Location	10-35, Chikkohikari-machi, Minami-ku, Okayama-shi, Okayama
TEL.	(+81)86-264-5490
Website	http://www.city-okayama.ed.jp/~fukunanc/
Membership	2013

2025 Annual Report

This school aimed to develop the ability to think and practice what one can do from a familiar place by learning ESD.

Specifically, the study focused on (1) activities related to the environment, (2) learning related to peace, (3) learning related to human rights, and (4) learning related to disaster prevention.

① Activities related to the environment

The first graders began by learning what ESD is. In the second semester, the students studied the history of Kojima Bay from its reclamation in the Edo period to the formation of Lake Kojima, water pollution problems, environmental conservation efforts, and the rich natural environment of today. We also visited the site and conducted a five-sense survey as an adaptation project. Then, as a summary study, a group presentation about Kojima Lake was conducted. In addition, the use of tenaga shrimp caught in Kojima Lake for school lunch made the students feel even more familiar. Through these activities, I learned that it is important for each person to take action to protect the environment in which they live.

 

② Learning about peace

The second-year students were able to hear the peace talks and deepen their desire for peace. They visited the A-bomb Dome and the Peace Memorial Museum, toured monuments with a local volunteer guide, and toured A-bombed buildings as part of a group training program. They also asked foreign visitors to Peace Memorial Park to write messages of peace. By actually seeing the scars of war and interacting with local people and people from overseas, he thought about the misery of war and the preciousness of peace. After that, each group decided on a theme, put it in a newspaper and presented it to the class.Third-year students learned about the Battle of Okinawa, the only land battle in Japan in which one out of four people died, and in the first semester they actually went on a school trip to Okinawa.In Okinawa, they experienced cattails and visited the Himeyuri Memorial Museum, where they reflected on the misery of war and the preciousness of peace. They also held a peace rally at the Cornerstone of Peace as the culmination of the three years.

③ Learning about human rights

As part of a delinquency prevention class, all students were invited from the Okayama Minami Police Station in Okayama Prefecture to learn about crimes that are familiar to them. In particular, they were given lectures on human rights violations by the Internet, including social networking sites. I learned that SNS, which is so close to children, can be dangerous and can threaten people’s lives if used incorrectly.

First-year students conducted classes to improve social skills and considered what words they could use to build better relationships. The second-year students learned social media etiquette and what to look out for on the Internet, and then considered what they needed to do to build better relationships. Third-year students held a lecture called “Stories of Life,” in which they learned how life is connected and how life should be by listening to midwives’ voices in the field. I realized that I had the power to live, and I thought about how to live from now on.

④ Learning about disaster prevention

Evacuation drills assuming tsunami caused by earthquake were conducted in all grades. They learned the spirit of “mutual assistance” through evacuation drills conducted jointly with local kindergartens, evacuating children to a junior high school and then returning them to the kindergarten. All students also participated in disaster prevention studies. They learned what actions they could take in the event of a Nankai Trough earthquake.

Continuing from this fiscal year, we will continue to work on the basis of discovering problems in our daily lives and working on what we can do.

 

Annual Work Plan

In the field of the environment, we will connect the Kojimako Environmental Study to the study of SDGs and deepen it by linking it to the study of each subject.

In the area of peace, I want students to think deeply through peace studies in Hiroshima and Okinawa. After gaining knowledge in the classroom, I would like them to research and study, and listen to the thoughts of local people from both Hiroshima and Okinawa by storytellers and guides, so that they have a strong desire to maintain world peace.

In the field of human rights, among various human rights issues, I would like to select those that are necessary for students after identifying what is necessary for students, and then systematically work on them by making study plans for each grade.

In the area of disaster prevention, we want as many students as possible to have a high awareness of disaster prevention. If an earthquake occurs in the Nankai Trough, our school district will suffer serious damage. We will work with the school and community to plan and implement evacuation drills and disaster prevention education in order to save lives.

I would like to have a systematic approach in all the fields that I work on, and I would like to provide opportunities for students to make presentations, which will lead to their future lives.

Past Annual Reports

2024 Annual Report