Welcome Back
We have had a very nice start back to the school year, all has gone fine this week and the children looked very happy! We hope you also had a chance to meet and say hello to our new staff, they have also enjoyed meeting all the members of our school community.

Parent Evening
1st September 

6.00pm Presentations by the school board and PTA

7.00pm Class meetings
Please come and join us for our first parent teacher meeting. You will have a chance to meet with your child's homeroom teacher and hear about the programme for the year as well as meeting the other families in your grade level.

Before the teacher meetings we will also have presentations by the Parent Teacher Association and the school board about the role they fill in the school and the work they do. So if you are interested to join one of these groups please do come along and join!

We would please ask families to make child care arrangements privately as our staff will of course be in the meetings with you. We will have a very small number of child care spaces if needed though, please contact the school office to inquire.

After School Clubs
We will be sending out our after school club list Friday the 8th where you can see the offers and sign up so please watch out here in the blog.

Clubs will then begin for students on the 28th September.

Parent clubs

We are always looking for parents who may be interested to run a club. Either for students or running a parent club - where other parents can join you at a convenient time, not necessarily after school. For example in the past we have had parents running clubs for other parents, doing cooking or dancing.

If interested please just click here to let us know!

 

Happy holidays
We wish all our parents a happy holiday and relaxing vacation! We do hope you have safe travels where ever you may go!

School Year 2023 - 24
You can access our term dates here and our programme of events here. 
Our first day back will be the 24th August.
Preschool
Our new preschool class will start back slightly later on teh 28th August with the primary school enrolment ceremony. My Faye will be in touch with more details shortly!

The children of grade 3 & 4 had their performance last week of ‘Dream On’ to raise money for a local charity. The charity is called Kobe Guardian and they are an animal shelter that help re-home animals that would otherwise be put down. 

They very kindly came to visit us and brought Kurama (brown) and Lavender (grey) to visit the children and say thank you for their hard work and donation to the charity. 

The children raised 30,000 Yen! 

Huge well done to grade 3 & 4, and thank you to Kobe Guardian for visiting us. 

 

End of Year
Just a reminder we will finish on the 21st of June at 1.00pm. 
Students will have lunch in class as normal and the school bus will depart at 1.00pm.

Message from our PTA

Dear all Parents 

We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude for your tremendous understanding and cooperation in supporting the PTA activities throughout this year. 

While ensuring the health of our children, we have also strived to explore ways to provide as many educational opportunities as possible in collaboration with the school. In this process, we greatly appreciate your significant contributions in many ways.

With all your past and present contributions, we are happy to inform you that the PTA was able to donate the following items to the school this year;

- Smartboard 786,500 Yen

- For lower and upper primary school 200,000Yen (still considering)

- For early years 400,000Yen (Mattresses, Toys, Speakers etc.)

Together we hope to continue fostering mutual respect and cooperation among parents  and teachers to continue to make DSKI a better place for our children. We are looking forward to the next school year 2023/2024.

Thank you again for your ongoing support. Have a wonderful summer break.

Best regards,

2022-2023 PTA

 

Student Led Conferences

June 14th

5.00pm - 8.00pm

We are happy to invite all parents to come along and see what your child has been doing though the year!

It is an event where we pass the responsibility to the students. They will guide you around the school and into the homeroom classes where they will have stations set up to show their favourite activities. They will also show you their eportfolio and reflect on their learning.

You are free to come along anytime between 5 - 8pm, our staff will all be here to help out as needed and chat with any parents who have questions.

School bus families - if you would like your child to stay on campus until 5.00pm when you can pick them up from the late room, please just let our office know.

End of Year
Just a reminder we will finish on the 21st of June at 1.00pm. The school bus will depart at 1.00pm and drop of times will be sent out shortly.

Summer Camps 2023

- Registration closing Monday 12th June -

English language camp 26th June - 21st July

German and Japanese language camp 24th - 28th July

NEW - French language camp 26th - 28th July

Ages 4 - 12 years old

1 week 50, 000yen
2 weeks 95, 000 yen (5% discount)
3 weeks 135, 000 yen (10% discount)
4 weeks 150, 000 yen (25% discount)
Lunch included, bus fee is extra, consumption tax will be applied

We will have a range of different activities running which the children can choose from such as sports, outdoor games, music workshop and art and crafts!

We are also happy to announce for the first time a French language camp!

Non native speakers welcome at all our language camps.

To register for English summer camp please click here

To register for German summer camp please click here

To register for French summer camp please click here

To register for Japanese summer camp please click here

Clubs

Many thanks for all who joined our club programme, today is our last club day but we will have our new programme up and running in September.

Due to bad weather last week we will have athletics catch up next Tuesday and the Friday clubs will all run next week as a make up day. Mr Brabant will be in touch to confirm.

Student Led Conferences

June 14th

5.00pm - 8.00pm

We are happy to invite all parents to come along and see what your child has been doing though the year!

It is an event where we pass the responsibility to the students. They will guide you around the school and into the homeroom classes where they will have stations set up to show their favourite activities. They will also show you their eportfolio and reflect on their learning.

You are free to come along anytime between 5 - 8pm, our staff will all be here to help out as needed and chat with any parents who have questions.

School bus families - if you would like your child to stay on campus until 5.00pm when you can pick them up from the late room, please just let our office know.

Summer Camps 2023

English language camp 26th June - 21st July

German and Japanese language camp 24th - 28th July

NEW - French language camp 26th - 28th July

Ages 4 - 12 years old

1 week 50, 000yen
2 weeks 95, 000 yen (5% discount)
3 weeks 135, 000 yen (10% discount)
4 weeks 150, 000 yen (25% discount)
Lunch included, bus fee is extra, consumption tax will be applied

We will have a range of different activities running which the children can choose from such as sports, outdoor games, music workshop and art and crafts!

We are also happy to announce for the first time a French language camp!

Non native speakers welcome at all our language camps.

To register for English summer camp please click here

To register for German summer camp please click here

To register for French summer camp please click here

To register for Japanese summer camp please click here

 
Sponsor Run

Many thanks to the team for organizing the sponsor run today. It was a super event and we were happy to have so many parents come along and support. 

Our target was to raise 100, 000 yen for STEM room equipment but the actual amount was 113, 300 yen, which is really great - congratulations everyone!

Student Led Conferences
June 14th

5.00pm - 8.00pm

We are happy to invite all parents to come along and see what your child has been doing though the year!

It is an event where we pass the responsibility to the students. They will guide you around the school and into the homeroom classes where they will have stations set up to show their favourite activities. They will also show you their eportfolio and reflect on their learning.

You are free to come along anytime between 5 - 8pm, our staff will all be here to help out as needed and chat with any parents who have questions.

School bus families - if you would like your child to stay on campus until 5.00pm when you can pick them up from the late room, please just let our office know.

Oktoberfest 2023

Would you like to be involved? 

DSKI is looking for anyone who would like to volunteer and help out with planning and preparation

If you are interested to join or just want to find out more, click here to let us know!

Congratulations to Didier!
For publishing his first book on posture which you can find online here. Many of us aspire to writing books, so congratulations on the achievement, very well done.

We are always happy to celebrate all members of our community so if you would like anything posting just let us know.

 

Oktoberfest 2023

Would you like to be involved? 

DSKI is looking for anyone who would like to volunteer and help out with planning and preparation

If you are interested to join or just want to find out more, click here to let us know!

Parent Cafe

24th May

9.00am in the STEM Room

Developing Resilient Learners

Come along and join Ms Harris to hear about how students can adapt and take advantage of opportunities to achive their full potential!

Sponsor Run - RESCHEDULED

Friday 26th May

9.00am - 12.00pm

Please come and join us for the rescheduled sponsor run!

Schedule

(Hat, water, school T-shirt and sunscreen for each child please)

9.00am - 10.00am Early Years

10.00am - 11.00am Lower primary (Preschool - Grade 2)

11.00am - 12.00pm Upper Primary (Grade 3 - 6)

Please just come along to the Green Field at the time of your childs session.

We will use a 1 coin - 1 lap system, so when a child completes a lap, they can drop a 100yen coin in our collection jar to try and fill it up! 

Parents who join, please help your child. If you cannot join, our teachers will help but please send a maximum of 1000yen in 100yen coins in a sealed envelope with your child on the day.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Sponsor run team.

Summer Camps 2023

English language camp 26th June - 21st July

German and Japanese language camp 24th - 28th July

NEW - French language camp 26th - 28th July

Ages 4 - 12 years old

1 week 50, 000yen
2 weeks 95, 000 yen (5% discount)
3 weeks 135, 000 yen (10% discount)
4 weeks 150, 000 yen (25% discount)
Lunch included, bus fee is extra, consumption tax will be applied

We will have a range of different activities running which the children can choose from such as sports, outdoor games, music workshop and art and crafts!

We are also happy to announce for the first time a French language camp!

Non native speakers welcome at all our language camps.

To register for English summer camp please click here

To register for German summer camp please click here

To register for French summer camp please click here

To register for Japanese summer camp please click here

 

Sponsor Run

Friday 19th May

9.00am - 12.00pm

Our first sponsor run will be happening soon - we aim to raise 100, 000 yen which we will use to purchase exciting robotic equipment for our STEM room, which everyone can enjoy.

All students will be taking part and we encourage parents to come along and run as well (you can buy a school shirt to run in here)!

Schedule

(Hat, water, school T-shirt and sunscreen for each child please)

9.00am - 10.00am Early Years

10.00am - 11.00am Lower primary (Preschool - Grade 2)

11.00am - 12.00pm Upper Primary (Grade 3 - 6)

Please just come along to the Green Field at the time of your childs session.

We will use a 1 coin - 1 lap system, so when a child completes a lap, they can drop a 100yen coin in our collection jar to try and fill it up! 

Parents who join, please help your child. If you cannot join, our teachers will help but please send a maximum of 1000yen in 100yen coins in a sealed envelope with your child on the day.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Sponsor run team.

Parent Cafe

24th May

9.00am in the STEM Room

Developing Resilient Learners

Come along and join Ms Harris to hear about how students can adapt and take advantage of opportunities to achive their full potential!

Summer Camps 2023

English language camp 26th June - 21st July

German and Japanese language camp 24th - 28th July

NEW - French language camp 26th - 28th July

Ages 4 - 12 years old

1 week 50, 000yen
2 weeks 95, 000 yen (5% discount)
3 weeks 135, 000 yen (10% discount)
4 weeks 150, 000 yen (25% discount)
Lunch included, bus fee is extra, consumption tax will be applied

We will have a range of different activities running which the children can choose from such as sports, outdoor games, music workshop and art and crafts!

We are also happy to announce for the first time a French language camp!

Non native speakers welcome at all our language camps.

To register for English summer camp please click here

To register for German summer camp please click here

To register for French summer camp please click here

To register for Japanese summer camp please click here