@Our school,Yoshijima-Higashi
Elementary School,is 2-miles away from The Peace Memorial Park.All of our
school walk to the Park every April,and we play one day under many cherry-blossums.
Children of the fifth grade played with master of our school in the Peace
Memorial Park.
This picnik-day is not only a funny day but also the day of Spring excurtion
A pilgrimage to centotaphs.Children walk around the park to watch some
pilgrimages to centotaphs.And they study about Hiroshima depending on the
grade.
A monument to the memory of atomic bombed school teachers and students.
Ms.Shoko
Nishikidani(she is one of their teachers)talked to students,"Please
watch this monument and think about it."
Do you think how old is the child of this statue? Is the child fine?
Which do you think about the man holding child ,male or female? Why?
Do you seem they are so happy? Why?
There is Japanese Sonett("TANKA") under this statue.It was written by Ms.Shinoe Syoda.She wrote it when so many borns was discoveried at Hiroshima-city.
uHutoki hone wa Sensei naramu
Sono soba ni Tiisaki atama no hone atumareri.v
(The heavy bone must be a teacher.The small skulls around it students gathered around.)
Imagine the scene she wrote.What can you talk to the bones?
A statue of mother and child in a storm.
Ms.Shoko
Nishikidani(she is one of their teachers)talked to students,"Please
watch this monument and listen to me carefully."
The Statue of Mother and Child in the Storm represents a mother holding a baby tightly in her arm and protecting another child with her left arm, leaning forward, determined to survive whatever suffering may confront her.
Please read Educational plan about peace issue
in 1997 to understand our aims.
