Experience the highlights of the “International Education Fair Osaka 2024 Autumn”! This video captures the essence of international education through interviews with school leaders, insights into global educational trends, and opportunities for students worldwide. A must-watch for anyone passionate about the future of education, this video showcases how educational institutions are preparing students for a globalized world. Enjoy exploring the innovative approaches to learning and the unique community atmospheres of various international schools.
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yeah so it’s a it’s a great School uh
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situated very centrally in in Singapore
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uh at the moment we’ve got uh
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1527 Learners um and they are pretty
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much chly spread between primary and
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secondary we have a very Vibrant
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Community of over 60 different
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nationalities um and um for whatever
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reason we we don’t have any one
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nationality more than
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15% so it’s a very diverse Community um
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the nationality with the most kids are
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at the moment the British with about
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14% And but in every class you have in
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either primary or in secondary you will
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have about 10 to 12 different
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nationalities in a in in a class so it’s
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a very very diverse
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population and so in our uh drive to
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launch this program um we were very
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fortunate to see a a pretty sizable
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uptick in uh in Japanese families
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seeking this type of format for their
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children to attend school and uh so
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we’re we’re about
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25% between 25 30% of our pupils
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currently in the the PCP program
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Preparatory course for primary um are
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are are Japanese Nationals and in
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speaking with uh those families the the
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moms and dads um many of them highlight
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the fact that our unique structure is a
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really big selling point for them it’s
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small classroom sizes it is a a tripod
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of teacher approach where three teachers
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uh working together create a uh really
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robust lattice work of support for their
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for each of our people’s wellbeing um we
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have a very rigorous academic program
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that honors their uh their native uh
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language so we we we really try to use a
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trans languaging approach um we use a
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lot of bilingual approaches in order for
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um our pupils M no matter where they’re
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coming from whether it’s uh uh Japan uh
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China or or Russia they get to use their
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mother tongue as they’re developing
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their uh their English language
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proficiency on their way to uh going
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into the main stream
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so in collaboration with the Korean
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government Japanese government came
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together and they built this school uh
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and since it opened it’s kind of evolved
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uh into international school and it
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welcomes people from all sorts of
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backgrounds and um our student body is
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pretty diverse in that sense um but
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because we set up originally as a Korean
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School uh we do a lot of Education with
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cre language and history and um it
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actually it allows students to pursue a
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career in Korean and other International
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uh Fields so it’s it’s quite a unique a
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unique School in Osaka and then in Japan
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in fact and is so is the primary
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language of the school Korean or
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certain classes only are taught uh in
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Kore well um the base is Japanese um so
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we do get funding from the Korean
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government and Japanese government um
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but our curriculum is set up as a
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Japanese curriculum so we do the basic
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Japanese curriculum uh as well as
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teaching Korean language and Korean
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history from elementary school until
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high
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school we we always explain to parents
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it is actually like a Harry Potter
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because once you enter school you’ll
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you’ll be assigned to a house which is
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actually it’s a vertical system so
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you’ll be living with older kids or
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younger kids together of course within
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same gender um but then the the runes
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you will be assigned based on their ages
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so younger kids they’ll be living with
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um three students in a room and the
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junior students they’ll be living with
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two students in a room and then when
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they get older going into sick form
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they’ll have a privilege to have their
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own room then of course that comes with
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responsibilities so really older
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students looking after younger kids
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younger kids you know look looking up um
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you know trying to CCH with older kids
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it is really like a like a small
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family so we are international school
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within our host school so our host
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school is Osaka gaku Senior High School
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um and I think in total we have about
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1,800 students in the whole school um
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we’re just one part of it and we
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currently have about 50ish students um
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so we’re small school within the whole
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school but extra ular activities we do
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as a entire school so we do have like
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strong K uh clubs that just won you know
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World Championships um and uh soccer
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teams that play for professional women’s
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soccer league as well and volleyball
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basketball all kinds of sports brass man
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is also strong and our students that go
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to this International School are also
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free to join those activities with the
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host
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school I will tell you we have two
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campuses our first campuses is the Early
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Learning village where we have a
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swimming pool we have the classroom who
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are always shared indoor and outdoor we
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have six playground that are covered and
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thematics which for example playround
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around music one around physics elements
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so gravity for example and at our Woodly
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campuses we have three swimming pool we
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have one world climbing wall we have
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also a golf simulator Academy really yes
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because we have a huge focus on
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businesses so we want the student even
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at a young age let say it’s time for
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that golf meeting
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exactly uh we have a 8 500 SE because we
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um also want to focus on drama it enable
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the students to be better at public
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speaking at leadership also to organize
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the play and also
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self-confidence then we have um our
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dance studio clubs uh we have a two big
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arena one multi sport field so whatever
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you want at a school I think time for as
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it SOA is a um Japanese private school
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based in Osaka Northern Osaka in
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toyonaka city and over 100 years
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history and uh we have lots of
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international programs uh that
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supplement the core program which is a
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Japanese Curriculum by the M show the
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Ministry of Education Japan so I’m one
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of the teachers there I’m a native
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English speaker from uh America uh but
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we have other teachers uh very good
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English teachers that teach English in
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English and uh we have as you mentioned
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International programs for example we
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have an optional program for students to
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um take courses in English with a high
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school in us and that is called a dual
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diploma program which is described in
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our brochure so it’s a uh so it’s a
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supplementary program yes with that if
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they take that they would of course get
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their Japanese diploma recognized by the
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Japanese government but then with this
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supplementary program they would also be
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getting a US diploma that’s right and
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that gives them more options for the
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future so they get a regular Japanese
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high school diploma plus a US high
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school diploma which enables them to
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enter of course universities in the
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United States
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elsewhere in our program we have the uh
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many students really want to go to
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Denmark because we have the yeah our
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school trip is Denmark and so do so you
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have a sister school there yeah kind of
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not YMCA but our graduates is working in
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Denmark and it’s e Iceberg who’s in
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after SCH after schol is like a schol
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school but not high school after they
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graduate secondary school they have one
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year program that they can just think
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about their Futures and uh we have a
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relations so two weeks uh in December
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our second graders go to Denmark and uh
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after they came back to Japan we have
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two weeks uh Denmark students are coming
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and oh so yeah Danish are coming so so
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there is a
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cultural change with other countries
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other countries and is is that something
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that you see parents really look forward
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to in yes not only parents the students
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very much they work and uh it’s not only
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just exchange but also uh every year we
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have the theme so the last year the life
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with AI was the theme so uh the we would
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like the students not only just
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communicate but also think about their
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future together uh what can they do for
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better future so all
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together culture at school one thing I
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should say uh We Are Family like Atmos I
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mean we have that family like ATM which
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which I really like actually like past
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uh week we had our pyp evaluation visit
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the visitors they told us wow this is
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just like a family they met families
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students everyone you know everyone
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happy the the older grades I have
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activities with younger ones so this is
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just like a family so this is your home
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they told us so we were so happy with
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that feedback you know can I ask though
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if if if you were to ask parents or
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students what would be the first thing
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that they would come to mind when they
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think about the school would it be the
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fact that it’s a I think that would be
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the thing right this is like this is our
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family this is our family they like the
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the older grades they see like their
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older you know brothers and sisters they
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since they meet at the campus it’s from
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one year up to currently by the way we
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have grade nines so each year we gain
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one grade so next academic here we’ll
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have our grade 10 11 and 12 so the upper
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grades they have lots of chances to meet
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their younger you know we have a school
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assembly every once in a while so we
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have all together so they’re all
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together together you know having these
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assembly the older ones they they manage
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the assembly actually the students let
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assemblies our schools mainly meant for
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Science and Math it’s our big push but
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we also do a lot of sdg uh sdgs in our
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school we do recycling of coffee we grow
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a lot of things in our farm using
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recycled coffee into our composting and
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we also have a 7 acre uh Forest where we
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take students and they learn about the
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Forest Area cuz we have a nature School
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for Kids 3 years old all the way through
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High School do do kids uh come to to
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your school or is it a uh or do they so
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we have about 40% of our students drive
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to our school from from home and then
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the rest come from all around because we
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have buses that go to coob taraska and S
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okay that’s great and uh how would you
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describe the school uh School culture it
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seems like you’re very surrounded by
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nature and Fields yeah we try to be a
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family school everybody cares about each
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other we want to do things to help each
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other we have a lot of students that
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have come from other schools that have
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really they they need somewhere where
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they’re actually thought of as as great
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people we really try to push our
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students to a higher level make them
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understand that the that all students
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are are special and that they all have
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greatness inside of them that can be
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really good in the end if they really
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wanted to we also don’t push College we
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push jobs where do you want to go for
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your profession does is college part of
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that then we need to get you into a good
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college we need to go there if not then
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we go right into the profession so we
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have some students that are making uh
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their own Cafe at our school making
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different Goods uh we have a student run
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area that they’re trying to make a
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farmers market and invite all the
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outside area people that that do you
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know building of
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uh like hand Goods sewing and things
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like that so that they can have a place
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to sell so we’re trying to do a lot for
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our community too from a young age we
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have experiments every week for every
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student from age six on and so we we
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don’t just teach science we have them do
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science and that’s also with our nature
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school they go out and they do science
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with that and then the mathematics comes
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with that also because they do
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measurements they learn about physics
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very young to see if like how would a
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tree fall what kind of carbon would be
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in a side of tree things like that that
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connect to our
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sdgs so I mean I think the legacy of
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rugby school is important to us in terms
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of it it rugby school really invented
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character education and also boarding
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and and it came up with the first
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boarding houses so we’ve got that Legacy
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to protect and nurture and that that
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character education and and what
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happened was that willamis caught the
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ball 2011 years ago invented the game of
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rugby but he was really Brave to do that
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and we want Brave children we want to
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really empower them to take great
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decisions to really enjoy different
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experiences here in Japan and so those
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two things really really are what what
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binds the community together at the
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moment we’ve got just under 230 peoples
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and we intend to grow to a maximum of
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around 760 so we got some growth to do
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we’re being quite selective with the
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peoples that we take on and the families
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because they need to understand our
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ethos I think in terms of our uniqueness
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one of the things that we’re doing is
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developing really unique partnership so
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next door to us is the University of
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Tokyo and also University of CHA and and
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we form Partnerships with both
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universities so University of Tokyo
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professors are coming in next week for
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instance to to look at our teaching and
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pedagogy and our P will go and visit
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their their PHD campus so that’s an
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example of a partnership last week we um
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took a group of girls to Google and they
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met the worldwide Chief exec of Google
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was fantastic and G this yeah yeah I
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know fantastic experience and that
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program was all about trying to get
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girls into te and really pushing that
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and again a real unique partnership with
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outstanding World leading organizations
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that’s what we’re
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about it sounds like you’ve built a very
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long trusted community over a long time
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and I think the fact that they’re that
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they would come back after so long it
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seems like they’ve they’ve they’ve been
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left with something that’s carried
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throughout their whole life and we’re
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really lucky they always say you know
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that you know many have been here for 10
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years but some have only been here for
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two years right so we call them alumni
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but not all of them have graduated our
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school but yet you know they keep on
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coming back for visits and they say this
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has been the profound time period of my
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time you know of my my student life and
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that’s why they keep on coming back and
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they also want to like meet their old
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teachers they want to visit their old
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classrooms uh walk down memory lane and
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so that’s always been a pleasure because
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I’m also in fact in charge of alumni
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relations so um I take care of those as
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well we are very very grounded and
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connected to our school in the UK it is
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our mother’s school we have a
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partnership of sister schools and we
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have the same educational ethos academic
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Excellence but we believe that is only
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possible because because of our
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commitment to pastoral care the
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well-being and development of individual
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children and of course the development
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of extracurricular activities goes along
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with that we want our kids to be dynamic
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in the classroom but also beyond the
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classroom what makes us exceptional here
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in coob there are many wonderful schools
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that offer IB and internationalism but
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we really want our curriculum to be
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exceptional The Learning Experience will
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be exceptional it will be International
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in its Outlook very very challenging and
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delivered in a North London Collegiate
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School way that always means excelling
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and exciting but we want our curriculum
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to also have Japanese elements in which
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we Embrace Japanese values culture
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tradition language and we want our
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curriculum to be very accessible to
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Japanese children so they see it’s
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relevant we want Japanese children to be
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World ready and recognize the Fantastic
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skills and experience and Heritage that
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they have to bring them forward onto a
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global stage we’re also super excited
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about our Rocco Mountain development
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that will open in
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2028 construction and planning is
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underway and we know that that that site
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will be absolutely unique in having the
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most fantastic facilities we’ll have
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outside experiential learning a
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curriculum that’s linked to
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sustainability and our children will be
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having the most intellectual challenge
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but in an environment that promotes
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wellbeing and their health because we’ll
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be in
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nature we are we are going to be
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absolutely unique and I am so
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excited I think K is really different
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from other Crown schools because we are
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an all English school environment uh we
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don’t speak any Japanese with our
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students once they come to Ka it is an
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all- English environment and a lot of um
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our students kind of miss that from the
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countries that they live overseas so in
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a way it’s kind of like a second home
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for them they’re able to be themselves
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they’re able to speak English again uh
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which they might not be able to get if
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they’re going to a Japanese school of
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course for international school students
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it’s a little bit different but a lot of
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our students also just go to Japanese
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school and they come to KA for two hours
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a week um of course it’s it’s not uh
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great to just uh learn English for two
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hours a week so we also offer a lot of
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online programs where students can join
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English classes throughout the week uh
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it’s a program called ka+ and from 4: to
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8:30 uh we have live classes for
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students to join so I think a typical
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student would come to Ka uh on campus or
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online for the two hours of their core
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class and then they take English classes
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um throughout the week uh the English
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classes can include art classes science
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classes um and so I think that’s what a
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typical Ka student would experience
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so we specialize in early years primary
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so our children joined us when they’re
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three and they we have a celebrating
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graduation at the end of year six so
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normally they’re 11 or 12 um and so it’s
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we just focus on that really important
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crucial age you still have them for
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quite a bit of time from age three to
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age was that 12 yeah okay that’s a and
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and it feels like they’ve been with us
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and they enjoy being part of that and
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we’re a small school so everybody knows
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everybody and everybody knows their name
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and you know there’s people welcoming in
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the morning and they feel safe and
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secure and for many families uh yes they
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want a British International Education
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yes they want something about after
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school activities but what they also
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want to know is that when their young
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child at the age of three comes to
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school they’re going to be cared for
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they’re going to be safe they’re going
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to be happy and if we have all of those
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things in place then everything else is
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a bonus right they’re glossom and they
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have all of those things and so I think
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small community provides that um and it
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it just feels like a really great place
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to
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be the good thing about in the dmitory
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is that students Al always help each
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other they help each other in their
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homeworks assignments uh if some
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students are being uh SL in particular
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assignments or subject some students are
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all always be there with them to help
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them and of course teachers are also
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living on the same campus so they can
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also help and uh you know the half the
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students maybe I mentioned this already
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half the students in our school are from
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overseas and the other half of Japanese
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students so Japanese students learn and
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improve their English because they are
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always living with uh native English
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speaker uh and for international
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students they get to go outside the
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campus on the weekend and they always
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discover some of the Japanese uh
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experience like a Japanese food good
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Japanese food good place to visit for
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tourist in the spots or historical spots
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and uh Japanese students also show
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international student uh how to enjoy uh
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the Japanese know way of living
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sure so Excel World Academy is an
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international IB School from K12 we call
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it so it’s from 2 years old until grade
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12 and uh it’s a full Continuum IB
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School so every every grade is IB
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whereas the American Academy Excel
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American Academy is from kindergarten to
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grade eight and it’s a full American
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curriculum that follows the Aeros
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standards which is the international
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version of the Common Court curriculum
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the teachers are all all american I
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think I believe there’s one from Canada
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but they’re from the United States it’s
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taught with the uh American philosophy
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it’s like being in an American school
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and it’s a pioneering school which means
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we have something called Pioneer town
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where the children uh learn how to run a
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business they learn how to deal with
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banks and rent and uh paying for
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supplies um so it has a very uh
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entrepreneurial aspect to it and that’s
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a great um way to to talk about the
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American
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School other thing that’s really
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important to uh recognize for us is that
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because the because kis in Bangkok has
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been doing the uh the IB for uh 25 years
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now they’ve got uh systems in place that
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we’re able to import to our school um
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and that just makes it quicker for us to
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get if if you like we’re climbing a
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mountain but we’ve got a little
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escalator beside uh through their
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experience that we can ride up quicker
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to the top and what the top is is their
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average last year was 35 out of 44
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points on the IB if and that’s the
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average so there were some lower some
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higher if you get a score of 34 or
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better at an IB School uh in the diploma
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you can go to any school in the world UK
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uh America Canada Australia anywhere
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because the universities know that that
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is a top level and it’s a hard program
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any school that’s getting a 34 average
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is very good okay the world average for
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the IB is hovers between 30 and 31 so
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schools like ours try to be quite a bit
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above that so that we we’re giving value
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for um it’s part of our value
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proposition if you will right that when
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stud when parents send their children to
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us they’re going to get a program that
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can take them places after after that
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and that’s demonstrated already by what
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uh chaos has been able to do in in
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Bangkok so we’re on the same trajectory
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there so I think that’s that’s big for
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us for our confidence so uh even though
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we’ve started only going up to grade
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nine this year it’ll be 10 11 and 12 uh
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following and um yeah we’re um we are
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sure that we’re going to get to the to
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the same level for our graduating class
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that will happen in three years time
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we can accept uh from 11 years old if
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there are 11 years so they can uh come
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to our school as the boarding border I
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mean border student so this makes them
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like easy to make them like independent
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leadership and time scheduling so it’s
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really famous for Japanese parents and
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also uh we uh how to say like um
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partnership with a a
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so from here Osaka and we have a haneda
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we have a direct flight to kalur so easy
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for them to having uh to Malaysia well
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that’s excellent so a school that’s
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actually connected to an airline I think
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uh you might be the first yeah I think
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so so actually we our location is also
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like uh slightly nearby uh international
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airport so it’s around 15 minutes by car
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so it’s good for the parents as well i
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al uh I also heard that your school is
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quite popular for uh seasonal programs
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that’s true yes we have a lot of counts
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hold a year we have maybe we are quite
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famous for summer camp three weeks but
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also we have a two weeks Camp as well
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and uh uh this year we don’t have winter
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camp but we actually have a like hakuba
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Snow Camp as well so some of them sounds
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like so much fun do do you okay that’s
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so maybe you can join that but anyway so
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we have a spring camp as well so this
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kind of like Camp is almost like uh
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English Camp learning camp but also we
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have a junior MBA Camp so they will
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learn about business technology
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marketing Etc so yeah we have a lot of
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camps and also Sports Camp as well
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tennis camp Golf Camp and
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football I think that’s one of our main
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um attraction attractive points of the
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school is that even if it’s a first year
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it’s not uh we use the years of
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experience the years of um teaching that
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the the network has and that’s what we
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employ in the school that’s why we have
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it’s our first year but we are using 20
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years 30 years of experience in our
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school and what draws families and
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parents to your school obviously it’s
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been successful internationally
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certainly seemed very successful today
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at uh you know the Expo first year going
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into your second year next year what do
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you think draws family I think one thing
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that draws famili St school is not as
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compared to other international schools
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in the area our school is uh our school
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was uh originally a Japanese elementary
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school so we renovated the place we made
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it more colorful and then more welcoming
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and then it has a it has a very big
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playground has a gym and then unlike
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other international schools in the area
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it’s usually within buildings tall
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buildings and then our school looks like
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a school like where kids can run play
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play soccer during break time play hide
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and seek so I think that’s one um point
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that families love about our school uh
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that’s one thing they tell me all the
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time is like oh it’s really um it’s
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really nice to have SE kids playing uh
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freely in the grounds
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