Bike Safety

6th and 8th November

8.15am - 8.45am

Many thanks for the group who have signed up. Please meet at the main gate with your bike and helmets.

St Martin

November 12th

4.00pm - 5.30pm

Just like the years before we would like to celebrate Saint Martin with the students and parents of our school. There will be a stage play about the legend of Saint Martin and students, parents and teachers will go on a procession on Rokko Island with self-made lanterns.

To have the evening come to a nice end, there will be children’s punch and “Martinswecken” (a traditional pastry) at the school after the procession. According to the tradition of Saint Martin, the children will share their “Martinswecken” with each other.

The schedule will be as follows:

● school children: 3.30 to 3.45 pm: small snack in the classroom

● Early Years children: 3.30 to 4.00 pm: small snack in Early Years

Please don’t forget to give an additional snack to your children in the morning. Parents of children in

Early Years, who are in afternoon care, can pick up their children after the snack at around 4.00 pm.

● 3.45 to 4.15 pm: break time on the playground

● 4.15 pm: stage play by the German Grades

● around 4:45 pm: lantern procession on Rokko Island (around 30 minutes)

● around 5:15 pm: getting together with drinks and “Weckmann”

● 6.00 pm: end of event

Basketball club will happen between 3.40 pm and 4.15 pm. We would like to ask the parents to be at the playground at 4.15 pm to watch the stage play together with the students. If you have a child in Early Years that leaves at 1.00 pm, please return to school together by 4.15 pm. For our lanterns we will use last year’s battery-operated candles and lantern sticks. The candles and lantern sticks will be collected at the end of the event to be used again next year. To ensure that this event will be a successful one, we are asking parents to take responsibility for their children, especially during the lantern walk.

Osaka Christmas Market

15th November 4.30pm - 5.30pm

Grade 1 - 6

We will once again be performing at the Osaka Christmas switching on the tree lights ceremony at the Sky Building in Umeda.

Its a huge event and we are very happy to be on stage, it is also the venue of the German Christmas market, so please come along and enjoy!

Please RSVP here if you would like your child to take part.

Open Day

21st November

9.30am - 12.30pm

- School Tour

- Meet the teachers

- Parent Cafe

All nationalities welcome

(Business as usual for all our students)

Winter Camp

Tentative 19 - 25th December

9.00am - 3.30pm

12, 000 yen per child / per day

50, 000 yen for all 5 days

We are looking at the winter camp dates and due to the holidays we do not have a full week before Christmas. We would like to see what the interest is for dates 19th - 25th with the 25th being a half day, based around preparing and eating a Christmas lunch.

Please click here if you are interested.

Student Withdrawl

If you will be leaving the school at the end of semester one, please note the deadline for withdrawl notice form to the office will be 31st October.

Oktoberfest

Many thanks to all our parents for your support at the Oktoberfest! It was a great day and a lot of fun by all. We are still working with the accounts but it is looking like we raised more money for school resources and materials than last year, which is really great!!

Many thanks to our team leaders for putting it all together!

Food - Ingrid B

Drinks - Maiko G

Cakes - Heeja O

Set up - Justin P

Tombola - Daniela R

Kids Room - Anita M

A message from the cake team

We would like to thank all parents for a lot of cake donations and support!

We had more than 100 cakes !! and they are fantastic. We saw that our customers had good impressions and people enjoyed your  cakes.

※Please remember to pick your cake plate up at the table in front of the kitchen.

Letter from the Chair of the School Board
Dear parents,

I am happy to inform you that Mr Alex Inman has been formally appointed as the new school principal.

As you may know he has been acting as principal for some time now and we believe that due to his knowledge of the school and his professional experience it is a good choice for us. Mr Inman has been an international school principal in Germany so has experience of the German education system and he also holds a principals license as well as extensive leadership experience in IB schools.

We wish Mr Inman success and are happy to support and work together with him as the new leadership team of DSKI.

Yours sincerely,

Petra Steiners
Chair of the School Board

School Holiday

22nd October

Just a reminder, we have an additional holiday for the coronation of the new Japanese emperor.

PYP  Assembly

23rd October, 3.00pm

Please come along and enjoy our Grade 2 assembly!
Fairy tale characters using different strategies to solve conflicts

Halloween Party

25th October

This year the PTA will be hosting a DSKI Halloween Party on the 25th of October (Friday) from 1:50-3:30 in the afternoon. Please come in your best costume. It will be a fun-filled afternoon with goodies, candies and prizes!

Osaka Christmas Market
15th November 4.30pm - 5.30pm
Grade 1 - 6
We will once again be performing at the Osaka Christmas switching on the tree lights ceremony at the Sky Building in Umeda.
Its a huge event and we are very happy to be on stage, it is also the venue of the German Christmas market, so please come along and enjoy!
Please RSVP here if you would like your child to take part.

Bicycle Safety

If we have enough interest we will run a bicycle safety course. Just to show students how they can use hand signals, cross junctions safely and just generally be more aware when cycling. We would run it before school, from 8.15am - 8.45am, to avoid any clash with lessons or clubs. 

All ages welcome, free of charge, bike needed.

Please register your interest here. 

Oktoberfest

19th October

Many thanks for all your support for the decision to move to a new date, please have a safe long weekend and see you on the 19th. 

Please share our new date with friends, neighbours, colleagues!

For your shift sign up, we understand parents may have plans. If you need to change your shift, so please just goto the shift plan here and adjust as needed.

12, 13, 14 October - School closed

18th October - Set up and school trips

19th October - Oktoberfest!

20th October - School closed

21st October - school day as normal

22nd October - School closed

Disaster Management in Kobe

Parent Cafe with Kobe City Planning Officials

16th October

9.30am, Library

We will have the Kobe city officials responsible for emergency and disaster management agree to come in and present the plans for earthquake and tsunami in our area.

You will be able to hear from them about Kobe city plans and also have a chance to ask any questions you may have.

We are very lucky to get them, and to help them, please could you RSVP here if you would like to join the cafe.

PYP  Assembly

23rd October, 3.00pm

Please come along and enjoy our Grade 2 assembly!
Fairy tale characters using different strategies to solve conflicts

Bicycle Safety

If we have enough interest we will run a bicycle safety course. Just to show students how they can use hand signals, cross junctions safely and just generally be more aware when cycling. We would run it before school, from 8.15am - 8.45am, to avoid any clash with lessons or clubs. 

All ages welcome, free of charge, bike needed.

Please register your interest here. 

Japanese and English Lessons for Parents

Our English lessons for parents have got off to a good start, it is still possible to join, just email our teacher directly.

Japanese, apologies for the delay, our original teacher has pulled out, but we have just hired a new lady who will be in touch with you shortly.

New Date for Oktoberfest,

as many of you have seen we have a very big, category 5 typhoon heading for us, due to hit on the 12th of October.

Unfortunately because of this we have made the decision to move Oktoberfest to the19th of October, so one week later. 

It is true that the typhoon can change course, but we have made the decision which makes most sense given the information we have today. If we leave it later to cancel, it will be much more difficult to change the plan and let the community know plus much more expensive for the school. We did discuss moving to the 13th or the 14th, but we felt the best and easiest thing to do is push Oktoberfest really clear of any possible conflict.

For your shift sign up, we understand parents may have plans. If you need to change your shift, so please just goto the shift plan here and adjust as needed.

So dates will be as follows - 

12, 13, 14 October - School closed

18th October - Oktoberfest set up and school trips for students

19th October - Oktoberfest!

20th October - School closed

21st October - School day as normal

22nd October - School closed for new emperor coronation

My sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused, more information to follow regarding cake baking and food preparation dates but we are really looking forward to seeing you all on a bright and sunny 19th of October!!

School Trip and Oktoberfest Preparation
11th October
Next Friday, so we can prepare for Oktoberfest, all classes will be going on a day trip. More information will be sent from your homeroom teachers shortly.

Food Stall
Good with BBQ? We still need seven more people to help in the afternoon. Join here!

Please share our Facebook post here!

Disaster Management in Kobe
Parent Cafe with Kobe City Planning Officials
16th October
9.30am, Library
We will have the Kobe city officials responsible for emergency and disaster management agree to come in and present the plans for earthquake and tsunami in our area.

You will be able to hear from them about Kobe city plans and also have a chance to ask any questions you may have.

We are very lucky to get them, and to help them, please could you RSVP here if you would like to join the cafe.

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.

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.