Yokohama International School

News and Updates

Last Wednesday was an exciting day for our school community as many years of planning came to fruition when our students, and many parents, walked through the gates of our new home.

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New Campus Opens Jan. 12

To celebrate our transition to our new home, the High School dance team has directed and assembled this spirited video showing the creative talent of dance club members as well as the beauty and diversity of our new campus.

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Thank you Yamate-cho. And Goodbye.

The last day of classes on our Yamate-cho campus was a bittersweet occasion celebrated in Dragon fashion.

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black and white picture of a wooden school building with children playing outside, circa 1924

Our Honmoku Campus: Shaped by Our Yamate Home

The “new campus” will very soon be called simply YIS. However, although it looks very different physically, the design of our new home is actually very much guided by how the Yamate campus shaped us as a school and as a community.

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Reading Report Cards: Talking about Learning

Reading a report card about your child's progress and challenges with learning can trigger a range of emotional responses for students and for parents. Thinking about how to discuss progress in learning is time well spent.

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Reflecting on Our Successes

As we prepare to move to our new campus, Charles Jack, member of the Board of Directors, reflects on our success over the last year as a long-serving volunteer of the Board.

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Upcoming Events

Jan 31 2022

PTSA Online Coffee Morning

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

N164 - PTSA Room

Jan 31 2022

ES Activities Session Two Starts

3:15 PM

Feb 1 2022

Online Grade 12 Parent-Teacher-Student Conferences

3:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Feb 2 2022

Online Grade 12 Parent-Teacher-Student Conferences

3:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Feb 3 2022

Professional Learning Day - No School for Students

all day

Feb 4 2022

School Holiday

all day

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Meet Our Community

Students
Teachers
Parents
Alumni

Kate

Elementary School Student

I am a part of service learning and I like that because we get to help the homeless and poor. I am also involved in drama production. I haven't done it before but it will be a new experience for me and I am excited to start.

Simón

High School Student

I enjoy Art and Individuals & Societies because they help you explore ideas. In Art we turn our own ideas into a physical piece, whereas in I&S we learn about past ideas of individuals and societies.

Tomohisa

Middle School Student

I would like to meet the members of a band called Sekai No Owari. This is an international band and some members of the band are also international school students, so they make English songs and Japanese songs.

Kana

High School Student

I personally loved our Continuous Learning phases. As someone who works better independently, I was able to focus so much more.

Daniel Patterson

Kindergarten Learning Assistant

Living in Japan there are countless places to explore, and always new things to see and plenty of international opportunities to experience.

Steven Heere

Grade 1 Elementary School Teacher

I'm passionate about outdoor learning, environmental education, makers education, and science.

Donna Saito

Elementary School teacher

I have been in Japan for over 30 years and I am still intrigued with the culture, language and food. .

Naoki Okura

Japanese Language teacher

I help supervise the HS Drama/Film production team. We are working on a video of a modern take on Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing".

Ken

Parent

The climate change and sustainability action event that was held by students, faculty, administration and parents last year stands out for me.

Nuri

Parent

I volunteer at the library regularly. I get to understand what the students are like, what teachers are like, and I can find books I think my daughter will like.

Sina

Parent

For us as parents, it is a pleasure to witness how confident our daughters are that their actions will make our world a better place.

Yasuko

Parent

I created the YIS Tokyo Parents Group to connect YIS parents who live in Tokyo. We get together regularly for coffees to get to know one another and to help each other out.

Nikita Modekurti

Class of 2015

YIS has a very international environment and teaches values of not just tolerance, but acceptance. Truly a school that embraces and celebrates all cultures, faiths, genders, orientations, and abilities. It’s a little more difficult to find that out in the ‘real world’, and I would like my future children to experience similar respectful values that YIS has.

Leslie Helm

Class of 1973

I was born and raised in Japan as were both my parents as well as one of my grandfathers.

Nic Hamada

Class of 2003

As the new campus project developed, Taisei Corporation came to realize that I had been a student at YIS, so they asked me to join the project because of the close connection.

Sawa Matsueda Savage

Class of 2003

I was always worried that my interests were all over the place, but I ended up doing something that requires just that: to be interested in all kinds of fields.

Building for our learning community

Take a tour of our new campus in Honmoku, where every space is designed for learning.

Student Leadership Retreat

In line with our mission of Live, Learn, Lead, at YIS we believe leadership can be learned. What is leadership, and what are the practices that make someone a good leader?

Expeditions at YIS

Adventurous wilderness expeditions create authentic opportunities for students to develop knowledge, skills and conceptual understandings for life-long learning and appreciation of the natural world.

Learning at YIS

Learning changes our thinking and behaviors, enabling us to acquire skills, knowledge and attitudes while providing a catalyst for creativity, critical thinking and independent reasoning.