Dear TIS Class of 2021, In the year that AM joined our school, we had 9 students in total at the beginning of the school year. When HK joined our school in 2009, we had 44 students, and we were not yet officially an International Baccalaureate World School. We gained authorization for the Primary Years…
Dear class of 2020, Congratulations! What a year we have had! I saw a meme the other day that said that no one who answered the question in 2015, “Where do you see yourself in five years” got it right. The events that have transpired over the past few months have been unprecedented in so…
Dear Class of 2019, Congratulations! You are the first TIS students to complete the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme courses at our school. Our whole school community — students, parents, teachers, and board members — has come together to paddle ourselves down this river. We all experienced the worry of whether or not we would receive…
Dear TIS Community, Wow, what a week! The CIS visit is finished, and we can now get some rest and relaxation during Golden Week. I believe that the CIS Evaluation Visit was a resounding success. We chose to go through the process of accreditation in order to give us a chance to examine in detail…
Tsukuba International School Graduation Speech Shaney Crawford June 22, 2017 Thank you all for coming today to celebrate our students’ learning. We are lucky this year in that very few of our students will actually be leaving after this ceremony. With very few exceptions, our Kindergarten students will go on to Grade 1, our Grade…
