At MIS we aim to provide a warm, accepting environment where students can feel safe to be completely themselves – a sense of confidence that they can continue to radiate even after they graduate. We believe in inspiring confidence because we know that, as long as children believe in themselves, they can do and become anything they want to be. We will fill up their cup with acceptance, love, knowledge and understanding in the hope that one day the students will give what overflows back to those around them.

Since its inception in 1986, Gregg International School has been proud to offer children from around the world a unique multicultural learning environment with carefully selected, professional teachers.
GiS’s low student-teacher ratio and family-like atmosphere provide children of all ages the tools needed for both growth and success through the years.

“A child’s spontaneity and wonder are things to treasure for as long as they last; for the
greatest minds, they last a lifetime.”

Oakwood Tokyo International School is a play-based international preschool and elementary school in Setagaya, Tokyo, offering a nurturing, English-language environment for children from around the world. Our curriculum blends U.S. Common Core standards with play and inquiry-based learning to support social, emotional, and academic growth. With small class sizes and a warm, diverse community, we help children build confidence, curiosity, and essential skills for our modern world.

We are proud to provide a unique educational experience to both returning Japanese students and expatriates that develops students to be multilingual, internationally minded 21st Century model citizens. Our world class, award winning facilities on a spacious campus coupled with richly resourced learning environments – including integrated technology – provide our staff and students every opportunity to achieve academic success in nurturing surroundings. Our students time and time again tell us how much they love coming to MIS and, upon their return, graduates repeatedly share their appreciation for the support and challenge that they were afforded here.

While Japanese schools work to build fluency in Japanese, and international schools work to build fluency in English, our goal is to provide students with a bilingual education in both languages, in order to achieve fluency in both English and Japanese. We have had great success with this and the vast majority of our students are proficient in both languages by the time they graduate.
In addition, we have a strong Project-Based Learning approach in our core subjects such as ELA, Science, Math, Social Studies, and Programming. PBL is a fantastic way to engage students and help them to learn a variety of subject matter at the same time whilst developing a variety of skills useful inside and outside the classroom.
We also place a strong emphasis on physical fitness with a solid P.E program that helps to build a foundation of stability and flexibility in our students, as well as regular hiking trips to get in touch with nature while we get a strenuous workout.

Undoubtedly, one of the most valuable benefits of a Saint Maur education is preparation for the future. We provide students with rigorous academics and robust extracurricular options, which results in a 100% matriculation rate into colleges and universities. Since 1872, Saint Maur has functioned as a school community where moral values govern all that we do to help students, parents and staff reach their full potential.

We are multiage and dual language by design, and we are free from the rigidity and standardization of the age-grade system. Our students are remarkably engaged as we provide a multitude of resources and a positive ethos that is hard to duplicate in traditional school settings. *Mastery* motivation is usual, as we do not make children feel good or bad by virtue of their comparison with others, instead respecting their readiness and timing for learning. The style largely breaks the so-called *cycle of predictability" as the children experience being younger or older, more proficient or less proficient, over time, in their classes. They develop social, communication, and presentation skills as well as academic skills as an inherent part of their school experience. Whereas one of the classroom teachers may communicate and *teach* in English and the other in Japanese, the children are welcome and encouraged to use and develop all of their language proficiencies. We view them all as emerging bilinguals or multilinguals. This is a *translanguaging* context-based approach as opposed to a fundamentally monolingual rule-oriented approach to language acquisition and use. Parents are advised to check the mission on our website, as it does describe what we do, and to attend an orientation and tour as part of the application process.