With the holiday season upon us, the Saint Maur Parent Support Group (PSG) and Charity Committee hosted Saint Maur's first Christmas Wonderland. The idea behind this festive event was to get the whole community together to spend a joyful day on campus with games for students, live music, Christmas themed food and drink, an exciting raffle and a movie night for students.
On Friday, December 3rd, the Saint Maur Montessori and Elementary School students performed a wonderful Christmas concert to a live audience of parents in our auditorium. This has been the first live Christmas concert in two years and while we still had to limit audience numbers, it was a vibrant and festive atmosphere accompanied by a bake sale organised by our Parent Support Group.
Saint Maur International School placed FIRST in the annual Kanto Plains Association of Secondary Schools (KPASS) Speech Contest!
On the 11th of November at 11 a.m., the French students attending Saint Maur International School met with the French Embassy of Tokyo at the Yokohama Foreigners Cemetery to commemorate the victims of the First World War.
From October 27th to 29, Saint Maur 8th graders went to the Nanbo Kokusai Mura Camp and had an experience of camping with their classmates. The 8th graders did lots of fun activities outdoors and enjoyed delicious food!
This week we celebrated Diwali, the Festival of Lights, in our classroom. Diwali is one of the biggest festivals celebrated in India. During this time we decorate our homes with lights, candles, and colorful rangoli designs to invite Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, prosperity, and good fortune.
This year’s Junior Varsity volleyball team consisted of 11 student players, two student team managers and two staff coaches.
The High School Cross Country team attended their final race of the season on Thursday. This was the last race for our Seniors, many of whom have been on the team since Grade 6. Although spectators could not attend due to COVID safety measures, the race was live-streamed (see below) for parents and the community to cheer our runners on.
For a number of years, Elementary School students have been able to enjoy the practice of Kendo, a Japanese martial art that focuses on swordsmanship. With its emphasis on proper manners, sportsmanship, safety awareness, as well as basic swings of the bamboo sword (shinai), Kendo has proved a wonderful way to help our younger students to grow and develop as global and moral citizens.
We are proud to announce that our high school brain bowl team this year became the CHAMPIONS out of 8 teams in the KPASS league, with a grand total of 585 points!
Over the past few years, a number of highly motivated Biology students have taken upon themselves to produce video tutorials presenting specific laboratory techniques in the aim of helping fellow students as well as the extended online community to refine their fundamental lab skills. Those videos have been overwhelmingly positively received, all of them achieving numbers of views that go well beyond the tens of thousands, and they are by far the most popular videos on our school’s Youtube channel.
Saint Maur’s relationship with Riken (理研) goes back to 2014 when Grade 11 IB Biologists were invited to visit the famous research institute on a yearly basis. This cooperation consolidated further when Dr Akiko Minoda offered to host a group of Grade 12 students for a summer lab experience in 2018.
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