We had the 57th Annual English Recitation Contest on August 29th.
12 speakers, one chosen from each class, competed for 1st to 3rd prize.

As we always begin this term with this contest, we really felt the beginnig of the new term.

The Chorus Club performed for the students while the judges decided the winners.

The Chorus Club is going to have a contest next week.

We hope they will be able to do their best in the contest.

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During the summer vacation, we enjoyed many things, for example, club activities, volunteer works, going on a trip, going swimming in a pool or the sea, and so on.

Not only we did enjoy ourselves but also we studied hard, so the summer vacation was so enjoyable and meaningful for us that we felt sad that it was over.

However, the second term began on August 28th.
We gathered for the opening ceremony, and cleaned all over the school.

We are happy to see friends and teachers again.
We enjoy talking with them so much.

We are looking forward to the events in the second term.
For example, the sports festival, introduction of our school to elementary school students, Christmas.
The 10th grade students will travel Okinawa.
We wish to make many happy memories.

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It’s under construction of our new hall now.
After the Jichin-sai, trees and the hill at the back of our school are cut every day to build it.

There were many kind of animals like wild boars, raccoon dogs or weasels.
But they don’t appear recently.
We are a little miss them.

And we also cannot go up the slope called “Daikonzaka” and use the playground or tennis courts.

The tennis club’s students practice in the rental court.

Though the construction needs long time, we are looking forward to the completion of the new hall.

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We introduced the young plants at this blog.
The plants are growing up.

We students are in the summer vacation, so we water by turns.
And during closing of school, we had the watering Sister Nakamura.
But the hot is preventing them from growing up.

We will nurse them carefully to make them good.

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The 23rd World Scout Jamboree was held in Japan from 28 July to 8 August.
The boys and girls who are 14~17 years old came to Japan from 162 countries.
They camped together in Yamaguchi and studied afraid of war and importance of peace in Hiroshima.

Our school students volunteered to teach how to make Orizuru, guide persons around the museum or introduce calligraphy.

We had worried about if we could teach well, but we were relieved because the foreign students looked like be interested in all things and understand us.

They were so friendly and kindly.

We think we had very good opportunity to share our ideas.
And we were so happy to be able to make many friends all over the world.
Then we decided to study English or foreign language to have more communication with the students.
We hope to be friends with more people abroad.
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It’s hot these days.
Speaking of summer, there is summer traditional costume in Japan.
It’s YUKATA.

It looks like Kimono.
When you wear Yukata, you can feel cool because it’s made of thin cloth which is well ventilated.
Nowadays in Japan, we wear it at summer festivals or displays of fireworks.

Look at these statues.

They are wearing YUKATA.
These were made by the Home Economic Club students.
They took their measurements so they fit them.
It’ so cute!!!

We are happy to see the costumes made by the students in each season. We are really looking forward to the next costumes!!

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A “Jichin-sai” (Japanese ground-breaking purification ceremony) was held in the playground of our school.
This ceremony is one of Japan’s traditional customs, held before we build a new building to calm the god of land.
This ceremony is usually administered by a Shinto priest, but this time, it was administered by a Father in the Catholic Church.

We prayed that there will be no accidents during the construction, and sang songs for the ceremony.

Finally, the Catholic Father scattered water and salt over the playground to purify the land.

We are all looking forward to our new school building.

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We’re participating in the “Green Baton Movement”, which is a project of support for the disaster area of the Tohoku earthquake.

The term-end examination was over.

The summer vacation is coming soon.

Each grade students reflected on themselves in the first term, and then decided what to do from the second term.

On the last day of the first term we cleaned all the part of our school.

As it was hot day, we got slightly sweaty.

But we were so happy because we made our school clean.

After the cleaning, the closing ceremony was hold.

We sang our school song and listened to our principal.

The summer vacation came at last!!

During the vacation, we have many things that we want to do.

For example, club activities, to swim in the pool and to see the fireworks.

The junior high school students will have school trips in the vacation.

We wish their pleasant trips.

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We’re participating in the “Green Baton Movement”, which is a project of support for the disaster area of the Tohoku earthquake.

We will raise eight young plants until next spring and send them to the disaster area.

The other day, some students transplanted these trees into larger size pots.

We hope they grow full of vigor!

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We had our final examinations last Friday.
We feel relieved because the examinations are finished.
It is almost the summer vacation, so we want to have many experiences in addition to studying.
Members of the Stringed Ensemble Club in our school will take part in a concert to pray for peace.
They will play with Umi Gaarret who plays an active part in music in America, the students from other schools and professional musicians of Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra.
Umi and the students will act as a bridge between Japan and America and they will play music with the intention of expressing our ideas of peace.
Members of the Stringed Ensemble Club have been instructed by a professional musician and have been practicing since May.
They will play “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik”.
The concert will be held in Phoenix Hall in Hiroshima City from 18:30 on July 15th.
We support them.
We want to think about making peace.

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