United School of Tokyo

8:15 am for Grade 5-Grade 8; 8:30 am for Kinder - Grade 4; 8:45 am for Pre-school and pre-Kindergarten

Supervised care is provide between 8:00 am and 5 pm.

No. However, we have an organic lunch catering service that delivers lunches daily and could be ordered by parents.

The catering company does.

Yes, PE uniform for all grades and regular school uniform from Grade 1.

All kindergarten classes have teaching assistants in addition to lead teachers. In lower elementary, teaching assistants are employed, if needed.

In Early Years children use iPad for learning centers; starting from G3 all students have individual iPads. Middle schools students have laptops. Technology is integrated into the classwork and used across all subjects.

The school has a daily online learning protocol across all grades that includes all academic and specialty subjects. To support working parents and struggling students, in addition to the in-class support we offer daily online consultations, small-group tutoring and one-on-one sessions.

No. We welcome and celebrate all religions and cultures.

UST offeres ECAs Monday through Thursday. About 30 different clubs that include sports, visual and performing arts, and various academic activities. Individual tutoring is also available as part of our after-school program.

All students have PE classes twice a week. Starting from Grade 1, students also go swimming one a week as part of their PE activities.

The school has very accomplished soccer team, track&field team, and a basketball team.

UST has an extensive library equipped with 20,000 books. We also have a science lab, 2 art rooms and 2 music rooms, Japanese classrooms, ESL room and a counseling room.

UST uses local sports facilities near the school: swimming pool, athletic field, soccer pitch, gym. We also have a gym at our middle school building.

Native, certified elementary school teachers.

The school provides ESL and learning support services, and tutoring after school.

UST teaches Japanese every day. The classes are level-based. In addition to Japanese, a Spanish elective is offered in Middle School.

Yes. UST has a learning support specialist and a school counselor.

Our learning support specialist provides push-in and pull-out services for students whose individual requirements can be met within the mainstream classroom. We also work with independent specialists who conduct assessments and provide additional services that go outside of the scope of a learning support specialist (e.g. speech therapy, occupational therapy, ABA therapy etc. ).

UST employs differentiated, ability-based teaching that allows us to stimulate and challenge each individual student.

UST has an in-house school counselor and ties with several external educational psychologists.