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  • Grade 7 Art Class

    Grade 7 Art Class

    With help of mind maps and quick sketches, students are learning about the conceptual process that artists have before painting or drawing  

  • MYP Language Acquisition Class

    MYP Language Acquisition Class

    Today students warm-up at the beginning of Phase 2&3 Language Acquisition class with flashcards from Quizlet.com. The IB’s hours restriction, 50-70 hours for the school year, allows teachers and s…

  • Interview with Nanjo City Mayor and Chairman of the City Council

    Interview with Nanjo City Mayor and Chairman of the City Council

      The Grade 5 students are inquiring for their Exhibition which will be held in February. Today, two teams, inquiring about the “Covid-19” and “Renewable energy,” visited Nanjo…

  • OIS Interdisciplinary Activity – History of Kumiodori (組踊) Study

    OIS Interdisciplinary Activity – History of Kumiodori (組踊) Study

    On Friday December 11, 2020 all MYP and HS students in OIS attended a lecture on the history of Kumiodori (組踊), a traditional Okinawan dance, given by Ms. Chie Fukushima, a well-known professional Kum…

  • Sports Day!

    OIS Middle school and High school had the Sports Day which had been postponed due to Covid-19. We enjoyed playing Basketball, Volleyball, Dodgeball, and Baton Relay.  

  • Community Project – Hair Donation

    Community Project – Hair Donation

    Hello, OIS family members. We are from MYP 2 students, Hikaru Takeda and Tokiha Kokuba. Thank you for answering our community projects’ questionnaire the other day!  It was beneficial for us to unders…

  • Thank you for Donation!

    Thank you for Donation!

    Pre-school and Kindergarten library received 100,000 yen as a donation from a family. Thanks to the donation, we bought 31 English books and 28 Japanese books.  Those new books will enable the Pre-K s…

  • MYP Culture Festival

    MYP Culture Festival

    Such a very fun Cultural Festival Day yesterday! Everyone in MYP and DP must be tired from having put so much work into it but if it is any reward, it looks like the PYP students had a field day and l…