1st February
Half day - School closes 1.00pm.
Just a reminder that school will close early to allow time for 3-way conferences. 
As before we will have lunhces on site and teh school bus will depart at 1.00pm.

Parent Cafe - IB Evaluation Visit Report
23rd February
1.00pm
We would like to offer a Parent Cafe meeting about our IB evaluation report based on the IB visit last year. We received very positive feedback from the IB visiting team and a very good report. 

Quote from the IB -
The evaluation report highlights many strengths as well as some suggestions for further development that should support you in strengthening your programme over time.

We have been working on developing our four year action plan which will take us up to the next visit from the IB in 2025. We have built into this what we want to achieve as a school and also the recommendations from the IB. 

We would like to share the evaluation report and our action plan with you and also hear your ideas and feedback.

Please join us if you can.

 

Semester 1 Student Reports 

28th January

Three Way Conferences
31st January - 4th February
Online
You will soon be receiving an invitation from your teacher to sign up for a three way conference. This is a very important part of our assessment and reporting process as well as working with our students, giving them agency for their learning.

We will be adjusting the style though as it will be difficult to have online conferences during school time. Instead your child will pre-record a video reflecting on the year so far and describing their aims and objectives for the coming months. Parents and teachers will watch this together and hear your child's input and thoughts.

You can read more about the three way conferences here.

Parent Cafe - IB Evaluation Visit Report
23rd February
1.00pm
We would like to offer a Parent Cafe meeting about our IB evaluation report based on the IB visit last year. We received very positive feedback from the IB visiting team and a very good report. 

Quote from the IB -
The evaluation report highlights many strengths as well as some suggestions for further development that should support you in strengthening your programme over time.

We have been working on developing our four year action plan which will take us up to the next visit from the IB in 2025. We have built into this what we want to achieve as a school and also the recommendations from the IB. 

We would like to share the evaluation report and our action plan with you and also hear your ideas and feedback.

Please join us if you can.

A Birthday
We are very happy to announce the latest addition to the DSKI community, Mr Mayr celebrated the birth of his first child, a happy and health baby girl, Emma, born 19th January.

Congratulations Mr Mayr!

Welcome Back
We hope all our families had a good vacation and we welcome everyone back for a rather cold first week...

Photographer Wanted

We are looking for someone who could do the student photos for our school yearbook. If you are interested or know someone you could recommend please could you just add a name here.

Please note, interested people need to have prior training and/or been published by a third party online or in paper publications.

After School Clubs

We are going to pause our club planning for two weeks to see how the covid infection numbers develop. It is of course very frustrating and we do apologize but in this uncertain time we need to make sure we take all precautions. We will review it at the end of February and if the situation is better we will begin clubs shortly after that.

Congratulations to two of our staff members!
Ms d'Amours
We are very pleased to say that Ms d'Amours was accepted by the International Baccalaureate (IB) and has successfully completed the course to become an IB World Schools teacher trainer. She will be running online workshops for staff at schools around the Asia Pacific region and when the world opens up, visiting other IB schools to run weekend or holiday training sessions for their staff.  

Many teachers apply and don't get accepted. Those that do are not guaranteed to pass the course, so Ms d'Amours has done extremely well and we are all very proud of her achievement!

Ms Hanna
Miss Hanna Martina Moriguchi, our DSKI teacher assistant celebrated her Seijinshiki, Coming-of-age Ceremony, in Kobe on the 10th January 2022.

Ms Hanna started her career at DSKI as a kindergarten student15 years ago back at the old site. We are very happy to have seen her grow into the mature young lady we have working now at DSKI as our teaching assistant in primary school.

Congratulations on your special day, Hanna and best wishes for your future!

 

Winter Camp
A big thankyou to our families who joined us for winter camp this year.
We hope your children enjoyed the time, we certainly did, it was a very nice week!

 

Happy Holidays and School Choir Video
Happy holidays to all of our families we hope you all have a relaxing and enjoyable holiday season. See you all again on the 11th of January for the first day back.

Please click here to enjoy a Christmas video from the school choir!

After School Clubs

Starting from February, Semester 2

Many thanks for the feedback in our recent survey about clubs, language lessons and after school care. We had a very good number of responses, so thankyou very much. We have taken your ideas and comments and are currently making our schedule which we will publish in January. We will also give information about how you can sign your child up for clubs by online registration. One change from previously, we will try and offer clubs for all age students from kindergarten upwards every day, so not only just for primary students!

We will also be extending our care hours to 5.00pm as there was a lot of positive feedback for this. The 6.00pm option was not requested so much, so we plan to offer this in the new school year from August if there is still a need. We are also looking at how we can offer a second school bus round departing at 6.00pm if this would help families.

Parent Clubs

Our pre-covid families may remember our parent programme, we offered English, German and Japanese lessons for parents, bollywood dance classes, boxercise and wine tasting! We would like to start parent clubs up again, so please watch out for this.

- If any parents woud like to run a parent club, let us know!

English lessons for parents are still running with Ms Rashidova, we will send out a semester 2 sign up in January.

Parent Handbook

We will update and publish our parent handbook for semester 2. If we have missed anything you feel should be included please give us suggestions here.

 

School Lunches

Deadline – Wednesday, December 15

We will continue to have a catered school lunch from Pizzeria del Rokko.

This time the lunch period will be between January 11 and March 31, 2022.

Orders can only be processed after payment has been made and confirmed.

Please be aware that in case of the absences or sickness of the child during the period the fee cannot be refunded.

The lunch will not come with chopsticks or fork. Your children need to bring them from home.

Early Years and Pre-School

The Early Years and Pre-School children’s lunch is Y500 each and the total cost is Y25,500

please click here

Grades 1 - 6

The G 1 ~ G 6 children’s lunch is Y600 each and the total cost is Y30,600.

please click here

 If you would like to order the lunch for your child, please submit an order form and make a payment by Wednesday, December 15. 

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Last School Day
17th December
1.00pm Finish
Just a reminder our last day will end at 1.00pm. Students will have lunch again before leaving, and the school bus will run at 1.00pm (drop off times will be sent later).

Thankyou to Artsana Group!

We are very happy to let you know that the Playgroup and Pre-Kindergarten children received some exciting toys as Christmas presents to play with at school.

The fun and educational toys made by Chicco were kindly given to our teacher Ms.Anita U.Mönch for the children by our school sponsor. Mr.Christph Penkhues, Managing director of Artsana Group (which includes the Chicco and Recaro companies) who also donated the Recaro seats for our school bus.

The children love the new toys ! 

Thank you very much, Mr.Penkhues for this kind gift!

Last School Day
17th December
1.00pm Finish
Just a reminder our last day will end at 1.00pm. Students will have lunch again before leaving, and the school bus will run at 1.00pm (drop off times will be sent later).

Art Gallery

Please click the Art Gallery tab at the top of the blog to see our works on display, we will continue to add as we go through the year. Please enjoy!

Visit from the German Ambassador to Japan, Dr von Goetze. 
We were very happy to be able to show the new ambassador to Japan around today, He and his wife came to see our school and what the students were doing. Pre-kindergarten and kindergarten performed a special welcome song and our school choir sang at the end. It was a very nice visit, many thanks to our teachers and students!

 

Winter Camp

20th - 23rd December

9.00am - 3.30pm

Now open for 3 years old!

We are happy to announce that registration is now open for our winter camp!

We are happy to have students from 3 - 12 years old. We will have a mixture of art  and craft, games and fun.

Fee 50, 000 yen per child, lunch included.

Please ask about school bus if you need it

Please click here for registration.

Christmas Tree Lights Switching on

Many thanks to our PTA for the fantasic advent calendars made for each class which were given out at the tree lighting ceremony - and the lights look great!