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Hakusan campus offers after-school programs that emphasize academic enrichment and STEM through project-based learning. Afternoon options include Kitchen Chemistry, Garden to Table, Food Around the World, and Taste & Nutrition, linking cooking, science, and math to real-world activities. Tech Club explores coding, game design, and digital storytelling with tools like Scratch, HTML/CSS, Python, BSD, and Minecraft, including solo challenges and team projects. MakerSpace: Creative Builds and project-based learning (PBL) design thinking provide hands-on engineering and problem-solving opportunities beyond the classroom.
MakerSpace and related after-school activities provide hands-on creative building opportunities at Hakusan. The Hakusan campus features a dedicated MakerSpace/workshop for creative projects and design work, integrated with the elementary program. MEES emphasizes creative exploration alongside STEM through its project-based learning and forest education, which includes nature-inspired art and hands-on outdoor creativity during MEES The Forest sessions. These programs support artistic expression within a broader learning approach.
Hakusan offers English-language immersion through after-school English Club and immersion-based language activities in MEES programs. English Club provides foundational phonics, daily life language, storytelling, and games to build listening and speaking skills. The Hakusan campus also runs mixed-age immersion arrangements in the afternoon, with English as the main language of instruction. English-language offerings include activities focused on phonics, routines, storytelling, and interactive language practice.
Afterschool programs include team-based projects and unplugged logic games that emphasize collaboration and peer learning. Clubs offer a range of interests such as Tech Club (coding and digital storytelling), Judo, and MakerSpace projects, supporting social interaction and shared activities. Forest education and outdoor activities promote teamwork and social development through group exploration. These activities complement classroom learning and provide informal opportunities for students to pursue personal interests.
Judo Club provides regular physical activity, focusing on balance, safe falling, strength, and discipline. The Forest program emphasizes daily outdoor exploration, hiking, hands-on nature projects, campfire lunches, and building resilience. Outdoor education fosters physical health, social skills, and environmental awareness. MEES's forest and after-school programs aim to promote physical and mental well-being beyond classroom learning.
MEES International School’s Hakusan campus is in Bunkyo, Central Tokyo, about a 5-minute walk from Hakusan Station. Children can join Preschool (ages 1–6) and Elementary (ages 6–12). Preschool combines Montessori and Reggio Emilia influences with hands-on, project-based learning with English as the main language of instruction. Elementary also centers on project-based learning and lists large open spaces plus a Makerspace/workshop and gym studio. A distinctive feature is “MEES The Forest,” described as regular one-day trips for morning/full-day students aged 4 and up, connecting learning with outdoor experiences. Optional bus service is available and Hakusan afterschool options listed by the school include clubs such as Tech Club, MakerSpace builds and Judo.
