Classes at Otaki Elementary School begin at 8:55 a.m., but once a week pupils come much earlier to weed the schoolyard or shovel snow around the school. The Middle School starts 10 minutes earlier and ends 20 minutes later. Besides classes, the students are assigned to raise animals or grow vegetables. 

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Otaki Elementary and Middle School

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Volleyball Club

 
There are plenty of things to do indoors during the winter, and volleyball is one of the most popular choices. The middle school volleyball club has 14 female and 22 male members--around two-thirds of the student body.

Practice runs each morning from 7:00 to 8:00, and again after school from 4:00 to 6:00 (4:00 to 5:00 in the winter) every day, except Sundays and during spring and summer vacation.

 
The students gather in the gymnasium and begin practicing, with boys and girls on separate courts. Ninth grade captains decide what the club members practice, and a teacher serves as an advisor to provide tips. While one seventh-grade boy said he joined the club to improve his physical strength, a tall, eighth-grade girl with big dreams said, "I want to go to the Olympics!" The intensity level in the gym rises, with students shouting as they practice their serves, spikes, and returns without pausing.

 


 


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