Thank you to all parents for your submission of the return slip. Although we still need more parent volunteers for some booths we want to proceed with preparation of the Spring Carnival. While we continue to accept reply slips we will be speaking directly with parents for support of the booths.
There has been a slight change in the food booth. Australian and Indian booths have been canceled due to lack of helpers, instead Sri Lanka booth is launched. We finalized the food booths as China & Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Philippines, Sri Lanka and USA; a total of 7 booths. Moreover, helpers for Entertainment are determined as unnecessary. Family Community Officers will make contact with parents who have volunteered to help Entertainment. Now, for parents who have not yet submitted the reply slip, they will be asked to help the following booths as indicated below. Parents who have submitted the reply slip will be helping the booth of their choice.
Meeting dates are as follows. For the next meeting on Thursday March 4th we would like to have participation of parents from Korean, Philippines booths, and White Elephant.
February 24 to 27 the grade 6 classes went on amazing 4-day ski adventure in Yuzawa. Click here to view our full album of photographs, customize a slideshow, download photographs or order prints.
Friday evening March 19th is the day to set aside for the International Music Festival 2010! This year, the Music Department is proud to present “Broadway Revue”. Families may have already received some information or a request for assistance with costumes and small props from the Music Department or your child’s Homeroom Teacher. Please feel free to call the Music Department or your child’s Homeroom Teacher on 03-3335-6620 or 03-3332-6963 during school hours if you have any further questions regarding the costumes. You do not have to worry about it if you have not received any request.
The program will begin at 6pm and will run for approximately 2 hours.
Students are asked to be at school at 4pm the afternoon of the International Music Festival for a final preparations.
Students should eat an early dinner at home before coming to school.
A small snack is permitted to be brought to school. Doors will be opened for the parents and guests 15 minutes before the program begins.
There will be NO school lessons for participating classes on that day.
There will also be no bus service for participants on that day.
Be keep in mind that there is no parking available at A-JIS. Please use the parking lots in the school’s vicinity or come by public transportation.
As usual, the students, their music teachers and many other members of the faculty and staff have been working together hard to produce an entertaining show, which promises to be a great success. We look forward to seeing you on that day! Please do not hesitate to call the Vice-Principal Paul Wright on 03-3332-6963 if you have any questions regarding this event.
The 2010-2011 school calendar is complete and was approved by the school board in last week's meeting. The process of putting together this calendar was one of collaboration, involving representatives from all parts of the school community, including parents, faculty, staff and administration. All aspects were carefully considered and decisions were made thoughtfully. Click here to view the full calendar. The school would like to thank the following people for donating time to attend meetings and for their valuable contributions:
Parents
Mr. David Perry, Father of MI-1 student
Mrs. Mika Miyata, Mother of Gr.6 student
Mr. Mike Madigan, Father of Gr. 8 and Gr.4 students
Teachers
Mrs. Netta Carver, Grade 9 Homeroom Teacher
Mrs. Shoko Endo, Japanese Teacher
Ms. Wendy Weisbart, Grade 1 Teacher
Staff
Mrs. Kiki Yamaguchi, Admissions Officer and Mother of Gr. 1 and Gr.2 students
Ms. Harumi Nakatake, Executive Secretary
Administration
Ms. Barbara Beaufait, Head of School
Ms. Kristine Bordner, Middle School Vice Principal
Mr. Paul Wright, Suginami Kindergarten & Elementary Vice Principal
Ms. Elizabeth de Souza, Meguro Kindergarten Principal
We have received approximately 40 reply slips from parents offering assistance for the Spring Carnival. In order to provide parents with information on how you can support booths at the carnival and get started with preparations, we will be holding a Spring Carnival meeting every Tuesday and Thursday in March from 9am to 11:30am in the Family Community Room, House Shara 204 on the Suginami Campus. Family Community officers will meet you at the school entrance at 8:45am.
The Family Community needs parents to support the Spring Carnival in different ways. Even if you are not available to attend the Spring Carnival meetings, you can still help on the day before the Spring Carnival, the day of the Spring Carnival or on school days during April. Please read full details on booths and volunteering in English and Japanese.
Earlier this year, Suginami Ward held its annual "Posters for Peace" contest, soliciting entries from Suginami Ward elementary/middle school students. We were advised that of the 515 entries from 28 schools, 2 entries by A-JIS students won prizes.
Bronze A.Yamagishi (8F)
Bronze J.Komuro (7V)
The prize winning entries will be on display from March 8, 2010 until March 18, 2010 at Suginami Ward Office. There will be an award ceremony that will be held on March 18th at 4:00pm for 1 or 11/2 hours to recognize those students who won prizes. A bus from/to A-JIS will be going to the Suginami Ward Office for the award ceremony on March 18th departing at 3:10pm and parents are welcome to join us on the bus. If you would like to utilize A-JIS bus services to attend the ceremony at Suginami Ward Office, please complete and return the reply slip attached in English or Japanese by March 2, 2010.
The Family Community would like to announce that we are ready to collect items to be donated for the White Elephant Sale. We apologize for the delay in the announcement due to unexpected circumstances this year. The White Elephant, a sale of new and used items donated by families, is one of the biggest events held during the Spring Carnival and the entire proceeds will be put back into the school for our students to enhance their educational environment.
Every year we’ve had many items donated and we’d like to extend our sincere appreciation for your cooperation. However, in the past few years the White Elephant volunteer parents had difficulties handling items of extremely poor quality. We kindly appreciate your keen judgement in donating clean and usable items. Please acknowledge that any unclean or damaged items will be thrown away upon decision of the White Elephant volunteer parents.
If you have any unwanted items, please deliver them by either of the following ways indicated below. We appreciate your cooperation.
Types of Items
Adult and child clothes, baby clothes and goods, shoes, bags, accessories, household goods, tableware, books for children, toys, electronic appliances, CDs, DVDs, stationary, sporting items, vacation goods, travel goods, gifts, ornaments, food and many more.
Sorry but we DO NOT ACCEPT books, DVDs or videos other than those intended for children. Thank you for your understanding.
Quality
New items
Unused old items
Used but clean and usable items
We appreciate if the original price tag or a note indicating the original price and/or number of time used is attached to new and unused old items. Please Take Note of the Following
Used clothes must be in a reasonably clean condition either washed at home or dry-cleaned
All items should not have any damage
An indication on any missing parts or pieces for usable items should be attached
Food should be within the expiration date
All electronic items should be pre-checked and indicated that they work
Where and how to send donations
Personal Delivery: Suginami Campus 1st floor underneath the stairway (Please put items in a paper bag or a box and indicate as “White Elephant”
School Bus: Please also put items in a paper bag or a box, indicate as “White Elephant” and ask bus attendant to bring them to school.
Delivery Service: Please send to Suginami Campus at the following address:
2-10-7 Miyamae, Suginami-ku, 168-0081
Aoba-Japan International School (Please note as “White Elephant Donation”)
Deadlines
Donation items can be collected during school days from 8:00AM to 5:00PM until Friday April 16, 2010.
We are already half way through the school year but the Family Community has just started preparations for the 2010 SPRING CARNIVAL and we are desperately in need of your help. In the past, parents have been very helpful finding sponsors to donate items for the carnival mainly for Raffle prizes. Some of the past donations have included cars, motorcycles, ipods, wine, premium coffee, electronics, dinner vouchers, international and domestic air tickets, jewelry, computers, bicycles, sports gear, hotel vouchers, PlayStation, Wii, clothing.
The Family Community is asking you to solicit your employers to donate any possible gifts. Also, any donation from family members will be greatly appreciated. The main reason why we collect these donations are to sell or raffle them off at the carnival. 100% of the proceeds will be put back into the school to provide our children/students to enhance their educational environment. During the past years, smart boards, kindergarten playground equipment, and computers for the computer lab were purchased from the earnings.
We look forward to your cooperation for the success of the event.
This year the Family Community would like to take a different approach for your support of the Spring Carnival. There will be no class allocation. All parents/guardians are free to choose a booth of your interest. However, if we find any booth with either lack, excess or no volunteers, the Family Community Officers will be stepping in to help maintain the proportion of volunteers for the success of every single booth. These are the booths for the Spring Carnival 2010 which we need your support:
White Elephant
Sale of unwanted items donated by families
Sorting and pricing of the donated items prior to the Spring Carnival.
Help at selling space or as cashier on the day of the Spring Carnival.
Entertainment
Support of inside stage coordinated by the Music Department mainly in charge of lights, curtain and performer guidance.
Wrapping of Raffle prizes prior to the Spring Carnival.
Food
Sale of food from different countries.
Decide on menu and servings, and how to procure materials.
Please see below for further explanation on the Food Booths.
The Family Community Officers came up with following countries based on the past data and ideas raised from the Officers.
Australia, China/Taiwan, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Philippines, USA
If you are interested in launching a booth that’s not listed below please let the Officer know for consideration. We would like to help as much as we can.
Please understand that we need support of every parent/guardian for the success of the Spring Carnival. We appreciate your support either on the day of the Spring Carnival or prior to the Spring Carnival for preparation. Especially we appreciate support of FATHERS! You are such an integral part of the school’s largest event. We are looking forward to an active involvement of fathers at the Spring Carnival. Please consider sharing your time at the food booths which we need your support the most.
If you have any question or comment on the Spring Carnival please feel free to contact the Family Community President at family.community@aobajapan.jp or come to the COFFEE MORNING.
We are happy to announce the great success of the Haiti Book Sale
and Snack Sale. The proceeds totaled to ¥121,960 (¥52,800 for books and
¥69,160 for snack) contributing the Haiti Relief Campaign to reach over
100 million yen together with the admission fees for the Haiti Talent
Show. We would like to take this opportunity to extend our warm
appreciation to the parents of the Suginami campus who came to help
sell books and snack, and to the parents of the Meguro Campus for
supporting the snack sale with plenty of home-baked goods. We
would also like to announce that the Halloween Bake Sale earnings
totaled to ¥152,971 and the Family Community Officers decided to send
the proceeds also to Haiti to help the victims of the disaster.
Another
announcement from the Family Community - To make the organization more
comfortable for the parents to join and to enable parents to share
ideas and thoughts casually the Family Community would like to hold a
COFFEE MORNING as follows:
1F Conference Room, Suginami Campus, 9:00 – 11:30
Tuesday February 16
Tuesday March 2
Tuesday March 16
Please
feel free to participate the coffee morning session. The topics for
Tuesday Feb.16 session will be introduction of the new Officers,
answering any questions you have on the Family Community and sharing
ideas on the Spring Carnival. Please take this opportunity to
share your thoughts with us and partake in building the organization.
We are looking forward to seeing you all.
先月29日に行われましたHaiti Book Sale and Snack
Saleは大成功に終わったことをご報告致します。収益は合計で121,960円（本が52,800円、スナックが69,160円）に達し、ハイチタレン
トショーの入場料も含め、ハイチ救済キャンペーン目標の100万円を超えることができました。この機会に、本やスナック販売のお手伝いをしていただいた保
護者の皆様、またたくさんの手作り菓子を寄付して下さった目黒キャンパスの保護者の皆様に心から感謝申し上げます。ご協力ありがとうございました。 また、10月に行われましたハロウィーン・ベークセールの収益は152,971円に達したことも併せてご報告致します。なお、ファミリーコミュニティー役員の判断でこの収益もハイチ被災者に寄付することを決定いたしました。
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