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Purpose

The UIA House System is designed to give students from kindergarten all the way to grade 12 and teachers a time and a space to interact with one another across divisions. The House System aims to help students, teachers, and staff promote inclusivity, celebrate diversity, gain a sense of pride, spirit, and unity with their housemates as well as developing leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.

Within their houses, students will be able to participate in a variety of activities including competitions, volunteer-work, and team-building events that will allow them to become a closer and more tightly-knit community.

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Aims and Objectives

  • To foster and nurture healthy bonds and relations between students, teachers, staff, and the community.
  • To promote horizontal and vertical interactions between students and teachers.
  • To build a sense of friendly competition between the houses.
  • To provide opportunities for students to serve as leaders within the school and the community.
  • To develop 21st century skills in students such as collaboration, communication, and problem solving.
  • To provide opportunities for community service and volunteer work.

Houses, Traits and Characteristics

Students will be divided into 1 of the 4 houses listed below:

Genbu

Suzaku

Byakko

Seiryuu

Each house is named after one of the 4 mythical creatures of the Japanese Shishin 四神 which is derived from the Chinese Sì Shòu 四獸. Each mythical creature serves as the guardian and protector of the cardinal direction it represents.

Each house holds different traits and qualities that make them unique and special. When combined, they represent the values and qualities of UIA as a whole.

House Mythical Creature Cardinal Direction Primary Color Season Element Traits, characteristics, and virtues
Genbu Tortoise North Black Winter Water The Genbu House is a house of faith, self reflection, and harmony. Students and teachers in this house are patient and are able to persevere through great challenges to meet their goals.
Seiryuu Dragon East Blue Spring Wood The House of Seiryuu is a house of propriety, nobility, and good fortune. Students and teachers in this house wield a powerful amount of knowledge and skills, but are kind, gentle, and are willing to assist those in need.
Suzaku Phoenix South Red Summer Fire The House of Suzaku is a house of knowledge and wisdom. Students and teachers in this house are fiercely loyal and are willing to support their house and school to great extents.
Byakko Tiger West White Autumn Metal The House of Byakko is a house of righteousness and justice. Students and teachers in this house are willing to protect their house and their school from negative influences and are resilient through all challenges.

Sorting Process

All current and new students will be sorted by the Admissions Officer and all new students entering the school will be sorted into a House during the admissions process. Students will remain in their houses throughout their tenure at UIA. Each house will work towards having an equal number of boys and girls respective to their grade level and division. Students will not switch houses barring special mitigating circumstances.

Teachers and staff will be sorted by their Divisional Head. Teachers and staff will not switch houses barring special circumstances.

Events & Activities

Monthly House Meetings

Team building activities and workshops

Interdivisional activities

Charity drives

Sports Day

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MEDICAL INFORMATION

  • If your child is sick at school, we will contact you. Please kindly arrange the pick-up within 1
    hour. Sick students are not allowed inside the school bus.
  • If your child has any lice, please do not send him/her to school. If your child has skin issues,　please let the nurse knows.
  • Please check your child’s temperature every morning, if your child has some fever (37.5), sore throat, cough or any symptoms, please do not send them to school. 
If you cannot be reached to give your consent to emergency procedures, you hereby give your permission for UIA International school of Tokyo to seek medical treatment for my child in case of injury or illness, which occurs while participating in school-sponsored activities. 
 
This will be used only if we cannot contact you directly at the time of injury or illness.

Daily Schedule

MEDICAL INFORMATION

• If your child is sick at school, we will contact you. Please kindly arrange the pick-up within 1
hour. Sick students are not allowed inside the school bus.
• If your child has any lice, please do not send him/her to school. If your child has skin issues,
please let the nurse knows.
• Please check your child’s temperature every morning, if your child has some fever (37.5), sore throat, cough or any symptoms, please do not send them to school.

If you cannot be reached to give your consent to emergency procedures, you hereby give your permission for UIA International school of Tokyo to seek medical treatment for my child in case of injury or illness, which
occurs while participating in school- sponsored activities. This will be used only if we cannot contact you directly at the time of injury or illness.

SOCIAL MEDIA

I hereby agree to permit UIA International School of Tokyo to take photographs of my child during school activities for the purpose of educating students, promoting the school, or promoting public education. The school may publish photographs of my child and/or samples of work done by my child in a variety of ways. The publications could include, but are not limited to, school newsletters (online and in hard copy), UIA International School of Tokyo’s Internet and Intranet websites, content-sharing websites such as Facebook or YouTube, annual school magazines and local newspapers. Published photographs and work will be viewable by third parties.

We agree to the following:

      1. The school may publish photographs of my child and samples of my child’s work as many times as it needs in the ways mentioned above.

      2. The child’s photograph may be reproduced either in color or in black and white.

      3. The school will not use my child’s photograph or samples of my child’s work for any purpose other than for the education of students or for the general promotion of public education and the school.

Any photographs taken by the school will be kept for no longer than is necessary for the above-mentioned purposes and will be stored and disposed of securely. Whilst every effort will be made to protect the identity of my child, UIA International School of Tokyo cannot guarantee that my child will not be able to be identified from the photograph or work.

BUS INFORMATION

Parents are not allowed inside the school buses.

For Kindergarten students, parents/legal guardians MUST be at the bus stop wearing the lanyard for pick-up and drop.

If a parent/guardian is not present at the bus stop at the scheduled time for the bus arrival, the student cannot get off the bus. We will wait for 1 minute and try to contact parents. After that, we will bring the child back to Kiba campus.

Parents/Guardians will be notified and are required to visit the Kiba campus to pick up their child. In such a scenario, a penalty will be charged to the parents at the hourly rate of ¥11,000.

UIA will consider adding a new stop for students from Kindergarten to Grade 2 in the area of the existing routes.

The school bus may arrive earlier or later than the scheduled time, depending on traffic conditions. If the bus arrives early, they will wait until the scheduled departure time. If the bus does not arrive at the bus stop within 20 minutes after the scheduled arrival time, please contact 080-1187-9407.

Parents should report to the 3F to drop off or pick up their child.

If you want to cancel the bus service for the day, kindly inform us well in advance

INVOICE INFORMATION

Payment will need to be made within five business days of the invoice being dispatched.

Please kindly note that once the payment is made, no refund will be provided.

The two-weeks discount is only applicable for parents enrolling for Week 1 + Week 2 at the time of application. In case a student adds Week 2 after enrolling in Week 1, the two-weeks discount will not be applicable.

Please note that the final deadline of payment is July 8, 2024 by 3PM

Enrollment will be automatically cancelled after those dates if payment has not been made.