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IMPORTANT: Verify your Emergency Info Please notice that an important document was sent home with each student today. There is personal and emergency contact information that needs to be confirmed. Please have this completed and returned to the school.
Halloween Planning by MSHS
Photos of Learning during Week 7
Next TELL/JCIS Workshop – Wellbeing in times of challenge
Signup for 3WC closes October 13th at 6pm
Update (COVID) from October 6th REMINDER – if any family is sick with the identified symptoms, before any students return to school (brothers and sisters) they must be clear for 48 hrs or have a doctor’s release to return to school.
Art exhibition by MS Wendy Carroll
Car Parking – Refrain from using the bank’s parking.
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As this is the last newsletter of the year, KIS would like to thank everyone for all their support and effort over the course of the year. Last night, I spoke about how people develop skills in challenging times. The adage that ‘rough seas develop skilled sailors’ is very appropriate for KIS. This has been true of our entire community. From the students who have risen to embrace a new Distance Learning world; to our parents as they have needed to go ‘back to school’ to support learning in the home; and last but not least to the resilience and adaptability of the KIS teachers who have risen to the challenge and provided quality teaching and learning experiences.
As KIS pushes toward 2020-21, we can look forward to the challenges and opportunities the next year will provide, safe in the knowledge, as a school community we cannot only ‘navigate rough seas’ but we do it well!
STAFF CHANGES
It is at this time of the year, schools go through change. Staff come and staff go. The school has been lucky to be so well served this year by the following staff and we we wish them well in their new challenges:
Taylor Boyd
Kate Boyd
Josh Robinson
Jung Sook Kim
Emiko Nishino
Debbie Sakura
At the same time as staff leaving we welcome new staff for 2020-21:
Sharyn Skrtic
Colin Gallagher
Chris Corrigan (returning from leave)
Welcome aboard!
Have a great summer, one and all. The entire staff look forward to seeing you back in 2020-21
Best, Michael Taylor
UPDATE!! Yearbook 2019-20
Our PTA in response to the current year will sponsor the yearbook! All families will receive the yearbook compliments of the PTA.
A special thank you to the PTA for this support of the school community.
Dear KIS community members, Thank you again for your ongoing support to school and students as always. We are writing to ask for your help. Despite the current difficult circumstances, the PTA has organized and supported several fun and educational activities. This would not have been possible without you. We would like to thank you for your great support, precious time, and generous donations.
We have organized:
the Halloween parade & café
the Movie night,
the café at the Winter Concert,
the uniform selling,
several community tours
the gown project to Support Horikawa hospital.
We have had discussions with the school to provide a communication platform for the KIS community in the future. In order to maintain and expand our activities, we are looking for new members of the PTA committee.
Please consider joining us!
Our monthly meetings are open to any member of the KIS community at any time and will announce the schedule at the beginning of the new academic year. You are always welcome to drop by! We need your help! We are especially looking for a secretary and treasurer but anyone who supports PTA and our activities is most welcome!!!
Even though you have not decided yet if you join the PTA or not, just feel free to contact us and ask any questions that you may have! pta@kis.ac.jp
Thank you again and hope to see you soon! the PTA
Thank you message to Mr Kinoyama
Mr. Kinoyama has been working hard to keep KIS clean for many years. Thank you for your hard work.
Here is an introduction to the official COVID-19 contact tracing app provided by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan (MHLW). This app notifies you of close contact with COVID-19 positive users to help the government and healthcare organizations contain the spread of COVID-19. The app is available in 3 languages, Japanese, English and Chinese.
It will use Bluetooth to find out whether the user had any contact with any of the infected people out there. After all, a notification platform that is co-developed by Apple and Google. And the application is available on both Android and iOS platforms. Japan named the app ‘COCOA’. Although, the app is currently named as simply COVID-19 Contact App’ in iOS. The COCOA is an acronym standing for COVID-19 Contact Confirming Application. Beyond all, the application developed by Microsoft for the government.
