Location	1453-1 Yamazakimachi, Machida-shi, Tokyo
TEL.	(+81)42-792-2891
Website	https://www.metro.ed.jp/yamasaki-h/
Membership	2022

2025 Annual Report

１．Our School’s Education Goals

As a UNESCO School, we will engage in sustainable educational practices that serve as a hub for promoting ESD. Through educational activities that build confidence in their own actions and enhance self-esteem, we will cultivate in each student the ability to adapt flexibly to a changing society (knowledge, skills, critical thinking, judgment, expression, and communication). We will nurture students who have developed the physical and mental readiness to take on challenges together and continue learning.

・Through educational activities prioritizing students’ physical and mental safety and maintaining order, we will foster an attitude where each student respects the human rights of others (敬愛 Respect), cooperates with one another (協働 Collaboration), overcomes personal weaknesses (克己 Self-Discipline), and elevates their aspirations (高志 High Ambition) to pursue their own learning. This will cultivate citizens capable of conducting themselves appropriately as sovereign individuals, mindful of the new legal adulthood age of 18.

 

２．Activity Contents

At this school, we implement a whole-school approach across various aspects of our educational activities, guided by UNESCO’s principals and objectives.

As established in our school’s goals in item 1, all students and faculty members, as a UNESCO school, are working to promote ESD in both academic and extracurricular activities.

【Academic Activities】

Based on career education from 1st to 3rd year, we focus on the inquiry theme “ESD x Machida Yamasaki Apartments Complex (Machiyama)” for three years, and implemented “Dedicated Research Time” (including the first year Tokyo Metropolitan Government designated subject “Humanity and Society”).

1st Year (Developed with the Next Generation National UNESCO Committee)

 

・　April: Lecture relating to UNESCO Schools by Tamagawa University Faculty of Education Professor

・　December: 1st Year Inquiry Summary Presentation (with advice and guidance from 4 members of the Next Generation National UNESCO Committee)

・　November 15th: Implementation of regional culture festival “Machiyama Festival” at Machida Yamasaki Apartment Complex

・　December 6th: UNESCO School National Convention poster presentation (presentation of 2nd year research activities and other matters)・　December 19th: Third Machiyama Summit (Research Presentations and Debate)

・　August 7th: Sixth UNESCO School Kanto Block Convention (3rd Year event)

 

【Extracurricular Activities】

（Committee Activities）

In extracurricular activities, a distinctive “Student Committee” was established with every student taking the initiative, and activities incorporating International Days are held twice a year.

・　Human Rights, Gender, and Anti-Bullying Measures Committee (Participation on November 1st: Reflecting Children’s Voices in Policies; Participation in the High School Anti-Bullying Council

 

・　Environment and Energy Committee (June 5: World Environment Day Initiatives; Operation of School Event Green Day)

・　HR UNESCO Representative Committee (October 5: World Teachers’ Day initiative – Exhibition at Culture Festival: “Why I Became a Teacher, The Rewards of Teaching, and What I Want to Tell Yamazaki High School Students”; September 30: Domestic UNESCO School Exchange – Online exchange with Tochigi Prefectural Moka Hokuryo High School)

（International Exchange）

・　Participation in the Tokyo Metropolitan and National High School Principals’ Delegation to China (Japan-China New Century Association) (Currently considering exchanges with UNESCO Schools in Beijing and Xi’an, China)

・　Field Study to Taiwan with 30 second-year students (scheduled for late March)

・　2025 Tokyo Metropolitan High School Overseas Training Program (January: 4 students and 1 teacher participated in Malaysia)

Annual Work Plan

【2026 Academic Year Annual Lesson Plan】

April:
Machida Yamasaki Apartment Complex Town Walk (1st Year)
Lecture by Tamagawa University Faculty of Education Professor via Univ Net (1st Years)
1st Consortium Meeting

May:
Off-campus Learning at Bioenergy Center (1st Years)

June:
Teacher Training for ESD Promotion by Tamagawa University Faculty of Education Professor via Univ Net (All Faculty)

Green Day Event for “International Day: World Environment Day” (Environment & Energy Committee, All Years)

Machiyama Summit (All Years), Inquiry-Based Learning General Meeting (All Faculty)

July:
2nd Consortium Meeting
TGG (1st & 2nd Years)

August:
Fieldwork (2nd & 3rd Years)

September:
International Day: “World Teachers’ Day” Event (HR UNESCO Committee, Culture Festival Exhibition)

October:
Yamasaki Apartment Complex Halloween Festival
3rd Consortium Meeting

November:
Machiyama Festival held (joint regional cultural festival at Yamasaki Apartment Complex shopping street)  (1st & 2nd Years)

Development of ESD lessons plans for International Day:  “World Science Day for Peace and Development” (Scheduled)

Disaster Prevention Drill with Nanakuniyama Elementary School

December:
1st Year Inquiry Summary Presentation (1st Years)
4th Consortium Meeting

International Day: “Human Rights Day” Event (Human Rights, Gender, and Anti-Bullying Committee) (All Years)

January:
Participation in the Machida Yamasaki Apartment Complex Dondo Yaki Festival

February:
5th Consortium Meeting

March:
Participation in the Yamasaki Apartment Complex Caravan (Scheduled)

Past Annual Reports

2024 Annual Report