Hiroshima_Academy_Junior_and_Senior_High_School

Hiroshima Academy Junior and Senior High School

Hiroshima Academy Junior and Senior High School

Private secondary school in Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Hiroshima Gakuin Junior and Senior High School (Japanese: 広島学院中学校・高等学校), is a private Catholic integrated middle and high school for boys, located in Hiroshima City, in the Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The school was established by the Jesuits in 1956.

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History

In 1956 the Society of Jesus established this as its third junior-senior high school in Japan. The school follows the broad objectives of Ignatian pedagogy, personal care for each student as an individual, and teamwork. It pursues the objective of training "men for and with others."[1]

Activities

The mountaineering club has done well in national tournaments and won the inter-high crown in 2007 and 2008. Other national prize-winning clubs at the school are for chemistry, computer programming (2008),[2] and for Shogi. Also, in 2013 four medalists from the school brought home the gold medal from the International Biology Olympiad in Switzerland, where 240 students from 62 countries or regions worldwide participated.[3]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "広島学院中学校". [中学受験] All About (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-08-16.
  2. [2]
    "パソコン甲子園2008". web-ext.u-aizu.ac.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-08-16.
  3. [3]
    Company, The Asahi Shimbun. "生物五輪、日本勢４人がメダル 広島学院高の新宅さんら". 朝日新聞デジタル (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2013-07-31. Retrieved 2017-08-16.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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