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The Sunnyside International School campus is located at 4-10-25 Iwai, Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture, 501-3101, Japan. Kindergarten and Primary School are part of Sunnyside. The school operates in English and Japanese through a bilingual program.
The school is fully authorized as an International Baccalaureate World School and offers the IB Primary Years Programme. Language Acquisition includes a dual-language program of English and Japanese. English Education is integrated with daily life context to support English language development. KAURI Learners is a sister-school program with a New Zealand partner to support studying abroad. ICT education is emphasised to build IT skills and digital literacy. Most of the students are Japanese, and the school's approach combines inquiry-based learning with student agency within the PYP framework.
KAURI Learners provides study-abroad opportunities through Sunnyside's sister-school arrangement with a New Zealand partner.
Sunnyside International School is located in Gifu City, about a 20-minute train ride from Nagoya, in an area known for the Nagara River and surrounding mountains. The school’s programmes span early childcare (from 6 months) through elementary Grade 6, with kindergarten and a primary department. Sunnyside became Japan’s first PYP authorized “Article one” school in 2016, and its primary programme is underpinned by the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP). The school’s language policy places Japanese as the first language of schooling while increasing English use step-by-step, supported by English specialist teachers. A distinctive feature highlighted on the site is its collaboration with educator James Nottingham’s “Challenging Learning,” including use of the “Learning Pit” model to help students understand what learning feels like.
