On April 9th, the entrance ceremony was held at school, welcoming our new students of various grades.
To all new students, we hope that your time at CIS will be full of opportunities to learn new things and create fantastic memories!
To all of the new parents and guardians, we're happy to have you! We look forward to working with you to make the student's experience at school better than ever before.
Skipping ahead to April 15th, we had our first monthly PTSA board member's meeting. There, we were able to meet some new faces, which we were very excited about. We look forward to seeing more volunteers and staff join us in our monthly meetings, as well as in the events that are to come throughout the year.
Finally, we would like to note that all parents and guardians are always welcome to become a volunteer or staff of PTSA. If you are interested, please feel free to contact us!
On May 8th, Dr. Iguchi, the director of Iguchi Dental Clinic(いぐち歯科クリニック https://www.iguchi2525.com/), and Dr. Nakahama, an orthodontist, gave a lecture to the students about dental health. The students learned about four topics, which were:
①Teeth during its growth period and how to take care of it.
②What to do when you damage your mouth or chip your teeth.
③Good teeth alignment.
④The importance of having an education about dental health from a young age.
With the annual school-wide health check scheduled on May 12th, we believe this lecture helped students to learn and gain insights into why maintaining dental health is significant.
Due to the lecture being delayed by a few months from the original date in the previous school year, we had to hold this event on the day without prior notice. For this reason, the parents and guardians were not able to attend the lecture. However, the dentists included information directed toward the parents and the guardians. As a result, we have recorded and will share the second and third parts of the lecture. The link to the videos will be listed below, so if you are interested, please take a look.
On June 7th, we held a uniform bazaar, as well as a parents / guardians get-together during the first parents day of the year. Thankfully, we had a lots of visitors. Thank you so much for those who visited!
During the bazaar, we generated 61,510 yen in total. All of this money will be donated to the school, which will be used to improve the students' experience at school.
バザーで得た61,510円の収益金は、全て学校へ寄付し生徒のために使われます。
We will keep you up to date with all of the activities here on PTSA website, so please check the website now and then, if interested.
We prepared to swap in the new emergency food stock in place of last year's stock on June 7th.
昨年度購入分の災害時非常食を今年度購入分と入れ替えをする準備作業を6/7(水)に行いました。
As you may know, it is important to renew the food stocks every year in order to avoid them from being expired. For this reason, PTSA purchases a new set of food stocks each year, keeping it ready to be used all year round. The food stocks from the last year we will be swapping it out in favour of the new stock will later be distributed to the students to eat, so please try it out with your children.
【Emergency foods distributed in the past】 【過去に配布した災害時非常食】
The next step to renewing the emergency stock is to order the food stock, which PTSA will be doing soon. If you have any ideas on new kinds of emergency food stocks, please feel free to contact us. ※Please be aware that we may not use your ideas of issues regarding allergies is expected from the suggested product.
The school had an open day on Saturday June 24th. We had a lot of visitors who came around to observe the class of their interest.
6/24土曜日、学校公開が行われました。とても多くの方が来校し、熱心に見学をしていました。
During the day, some of the PTSA members who are also the parents of students from elementary and secondary school got involved in the event, answering the questions from visitors.
Meanwhile, several students from each grade guided the visitors around, answering questions too from the student's perspective.
In addition, alumni students were also invited to school to help out with the questionnaires, which they answered from their past experiences at Columbia and their current life.
On Thursday July 6th, the school celebrated Japan＋Canada Day＝“Japanada Day” under a terrific weather condition. As usual, the preschool and elementary students, and the junior and senior students enjoyed various activities including water balloon fights on the field. This year, unlike the previous years, the parents and guardians were also invited to join the students in the activities. We hope you had a great time with the students at school!
For this event, the PTSA board members mainly contributed in planning and preparing for this event, as well as helping the teachers run the event on the day.
PTSA Activity Report:
Donation of Sport Equipment to Elementary School
The PTSA has donated new sport equipment to elementary school.
The school had lacked amounts of certain sport equipment including basketballs and soccer balls. In addition, some equipment were in bad quality which was also a problem. The PTSA had a meeting discussing this and decided on purchasing equipment for the school.
The equipment was donated and presented to the elementary students on September 4th, the first day of fall term. The equipment has been used in PE classes and various club activities.
We would like to thank you for your cooperation and understanding.
Event 2023-2024 
