2017 Tower English Speech Day Success!

第９回スピーチ大会が無事に終了しました。この１ヶ月この日のために一生懸命がんばって練習してきた子供たち、とても素晴らしかったです。応援してくれた保護者の皆さん、ありがとうございます。今年１０月でタワーイングリッシュの１０周年となります。９月２４日に素敵なお祭りを企画していますので、楽しみにしていてくださいね。

That was a great speech day, our ninth in 10 years of being in business (we only missed one in 2011 due to the Tohoku disasters). Eighty-six children took part this year, and you can see from the video above that the kids gave it their all, thank you!

Congratulations go to book token winners Hano, Misa,  Miyu, Kazunari, Yudai, Shota, Yua and Yui and to Disneyland ticket winners Mikiya, Shota, Kazuki, and Chura.

And well done to everyone who took part. The real reward is the experience of speaking in English in front of a big audience (OK, getting a Disneyland ticket or a free book is even better). But to all those who didn't win, there's always next year.

Oh, and thanks to Emma for taking the photos. Might be able to find a job for you here one day...

Tower English Speech Day 2017

It's that time of year again. The kids of Tower English are preparing for Speech Day at Abisuta Great Hall on Sunday. See you at 12:30 (for kindergarten kids) or 1:15pm for elementary and junior high school-age children.

Help for children learning to read

Around this time every year we start giving out English books to the new elementary school year one students to begin reading. The key is for kids to know their phonics -- the sounds that the letters make (not just the names of the letters) and the best way for young learners to remember the sounds is to use gestures. So, back by popular demand, is an eight-year-old video where Mr Sherriff demonstrates the 42 sounds of written English. He's lost a little hair and gained a little weight, but the sounds of English haven't changed a bit.

The 42-sounds of English (in three minutes).

Kindergarten textbooks arrive from USA

Happy to announce our new, updated textbooks for Tower English students in kindergarten years one to three arrived this week. We'll be giving them to our youngest students this week and next.

Tower English 2017 Calendar

Here is the 2017 Calendar at Tower English. See you next year!

Merry Christmas 2016!

We had a wonderful time last week with the real Santa Claus who flew in from Las Vegas specially to be with us and the children of the playgroup.

All this week we have been holding Christmas parties with the big kids and today is the last day of classes this year, so we just have enough time to wish all current and former students a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Patrick and Yoshie Sherriff

Speech Day 2016 a great success

Congratulations to the 80 children who took part in the Tower English 2016 Speech Day.

From golfers to ukulele players, magicians to Taylor Swift fans and would-be Fuji TV announcers, everyone spoke about their passions, so it was hard to pick out any "winners" but we had only a limited number of prizes, so we picked the following to receive book tokens: Mutsuno, Eishin, Sana, Ryuichi and Aoi, and the three to receive Disneyland tickets were Yamato, Sayaka and Ami.

Well done everyone!

今年で８回目となるタワーイングリッシュのスピーチ大会が今日無事に終了しました。
ゴルファーからウクレレ、マジシャン、テイラー・スウィフトのファン、フジテレビのアナウンサーまでとユニークなスピーチがたくさんありました。８０名の子供たちの素晴らしいスピーチを聞いて、私たちも心より感動しました。おつかれさま！
貴重な休日にお越しいただいたご家族のみなさまにも心より感謝です。
ありがとうございました。

さぁ明日からサマー・プロジェクトの開始です。今年は、プラバン作り、宝探し、アイスクリーム作りです。もちろん全部英語でやっちゃいます。アイスクリーム作りは保護者の方々にもご参加いただけます。タワーイングリッシュの手作りアイスクリームは本当に美味しいです。初めての方はお楽しみに♡