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.

School Reopening Information
Dear parents of DSKI,

I would just like to wish you a happy and relaxing holiday now that our summer camp is coming to a close. It's been a very enjoyable four weeks, and I would really like to thank Ms Faye for a fantastic job coordinating and making it go so well and to all of the teachers for running great daily activities. It's been a real pleasure seeing the students come in and have fun here on site!

I would also like to take this opportunity to let you know what will happen next. We will continue to follow the recommendations of the local education authorities, which is that currently all schools in Hyogo are expected to be open full time for normal operations. 

So I am happy to say we will be back and open full time from the 20th of August. 

Pre-school families, please remember it will be the 24th August, starting with our welcome ceremony. You'll receive a letter from the team shortly giving you more details - and please don't forget your school cones!

We will of course continue taking full precautions to ensure the school is a safe and healthy environment with correct sanitation and distancing. 

We will also adapt our opening or operating procedures if there is any change in the Covid 19 situation. Closer to the open date I will send out our revised and updated health and safety policy giving you full details about how school will work. 

So please have a great holiday, safe travels and we will see you in a few weeks.

Yours sincerely and on behalf of the staff and school board, 

Alex Inman

Principal

School Office Opening Times

Our office will be open July 20 and August 12, between 10:00am~12:00pm

Message from Kidzania!
Please contact the office for the good quality pdf

Have a Great Holiday!
To all our families, we woudl like to say have a great summer vacation. We do hope you will find a way to relax and enjoy summer season.

Our summer camp will begin on Monday, and our teachers are preparing everything right now.
We will have a special camp blog - click here, which will be updated daily with what has been going on!

Next Years School Dates and Oktoberfest

The Oktoberfest will be a much lower key event, with the emphasis changing to a bigger event in April, when we are hopefully clear of CV19 and winter weather.

More information closer to the time!

Due to the change of emphasis, we have made a holiday date swap.

Date Change

October

12th - changed to a school day, due to no large Oktoberfest on the weekend

April

12th - School holiday as the Saturday event will need teachers to be present and help.

Yearbooks 2020
Our newly designed yearbooks will arrive on Monday (15th) morning. We will pass them out to the students who have ordered them on Monday and then to the rest of the school Tuesday when students are on site. 

We are really very happy with them, they look really nice and a very big thankyou to Ms Brabeck and Br Huber for stepping in and taking over when our interns left, who would have normally made them. Ms Natalia, a new designer who did all the setting out, will continue working with us and also produce next year's yearbooks.


Wake up Shake Up
We are very happy to announce the return of Wake Up Shake Up next week. Thankyou Gemma and Henri for the good idea!
As usual, main gate Grade 2, 4 and 5/6, yard gate Pre-School, Grade 1 and 3. 
Students will go directly onto the yard with their teacher, keeping social distancing and then Mr Waite will lead the students on the yard before they go upto class for their last day.


Library Books and Computers
Please return all library books and computers which were borrowed whilst the school was closed. We still have a lot of outstanding books, if you could please give them to your homeroom teacher on your childs last day.


Bus Lunch and Club return of Fees Final Call
The June 4th deadline has passed now for a discount on next years tuition fee option, so if you could please let us know where to send a money transfer here.


Summer Camp
Many thanks for the tremendous response for summer camp! We have now closed registration and schedules and timetables will be sent out next week by Ms Faye.


Oktoberfest
Yes, its that time of year again!
We will soon start making plans to have our Oktoberfest, any parents who are interested in helping out, please contact the PTA chairperson.

Summer Camp is Here!

Click here to register - Deadline June 12th

All ages welcome, no cost for DSKI Students!
For questions please contact Ms. Faye at  faye.nepomuceno@dskobe.org

Peace and Nature
A message for our parents!

NPO Peace and Nature produces rice without using pesticides in OZO, Kita-ku, Kobe.  This year, to prevent the spread of coronavirus, we postponed the rice planting workshop, but considering the recent situation, we would like to schedule it in June. Food shortages are of particular concern this year, and we want to keep growing rice, the staple food of Japan, and provide harvested rice to children and their families who are having trouble eating due to the effects of the new coronavirus. We would like to invite all of you who support us on a regular basis to participate in the hands-on workshop. In addition, depending on the situation, it will be implemented under infection control measures. Please note that the content may be changed depending on the extension of the policy of the government or local government.

[Date]
14 days from June 1st (Mon) to June 14th (Sun)

Please contact us in advance by email or by email 3 days prior to the desired date.

English information & application. 

https://peace-and-nature.com/2020/05/13/taue-workshop-june-1st-14th/?lang=en

Japanese information & application.

https://peace-and-nature.com/2020/05/13/taue-workshop-june-1st-14th/

Looking forward to seeing you soon!

Shinobu

★Acting together to sustain the earth for the next generation!
次世代のために、持続可能な地球環境を共に作ろう！
NPO法人Peace & Nature 　                    
P&F: 078-779-7474 
Email: info@peace-and-nature.com
www.peace-and-nature.com

Back on the 1st of June
Our teachers have been hard at work this week preparing the campus for reopening again next week.
We are all looking forward to seeing all your children in again!

Return of Bus, Lunch, Club Fees
We are happpy to follow up with the board decision to offer return of fees for bus, lunch and clubs whilst these were not running due to school campus closure.

We would like to offer you a choice of how you would like the money returned.

You can choose either a direct return of fees or next tuition fee invoice discounted by the return amout.

Please click here to tell us your choice.

Please let us know before June 4th so we can get the payements out quickly.


Summer Camp!
We are looking at the governmant guidines and how the school days in June work out and then we will make a final decision about summer camp - dates, hours, numbers of students we can have on campus.
But first - we want to ask who would be interested and when?
(The concept will be a mix of fun, games and some academics for all ages Kindergarten - Grade 6).