Learning at CGK reaches beyond the classroom. Through sport, food, art, nature and international exchange, our partners bring children meaningful experiences and fresh perspectives.
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Yokohama Excellence
CGK supports Yokohama Excellence as a Gold Partner for the 2026–27 season. Our relationship began with the Business Club in 2023–24, and the club has joined our School Festival every year since 2023.
Basketball shooting activities, Pick & Roll photo booths, messages of support and signed raffle prizes have brought our communities together in different ways. These exchanges help children connect with local sport and the people around them.
On October 17, 2026, CGK Presents brings families and the wider community together to cheer for Yokohama Excellence.
Swimming & local learning
Fitness Club BREEZBAY
Swimming lessons in a privately reserved indoor heated pool help children build confidence, fitness and water skills. CGK Preschool works with specialist coaches to bring swimming into school life.
The benefits of swimming from an early age include "building basic physical strength," "improving cardiopulmonary functions," "increasing resistance to colds," "developing well-balanced muscles throughout the body," and "preparing for accidents in rivers or oceans," etc. Many families have their children take swimming lesson outside of school.
CGK Preschool rents a heated indoor swimming pool and offers 14 swimming lessons per year by professional coaches. The program is very popular.
A Swimming Report Card is sent home every six months to update parents regarding their children's swimming ability. In addition, the pool uses Clear & Humics, a water purification solution that protects and moisturizes the skin while detoxifying any harm from chlorine.
Singer-songwriter Ryuta Kuriyama and his guide dog Angie visit CGK for special lessons. Meeting and learning together helps children understand visual impairment and different ways of experiencing the world.
Every year on October 10, World Sight Day, CGK educates students about visually impaired people and guide dogs. We invited Mr. Kuriyama (and his guide dog, Angie) to come to the school and give a special lesson. Mr. Kuriyama is an employee of a special school for the blind and is himself visually impaired and living with a guide dog.
Mr. Kuriyama's lesson is very meaningful in terms of learning about diversity, but "diversity" is still not well understood in Japan, and many things are yet to be achieved. We hope that through this kind of experience, the children's thinking and behavior will be influenced, which will lead to a more positive future.
Connecting people through interests, local information and mutual support, Yokohama Style Club builds a community where residents can discover more reasons to love Yokohama.
This club is working to develop a community where people can " love Yokohama more" by making friends through hobbies and favorite pastimes, exchanging information on daily life and child-rearing, and supporting each other.
Backing the activities of those who are active in the community
Regularly hold exchange events (about twice a month), utilizing the venues belonging to collaborative partners
Established "Yokohama Style Club (横浜スタイル倶楽部)" within the "My Commu (マイコミュ)" application.
└Share local information useful for living and raising children
└Sharing functions (lending and borrowing of goods, supporting on each other in daily life, child transportation, childcare, etc.)
└Zero registration fee, zero handling fee, and insurance included.
PRIMO shares the enjoyment of authentic Italian food with children. Owner-chef Mr. Suwaki brings experience from restaurants in Italy and Yokohama to CGK’s food education activities.
After owner-chef Mr. Suwaki studied local cuisine at restaurants (a Michelin-starred restaurant, etc.) throughout Italy, he worked as executive chef of the famous Italian restaurant "Campuza" in Yokohama for seven years after its establishment before launching his own restaurant "PRIMO".
Normally, preschool children are not allowed to enter Primo, but CGK reserves the entire restaurant so that the children can taste authentic Italian cuisine and have the experience of enjoying a luxurious full-course meal as a family.
In the past, Primo has supported CGK food education in various ways, such as providing cooking lessons on how to make colzetti, and actually serving vegetables harvested by children at Fujimata Farms actually served to customers at the restaurant (learning about food distribution).
Food Education: Experiencing How to Make Handmade Pizza
ImPasto opened in Motomachi, Yokohama, in April 2022, and is a sister restaurant of Italian restaurant PRIMO. It is famous for its pizzas baked in a wood-fire oven.
By actually going to ImPasto to learn how to make pizza and pasta, CGK has provided students with very valuable life experiences.
At Fujimata Farms in Yokohama’s Asahi Ward, vegetables are grown around an annual food education plan developed with CGK. Visiting the farm helps children connect food with the people and places that produce it.
Every year, CGK consults with Fujimata Farms (Asahi-ku, Yokohama) to make plans in advance about our yearly food education. Fujimata Farms then grows vegetables according to the plan. This education is not just about "harvesting vegetables and having fun", but involves the entire process of plowing, planting, weed pulling and harvesting in the actual fields.
To keep the children interested in food growth and anticipating harvest time, we also Fujimata Farms give us reports on the growth of the vegetables along with photos. This ensures that the entire experience is very special as well as educational.
ICONIC STAGE grows edible flowers, herbs and leafy vegetables indoors using LEDs and hydroponics. Visits offer children a different perspective on farming, food and how ingredients reach our plates.
Food Education: Observing and Experiencing LED Growing Farm Facility
Located in the hip Higashi-Hakuraku building, Iconic Stage makes delightful and original sweets and snacks using edible flowers, herbs, and leafy vegetables. These ingredients are grown in their in-house farm that uses LEDs and hydroponics.
CGK students are learning about various forms of agriculture through a food education experience that differs from the usual farm experience. They took a tour and listened to an explanation of this LED cultivation facility (3rd floor) and ate the flowers and vegetables grown in the facility, and decorated into pancakes at the restaurant on the first floor.
Learning about differences opens the door to self-expression. With Jun from ART-LABO NEKOTOYAGI, children explore diverse perspectives and ways to express themselves. Read about our 2026 parent-and-child workshop.
CGK invites Mr. Jun, a transgender person who works as an active nanny, as a guest every year to give a special lesson on understanding LGBTQ+ and diversity through the concept of "differences", which is easy for children to understand.
Rather than assuming things are right and denying others, we hope that by becoming aware of diversity, children will have the opportunity to build a foundation that they can remember when they grow up. This will help them to expand their circle of friends in the future.
Kanagawa Kaigan Bikazaidan specialises in keeping coastlines clean. Workshops and hands-on learning help children understand marine environments, microplastics and how everyday choices can make a difference.
The Kanagawa Kaigan Bikazaidan is the only organization in Japan that specializes in cleaning coastal areas, they raise awareness and hold school caravans and beach cleanups, and provide support for beach cleaning volunteers.
At CGK we also have lessons that focus on marine life and the marine plastic problem, and with the cooperation of the Kanagawa Kaigan Bikazaidan, we hold a workshop called "Making a Kaleidoscope of Microplastics".
The children learn from hands-on experiences that the marine environment is being destroyed through human activities, which has a strong impact on both marine life and human life. We also talk about what we can do to help, and support the children in gaining awareness of the SDGs through their own learning experience.
Pygmalion mathematics and Ronri Engine Japanese language activities help children from age two to elementary school develop logical thinking through enrichment learning.
Tokyo Association of International Preschools (TAIP)
TAIP connects international preschools through professional learning and networking. Conferences and workshops offer CGK teachers opportunities to develop their practice in English.
Preschool Foreign Teachers to Improve the Quality of Early Childhood Education
The Tokyo Association of International Preschools (TAIP) was established with the mission to support international preschools in the Tokyo area in terms of networking, staff development, parent education, and publicity.
While there are many training programs in Japan for teachers to improve their skills in Japanese, there are not many training programs in English. Therefore, CGK has joined TAIP to provide an environment where non-Japanese staff can attend workshops in English so that they can improve their skills, thereby contributing to the overall improvement of CGK.
HelloWorld’s Machinaka Ryugaku makes international homestay experiences possible within Japan. CGK and HelloWorld collaborate to broaden children’s perspectives through language, culture and real connections.
Their mission is to create a society where having friends in every country is commonplace. They plan, develop, and operate various international exchange education projects. While using English as a communication tool, it allows children to get great educational opportunities by exposing them to diversity which broadens their perspectives.
Some of their initiatives include:
Machinaka Ryugaku (まちなか留学) - a program that allows people to easily experience homestays with international families in the Kanto and Okinawa regions.
