Message sent to parents regarding Back to School Night

Welcome to Elementary School Back to School Night Dear Elementary School parents, I hope that the start of the school year has been smooth for you and your child(ren) so far. We are all excited to see everybody back and welcoming the new families in the school. Please note that we have updated our ES Handbook for school year 18-19. You can find plenty of useful and essential information by following this link to the handbook. We are excited to invite you all for the Back-to-School Night this Wednesday (5 September) at 6:00 pm. We will start in the main theater, from where you will be guided to your child's grade level and classroom meetings. You will also meet your child's Japanese, PE, Visual Art and Music teachers. The evening will finish by 8:10. The Back-to-School Night will be offering you important information about the daily life at school, and you will meet most of the teachers who will be supporting your child(ren)'s learning throughout the school year. One challenge with the Back-to-School Night is to create a schedule that would accommodate families with more than one child. With two children, it works if both parents can attend and they split and follow two different schedules. However, in the case of only one parent attending for multiple children, or having more than two children in the Elementary School, it is difficult to be in many spaces at the same time. Please do prior planning for the evening to secure at least a brief visit to the classroom of each of your children. Also, it is important to let your children know how you are going to spend the evening so that they know what to expect. Please, find the schedule for the back to school night here. Finally, please do not hesitate to make a further appointment with your teacher if you would like to know more about learning in the class or if you missed the information due to visiting other teachers' sessions. The Back-to-School Night information will also be published on the class websites after the event. We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday night! Sincerely, Heikki Soini Elementary School Principal ©2016 Canadian Academy 4-1 Koyo-cho Naka, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-0032, Japan  International Phone: 81-78-857-0100 Fax: 81-78-857-3250 Domestic Phone: (078) 857-0100 Fax: (078) 857-3250 Unsubscribe Link Archive Link

Listening Conference Rotation Schedule for 31 August, 7 September

Schedule for Students (Grades 1-5): There will be no scheduled Art, Music, PE and Japanese on
August 24 and 31 (Pre-K and KA students will have Art, Music, and PE as scheduled. KB will not have
Art, Music, PE classes as they are usually scheduled for the afternoon). Grades 1-5 students will have
lunch from 12:00-12:50 on those days. Homeroom teachers will pick up their students from lunch at
12:50.

Teachers Responsible: Teachers below are asked to come up with a 45-minute activity that can
be successful with a whole grade level at a time.

Art: Toyoko and Kim in the MPR

Music: Satsuki and Rose in ELAC H&G

PE: Kaight, Trevor and Derrick, in the gym

Library/Tech: Celia and Kae in the library

Japanese: Emi and Kaho, Shunsuke in the Japanese classrooms 2nd floor

Board Games:  Kasumi and Saiko and Ava in ELAC D (STEAM LAB)

Transitions: Specialist teachers are asked to pick up the students from their classrooms at 12:55 to
begin. Between sessions, one teacher will walk the class to the next session (and then return to their
original room) while the other teacher stays to receive the new group. New: Homeroom teachers please
make sure you are in your classrooms when students are being dropped off for dismissal by the
specialists. Specialists will dismiss the students but they may need to ask the homeroom teacher a
quick question about the student or logistics, etc...

Library/Tech: All classes should report to the library first.

Rotation Schedule:

Aug 31st	Time	Grade 1	Grade 2	Grade 3	Grade 4	Grade 5
	1:00- 1:45	Art (MPR)	Board Games (ELAC D)	Japanese (Jpn classes)	Library/Tech (Library)	PE (Gym)
	1:50- 2:35	Music (ELAC H&G)	Art (MPR)	Board Games (ELAC D)	Japanese (Jpn classes)	Library/Tech (Library)
	2:40- 3:25	PE (Gym)	Music (ELAC H&G)	Art (MPR)	Board Games (ELAC D)	Japanese (Jpn classes)
Sept 7th	Time	Grade 1	Grade 2	Grade 3	Grade 4	Grade 5
	1:00- 1:45	Library/Tech (Library)	PE (Gym)	Music (ELAC H&G)	Art (MPR)	Board Games (ELAC D)
	1:50- 2:35	Japanese (Jpn classes)	Library/Tech (Library)	PE (Gym)	Music (ELAC H&G)	Art (MPR)
	2:40- 3:25	Board Games (ELAC D)	Japanese (Jpn classes)	Library/Tech (Library)	PE (Gym)	Music (ELAC H&G)

Weekly Update, Monday 27 August, 2018

Dear colleagues,

Let’s have another start of the school year. We trust that the typhoon day gave everybody some time to recover
from the otherwise busy week and we can turn the typhoon into a positive element of the year.
We will follow the original schedule for the listening conferences parents had booked for this Friday and ask the parents who missed the past Friday's meeting to reschedule a new meeting for Friday the 7th.

This week will still be about starting the school year. Making sure that everyone remembers and understands the
expectations for learning and being together in class, hallways, and outside, as well as getting used to the idea of
class meetings for building a community of learners.

We are still waiting for upper elementary math and literacy leaders to step forward. Be inspired, and throw your
hat in.

Please, let Heikki know if you would like to make announcements, or if you would like him to
remind the whole ES about something in the assembly this week. It looks like a shorter assembly than usual as
there are no performances as of now.

Have a fun week!

Kim, Trevor, and Heikki

Supervision:                                          Links to: Supervision Schedule 18-19    Supervision Protocol

Time	12:15-12:40	12:25-12:55	12:25-12:55	12:15-12:40	12:25-12:55
Duty	Cafeteria Tables	Playground / Gym	Playground / Atrium	Cafeteria line	Indoor recess ELAC Gym
Aug 27	Yoshiko	Heikki	Trevor	Kim	Maiko, Kaight

This week's schedule:                     ES Master Schedule

Day	Morning	Afternoon - After School
Mon 27 Day 2		14:30 ES Leadership Team Meeting
Tues 28 Day 3
Wed 29 Day 1		14:40 Professional Learning at CA (Renee) 15:40 BTSN preparation time
Thu 30 Day 2	8:40-10:00 PTA New Parent Welcome in BBT 10:00 ES Assembly, Main Theater
Fri 31 Day 3	9:00 School Leadership Team Meeting	Gr 1- 5 13:00-16:00 Listening Conferences

Professional Learning:  

Saturday, September 15th and Sunday, Sept. 16th, 2018, 9:00-17:00

Positive Discipline in the Classroom at Seisen International School, Tokyo

Fri-Sun Nov. 2-4

Mathematics Specialist International Schools with Erma Anderson at Soeul Foreign School

How to apply for PD

Future Dates:

After School Club 1 starts

3 September

Back to School Night

ES 5 September (Wednesday)

SS 6 September

MAPS Testing

MS 3 - 7 September

ES 10 - 14 September

ES Assembly II

20 September (Thursday, 11:00 am, Main Theater)

Bridges Training (Pia Hansen)

24 - 26 September

ES Assembly III

11 October (Thursday, at 11:00 am, Main Theater)

ES Parent-Teacher Conferences

18-19 October