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Golden Week Students are back after the Golden Week break excited and ready to learn   Our staff and teachers have also been training and upskilling with the local emergency services ー including obtaining their CPR credentials to provide a safe environment for everyone

Busy & fun start to Term 1 2025 From welcoming new students & teachers to school sports to new years academics, it’s been a busy & fun start to term 1!    

Opening Ceremony 2025 Our 2025-26 school academic year is off to the best start!   Opening ceremony is always a highlight, meeting the parents and introducing all our new staff. There was a lot of laughter, different languages and even dancing involved!   Thank you for entrusting your children’s education to us, it’s going to be the best year ahead!

Graduating Class of 2025 There was plenty of laughter (and a few tears) this week as our Grade 12 class for 2025 graduated from high school.   We know that behind every smile is the sacrifice of long commutes, part-time jobs, endless study hours and test taking.   Well done to every student – take the holidays to relax and …

Readers are Leaders “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers” ーHarry S. TrumanAs a boutique international school with smaller class sizes, we have the unique ability to embrace new technologies while focusing on timeless skills such as language arts & math.In 2025 we are excited to add new technologies such as AI to our STEAM subjects, as …

Wrapping up Term 3 From special projects to field trips to final assessments – students have been busy as they wrap up term 3.   Graduation is fast approaching for our G12s and we wish them all the best on their university acceptances!      

World Culture Day World Culture Day was a huge success with students & teachers celebrating the different cultures & traditions at ZOE.   From a small start, we now have 26 different nationalities represented across our school – making us one of the most diverse schools in Japan.   We were also able to raise much-needed funds to support our …

Ice Skating We love our our annual tradition of going ice-skating!Thank you to our partners at @yokohama_icearena for helping us create great memories at school.We do our best to make ZOE the “school you wished you went to”.

Silk Museum As part of their studies into ancient Chinese civilization, the second graders took a field trip to the local yokohama silk museum.They found it interesting to see silkworms, learn about sericulture, examine countless cocoons, and see the threads from the cocoons being employed in the making of garments and clothes. Students scrutinized everything, even tried their hand at …

A fun week! From warm shades to cool hues, grade 3 students explored the magic of warm and cool colors in their Art lesson last week! G1 students have been exploring the Epic reading library to research and compare two animals of their choice. They took notes on the unique characteristics of each animal and wrote a paragraph using comparative …