Recent graduates on their way to see the Phantom of the Opera in Tokyo, with their teachers and the Principal/Director of Studies (far left), who was also one of their science and maths during teachers the second term of the school year. NEW INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
In June the New International School of Japan (NewIS) graduated ten students from the upper school’s grade 9 — their highest number of graduates ever. At the graduation ceremony, each student gave graduate speeches to their parents, teachers, guests, and the entire student body, as is the tradition at NewIS, most of them in both English and Japanese.
This class did much to inspire the creation of a senior school at NewIS, which will begin in September 2012 from grade 10, and expanding to grade 12 within two years. The school will be the only dual language high school in English and Japanese, meaning that all subjects will be studied in both languages, as has been the case from pre-kindergarten through grade 9 up to now.
