SAKURANBO KINDERGARTEN

The history
The Sakuranbo Kindergarten was established in 1953.
This kindergarten responded to the request of the area for 45 years since establishing, opened to all infants and as the place of the public education, it made efforts toward the infant education.
The finishing life is playing an active part already in each area beyond 4300 stuents. This kindergarten moved to the management which depends on YMCA in 1977. Utsunomiya YMCA established a School Corporation of Utsunomiya YMCA Academy in March, 1978.
This kindergarten is doing the wide infant education to put an effort into the gym, the international understanding education as a kindergarten of YMCA which is the biggest young people group in the world.
Utsunomiya YMCA made a campsite in 1983 at Toba, Shioya Town, 30 km north of Utsunomiya and the kindergarten has been concentrating power on the nature education and the outdoors education, too.
Moreover, this kindergarten carries forward integrated education with the child who has a handicap and elder person of the special caring old person nursing home of Tochigi YMCA which was established in 1993 by Tochigi YMCA and the association with the gaffer, too, can be experienced and is concentrating power on the forming of the wide character from these activities.
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The education policy
This kindergarten is educating with the asking to become the human being as the nursery school child can attend society and a neighbor, growing healthily at the mind and body based on the Christianity mind and being rejoiced by the god and the person.

The education goal
1. We bring up for the student at the kindergarten to respect the God and to have the mercy of the God and natural beneficence, the loving of parents, the heart of the person to thank for in the kindness.

2. We are not only that the student at the kindergarten thinks of himself, and think of a stranger, love and bring up a stranger that it is possible to do good association with the people.

3. We bring up to be able to center a point of view every thing to be able to express that the student at the kindergarten thinks clearly.

4. We bring up to have the heart where the student at the kindergarten can love music, beautiful thing reaching nature.

5. The student at the kindergarten likes movement, we have and bring up physical strength that it is possible to do quick operation and to become the healthy body which has applicability.

6. The student at the kindergarten establishes " the Sakuranbo books library " to cultivate an intellectual imagination with the excellent picture book and we bring up to have an abundant word and knowledge, putting the habitude of the reading to the body.

7. We bring up for the indispensable international sense to be under the body naturally as the child whom the student at the kindergarten grows into in the international times.

The general condition of the kindergarten
The number of children:246, 3 years old of filling - 5 years old of filling
The number of the classes: Eight classes

Community Service Progarms by the Sakuranbo Kindergarten
The nurturing program of the extension out of the time (Chibikko group)
The activity of relation between Handicaped Child, healthy child and parents (Ichigo group)
The education of the child and the parents before joining a kindergarten (Child bring up group)
The education of the child and the parents before joining a kindergarten (Gym play group)
The parents and children outdoors program

The typical record photographs of the nurturing
Worship in the morning of Monday is done by all the members@of students and the students do a prayer quietly.-Spirit The students learn much from the teacher in the classroom.-Mind
The class of English by the teacher who came from America. (The elder set)-Mind The gym by the guide of the full-time gym lecturer.-Body
It makes food with food meeting using kitchen knife and so on and it tastes food at all.-Mind In the summer, a pool is assembled at the playground and the class of the swimming is done.-Body
Students associate with the gaffer at the Tochigi YMCA nursing home.-Mind In the outdoors nurturing, it spends vividly in the nature. (at the camp site of Tochigi YMCA)-Mind & Body
At the Sakuranbo farm, students learn natural mercy through the sweet poteto growing.-Spirit, Mind & Body The outing, the staying nurturing, the athletic meet and the Christmas meeting.-Spirit, Mind & Body

Adderss, Phone and E-Mail to the Tochigi YMCA and Utsunomiya YMCA
2-7-42 Matsubara, Utsunomiya, 320-0041 Japan
Phone{81(28)622-8972 {81(28)622-8973 Fax{81(28)624-2489
E-Mail:ymca@sakuranbo.ed.jp


Adderss, Phone and E-Mail to the Tochigi YMCA and Utsunomiya YMCA
2-7-42 Matsubara, Utsunomiya, 320-0041 Japan
Phone{81(28)624-2546 Fax{81(28)624-2489
E-Mail:t-ymca@po.ssctnet.or.jp


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