Japanese election system has been changed, and the right to vote will be extended to 18-year-olds.
This change will begin with the House of Councilors election in July this year.
Some people in the twelfth grade will participate in a vote for the first time.
Ahead of it, the officer election of the student council of our senior high school was carried out on April 14.

The next photograph is of the 12th-grade bulletin board.

A news poster from the government about the right to vote is on the top of right corner.

On the left, Sessatakuma, the goal of the 12th-grade is displayed.

  Sessatakuma

“Sessatakuma” is an idiom in four Chinese characters.
Sessatakuma means working hard and bringing out the best in each other.

And the poster of the candidates for the student council officer election is also displayed.
There are some where only the name is written with a writing brush and others which have a slogan.

   Futoufukutsu

“Futoufukutsu” means that I am not discouraged even if something is difficult, and that I do not easily give up.

In addition, there was one in which they drew a three dimensional poster and portrait; this was posted on another place.

We carried out the attendance speech meeting that in which the candidates met all members and then the members voted after awards.

We will give an introduction of the new officers some other time.

Please look forward to our blog being updated.

200 years have passed since St. Julie, who established our school, passed away.
We prayed for the prosperity of the Sisters of Notre Dame on the anniversary of St. Julie’s death.

Our sister school in Liverpool, UK started an interesting campaign.
The campaign aims at keeping St. Julie’s words in our minds by taking pictures together with the character of St. Julie.
They made the character-design of St Julie and sent her on a trip all over the world.

The following is a quote from the webpage of our sister school.

Join in the fun. Here is an invitation from St. Julie’s Catholic High School in Woolton, Liverpool, UK ~ The Global Adventures of Flat Julie
2016 is a special year for us, as it marks two centuries since St. Julie died and so we’re celebrating 200 years of her amazing legacy. We decided to show how we keep St. Julie in our lives by taking Flat Julie on a tour of our school.

We immediately made a poster to introduce this action.

There are a lot of unique pictures.

One teacher took a picture on her desk in the teacher’s room.

We will introduce unique pictures, with St. Julie in them, to our sister schools that are all over the world.

Please look forward to our blog being updated.

On March 20th, I participated in “SHAPE Hiroshima,” Asia Pacific Conference of Global Shapers Community. It was held under the theme of “Peace”, aiming to shape sustainable peace.

More than 100 “Global Shapers” gathered at Hiroshima from all over the world.
I was born and raised in Hiroshima, and l’ve been studying about Peace for about 10 years.
However, we only thought about the process, ” Know→Think→Send” and we didn’t put it into action.
I can’t explain well, but I didn’t like the situation where we have a theory but can change nothing in reality.
I even wondered if there was any point thinking about it at all.

So I participated in this because by attending SHAPE and listening to the talks of many people from different environments, I’d like to look for something more concrete and doable, ongoing actions l can do.

Until now, I could only come up with sending out our messages by taking advantage of living in Hiroshima.
However, I realised that there is a way of contribution to world peace based on the appeals of the companies and groups.

I definitely share with the other students at school the ideas that I gained from the
discussions and speeches during the time I spend with the Shapers.
Furthermore, I’d like to put it into action myself.

I will do my best for what I can do now here in Hiroshima!

Please look forward to our blog being updated.

Sorry for late update of this blog.

The spring break is over, and we had the opening ceremony of the first term today.
It was rainy today, so the cherry blossoms, which are the most popular symbol of Japanese spring and the entrance ceremonies, got wet.
It’s a pity for all of us.

We took the next picture yesterday.

As it’s the first day of being in a new class, students were looking forward to get information about their new classmates and the new teachers.
The second and third grade students of both junior and senior high school gathered in the gymnasium and the ceremony began.
In the ceremony, our principal told us that people can achieve their goals only when they continue to make effort.
These words inspired me a lot.
I feel so excited and a little nervous to have lots of new experiences through this year.

This year, we have new three teachers.
They were introduced by our principal.

After the opening ceremony, we held the entrance ceremony for the first grade students of senior high school.
Here are pictures of the entrance ceremony.

Representatives from the new-students and from the students currently enrolled made speeches.

In the afternoon, the entrance ceremony for the new students of the junior high school were held.
The new students looks very nervous, which reminds me of my first day at our school.

May the new students’ school lives will be successful and full of happiness!

Please look forward to our blog being updated.

Yasuda Natsuki, who is a photo journalist, visited our school on March 14th.

She spoke about the Cambodian Civil War, the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Syrian Civil War.

I heard she went to Cambodia as a Children Without Borders member when she was 16.
After that she thought about what she should do in order to repay the favors of people who had helped her.
Then she decided to be a photo journalist, so that people all over the world would know about the casualties in Cambodia, Syria and so on.
As I looked at her photos, I knew the photos may hurt someone.
At the same time I felt their power to convey a story.

Thanks to her talk, the value of our lessons about fostering peace became clearer to us.

Please look forward to our blog being updated.

We finished taking our final examinations last week.

Taking exams every day made us very tired.
So we rested our tired bodies last weekend.

Our teachers will begin to return our tests today.

We want to review our tests carefully and brace ourselves for entering a new grade in April.

Please look forward to our blog being updated.

The Tohoku Earthquake disaster in 2011 off the Pacific coast occurred on March 11, 2011.
Today, we prayed for those who died in the earthquake and for rebuilding as early as possible.

We keep on trying to assist the people who live in the eastern Japan.
One of our movements which assist the people is the Green Baton Movement.
This movement is that we plant and bring up some young plants and send them to the disaster area.
We are bringing up 8 dodan-tsutsuji plants in our school  and are going to send them this spring.

They had  buds of new life the other day.

We hope that they will be getting bigger and bigger in the future.

Please look forward to our blog being updated.

The present activity of school government

The final examination period will start tomorrow.
The period lasts entire week, and during this term, we’re going to have more than 10 tests.

As the school year in Japan ends up in March, this is our academic conclusion of this grade.
We will try harder on our study!

We can’t renew the blog until we finish the exam period.

Please look forward to our blog being updated.

Yesterday, the high school graduation ceremony was held in a strict mood.

When our senior students entered, we the second grade students felt the bond they built for six years.

At the beginning of the ceremony, we recited the Lord’s Prayer together.

The students on behalf of the graduation students made a speech expressing their gratitude to our school, which made us deeply impressed.

After this speech, we sang a Japanese traditional song and our school song.

We wish their happiness and success for future.

Please look forward to our blog being updated.

We’ll introduce what our committee is like.
Our committee is consist of about 20 members.
We usually discuss how to improve the school’s situation we face.

Sometimes, we make action in order tell what is important to other students more effectively.
Last week, we prepared for short play with the aim of improving our manners.

We put it into action in front of high school students the other day.

We want to believe it was successful!

Please look forward to our blog being updated.