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Osaka International School of Kwansei Gakuin: Educator for Feb. 2017
Photos from the actual shows will be featured in the next Educator.
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Osaka International School of Kwansei Gakuin: Educator for Feb. 2017
The cast and crew were hard at work preparing for this years All School Production of The Little Shop of Horrors. This horror
Photos from the actual shows will be featured in the next Educator.
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elementary
Bass Clarinet Maimi Nagae SIS12 Oliver Kralovec OIS5
orchestra
Drums Silojuan Silva OIS12
Percussion Emily Yoo OIS7
Musical Director : Mr Mark Elshout
lights
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Supervisor : Ms Nakae Osako
Kimi Sakai SIS11
Mona Takahashi SIS11 Ms Kaeko Yamakawa
Mii Yamauchi SIS11 Ms Rika Kawasaki
photography
Ms Keiko Tanimura
Mio Shimada SIS12 Kaho Fujihira SIS12
Ray Shindo SIS10
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tech support
Mr Masafumi Toyoshima Nicole Yoo OIS11 Yuka Nakayama SIS10 Keigo Mikawa SIS12
Mr Steve Lewis Nanako Fukuda SIS10 Yuki Kusanagi SIS9
Yu Takahashi SIS9 Miki Kato SIS9 Yuto Baba OIS11
Subtitles
Mr Stephen Frater
Oliver Kralovec OIS5 Kia Konishi-Attwood OIS4 Hiroto Ogoshi SIS12
OIS Gunjan Rajpurohit OIS4 Moa Waahlin OIS4
Supervisor : Ms Hirono Aoyama Emily Sirkit OIS4 Maya Kobayashi OIS3
Yuuka Ogawa OIS3 Ellen Tanabe OIS3
Mio Kodama SIS11 Clara Ciari OIS3 Retaj Sulaimani OIS3
Amy Skerly OIS10 Grace Gong OIS3 Ocean Kralovec OIS3
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Ms Kaeko Yamakawa Ms Ai Maeda
Programme Kano Hashida SIS12 Ms Chizuko Bobrove Ms Rika Kawasaki
Ms Soojin Lee Ms Sunhee Lee
Ms Yasuko Kobayashi Ms Sayaka Ogawa
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run down Osaka city backdrop. A traditional
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cold concrete, rusted metal, or peeling paint.
We want the most realistic, detailed, and
imaginative set to immerse the audience in the
illusion, as well as place our cast in an environment
that inspires them to perform their best. As it
turned out, we struggled to match the talent these
students possess.
THE MONSTER
The monster presented a whole other challenge.
The script called for something that could increase
in size, sing, dance, talk, and eat people whole. No
small task.
Eating - The monsters head needed to be
constructed out of aluminum in order to be strong
enough to eat the entire cast.
Dancing - Its body needed to be lightweight,
but yet strong enough to allow students to pass
through its mouth. This was achieved by building a
counterweight and steel tripod support structure
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smile in the corners of his mouth. We wanted to
add more personality than just a mouth opening
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team would use. The skin for the head and body
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for a photo with the monster.
School where the girls battled to an impressive 2nd place
Sabers Athletics Website finish.
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Sabers Athletics Facebook Page
Two Schools
Sabers Together
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SabersAthletics/
Sports updates from Activities Director,
AISA basketball, girls
Coach Sagara and Coach School
Osaka International Hirai andGakuin:
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Sabers girls
for Feb. 2017
Sabers Update
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The winter sports season II for middle school student-
athletes continues. Both the girls basketball team and
basketball team competed in the annual AISA basketball
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AISA math mania
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Sarah Wakefield
Librarian
In December 2016 the SOIS library held its annual bookmark contest. In this contest students from the entire student body are
asked to submit entries. The focus is on encouraging reading and the different genres that can be read. The winning entries are
printed for the school community and are currently available at the library. Each student & community member may select one
bookmark of their own and any remaining bookmarks will be available in the library throughout the rest of the year. This year we
had over 150 entries from 75 students. From these entries, the art department, librarians and school administrators selected the win-
ners. Each winning student is given a book voucher, a certificate, extra copies of their bookmark and a small prize. Winning entries
and exemplary entries will be displayed for the month of January. Congratulations and we look forward to next years entries.
Winners
OIS Elementary School 11. G8-1 Koyomi Takemasa 21. SIS G8-1 Koyomi Takemasa
1. KB Liu Michael Kai 12. G9-1 Marianangiu Valentini 22. SIS G9-1 Marianangiu Valentini
2. KB Farah Junaputra SIS High School OIS Principal's choice
3. G1 Catalina Nishino 13. G10-1 Ami Nishigaki 23. G5 Chae Yoon
4. G2 Mu Hui Zuo 14. G11-2 Nao Sadahisa OIS Headmaster's choice
5. G3 Yoonjae Lee 15. G12-2 Kano Hashida 24. G8 Ami Yamamoto
6. G4 Moa Waahlin Librarians' choice SIS Principal's choice
7. G5 Mia Sawamoto 16. OIS G4 Yian Hah 25. SIS G8-1 Miu Akiyama
OIS Middle School 17. SIS G8-1 Koyomi Takemasa SIS Headmaster's choice
8. G7 Kokoro Ishiuchi-Ray 18. SIS G12-2 Marino Takamiya 26. G9-1 Kei Hirakawa
9. G8 Jiyun Kim Artists' choice
SIS Middle School 19. OIS G2 Miku Hara
10. G7-1 Iroha Miyamoto 20. OIS G5 Frieda Mecklem
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Rodney Ray
SIS English
The following students have recently reported results on the
Society for Testing English Proficiencys (STEP) Test in Prac-
tical English Proficiency (Eiken). Special congratulations to
Kikka Okuda, Mio Kodama and Hinako Kawata, who passed
the highest level of the test. Good job everybody! Remember, if
you take the Eiken, be sure to report your results to Iihara-san in
the Business Office.
School Grade Class Student Name Level
SIS 09 4 Okuda, Kikka 1 (Level 1) SIS 10 2 Mitsuoka, Yusuke 2 (Level 2)
SIS 11 1 Kodama, Mio 1 (Level 1) SIS 10 2 Takashima, Karen 2 (Level 2)
SIS 11 4 Kawata, Hinako 1 (Level 1) SIS 11 1 Tomiyama, Momo 2 (Level 2)
SIS 09 3 Sumitomo, Himari 1 (Level P1) SIS 11 3 Morinaga, Kana 2 (Level 2)
SIS 11 1 Maeda, Akari 1 (Level P1) SIS 11 4 Hanafusa, Rie 2 (Level 2)
SIS 11 1 Shiba, Hanami 1 (Level P1) SIS 11 4 Inui, Hiroto 2 (Level 2)
SIS 11 2 Kanamori, Arisa 1 (Level P1) SIS 11 4 Kobayashi, Hiroya 2 (Level 2)
SIS 11 2 Shimomura, Riho 1 (Level P1) SIS 12 1 Hongawa, Gintaro 2 (Level 2)
SIS 11 3 Nakamura, Soyoka 1 (Level P1) SIS 12 2 Ichida, Koki 2 (Level 2)
SIS 11 3 Terai, Taishin 1 (Level P1) SIS 12 3 Sugimoto, Hikari 2 (Level 2)
SIS 11 3 Notsu, Takuma 1 (Level P1) SIS 12 4 Suzuki, Daizen 2 (Level 2)
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OIS Kakizome
A New Year's Celebration of Calligraphy
Miyuki Endo
DP Japanese teacher & DP Coordinator
At the beginning of the New Year we all want to send greet-
ings and wishes to loved ones, friends and acquaintances so we
write more messages to one another than at any other time of
the year. But wait a minute, do we really 'write' or do we only
tap away on the keyboards of mobile phones, tablets or laptops
or, at best, quickly scribble a few lines on a card? Let us hope
we give some thought to what we write, but do we also think
and care about our handwriting? In Japan caring about hand-
writing is taken to another level, which is shown by the signifi-
cance and popularity of calligraphy. The art of beautiful writ-
ing is an important part of Japanese cultural life from the very
beginning of the year and is celebrated on the very first busi-
ness day of the new year by an event that is called 'Kakizome', age. One reason for the appeal of 'Kakizome', which is written
the first calligraphy of the year. On January 2 people who like with the characters for write () and first (), may be that
calligraphy use brush and ink to write phrases related to the Japanese people like 'firsts', the first visit to the shrine, the first
upcoming spring and their dreams and wishes to be realized in dream etc. *2 For school children it is the first thing they do
the new year. An obvious wish is improvement of their writing after coming back from the winter holiday and they may have
skills. practiced writing their phrase during the holiday. Here at OIS
The tradition of 'Kakizome' goes back to the early nineteenth students from kindergarten through grade 12 celebrate the new
century when people gathered in front of the statues of Suga- year with 'Kakizome' during their Japanese lesson in January.
wara (845 - 903 C.E.) who was considered the Scholar Sage or The results of their efforts are shown in the school library glass
on the ground of shrines devoted to the spirit of Michizane to wall. Let us admire our students' calligraphic phrases and see
write their texts on paper. The paper was then burnt during the what their wishes are for this year of the rooster.
Sagicho fire festival. The belief is that if the wind lifts the ashes *1 http://www.ryuurui.com/blog/kakizome-its-origins-tradi-
up into the skies, the calligraphy skills of whoever performed tion-and-meaning
the ritual will improve in the new year.*1 *2 "Practice perfects new year's calligraphy" (The Japanese
'Kakizome' is still very popular in Japan, even in this digital Times)
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