Items:
- Madame Butterfly;
- Host Families Needed for April;
- PTA News.
1. Principal’s Message
Dear HIS Community
Congratulations to our Secondary Model United Nations (MUN) team who visited Kobe this week to collaborate with other schools in the region. The students were very active during debates and collaborated with delegates from other schools to discuss resolutions on issues such as euthanasia and combating terrorism.
(Great photo by either Ms Annie or Mr Hardisty)
Also, following up on last week, I was wondering if you were surprised by anything in our Academic honesty policy 2017. With a whole public domain of information available to students, ensuring that other people’s ideas (including images) are acknowledged takes a broad set of research skills and a commitment to academic honesty. You can talk to your children at any stage of their education, particularly when they are preparing a written task. Where did this idea come from? Which part is yours and which part did you use to build your idea? It is a tricky area when you start asking these questions as we synthesise different ideas and then add our own. Sometimes it is difficult as, in the case of the above photo, it was not taken by me. I am not actually sure whether it was taken by Ms Annie or Mr Hardisty. There was no time to verify before posting the Crane. What should I have done? These and lots of associated questions are good to explore as we prepare students to be respectful of intellectual property.
Enjoy your Spring Break and take care if you are on the snow tomorrow with the PTA Ski Trip.
Kind regards
Damian Rentoule (Principal)
2. Crane Video
3. Madame Butterfly
- Performed in original Italian along with carefully inserted narrations in Japanese
- Full orchestra accompaniment
- ALL non-reserved seats
- HIS students are featured on both days
- Alex will be on throughout, others will appear between Act II and Act III
Best of luck to our seven courageous students.
4. Host Families Needed for April
Once again this year, HIS will have six students from Comenius College in Rotterdam, the Netherlands visit us in early April 2018. We are in need of four more families to host!
We are one year into our partnership with Comenius College. Last school year, six Dutch students visited HIS along with their teachers to conduct independent research, join in classes and learn about life in Hiroshima. In September 2017, HIS sent nine students to the Rotterdam on a similar program. This partnership is based on an agreement that families from each community will host visiting students. Not only does this make the trip cost-effective for both schools, it provides students with an authentic experience while they are abroad.
We are currently looking for host families to host students April 5-12, 2018. Host families are responsible for providing lodging, meals and transportation to and from HIS for the visiting students. Host families are encouraged to engage in cultural exchange activities with the students during non-school hours. Small trips around town, sharing traditional food and customs are welcome! If you are interested in hosting a student or have questions about the possible arrangements please contact Ms Pechhold (jpechhold@hiroshima-is.ac.jp)
We especially encourage students in Grades 8-12 to host a student, especially if they travelled to the Netherlands this past year. If you are interested in going to the Netherlands next school year, this is an excellent way to make a friend in advance! When we return from spring break, we will have just four weeks before our Dutch students arrive!
If your child is currently in grade 8-11 and would like to consider visiting the Netherlands in September of 2018, there will be an information session during Parent Teacher Student Conferences on 21 March.
5. PTA News
(日本語は以下に）
14 Apr Festival
*We need more volunteers!
If you have lost the sign-up sheet, please email us at pta@hiroshima-is.ac.jp or you can copy from the attached sheet.
Even if you are busy, volunteer work can be done in a short time (only one or two hours is all you need).Thank you very much for people who have already signed up.
**We have tent’s setting up on the day before the festival, and the cooperation of several men is necessary by all means. The tent’s set up will start at 3 p.m.
Please mail us those who can help! pta@hiroshima-is.zc.jp
**This list is the number of people in each class who signed up by this morning include duplication in brothers and sisters and not included the person asked directly from PTA committee.
EC3-2, EC4 -2 KG1-6, G1-5, G2-3
G3 -7, G4-2 ,G5-8, G6-3, G7-3, G8-1,
G9-1,G10-6, G11-2, G12-2
In addition, there was a donation from three people.
2018volunteer signup sheet .xlsx
*PTA bazaar
Many donation goods have started to come to school. Please don’t forget to send in anything you have at home which you don’t need anymore(in good condition).
And please bring unnecessary paper shopping bags and some buffer materials for wrapping.
Please note that we will take stuff to book off if we can’t sell.
〈New Family〉
Welcome to HIS
Schiewer family
Read It, Review It, Recommend It
<New review>
Benjamin Ngo Grade 4
Geronimo Stilton
(The Pheonix of Destiny)
by Elisabetta Dami
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Recommended for amazing and cool people at Grade 1-5
It was about a mouse travelling to a mystical land.
Next meeting
28 Mar 9-11 conference room
Upcoming events and deadlines
*14 Apr Festival
***Please feel free to ask any questions to PTA committee by email pta@hiroshima-is.ac.jp
PTAニュース
Festival（４月１４日）
＊ボランティアがまだまだ足りません！
もしサインナップシートを紛失されてる方、PTAにメールをくださいませ。 pta@hiroshima-is.ac.jp または添付書類を印刷してください。
既にサインナップしていただいている方、ありがとうございます。
短時間（1－2時間）でも構いません。グループ内で調整します。皆さんのご協力が必要です。
＊フェスティバルの前日、テント設営のためどうしても男性のボランティが数名必要です。時間は１５時くらいからになりますが、可能な方はお申し出ください！
今現在、サインナップしていただいている各クラスの人数です。（兄弟姉妹ぶんは重複し、PTAから直接お願いしている方は含まれていません）
みなさんお声をかけてくださいませ！
EC3-2, EC4 -2 ,KG1-6, G1-5, G2-3
G3 -7, G4-2 ,G5-8, G6-3, G7-3, G8-1,
G9-1, G10-6, G11-2, G12-2
また3名の方から寄付金をいただいています。
2018volunteer signup sheet .xlsx
＊ＰＴＡバザー（100円ショップ）
＊バザーに出す品物が集まり始めています。まだまだたくさん受付中です！
ご家庭にある不要品（状態のよいもの）をぜひ学校に持って来てください。
また、不要な紙袋、緩衝材などご家庭にあれば （当日レジで使用するため）学校にお持ちくださいませ。
また、残念ながら売れ残った場合はブックオフに販売するか、処分となりますことをご了承ください。
New Family
ＨＩＳへようこそ！
Schiewer ファミリー
おすすめ本レビュー募集中
新しくレビューが届きました！
Benjamin Ngo Grade 4
Geronimo Stilton
(The Pheonix of Destiny)
by Elisabetta Dami
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
G1〜5 で冒険の大好きな生徒にオススメ。
不思議な島を冒険するネズミの物語です。
次回のミーティング
３月２８日 ９時から１１時 カンファレンスルームにて
各イベントの締切など
*14 Apr Festival
＊＊＊どんな小さな質問でも構いませんのでご不明な点等ございましたらどうぞお気軽にＰＴＡへメールをください pta@hiroshima-is.ac.jp （日本語は渡辺か山城がお答えします）
6. Crane Video