SGH

（校長日記2014年4月11日より）

昨日、始業式で生徒に報告し、ご家庭にお手紙をお渡ししましたが、今年度、本校は文科省のスーパーグローバルハイスクール（SGHと略）に認定されました。

今年の1月に文部科学省から将来のグローバル・リーダーの育成を目指す教育研究校として、SGHが公募されました。その内容が本校のミッションと一致するものだったため、これまで積み上げてきた２８プロジェクトの取り組みをベースに、認定によってさらに広がる可能性をビジョンとして描き、応募申請を行ったところ、3月14日に認定されました。

このチャンスを活かし、創立以来の社会を支える女性を育てるという目標のもとに、教育活動をさらに発展させるつもりです。また、国の研究委託であるということを真摯にうけとめ、その成果を多くの学校とシェアしていきたいと考えています。

こうした機会が得られたのは、28プロジェクトへの生徒達の積極的な参加、失敗を恐れずチャレンジすることを応援してくださる保護者の皆様、品川ファミリーのみなさまと校外の皆様のご支援があってこそと心から感謝しています。

研究指定期間は、平成26年度からの5年間と予定されており、SGHの課題研究と関連した取り組みを順次開始します。

From the principal

(Principal’s Diary April 11, 2014)

In this school year, our school had been certified as a Super Global High School (hereafter using the SGH, the abbreviation of it), which I reported to students yesterday at the opening ceremony of this school year and have distributed a letter to each home.

In January of this year, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) publicly announced to start the “Super Global High School (SGH) Program”, in which schools aim to foster globalized leaders, and MEXT started recruiting schools. Since the contents of the program align with the mission of our school, we applied to it. Based on the studies of “28 project” we have been building in the past, we described how our school would utilize the SGH program as an opportunity to expand the “28 project”. Consequently, our school got certified on 14th of March.

Taking this opportunity, we intend to develop our educational activities further under the goal of fostering women who contribute to society, which is a goal we inherited since the establishment of the school. Moreover, we are going to share the outcomes of the SGH study with other schools with the understanding that the SGH program is a g overnment initiative to improve the Japanese education system and the nation as a whole.

We profoundly appreciate each of our students who actively participates in “28 project”, as well as each of the parents, Shinagawa family members and e xternal supporters of our school, all of whom endorse our fearless attitudes to embrace these challenges even if we fail. With those, we could have such an opportunity.

The SGH project is to be held for 5 years from FY2014. We are going to start the SGH project studies and related activities in order.