1000 Paper Cranes Project

Do you know origami? Have you ever made a paper crane with origami paper? 

As a part of the 2023 Japan Study Tour preparation, 18 students who will go on the tour at the end of this month worked on the 1000 paper crane project to bring our paper cranes to the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Park to wish world peace. They folded 50 paper cranes each.

Six Year 9 students kindly helped Ms Suzuki to put all the paper cranes together during sports on Thursday. They worked hard so that we could finish putting all our 1000 paper cranes together in only two sports time.

The paper crane has become an international symbol of peace in recent years as a result of its connection to the story of a young Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki. The story of Sadako Sasaki, a young Japanese girl who was 2 years old at the time of the bombing in Hiroshima and died of leukaemia 10 years later became widely known to people around the world. Sadako worked on the paper cranes and completed over 1000. She believed she would get well by doing so. However, unfortunately, she died at age 12. The point is that she never gave up. She continued to make paper cranes until she died. Inspired by her courage and strength, Sadako's friends and classmates put together a book of her letters and published it. Now, people around the world have sent origami cranes to the Children of the A-Bomb statue in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and Nagasaki Peace Memorial Park as a symbol and wish for peace. 

All students who will go to Japan on the 2023 Japan Study Tour are looking forward to bringing our 1000 paper cranes to the Nagasaki Memorial Park next month. 

Mariko Suzuki

Leader of Learning - Languages