Entertainment
Extracurricular - entertainment - details coming soon.
Sports
Junior High and High School sports offered include: tennis, volleyball, cross country, swimming, basketball, soccer, badminton, and track and field. Ping-pong is also offered, but only as an optional weekly activity. Students participating on Varsity or Junior Varsity teams are eligible for a Varsity or Junior Varsity Letter.
Seisen competes with other international schools and U.S. Military schools as well as Japanese schools. Seisen participates in the Kanto Plains league for tennis, volleyball, soccer, basketball, cross country, and track and field. The teams are supported by the Girls Athletic Association (GAA).
Academic
The pre-first grade kindergarten students have opportunities to participate in dance classes after school.
The Seisen After School Activities program (SASA) for elementary students runs for about two ten week sessions, one before Christmas and one after. Each activity usually lasts one hour from 3:30 pm. Activities offered by teachers have included pottery, T-shirt design, cookery, jazz and tap dance, calligraphy, art, painting, crafts, origami, netball, tennis, dance, computer, guitar, Spanish, French, and quilting.
Seisen takes an active role in all fine arts competitions and festivals for students in grades 7-12. Secondary school after-school activities include debate, speech, drama, brain bowl, MUN (Model United Nations) and math field day. Students who participate in co-curricular academic teams are eligible for academic letters and letter jackets.
Extracurricular
Academic
Sports
IB
Grade 11 Standard and Higher levels; Grade 12 Standard and Higher levels.
“The International Baccalaureate Diploma Program is a rigorous pre-university course of studies, leading to examinations, that meets the needs of highly motivated secondary school students between the ages of 16 and 19 years. Designed as a comprehensive two-year curriculum that allows its graduates to fulfill requirements of various national education systems, the diploma model is based on the pattern of no single country but incorporates the best elements of several. Diploma candidates are required to select one subject from each of the six subject groups. At least three and not more than four are taken at higher level (HL), the others are at subsidiary / standard level (SL). HL courses represent 240 teaching hours, SL courses cover 150 hours.”
IB History at Seisen
Although the International Baccalaureate was founded in 1960, it was not till 1986 that it was implemented at Seisen. An international curriculum which emphasized such aspects as critical thinking, community service, and exposure to a wide variety of viewpoints was appealing since it reflected well what the Seisen curriculum was attempting to achieve already. Also central to the decision to offer the IB was the fact that Universities all over the world could now evaluate our students and determine their eligibility against an internationally recognized standard.
Since its implementation the IB has grown steadily. It is now a well established and central aspect of our High School Program. Typically well over half of our students choose to take the full IB Diploma Program. On the other hand, we continue to offer a regular University Preparatory Program as well as the IB Diploma. In Grade 10 our students are asked to choose between these two options. One testament to the strength and popularity of this program here is that during the past several years the entire class have chosen to sit for the full IB Diploma.
Our High School staff are also heavily involved with the IB. The school actively supports their participation in IB Teacher Training Workshops and Conferences. Several members of our staff serve as “Assistant Examiners “ for the IBO.
PYP
The Seisen Elementary curriculum is a guided inquiry-based curriculum using the internationally recognised Primary Years Programme (PYP) as a curricular framework. The PYP organises curriculum into integrated Units of Inquiry which provide a meaningful context for learning.
Girls of each grade level participate in six PYP Units of Inquiry derived primarily from these subject disciplines: Science, Social Studies, Personal Development and The Arts. Other subject disciplines are integrated into the Units of Inquiry including Math, Japanese, Music, Information Technology, P.E. and Religion, to enhance the learning experience.
Each Unit of Inquiry is organised around a Central Idea and Inquiries Into. The Central Idea is a broad concept through which content, skills , the Learner Profile, and PYP Attitudes are developed. The Inquiries Into are an elaboration of the Central Idea and give specific focus to the unit.
Montessori
Seisen Kindergarten follows the Montessori system of education which is designed to take full advantage of the self-motivation of the child and the unique sensitivity of young children to absorb everything about them.
In order to develop his or her physical, intellectual and spiritual abilities fully, the child must have freedom, a freedom to be achieved through order and self-discipline. The teacher observes each child in order to get to know the individual interests and needs and offers stimulation and guidance in a way that will allow the child to experience the excitement of learning by his own choice, rather than by being forced.
We provide the children with a carefully prepared environment designed to foster learning in all areas. The Montessori equipment helps them to develop concentration, coordination, working habits and basic skills, according to each child’s own capacities in a noncompetitive atmosphere.
Each of the seven classes consists of a group of children from ages 3 to 6. For the morning program, children must be three years old by the beginning of September (exceptions can be made for two and half year olds if they are mature enough to handle the program). Three-year olds may attend the full day session being offered to four and five year olds. Morning session is from 8:30-12:00 p.m. The full day session is from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Kindergarten students have many events, outings and extracurricular activities that go on during and after school.
See our Calendar of Events.