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With the price of books rocketing, it is events like this 20% Book Sale at 洋書専門店 Books Kinokuniya Tokyo（最寄り新宿か代々木） at the Minami Shinjuku Branch that make life happier! Time to browse Tokyo's biggest bookshop! Thursday, 25th - Sunday, 28th May, the half-term weekend! BST Secondary Library BST PTA The British School in Tokyo

Brilliant 'Wednesday Lunchtime Concert' in the library today! Aiko &Esther played beautiful pieces by Faure &Chopin, followed by Tom's super rendition of a Nat King Cole number. 33 students from all years formed the audience. A wonderful musical interlude! The British School in Tokyo #BSTArtsFest

June is Pride Month in Tokyo, and Mr Shaw is helping the library to gear up for lots of activities as part of our school Pride Week, beginning 12th June The British School in Tokyo BST_Secondary

Celebrating our talented musicians The British School in Tokyo BST_Secondary Library Lunchtime Recital this week saw Sohee Yr 7 wowing on piano & Cyrus Yr 10 playing the Koto - the national instrument of Japan. Next week, a fabulous steel pan workshop with Tamaki Hagihara! BST Music

Yr 12 students BST_Secondary completed their orientation of the Temple University Japan Campus library yesterday. An exceptional addition to the in-person & online resources available to our Senior students The British School in Tokyo. Many thanks to the wonderful and welcoming TUJ librarians #BSTdifference

It’s Halloween dress-up The British School in Tokyo BST_Secondary and already the library is filling with spooky characters!

Today we enjoyed a riveting discussion of The Handmaid's Tale Margaret E Atwood by our Senior students' Banned Book Club. A work of speculative fiction published in 1985, it draws on real life social & political events and 'has never been more relevant'. BST_Secondary The British School in Tokyo

We're delighted to announce that the winner of the #BookerPrize2023 is Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. Huge congratulations to Paul Lynch. 🎉 Discover the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

Library Lunchtime Recital saw stunning solos from Thom (Yr 11) & Oskar (Yr7), a student band performance by Enzo (Yr 12), Thom & Neve (Yr9) & a fabulously festive range of songs by the BST Brass Band! Enjoyed by over 70 students & staff 🤩 The British School in Tokyo BST_Secondary BST Music

Students from Yrs 7 - 11 were involved in a creative writing workshop with Melissa Uchiyama, writing coach & founder of Tokyo Kids Write. It was wonderful to watch inspiration hit, see ideas develop and collaboration strengthen confidence. #BSTArtsFest The British School in Tokyo BST_Secondary

The Banned Book Club met for another truly thought-provoking and stimulating discussion of Art Spiegelman’s harrowing graphic novel ‘The Complete Maus’ The British School in Tokyo BST_Secondary Open to all Senior students & staff.

Lunchtime Concerts resumed at BST Showa campus. The Brass Band performed 'I Can't Take My Eyes Off You', followed by Madeline on cello performing Mendelssohn' s 'A Song Without Words'. Then Oskar singing 'Somewhere Only We Know', with Thom on drums & Neve on bass. #BSTdifference

19 workshops BST Primary & BST_Secondary this term, as part of the #BSTArtsForTheFuture Festival of the Arts 2024. This week with the fabulous チョーヒカル ! Next week we welcome back CHART project & Melissa Uchiyama Arts opportunities galore! #BSTAnnualFund #BSTdifference The British School in Tokyo

Thank you, Melissa Melissa Uchiyama The students BST_Secondary have been delighted to work with you over the past few months! And BST Primary is looking forward to their creative writing workshop in June The British School in Tokyo #BSTArtsForTheFuture as part of the Festival of the Arts!

Proud of all the creativity & dedication the students have put into this project. A wonderful opportunity to experience the process of creative writing all the way to the point of publication! Very grateful to Melissa Uchiyama for facilitating this BST_Secondary

The judging for the Chart Project competition has been a difficult & rigorous process, with over 130 superb pieces of SGD data-inspired artwork. Competition winners & exhibition details will be announced next week! Chart Project @bstpta The British School in Tokyo #BSTFestofArts

This is such an excellent MS book! Delighted that it's been nominated for the Sakura Medal Award 2025 Available to borrow from both campuses The British School in Tokyo

Novelist Elif Shafak on the importance of libraries. When people are displaced, books and libraries are essential.

Professor Andrew Fitzsimons visited BST to lead a thought-provoking workshop on writing in translation to our students. Our adult community also had the opportunity to attend a fascinating talk on his most recent book Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho The British School in Tokyo BST PTA

We celebrated the final event of the BST Festival of the Arts this week, a 'Publication Celebration Tea Party' for twelve BST_Secondary students, their parents &tutors, who, through a series of workshops Melissa Uchiyama have recently been published Under The Madness Teen Literary Magazine The British School in Tokyo