Partners
Companies, organizations, and individuals who support CGK
The high level of childcare and education at CGK are made possible by the cooperation of many people. Through interactions with the local community, students feel a sense of being a part of the local community, as well as learning about their own responsibilities and a variety of other lessons.
Here we'd like to introduce some of the wonderful companies, organizations, and individuals who make childcare and education at CGK more fulfilling and appealing.
Fitness Club BREEZBAY
Swimming Lessons in a Private Indoor Heated Pool
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.
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Manten Kids (まんてんキッズ)
Intellectual Education for Children from 2 Years-old to Elementary School
Teachers from Manten Kids nurture "the ability to think logically" through two approaches: Pygmalion (math) and Ronri Engine (Japanese).
- CGK Preschool: Extracurricular Pygmalion and Ronri Engine (論理エンジン) lessons (optional)
- Saturday School: Pygmalion (petit α / super), Ronri Engine (論理エンジン)
For more information, visit the "Saturday School" page.
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Italian Restaurant "PRIMO"
Food Education Through Authentic Italian Cuisine
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).
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Italian Restaurant "imPasto"
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.
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Fujimata Farms
Food Education: Agricultural Experience
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.
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Yokohama Excellence
Professional Basketball Team; CGK Partner Company (Excellence Business Club)
A professional basketball team based at the Yokohama Budokan.
In 2001, Yokohama Excellence was founded as an amateur men's basketball club. After winning the Tokyo Championship and finishing third in the All-Japan Club Basketball Championships the club turned professional and became Tokyo Excellence in 2012 to continue their growth and success.
On July 1, 2021, the club relocated to Yokohama and was renamed "Yokohama Excellence" to reflect its new home. Yokohama Excellence is competing this season with Yokohama Budokan as their home arena, aiming for promotion to B2, and CGK, as a partner company, will be cheering them on!
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ART-LABO NEKOTOYAGI: Mr. Jun
Awareness of LGBTQ+ and Diversity
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.
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ICONIC STAGE
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.
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Blind singer-songwriter Ryuta Kuriyama
The Experience of Blindness on World Sight Day
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.
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Kanagawa Kaigan Bikazaidan (かながわ海岸美化財団)
SDGs: Life Below Water
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.
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Tokyo Association of International Preschools (TAIP)
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.
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Machinaka Ryugaku (まちなか留学)
Easy Homestay Experience in Japan!
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.
- Machinaka Rogaining (まちなかロゲイニング) - an international exchange program with fun and challenging goals.
- WorldClassroom - an English learning and international exchange platform that connects classrooms worldwide.
CGK and HelloWorld (the operator of Machinaka Ryugaku), have signed an agreement to work together to promote the development of global talent.
Yokohama Style Club (横浜スタイル倶楽部)
Local Community "To Love Yokohama More!"
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.
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