A big thank you to our Parent Support Group (PSG) at Saint Maur for their financial support with a new music workshop series that allowed top musicians to perform a concert and lecture live on stage for our students.
As we approach the end of the academic year, the Music department felt it would be a great time to report on some of a fantastic KPASS event that we have participated in this spring, whilst also letting you know about the next KPASS event that is still to come!
Even though Aikido has no matches or competitions, there are plenty of opportunities for aikidoka to challenge themselves, meet other practitioners, and experience different approaches to the art. A major source of such challenge and discovery usually comes under the form of seminars, which are technical masterclasses placed under the direction of one or several teachers. Those can last from half-a-day up to an entire week in the case of resident training.
Kanto Champions! For the first time in school history, the Saint Maur Middle School Boys Baseball Team won the Kanto Tournament which was held at ASIJ on Saturday, May 9th. Cougars had high hopes entering the tournament as we were seeded 2nd overall. Having a successful season, we only had one goal in mind: To win the championship!
With the seniors off for exams, multiple injuries, and new players who have never practiced with us, the Saint Maur Cougars’ final game was limited to only one substitute and even saw the debut of 8th graders Hugo and Kuga. Put against YIS’s Junior Varsity team, the Cougars put up a fierce fight despite what the scoreline would suggest. Lack of preparation and a full bench rotation of substitutes for YIS posed many difficulties for the Cougars.
On February 13, 2022, I went to Kanagawa Budokan to take a promotion exam administered by Kanagawa Kendo Federation and passed the exam to receive 4th Dan in Kendo. In Kendo, 4th Dan and above are considered to be instructors’ ranks and therefore suitability as an instructor is one of the criteria for passing the exam.
Every year the PSG kindly host a Bingo Bash for our Elementary Students. Not only is much fun had by all but the lucky winners win a special prize – A visit to the Chemistry laboratory with a friend.
After an assertive 7-0 win against CAJ in their first game of the season, the Saint Maur Cougars faced off against local rivals, the YIS Dragons, who themselves defeated CAJ by a comfortable 9-1 margin last week. The Cougars put in a valiant effort, nevertheless, YIS’s squad, three times the size of Saint Maur’s, proved too great a challenge for the team, who played the majority of their game captainless after Jan’s injury early on in the game.
As the academic year draws closer to the end, many students are looking forward to receiving their Yearbooks. In the Science Department we adopt a molecular approach to the ‘mugshot page’.
A feeling of excitement had been building up for some time within the Science Department due to the fact that with the state of emergency being lifted, we would be able to once again host a lecture by a world-class researcher for the benefit of our IB students. Our guest this time was Dr Aki Minoda, Team Leader of the Laboratory for Cellular Epigenomics at RIKEN’s Center for Integrative Medical Sciences.
The Saint Maur Cougars boys football team kicked off their season this Saturday with an emphatic win over CAJ, hitting the Knights for seven. This is seen as a significant improvement from last season which saw the Cougars string together a number of lackluster performances, including a 4-1 loss to a strong CAJ side.
On Tuesday, March 8, a team of 17 Saint Maur students, from Grades 6-12, participated in Math Field Day. Math Field Day is a competition involving 13 schools from the Kanto Region in which students display their knowledge and enthusiasm for Mathematics.
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