is up and running! 

Click here to browse the latest books and order online.

For every $1 you spend on this month’s Book Club, our school will earn 20¢ in Scholastic Rewards.

Please place your order online by Friday, October 2, 2020.

Oktoberfest
Friday 9th October

We had our first PTA meeting this week and we discussed our Oktoberfest. We cant run it as normal, but also we dont want to cancel it. 

So we are planning to run a Oktoberfest theme day in school on Friday 9th (So no Saturday event). Students can come in dressed up, we will have some activities, our school choir will perform live via zoom to the school community and we will have some Oktoberfest theme bread for each child at lunchtime!

More information closer to the date. 

Spring Carnival

10th April

This will be our big event of the year taking over from the reduced Oktoberfest, we will hopefully be clear of the current situation and can celebrate in style!

School Events

We have published our events for the school year, you can see them on the Important Dates page of this blog.

Sports Day

Please note the change of date for Sports Day, it will be 29th April so we dont have problems with typhoons and high temperatures.

Assemblies

We have listed all the assemblies for the year on the School Events page, so you can book your time off work if needed.

Tracker Days

Well spotted some parents and thanks for asking! You will see on our events calendar Tracker Days. This is a staff event, but you can read about it on the Primary Years Programme Information page of this blog.

 

 

Earthquake Practise Drils

Yesterday we had our first earthquake drill and tsunami evacuation practise. We are happy to report that everything went smoothly and from start of drill to end of evacuation. We will continue to hold practise sessions through the year to make sure that we are fully prepared to act immediately if anything should every happen.

Annual General Meeting

23rd September, 7.00pm 

Online

You will soon receive a letter from the board inviting you to register for the online AGM. We will be using Zoom for the meeting, so we hope all parents are comfortable with that.

Rental Accomodation (Flyer attached to weekly email)

Looking for a great place to live in Kobe? I have several houses, apartments and rooms available to rent, on a short-, mid-, and long-term basis. Many of our properties are in the Hankyu Mikage area and ideal to commute to DSKI. Have a look at the PDF with our properties! For more information, contact Anna at akschrade@gmail.com 

International Scarecrow Designing Competition

Join Peace and Nature scarecrow designing competition!

Japanese application page

https://peace-and-nature.com/2020/08/11/scarecrow-competition-2020/

English application page

https://peace-and-nature.com/2020/08/11/scarecrow-competition-2020/?lang=en

Girl Scouts 

Entente

5 - 17years old

We are happy to promote the Girl Scouts which is starting soon at the Entente building on Rokko Island Please see the flyer attached to the weekly email. First meeting will be Staurday the 26th September.

School Hat Sale

If you are interested in our school hat sale, please click here to buy for your child!

Annual General Meeting
23rd September 7.00pm
Online
We are please to announce the date of our next AGM, you will receive a letter of invitation from our chair of the board so we look forward to seeing you there.

It is also a time to elect new board members, if you are interested in standing for the school board, just let us know!

Parent Handbook
We have recently updated our parent handbook, it is linked to the blog under Our Links and you can also access it here

If you would prefer a pdf please just ask the office.

Car Parking and our Neighbours

Just a reminder to please drop and go outside our school. For longer term stays, please use the car parks.

School Cap Sale

We are happy to announce a special discount on the school caps, due to the ongoing hot weather. Please contact the office for details or see the flyer attached to todays email.

Early Arrival and After School Care

We understand that some families rely on care until 4.30pm, so we are happy to say that we
have early arrival supervision

7.50am - 8.45am and after school supervision from 3.30pm until 4.30pm.

Please note that the numbers are very limited to avoid running a big group with a higher risk
of cross infection.

Applications will be assessed on a need basis. There will also be a small charge for the
service which would need to be

booked for the semester  -

Morning supervision 2,000 yen per family per session

After school supervision 2,000 yen per family per session

Both morning and afternoon supervision 3, 000 yen per family per day

Please note only full weeks can be requested, not individual days or dates. This is so we

can properly secure a supervisor.

Please click here to register

Our New Programme of Inquiry for 2020-21
We are happy to publish our new programme of inquiry, if you goto the School Programme and Information tab at the top of the blog you can access it there.

At our parent meetings tonight your homeroom teacher will go through the units and we will also give you information before each unit starts.

Clubs

We are really sorry to say that we will be stepping back from our intention to run clubs for semester 1, 

based on the recent experiences you may have seen in the local news about clubs being an easy way

to transmit CV19. We want to make sure our students are as safe as possible, so we apologize for the inconvenience.

We are still hoping to run clubs later in the school year.

Early Arrival and After School Care

We understand that some families rely on care until 4.30pm, so we are happy to say that we have early arrival supervision

7.50am - 8.45am and after school supervision from 3.30pm until 4.30pm.

Please note that the numbers are very limited to avoid running a big group with a higher risk of cross infection.

Applications will be assessed on a need basis. There will also be a small charge for the service which would need to be

booked for the semester  -

Morning supervision 2,000 yen per family per session

After school supervision 2,000 yen per family per session

Both morning and afternoon supervision 3, 000 yen per family per day

Please note only full weeks can be requested, not individual days or dates. This is so we can properly secure a
supervisor.

Please click here to register

Mr Kanase

We are very sorry to say that our new Japanese teacher Mr Kanase will be leaving us from today. Due to sudden personal reasons he wont be able to continue. We are happpy to announce that Mr Furuta will rejoin us until a permanent replacement is hired. 

Enrolment Party for Pre-School
24th August
11.00am
We are looking forward to our new preschool class joining us Monday for their first day at school! A big day, we wish them good luck and a happy time at DSKI!
Please remember, only two adults maximum per family so we can distance.

Parent Teacher Meetings 
28th August
6.00pm
Please join our online meetings to meet your new teacher and hear about the plans for the year ahead. You can also decide who will be your class parent representative!

Nobi - Nobi Passport
G 1~6 children have received a Nobi-Nobi passport from Kobe city and Kokoron card from Hyogo prefecture today. They let the children visit certain institutions for free of charge (from April 8th, 2020 to April 7th, 2021). Please see email attachment or contact the school office for details.

Welcome back!

Our staff have been in this week getting everything ready for the students to arrive next week. Planning, resources and of course our heath and safety procedures. And we are happy to confirm that we are going above and beyond the local authority requirements in all areas.

(You will see in our office, we have a protective screen at the counter. Please dont pass and go to the secretaries desk!)

You will be receiving an email from your homeroom teacher this afternoon welcoming you to the start of the new year. All staff will be at the arrival gates on the 20th to meet and greet you and the students and show them into school and upto class for the first day back.

And we are especially looking forward to the 24th when our new preschool class will join. Its always great to see this age group nervous with their cones, and then the confident and literate children they become by June!

Class Meeting

28th August, 6.00pm

Online

We will hold our start of year class meetings this year via online platforms, so no need to come into school. Your teachers will send you invitations shortly, but for our new families, its a chance for parents to meet each other, hear from the teacher plans for the year and also to elect the class representative. This role is the link between parents and teacher and also the person who will attend our Parent Teacher Association to reperesent the class community.