We provide opportunities over the six years of elementary school for the students to focus on themselves and family, friends, people in the local community, and the culture and industry of their hometown and realize how wonderful they are, and come to a different understanding of that wonderfulness as they progress through each academic grade. We aim to start from connections with people, deepen the students’ involvement in society, nature, and the world, and foster their ability to express themselves, think, and put ideas into practice with humanity and hope.

 

We carried out exchange activities with the “Kaga silk dyeing” artists who live in our school district, and studied the ideas and ways of living expressed in traditional crafts and the current state of demand for the crafts. Based on that study, we introduced Kanazawa through our exchange school in Taiwan and teleconferencing. Furthermore, we　participated in Japan Art Mile (http://www.artmile.jp/), created a mural, and sent it to Taiwan.

Student grades involved	Sixth graders
Number of students involved	48

 

 

I felt that the fact that the exchange activity called “Let’s promote the Kanazawa of which we are proud” became something that remained in a visible way, namely the mural, was extremely effective for the elementary school students.

 

“Kaga silk dyeing” artists, Taiwanese exchange school, teleconferencing system supporters