Author: Damian Rentoule

Items: Crane Club; Visual Arts Exhibition; Model United Nations; Festival News. Principal's Message Dear HIS Community I hope you have all had a good week. On Wednesday, I sent out a whole-school email letting everyone know that we will be canceling the HIS Festival and postponing the HIS Idol. Many thanks to Jackie, Yasuko, Maki, Hanae, Eriko, and Sachie for all the initial preparations for the Festival and we look forward to taking up from where we left off next year. On Friday, I sent a message regarding a school closure next week. Just in case you missed it, here it is: I would like to confirm that in line with the announcement made by Prime Minister Abe on Thursday evening, Hiroshima International School will close form Monday, 2nd March to Friday,…

Items: Primary Literacy Week; HIS Photography Exhibition HIS Social Media - Instagram; MYP Assessment Presentation; Student teachers; PTA Festival Update. Principal's Message Dear HIS Community Congratulations to our Grade 10 students who are presenting their MYP Personal Projects tonight. The Personal Project is the culminating task of the Middle Years Program and involves the students undertaking a significant inquiry into an area of interest, using all of the skills that they have been developing through the MYP. The next step for the Grade 10s is the Diploma Program which is exciting. Congratulations to you all. During the MYP Assessment workshop this week for parents there was some discussion of assessment in Mathematics so I thought that this TED talk may be interesting in the way Mathematics is presented in a…

Items: Young Americans Update HIS Festival Update Japanese Language Workshop MYP Assessment Workshop for Parents Principal's Message Dear HIS Community We have had a fun week with a continuation of the secondary intramural basketball games which have turned out to be lots of fun. See the Crane video for some images. We have also noticed many of our primary students practicing volleyball at lunchtimes, perhaps inspired by our varsity teams. This is a good reminder of the impact of our actions on the younger students. Our Secondary students are great role models. In this week's TED Talk, I like the idea of confidence as a must-have rather than a nice-to-have. I hope you enjoy the talk by a teacher and activist, Brittany Packnett. Enjoy the weekend. Kind regards Damian Rentoule  Crane…

Items Young Americans Tour coming to HIS; Coronavirus update; HIS Idol; HIS Festival; ISA Testing; Invitation to MYP Exhibition; Assessment in  MYP, Parent Workshop; Art Exhibition; After School Clubs; Adam Beck, Language Workshop reminder. Principal's Message Dear HIS Community We have quite a few items this week. I hope you enjoy the read. A big thank you to Jackie who at the moment is simultaneously involved in the planning of three major HIS events: HIS Idol, HIS Festival, and the Young American's Tour (more about that below). Thank you to all of the parents who are helping to make this a great year of fun events. This week's TED Talk provides an interesting look at the way history can be distorted through education systems and it is a good reminder…

Items: Staff changes for 2020/2021; HIS Idol; HIS Festival; Grade 12 Parent-Teacher-Student Conferences; ITEPS Interns; PTA Treasurer's Report. Principal's Message Dear HIS Community We are nearly in February so the year is moving fast, as it generally does when we are adults. A year seemed like such a long time when we were children. Thank you to all of the parents who came in to help with the initial planning for the HIS Festival as well as the range of other PTA activities that have been going on this year. We really appreciate your involvement in school life at HIS and this makes a big impact on your child when they see that you are a part of their school life, in whatever form that takes.  Thank you. This TED…

Items: Korean Culture Day Next Week HIS Hoodie Order; Koto Workshop; HIS Idol; Annual Hiroshima Peace Art Exhibition; Mission and Vision Translations. Principal's Message Dear HIS Community I hope you all had a relaxing break over the New Year. We are very excited about our Korean Culture Day next week. Thank you to all the families involved in this event. One quick note today about the post-winter-break season when we tend to experience a lot of sickness of various kinds, including the flu, of course. One of the realities of school life is that what children do at home, they also do at school. For this reason, we would like to ask all parents to please reinforce these simple ways to reduce the spread of germs and hopefully, we will…

Items: Festive Eve Translating the HIS Vision & Mission Statements; Parent/Teacher/Student Volleyball; Koto Workshop for Parents; Principal's Report Dear HIS Community We are involved in a year-long self-study at the moment in preparation for a re-accreditation visit by the Council of International Schools (CIS) and also the International Baccalaureate (IB) in Autumn of 2020. We were very happy that over 80% of our school community responded that they understood the HIS vision and mission, however, we were hoping to get that to 100% and as language can be a barrier, one project we wanted to look at was the translation of our Mission and Vision into all the languages spoken in our school community. Nobel Peace laureate Jody Williams gave this talk just weeks after visiting Hiroshima in 2010, exploring…