Category: English

School Festival

Yamamura Kokusai School Festival 2022

The School Festival is BACK! Yamamura Kokusai High School relaunched the school festival this year! Guests, parents, and junior high school students were invited over two days to taste the vivid flavors of Yamamura Kokusai. With no food on sale, students outdid themselves to entertain the visitors. Culture events, such as tea ceremony, flower arranging Read More

School Festival

Yamamura Kokusai High School held its school festival (bunkasai or culture festival)! The students’ power and teachers’ support made the festival possible and a great success this year. Calligraphy club, wind ensemble, yosakoi troup, pop band, baton twirling team and dance teams performed live in the gym, relayed to classroom screens for safe viewing. Pre Read More

Speech and Recitation Contest

The speech and recitation contest came under attack amongst safety concerns this year. The Japanese Debate was called off, but with a record number of students interested, the speech and recitation contests went ahead. This year 13 students applied for the speech contest and 15 for the recitation. Rehersals took place in empty classrooms or Read More

Visitors from France and Italy

Yamamura Kokusai is very pleased to welcome two international study students into our school. The students after postponement and a lengthy period of isolation after arriving in Japan have finally been able to join our students in classes. Their determination to travel despite prevailing conditions and maybe even the tedious quarantine conditions have ensured they Read More

British Hills

This Christmas, Yamamura Kokusai students passed three wonderful days in British Hills. Read More

Welcome Sweetwater High

Thank you so so much to the wonderful students and staff of Sweetwater High School in California. We were so lucky to have you all visit us this September. We hope you come again soon. Thirteen kind, enthusiastic students came to our school. They did homestays with our students, and as well as attending regular Read More

California, USA, immersion experience

Adventurous students spent almost two weeks in California, nine nights at Homestays, five days at Hilltop High School, two weekends, including a visit to Disneyland. It was a wonderful time. Special thanks to all the wonderful students and staff at Hilltop High School, who really made the trip awesome and unforgettable. July 26-28 arrive in Read More

Thank you Aya

Thank you to Aya from Vancouver in Canada who came to the school to do a month’s work experience. Her kindness and friendliness was very much appreciated. Read More

Farewell Kiano

Kiano joined our second year too class for most subjects, creating great relationships, which fostered international understanding and aided ourv students to improve their English language skills. In more linguistically challenging lessons, he improved his Japanese skills practicing hard at his desk, or joined other classes, such as calligraphy and gym to learn more actively, Read More

British Hills Yamamura Kokusai English Study Trip

Yamamura Kokusai sent 22 students to British Hills this year on a fully immersive English program. Christmas at British Hills! From before departure, students had to prepare themselves in English, including a very crash course on British history. Culture lessons included cooking, snooker and calligraphy. Read More

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