Horizon Herald

Another busy week at Horizon! This week, students experimented in their classrooms, auditioned for Horizon's Got Talent, and applied for universities.

We have some exciting events happening at school in the upcoming weeks. Please join us for Curriculum Night with our teachers on Monday, February 17th and for the College Fair happening on Wednesday, February 19th. The College Fair is open to the public, along with our Open House happening on Tuesday, February 11th. Please feel free to share the College Fair and Open House—we hope to see your families and your friends at these events!

We will also be holding a contest to choose student works of art that will be featured on cards and inventions for the school. The contest is open to all grade levels K-12. The theme of the artwork will be Multiculturalism in Yokohama. Please see below for more details!

We would like to welcome our new student Ronghao Li to the Horizon Community! Please say hi when you see him at school.

Thank you for being a part of the Horizon community. You can always access past newsletters here.

Kind regards,

Horizon Japan International School

The HJIS Student Council has officially initiated their first event: fundraising for the ravishing bushfires of Australia. We are encouraging students to lead their own events to raise funds and awareness of the situation, subsequently making an impact on the world they live in. As IB students, we aim to be global citizens through helping others, in this case addressing an effect of the climate crisis. We've designated January 27-31 to be our week of fundraising, so we look forward to your contributions!

• 1st Semester Report Cards will be available on Friday, January 31st.
• The HJIS February Open House is happening on Tuesday, February 11th! This is a great opportunity for families who are considering Horizon to tour the campus, meet our students and learn about our Preschool-Grade 12 IB curriculum.
• Curriculum Night is happening Monday, February 17th. Please see under 'Curriculum Night below for more details. Parents can choose up to 3 of the 8 Workshops available that night.
• The HJIS Gym will be hosting a College Fair featuring half of the universities in Japan that offer Degree Programs in English with September entry on Wednesday, February 19th.

• Horizon will be hosting a free workshop by TELL Japan on Saturday, February 29th called "Screenwise: Empowering your family in the digital world." You can find more details here.]
• The talent show, Horizon's Got Talent!, is happening on Friday, March 6th. Auditions were held this week and the judges will be deliberating on Monday. Thank you to all the students who auditioned! We are proud to see just how talented our student body is.
  

The theme of the artwork will be Multiculturalism in Yokohama. Contest submissions will begin on the 17th of January and end on February 28th. No late submissions will be accepted.

• Requirements For the Submissions:
• Artwork should be an A4 paper
• Artwork should represent the theme
• Iconography must be school appropriate
• Artwork layout should oriented as a landscape
• Open two-dimensional medium

Please fill out the form below and submit with the artwork.

Horizon is holding an Open House for prospective parents on Tuesday, February 11th. Please share our Open House with any interested parents you may know!

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Open House Registration

We will be hosting a Curriculum Night #2 on Monday, February 17th. This Curriculum Night will demonstrate what our educational continuum looks like. The program will be from 4:30 - 6:30 P.M.

There will be 8 workshops to choose from. Please see the brochure below for workshop descriptions and more details. Parents can choose 3 workshops to attend.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Have you ever wanted to study at a Japanese University in English?

Our College Fair is open to all of our parents and students starting from Grade 8. The College Fair will be joined by families from surrounding international schools as well. This event will feature nearly half of all the Japanese universities that offer English-taught 4 year Degree Programs. It is a great opportunity for students and friends who are interested in earning their degree while living in Japan!

Although the College Fair ends at 4:30 P.M., some of the university representatives might begin packing up around 4:00 P.M., so we advise students, parents, and counselors to plan to arrive well before 4:00 P.M.

If you have questions, suggestions, or concerns please do not hesitate to contact our college counselor at collegecounselor@horizon.ac.jp.

ELC LEGOLand Field Trip

For their current unit, How the World Works, students have been learning how buildings and houses are constructed. What better way to further explore than visiting LEGOLand and learn how to construct using LEGO blocks. The students joined a workshop where they put tiny pieces together to make a mouse. They also visited the Miniland to play with an interactive city all made out of Legos! We ended our field trip by watching a 4D LEGO movie.

Grade 2 Straw Towers

This week in Readers Writers Workshop, Grades 2A and 2B built towers out of straws after making a design and creating a hypothesis of how they could make their tower strong and tall. Grade 2 students are focusing on writing like scientists.

Grade 3 & 11 Science

Grade 11 students invited the Grade 3 classes up to their science lab to do some exciting experiments together. Students dissected a fish, extracted DNA from a banana, and made elephant’s toothpaste!

Visit from SCAD

A representative from the Savannah College of Art and Design came to our school to meet with our parents and secondary students. 2 students filled their applications with her and had their application fees waived. In the last 2 months, students have waived 29 application fees by filling their university applications through Horizon's college counseling office!

Cough and Sneeze Etiquette: Cough and sneeze etiquette refers to simple hygiene practices everybody can take to prevent passing on respiratory infections like cold and flu to other people.

It is especially important that people who are sick with a cold or the flu practice good cough and sneeze etiquette. However, infections such as these can be transmitted even before you feel symptoms like sore throat and cough. Even you’re perfectly healthy, it’s important to practice proper cough and sneeze etiquette.

When someone with a cold or flu infection coughs or sneezes, they release respiratory droplets. These droplets contain cold and flu virus particles that can cause infection if they enter another person’s respiratory tract.

The droplets released during coughing and sneezing may be inhaled, or they may land on a person’s hands or hard surfaces where the virus particles can survive for hours. If a person touches contaminated surfaces the virus particles may be transferred to their hands. If a person touches their face with contaminated hands, it may cause infection.

Good cough and sneeze etiquette involves taking steps to minimize the likelihood that someone else will catch your cold or flu when you cough or sneeze. There are many simple measures you can take.

Wearing a face mask

Consider wearing a face mask when you are sick with a cough or sneezing illness (with or without fever) and you expect to be around other people. The face mask will help protect them from catching your illness.

Cover coughs and sneezes

Cover your mouth and nose every time you cough or sneeze. Use a disposable tissue to cover your mouth or nose if possible. If a cough or sneeze sneaks up on you and no tissue is available, cough or sneeze into your upper sleeve. This prevents your hands becoming contaminated with cold or flu viruses.

Ensure your hands are hygienically cleaned

Cough and sneeze etiquette your hands with soap and water for at least 15–20 seconds every time you cough or sneeze. Wash your hands every time you touch a contaminated object like a tissue. If soap and water are not available, use alcohol-based hand sanitising products. These products are also effective in removing cold and flu germs from contaminated hands.

https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/hygiene/etiquette/coughing_sneezing.html

https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/0000187997.html

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