Tsukuba International School Graduation Speech Shaney Crawford, Principal June 19, 2014 Mr. Kano, our former principal, liked to give speeches. Actually, he liked to give quite long speeches. When he was giving a speech, I would sit in the back and try to tell him to hurry up and finish! Last night, while I working…
Tsukuba International School Speech for Transfer Ceremony Shaney Crawford, Principal March 17, 2014 I would like to start off by saying congratulations to the students who passed the entrance exams for their next schools. You all worked extremely hard and you should be very proud of the results of your efforts. It is always a…
Today, we are commemorating the graduation of our kindergarten students into Grade 1, the passage of our Grade 5 students from the Primary Years Programme to the Middle Years Programme, and the first official graduation of our Grade 10 students. In Canada, we call this day “commencement”, which means “beginning”. It seems like a strange…
It has come time to send some of our MYP students off to their new high schools. When I joined the school in 2008, we only had grades 1 to 5. Since then, we have continued to add one grade per year, in addition to adding three years of preschool. This is our first year…
We celebrated our annual Fall Festival on Wednesday, October 24, 2012. We had a costume parade first thing in the morning, followed by a student-run carnival until lunch time. We then had an outdoor picnic on the front lawn, and house league games in the afternoon. (Our school is divided into four houses that compete…
