Clarence International School

Highest Quality Education for children in their "Early Years".

The preschool years provide a unique window of opportunity, with children soaking up knowledge, social skills and behaviours rapidly. We recognise this and ensure we provide a diverse, stimulating and magical education to nourish their natural creativity.

All of our teaching comes with a firm Arts backbone, which we believe leads to maximum learning benefits. Literacy, numeracy, science and fluency in English are never compromised. Teaching children these fundamental skills via different, stimulating mediums, such as rhythm, dance, artistic techniques, story-telling and drama, helps to make the learning experience enjoyable, memorable and more permanent.

Most importantly, we provide our children with the opportunity to look at the world differently, understanding there are multiple perspectives, and prompting them to be curious, inquisitive and open minded.

Situated in the cultural heart of Tokyo, a few minutes walk from Omotesando and Gaienmae stations, Clarence International School is a beautiful, bright and sunny building set over four floors. Seinan Elementary School, Aoyama Children’s Centre and Matsuyama Ballet School are all in the vicinity. There is a children’s park three minutes walk away, where the children go for their daily play.

The inside of the school building boasts brand new specially designed classrooms, library, quiet area and play areas.

"Having visited more than 30 international schools, we couldn’t find anything that suited, until we

found Clarence. After the first trial lesson, we decided to sign up immediately; our daughter had previously refused to go to her pre-school for months, but here she had fun from the very first day. We’re very fortunate to have found a school which meets all of our expectations. It’s based on a brilliant educational concept, and in a rich school environment, which top-class teachers. My daughter is now attending summer school, and we’re looking forward to her full-time enrolment in September."

"At her previous pre-school, our daughter took 6 months to stop crying, and a year to smile when

saying ‘goodbye’ each morning. She’s a sweet and shy girl, so we thought it would be hard for her to

move to a new environment. From the first day, she was smiling, singing and dancing with the

teachers; we were surprised and thrilled to see her so delighted and enjoying the class so much.

The teachers truly care about the children and clearly enjoy teaching! The classrooms are very well

designed – inspiring, even! We look forward to seeing our daughter grow up in this school."

Exploration of the Arts is at the heart of everything we do. We strive to enable children to come into contact with spectacular artistic creations, old and new, from all over the world, not just those designed for children. Shakespeare, Monet, Mozart...... we believe that all of these works can be enjoyed by young people, and provide inspiration for their lifelong learning.

We follow, and assess, children using the academic and developmental standards set out by the British Early Years Foundation Stages curriculum.

For many children that we welcome to our Little Star class, this will be the first time they leave their parents. As such, we aim to make this transition as smooth as possible by ensuring our classes are friendly and fun - full of songs, dance, games and laughter.

For this age group, we focus on the development of personal, social and emotional skills, physical development, and communication and language capabilities - all through a fun and expansive arts-based curriculum.

Our immersive circle time activities encourage language development and physical exploration via songs and dance. Our arts-based activities encourage self expression, as well as the development of fine and gross motor skills, and body movement.

Stories and literature are integral to each day, as well as fun activities encouraging mathematical development, and the introduction of pre-writing activities to introduce letters and sounds.

Each day is an adventure for our Little Star class, as they explore our unique monthly themes, play and interact with other children and teachers, and learn fundamental life skills.