School Closed for the Coronation

22nd of October

We are happy here at DSKI to celebrate the coronation of the new Japanese Emperor Naruhito. It will be a public holiday, and so we will be respecting the day and the school will be closed.

Our teachers will be talking to our students about the coronation, so both Japanese and overseas children can understand and enjoy the event.

Oktoberfest 2019

12th October 11.00am - 4.00pm

We ask each class to please have one area of responsibility - Please sign up to help out!

Early Years - Kids Room (Team leader Anita Moench)

Pre-School - Cake Team (Team leader Hee-ja Oh)

G1/2 - Tombola team (Team leader Daniela Rost)

G3/4 - Drinks team (Team leader Maiko Gardiner-Elko)

G5/6 - Food  Team (Team leader Ingrid Brabeck)

Whole school - set up on the 11th (Team leader Justin Pecora/Ingrid Brabeck)

Shift Sign-up Here

- Please can all families bring a cake on the 12th

- Kids Room Bingo please could you donate a small prize

- Please come along on the 11th at 9.00am to help set up and help with food preparation. We need as many people as possible!

Message from the Oktoberfest cake team - 

Every year we ask all school members and parents for a cake donation.

They are always very popular and sell fast so we need many!! (The goal is 80 whole cake)

If you would be happy to donate a cake, either home made or shop.

As we already informed you before, please submit reply here.

Please fill this questionnaire until the 30th of September to help us plan 

If you have any questions, please contact G1 parent Heeja(Saran’s mom) at  

hee-ja.oh@ezweb.ne.jp.

Just for your information,the baking Cake Prep also planned by Ms.Daniela Rost on 9th of October start 3:45p.m **.(Change Time)** Pleases check the shifts.

Let’s enjoy baking together !!

Thank you for your cooperation.

The Oktoberfest Cake team

New Board of the Association of the Deutsche Schule Kobe International

We are very happy to announce that our new board has been elected and is now in place. To make their work more transparent, we will be adding a new tab at the top of our blog for Board Meeting Minutes, where all the minutes for the public part of the meeting will be posted.

Our board members are as follows -  

Chair of the Board
Ms P. Steiners
Vice-Chair of the Board
Mr T. Baumann
Treasurer
Ms M. Tabuchi (Gardiner-Elko)
Vice-Treasurer
Mr F. de Montfort
Secretary
Ms B. Jeschke
Vice-Secretary
Ms B. Verant
Human Resources
Ms M. Sparrow
Bus and Building
Mr B. Morineau
Marketing
Mr A. Nazarov 

INAC Football Club Trails

We had have an offer from INAC Kobe football club, that if any students would like to have a trial at the club house they are welcome. It will be on any Monday evenings at 4.00pm - 5.00pm. The club house is very close to school, just 5 minutes walk away.

Please contact Ms Kiyoko Takabe takabe@inac-kobe.com

Books For Free

We have boxes of books out in the main entrance area, please help yourself!

AGM
A big thankyou to all parents who came along to our Annual General Meeting. It was the most atttended meeting in years and we have now got our new board in place. We will send out some information from the board next week after their first meeting on tuesday.

Swan Lake
28th September

This will be good opportunity to watch the ballet “Swan Lake” lead by Deutsche Ballet am Rhein with the special price of 5,000 JPY available for G1-6 students and parents 10,000 JPY held on September 28^th (Saturday). 

For applying please fill in the attached form and send by FAX before Sep 26 and purchase the tickets in cash at the counter on that day.

Seat reservation and cancellation are not available. 

Please refer the link more details.  https://ballettamrhein.jp/

Sponsors for our Oktoberfest Tombola

We need your help!

If any parents or companies they work in would be interested in sponsoring or donating to our Oktoberfest tombola, any donation, no matter how big or small will be very much appreciated. It will all help us and all funds raised will go towards the school resources.

And of course all sponsors will be mentioned and will receive our sponsor voucher!

If you can help us out please just let us know be emailing alex.inman@dskobe.org

Oktoberfest 2019
12th October 11.00am - 4.00pm

We will send home a flyer with each child today, please could you hang it somewhere prominent in the area! We will have more in the office next week if anyone needs them.

We have sent out our information for Oktoberfest in an email, if you haven't received it, please ask the office for a copy.

We ask each class to please have one area of responsibility -

Early Years - Kids Room (Team leader Anita Moench)

Pre-School - Cake Team (Team leader Hee-ja Oh)

G1/2 - Tombola team (Team leader Daniela Rost)

G3/4 - Drinks team (Team leader Maiko Gardiner-Elko)

G5/6 - Food  Team (Team leader Ingrid Brabeck)

Whole school - set up on the 11th (Team leader Justin Pecora/Ingrid Brabeck)

Shift Sign-up Here

- Please all families bring a cake on the 12th and a soft drink bottle the day before, on the Friday.

- Kids Room Bingo please donate a small prize on our donation day, the 18th September, box in the main entrance.

- Please come along on the 11th at 9.00am to help set up and help with food preparation. We need as many people as possible!

Books For Free

September 16th

We have a number of books in our library which are teen reads or just out of use, which we would no longer need in school. We will leave boxes of books out in the main entrance area, please help yourself!

Sports Day

September 16th

Dear Parents,

We are all looking forward to the DSKI Sports Day on Monday 16^th September. Parents and children are reminded to bring hats, water bottles, sunscreen, etc

While today is cooler, it is forecast to be hot again on Monday. With this in mind we will try and start the first event as close to 9am as possible. This is to ensure the days events can be completed before the hottest part of the day. We may decide not to go ahead with the planned students and parents events at the end of the formal competition also.

Please note also there will be no school lunch on the day.

Regards,

Lachlan Waite

Sports Teacher

The school will celebrate Sports Day on Monday, September 16th. All students will arrive at the regular

time to school. At 9:00am all parents are invited to follow their children around during the sports events.

EY students will start on the playground, PS-Gr.6 will be on the green field located south of the school.

Sports Day 9:00 – 12:30 Green Field (PS-Gr. 6), School Playground (EY)

Please ensure your child has a drink bottle, sun hat, sunscreen, sports clothes (school polo or shirt),

warm and running shoes. 

Lunch & Award Ceremony 12:45 – 13:15 School playground

Please pack a bento lunch for yourself and your children. Families will gather on the school playground

to eat lunch at the end of Sports Day. Please do not forget to bring a picnic mat to sit on. 

Afternoon Care Program 13:15 – 15:30 School playground - Optional

Students are free to leave with parents at 13.15 but you can to join our afternoon programme of

various sports, music and Japanese activities.

Please just sign up here if you would like to take part.

Please note that Sports Day will be postponed to September 23rd if it is raining and it will be a
normal school day. We will inform you by email in case of poor weather.

Photos, please be aware that we have some parents may not want their childs image published in
photos. Please be mindful if uploading to social media.

Sports Day Schedule

8:30am All students meet at the school

8:45am PS- Gr. 6 students walk to green field with their class

EY students and parents assemble on the school playground

9:15am Warm up

9:30am Events start

10:30am Short break

10:50am Events continue

11:30am EY award ceremony on the school playground

11:50am Short break

12:00pm Events for all students and parents

12:30pm Walk back to school

12:45pm Lunch & Award ceremony for Pre S - Gr 6 students

13:15pm Dismissal

Swan Lake
28th September

This will be good opportunity to watch the ballet “Swan Lake” lead by Deutsche Ballet am Rhein with the special price of 5,000 JPY available for G1-6 students and parents 10,000 JPY held on September 28^th (Saturday). 

For applying please fill in the attached form and send by FAX before Sep 26 and purchase the tickets in cash at the counter on that day.

Seat reservation and cancellation are not available. 

Please refer the link more details.  https://ballettamrhein.jp/

Oktoberfest 2019
12th October 11.00am - 4.00pm

We will send home a flyer with each child today, please could you hang it somewhere prominent in the area! We will have more in the office next week if anyone needs them.

We have sent out our information for Oktoberfest in an email, if you haven't received it, please ask the office for a copy.

We ask each class to please have one area of responsibility -

Early Years - Kids Room (Team leader Anita Moench)

Pre-School - Cake Team (Team leader Hee-ja Oh)

G1/2 - Tombola team (Team leader Daniela Rost)

G3/4 - Drinks team (Team leader Maiko Gardiner-Elko)

G5/6 - Food  Team (Team leader Ingrid Brabeck)

Whole school - set up on the 11th (Team leader Justin Pecora/Ingrid Brabeck)

Shift Sign-up Here

- Please all families bring a cake on the 12th and a soft drink bottle the day before, on the Friday.

- Kids Room Bingo please donate a small prize on our donation day, the 18th September, box in the main entrance.

- Please come along on the 11th at 9.00am to help set up and help with food preparation. We need as many people as possible!

Early Room Child Care
We would like to see if there is any interest in the school offering an early room for working families.
We will pilot an early care room from 7.45am - 8.30am if we have enough numbers. It would be supervised care and possibly
include a small snack and drink and we would charge approximately 1000 yen/day depending on numbers.

If you would be interested in a early care room, please add your name here.

Please note numbers would be limited.

After School

Please do make sure your child is supervised after school on our campus. Parents are responsible for the well being of their child after 3.30pm and we want to make sure all are safe. Please also just be aware that if a child from another school comes onto our campus, our insurance will not cover them.

We do have an easy solution, join our supervised After School Care Club!

School Clothing

Please click here if you still need to order school T-shirts for sports day.

School Bus Routes

If any parents would like to have an amendment to our school bus routes we are happy to receive feedback, please contact sekretariat@dskobe.org

After School Clubs

We are very happy to present our semester one club options, including our new after school care club.

Please click here!

Japanese/English for Parents

Would you be interested to study Japanese or English? We would like your feedback and if we have enough numbers, we can offer courses for you, our parents.

Please just fill in your name here.

Parent Cafe

September 11th, 9.00am - 9.45am

Library

For our native German speaking community, please come along and hear about our programme and how we implement the language and mathematics curriculum to support your child.

Books For Free

September 16th

We have a number of books in our library which are teen reads or just out f use, which we would no longer need in school. We will leave boxes of books out in the main entrance area, please help yourself!

Sports Day

September 16th

The school will celebrate Sports Day on Monday, September 16th. All students will arrive at the regular

time to school. At 9:00am all parents are invited to follow their children around during the sports events.

EY students will start on the playground, PS-Gr.6 will be on the green field located south of the school.

Sports Day 9:00 – 12:30 Green Field (PS-Gr. 6), School Playground (EY)

Please ensure your child has a drink bottle, sun hat, sunscreen, sports clothes (school polo or shirt),

warm and running shoes. 

Lunch & Award Ceremony 12:45 – 13:15 School playground

Please pack a bento lunch for yourself and your children. Families will gather on the school playground

to eat lunch at the end of Sports Day. Please do not forget to bring a picnic mat to sit on. 

Afternoon Care Program 13:15 – 15:30 School playground - Optional

Students are free to leave with parents at 13.15 but you can to join our afternoon programme of

various sports, music and Japanese activities.

Please just sign up here if you would like to take part.

Please note that Sports Day will be postponed to September 23rd if it is raining.

We will inform you by email in case of poor weather.

Sports Day Schedule

8:30am All students meet at the school

8:45am PS- Gr. 6 students walk to green field with their class

EY students and parents assemble on the school playground

9:15am Warm up

9:30am Events start

10:30am Short break

10:50am Events continue

11:30am EY award ceremony on the school playground

11:50am Short break

12:00pm Events for all students and parents

12:30pm Walk back to school

12:45pm Lunch & Award ceremony for Pre S - Gr 6 students

13:15pm Dismissal

School Association AGM Child Care
18th September
If you would need child care for our AGM, please could you click and register here.
Please note we only have limited space.

Emergency Drill Dates

We would like to announce that we will practise our fire drill on the 11th of September and our earthquake/tsunami drill on the 13th September (between 9.00am and 10.00am)

Last school year we had some parents asking about these drills and how they worked, so we would like to invite any parents who are interested to observe.

Please do keep a discreet distance so as not to interfere with a very important procedure, but you are very welcome to be nearby the school and watch.

After School Clubs
We are very happy to present our semeter one club options, including our new after school care club.

Please click here!

The Lion King Video
If you missed our Lion King production in July or you want to watch it again, we have uploaded it to YouTube, via secure link here!

Japanese/English for Parents
Would you be interested to study Japanese or English? We would like your feedback and if we have enough numbers, we can offer courses for you, our parents.

Please just fill in your name here.

Sports Day
September 16th

The school will celebrate Sports Day on Monday, September 16th. All students will arrive at the regular
time to school. At 9:00am all parents are invited to follow their children around during the sports events.
EY students will start on the playground, PS-Gr.6 will be on the green field located south of the school.

Sports Day 9:00 – 12:30 Green Field (PS-Gr. 6), School Playground (EY)

Please ensure your child has a drink bottle, sun hat, sunscreen, sports clothes (school polo or shirt),
warm and running shoes. 

Lunch & Award Ceremony 12:45 – 13:15 School playground

Please pack a bento lunch for yourself and your children. Families will gather on the school playground
to eat lunch at the end of Sports Day. Please do not forget to bring a picnic mat to sit on. 

Afternoon Care Program 13:15 – 15:30 School playground - Optional

Students are free to leave with parents at 13.15 but you can to join our afternoon programme of
various sports, music and Japanese activities.
Please just sign up here if you would like to take part.

Please note that Sports Day will be postponed to September 23rd if it is raining.

We will inform you by email in case of poor weather.

Sports Day Schedule

8:30am All students meet at the school

8:45am PS- Gr. 6 students walk to green field with their class

EY students and parents assemble on the school playground

9:15am Warm up

9:30am Events start

10:30am Short break

10:50am Events continue

11:30am EY award ceremony on the school playground

11:50am Short break

12:00pm Events for all students and parents

12:30pm Walk back to school

12:45pm Lunch & Award ceremony for Pre S - Gr 6 students

13:15pm Dismissal

First Parent Meeting

27th August 6.00pm

We will have our first parent meeting next Tuesday at 6.00pm. Please come along and meet your new homeroom teachers and also you can meet the other parents of your grade and vote for your PTA class representative.

If you would like child care please sign-up here. Please bring your child to the Early Years area.

Sports Day

16th September 9.00am - 12.00pm (If it rains we will use the 23rd September)

All parents are welcome to join our Sports Day. The day is a regular school day for all students but please come along and join the fun. Athletics in the morning followed by a picnic lunch. We will publish more details next week, so for now please mark this in your diary. Please don't forget to have a school T-Shirt for your child to wear! 

Annual General Meeting of the DSKI School Association
18th September 7.00pm, Multi Purpose Room

Agenda

1. Approval of previous AGM / EGM meeting minutes 2018
2. Report from head of administration
3. Report from the school association board chair
4. Report from the treasurer (balance sheet, profit & loss)
5. Report from the auditors
6. Other proposals to the AGM (pls. submit in writing latest by September 6th 2019)
7. Exculpation of the board that served in school year 2018/19
8. Voting for new board members with 2- and 1-year terms, starting Sep 2019
9. Election of at least two auditors and subsequent approval by gakko houjin board of trustees
10. Information on confirmed / vote on prospective volunteers to be part of gakko houjin board of trustees in school year 2018/19
11. Schedule first board meeting and first gakko houjin meeting

Music

We are very happy to be able to announce the significant improvements to our Music programme. This year we will have Azusa Nakajima, our new Head of Music working in collaboration with our homeroom teachers to deliver music through the units of inquiry rather than as a stand alone subject.

So for example, if your child has a unit on recycling, they could be making musical instruments in unit time out of old PET bottles,  decorating and filling them with different liquids (art), looking at the liquids properties (science), and then using them to investigate pitch, dynamics, etc and composing a tune! So making our programme much more subject connected. Come along to our Music parent cafe to find out more.

In parallel we will be running a choir club, where students with talent/interest join for free and Ms Nakajima will work with them every week to build a school group who will represent us at special events. More information to follow.

School Clubs - New Offers

After School Care, daily until 5.00pm

We would like to offer a new after school care club. This would be open to all children from kindergarten up to grade 6. It will be for students who are not doing a traditional club, but you would like them looked after until 5.00pm. So for example, if you have a daughter in Skateboard club, and a son who doesn't have a club, we can look after him until you arrive at 5.00pm to pick up both children.

Japanese for Parents 

New to Japan? Would you like to learn Japanese for daily use?

This is for you. We would like to offer Japanese for day to day life, so going to the supermarket and asking which is butter or margarine, I only want to buy 5 bottles of coke etc.

English for Parents 

Would you like to improve your English skills in a fun, social environment? This is for you!

Next Friday we will send out the sing up for all clubs, including these new offers.

Emergency Procedures

In the next couple of weeks we will be running emergency drills for fire, earthquake and tsunami. We will publish these dates in advance and any parents who would like to see the drills are welcome to join. 

Last year we had some questions about how our system worked so we would like to take the opportunity to work together with parents to demonstrate all of  our procedures.

Parent Handbook

If you click here, you will find our parent handbook. Please take a look, it has the supplies list for school materials all students will need, teachers email addresses and information about our school daily routines and procedures including emergencies and bad weather alerts.