After School Clubs
Starting 13th February

Student Clubs
We are happy to publish our after school clubs information and sign up, please click here!

Parent Clubs
We are also happy to announce that we will be offering clubs for parents again in semester 2, please click here to see our offer and for sign up!

Library books - do you have any recommendations?

Our library team are looking at how we can develop our book collection and would like to ask if you have any suggestions?

If you would like to recommend a book please click here to tell us about it!

 

Three way conferences

30th January (school closes 1.00pm) - 2nd February

Student reports for semester 1, sent out 27th January

You will be getting a link to sign up for our three way conferences which will be coming up soon.

For families new to the format, it will be a chance for you hear your childs perspective, as well as the teacher, about how they feel they are doing at school, what they enjoy and what they want to work on. 

Clubs for Semester 2
Just to let you know we will have the sign up link in next weeks blog for semester 2 clubs, so please check here! 

Clubs will start again on the 13th February.

Parents - if you are interested in offering a club for students or a club for other parents we would love to hear your suggestions, please click here to tell us.

Library books - do you have any recommendations?

Our library team are looking at how we can develop our book collection and would like to ask if you have any suggestions?

If you would like to recommend a book please click here to tell us about it!

 

January's Parent Cafe: Supporting Reading At Home
Wednesday 18th January at 9am in the STEM Room
At our Parent Cafe this month, we will be exploring a range of strategies that you can use at home to help your child to develop a love of reading. Whether your child is just beginning to read or is already reading with confidence, Mrs Harris will discuss ways that you can support your child with their reading at home. 

If you are not able to join the session in person, then the Parent Cafe will also be streamed over Zoom, so please feel free to join the session.

If you would like to join via Zoom please click here to register.

Library books - do you have any recommendations?

Our library team are looking at how we can develop our book collection and would like to ask if you have any suggestions?

If you would like to recommend a book please click here to tell us about it!

School Calendar 2023-2024
The calendar for next school year is now online, you can see it by clicking here.

Happy Holidays

We wish all of our families a very happy holiday, seasons greetings and happy Christmas! Safe travels and we look forward to seeing you all back on the10th of January.

We are sorry to be saying goodbye to Mr Leo who is leaving as as well as Ms Evelyn who has been helping out in kindergarten the last few weeks. We are happy though to have Ms Harumi join us full time from January. We wish Mr Leo and Ms Evelyn all the best and we welcome Ms Harumi to the kindergarten team!



Christmas Market

Many thanks to all of our staff and PTA for their work in making the Christmas market a very succesful day! We hope you enjoyed the event and bought some nice gifts.

Beautiful Tunes in DSKI at Christmas Time
The DSKI children had the wonderful and rare opportunity to enjoy a concert with 4 saxophone players who gave a fantastic performance for the school community.
The concert was kindly sponsored by the CEO of Forestone Japan Inc., 

Mr. Heuseler, (father in Pre-Kindergarten) as a part of the sponsorship program organized for the school by Ms. Mönch, our Pre-Kindergarten teacher.
Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the concert and we hope that this will lead to more performances with this amazing group of saxophone players at future DSKI events. 

In the meantime, please enjoy the video of the performance, made by our music teacher, Ms. Nakajima.

Merry Christmas, Frohe Weihnachten to all of you and best wishes and lots of blessings for the year 2023!

Primary Years Programme Information

If you would like to read further about our programme during the holiday, please check out our PYP information tab.

The DSKI PTA and SCHOOL BOARD members are always on hand to support the school community. Ms. Mömch and the Pre-Kindergarten children prepared some small gifts to show our appreciation for all the work and commitment. Thank you everyone and Merry Christmas!

Winter Camp - Registration closing December 12th

19th - 23rd December

9.00am - 3.30pm

All ages welcome!

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 just click here to register.

Christmas Market 

16th December

On the school yard - entry/exit via the yard gate

Each class will have a stall selling the items students have been making. Please enjoy having a walk round with your child and enjoy the market!

To keep numbers low on the yard, each grade has a specific time slot. Please only join at that time.

The classes will be brought down by your homeroom teacher, so you can meet your child and go around together. At the end of the time slot your child will return to class with their teacher to pack up for the holidays. 

Timings for each grade - 

10.30am - 11.00am Pre-kindergarten and kindergarten

11.00am - 11.30am Grade 2 and 3

11.30am - 12.00pm Grade 1 and 4

12.00pm - 12.30pm Grade 5/6 and pre-school

12.30pm - 12.40pm Music Performance

(Grade 5/6 bell playing followed by a Grade 5/6 and pre-school dance routine)

12.40pm Tidy up

1.00pm End of day - all children go home for vacation! Via the normal pick up points. School bus will depart at 1.00pm for students who need it.

Snack and lunch time

Please send a snack with your child but there will be no lunchtime, please have lunch after 1.00pm with your child.

School Lunch Order
Deadline – Wednesday, December 14

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

This time the lunch period will be between January 10 and March 31, 2023. 

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 Y26,500

Please click here to register

Grades 1 - 6

The G 1 ~ G 2 children’s lunch is Y600 each and the total cost is Y31,200

The G 3 ~ G 6 children’s lunch is Y600 each and the total cost is Y29,400

Please click here to register

If you would like to order the lunch for your child, please submit an order form and make a payment by Wednesday, December 14.

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Christmas Tree lighting
Our students were able to enjoy our tree lights and start using their advent calendars on Monday. Many thanks to the PTA for their work and making the calendars - all the students were very happy and excited to receive them!

Christmas Market

16th December (1.00pm finish)

The Christmas holidays are almost here. To celebrate the season of giving, you and your family are invited on December 16th for a Christmas market at the DSKI campus. 

From 10.30am onwards - Christmas market

Entrance will be at the yard. Please have your temperature checked upon entry and wear a mask.

Each class prepared activities, crafts, games, and items to raise funds for charity. Please bring some loose change for purchases! 

The shops will be located on the yard to allow for distancing and avoiding crowding inside.

12:20pm - Christmas carols

Closing the event with Christmas carols.

12:40pm - Clean up

The community is requested to help the classes clean up the area used for the festivities

1:00pm - Dismissal and start of the winter vacation!

Please note we have fully risk assessed the day and ensured it is in compliance with our health policy but if covid cases are high we may need to adjust the events.

Message from Ms Azusa
This summer, Kobe city organized a sumer music workshop for children.
Anna, our Grade 4 student, joined the workshop and performed at the concert, too.
Here is a video which I would like to share with everybody.

If there is another summer music workshop next year, students, please try to join, too. 
If you play an instrument like violin or cello, you can learn lots of new things and also you will

have a chance to play and perform with professional musicians.

Message from Mrs. Koura, G1 parent
Rainbow Classic for Kids
Christmas Concert 2022 - come and join!
Artist  Namyuka (Mezzo-soprano),Keiko Nishimoto (cello),Mayu Yukawa (piano)
Date    2022/12/24(Sat)
Doors open 13:30, ​ ​​start at 14:00
Venue   Orbis Hall​Hyogo​
Hyogo Kobe City Higashi Nada ku 2 - chome, Yokohama cho, 9-1
Organizer - Nikka Sangyo Co. Day Ltd. Music Division
[Kansai Culture and Energy Zone Participation Project]
Classical & Christmas concerts for children

 

Morning Parking at Drop Off
Please can we ask parents not to park on the street at morning and afternoon drop off or pick up. Please just drop and go.

Please do not park near the crossing, it blocks the view of drivers and pedestrians.

For parents who do need to park at drop off, between 8.20am and 8.40am DSKI families can park in the TOHO supermarket car park free of charge. A big thankyou to them.

Please understand though that TOHO has agreed only on condition it doesn't cause any inconvenience to their operations with delivery trucks - so please only use the parking bays. If it is full, please use the Times car park opposite the school.

Christmas at DSKI
A big thankyou to our PTA volunteers who came in this week to set up all the tree and all our decorations! The school is looking very festive and ready for the tree lighting which all students will enjoy on Monday.

We would also like to thank the Morita family who have very kindly donated a new tree to the school - many thanks!

Please save the date - our Christmas market will be on the 16th December, we will publish the itinary next week.

Parent Cafe
30th November 
9.00am STEM Room

Information for new parents about our Primary Years Programme with Ms Pam - 

What are units of inquiry and how do they work? What is the learner profile? And more. 

Winter Camp

19th - 23rd December

9.00am - 3.30pm

All ages welcome!

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 just click here to register.

School Uniform
Just to let you know we will be discontinuing our range of hoodies and also the pink and yellow t-shirts due to low sales numbers over the past couple of years. We will continue to sell these items until the current stock runs out.