International Division, Sydney Japanese International School 112 Booralie Rd, Terrey Hills NSW 2084 Austral-

Kakehashi

Photo Day Wednesday 2 May

All class photos and sibling photos will be taken next week on Wednes-day 2 May. Students must wear their winter uniform. For girls, it is ac-ceptable to wear either the old tunic or the new tunic. Hair must be tied back with school colours only, plain earrings worn and shoes polished.

Notice Board

New Y1-1 and Y7 students at the Entrance Ceremony

Celebrating with the Japanese Division

Welcome back to Term Two for the International Division and

Term One for the Japanese Division. I hope you had a wonderful

time these school holidays in Sydney or other parts of Australia

and overseas. The teachers and I are thrilled to see your safe and

happy return and we’re delighted to get the term underway.

We especially welcome our new Principal (Shinya Ikawa), Depu-

ty Principal of the Japanese Division (Hiromasa Otsuka) and

Japanese Division teachers – Takahiro Haba (6-1) ; Kohei Tomi-

yama (8) and Risa Eto (English). We also have 20 new students

who have joined the Japanese and the International Divisions.

We wish them a smooth transition to SJIS and welcome the stu-

dents and their families to SJIS.

We’ve launched the term with the You Can Do It key, Getting Along. To Get Along, we’ll encourage the children to follow class rules, solve conflicts peacefully, listen when someone is speak-ing, volunteer and work well with each other. We’ll practise be-ing socially responsible, by thinking of others and acting respect-fully, courteously, honestly, fairly and responsibly according to our school values. Please praise your child Getting Along with others and let them know how well their behaving! We will too!

Mrs Jodie Hoenig

Deputy Principal International Division

WEEKLY SCHOOL NEWS

Mon 30 April Normal Buses Start

Bus Guidance

Tue 1 May Open Day 9:50 -

Wed 2 May All Class & Staff Photos

Thu 3 May Coding Program YK-Y6

(every Thur. x 10 weeks)

Tue 8 May Observation Day

PTA AGM

Tue 15 May 49th School Foundation Day

15-17 May NAPLAN Y3 & Y5

Sat 26 May Sports Day

Mon 28 May Compensatory Day Off

Tue 29 May ICAS Science

Wed 30 May Special Performance

Calendar

Term 2, Week1 Friday, 27 April 2018 Issue No.10

Kakehashi

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Y8 TOMIYAMA

SENSEI ETO SENSEI

PRINCIPAL

IKAWA KOCHO

SENSEI

DEPUTY

PRINCIPAL

OTSUKA KYOTO

SENSEI

Y6-1 HABA SENSEI

It is great to see all our stu-

dents after the long break.

During the first week of each

term, students will discuss

what they did during their

holidays and set up goals

they would like to achieve

during the next term. This

week YK-K class revised

writing their own names,

useful words and expres-

sions, to prepare for work in

Term 2. During the long

break many kindergarten

students visited somewhere

special. Students drew pic-

tures and talked about their

exciting time away during

these holidays. Firstly, they

drew pictures of the places

they visited, what they saw,

or what they ate. After draw-

ing their pictures, students

recounted basic sentences

such as “I went ~”～いきま

した or other basic words

such as animal names or

family names, to the class.

Students who have previous

Japanese knowledge talked

about their stories and

traced hiragana sentences

with the teacher’s assistance.

Other students who have a

stronger background in Jap-

anese talked about their sto-

ries further and wrote in

their journals, which were

presented to the class. This

term, kindergarten students

will start learning Hiragana.

YKK Nihongo Hanaoka

Sensei

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YKK JAPANESE LESSONS

“It is my greatest pleasure to work with children in this beautiful country. I look forward to talking to all of you…” Mr Ikawa