Malcolm Swanson on January 22nd, 2010

On January 21, 2010, we held our final English Lecture for this year. We called it “A Festival of English” because of the variety of activities it covered.
We started with our Zion Cup winner of the 1st Year competition, Kanako Mine, who presented her speech on “Learning from the Past.” That was followed by a [...]

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Malcolm Swanson on January 9th, 2010

On December 19, we held our annual Christmas Intensive for our 1st-year students… a whole day of Christmas activities, lunch together, then a visit from Santa. Lots of fun, and a chance to use our English! If you’d like to see photos from the day, please visit our Photo Gallery.
Santa comes to visit

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Malcolm Swanson on October 19th, 2009

Our 4th Zion Cup English Contest was held on Saturday, October 17. The previous day, a semi-final contest had been held, and the best 3 students in each year group selected.
Results
Year 1 students

1st place – Kanako Mine – Learning from the past
2nd place – Rin Shouen – Friendship
3rd place – Mami Adachi – JAM Project

Year [...]

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Malcolm Swanson on September 29th, 2009

Our 4th Mallory Cup English Contest was held on Saturday, September 26, 2009 on the theme of “Diversity.” This year featured fewer high school speeches, but a large jump in the number of entries for the junior high school skit contest. Of all the entries received, 10 groups were selected to contest the final.
The judges [...]

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Malcolm Swanson on September 26th, 2009

Every year, our ESS circle has a summer camp- a chance to unwind, get to know each other, and practice our English. This year, we traveled to beautiful Iki Island in Nagasaki Prefecture. We stayed at Deainomura Village near Saruiwa (Monkey Rock). As well as regular camp activities, we also had a chance to go [...]

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