After a rather rainy September, we are now all on track for a school year that has gotten off to a great start.

With numerous projects underway, the first school trips taking place, and assessments in full swing, our children are already right in the thick of things!

The FLT General Assembly was held on September 23, featuring a lively presentation and, above all, plenty of discussions and ideas to develop further. You can find a summary of the meeting and our upcoming projects on our website.

The association’s new board is now in place, and everyone has already started working within our two main teams—Representation and Events—which will form the basis of our organization this year.

Dear Parents, Dear Members,

This year, our General Assembly began in person at the school auditorium on Wednesday, September 23 at 9:00 a.m. and officially concluded when the online voting closed on Thursday, September 24 at 8:00 p.m.

Around forty parents attended the meeting, where we presented our association, as well as its activities and projects, and we would like to thank them for joining us.

The General Assembly was an opportunity for us to present our review of the past year (both financial and activity-related), our projects for 2026-2027, and the candidates for the new Board. Once the presentations were over, we enjoyed a friendly moment together over coffee and pastries provided by the Board members who were present.

The General Assembly also marks the election of the new Board and, therefore, saying goodbye to those who are leaving it to move on to new horizons!

We would therefore like to say goodbye to Virginie Cammas, who has been a member of the FLT Board for four years, serving as a Primary School Council representative　as Vice-President, and an active member of the Tombola team. We would like to warmly thank her for her dedication to FLT, and we know that we will still be able to count on her continued support at FLT events!

Charlotte Issoire, who also joined the Board during her first year in Japan, has been involved in several areas, including the Primary School Council, communications, the “Zero Forgotten Clothes” initiative, the Eco-Team, and the school fair (particularly the kimono fashion show). Many thanks you to her, and we wish her all the best with her professional projects in Japan!

A big thank you to Jérémie Lamboley for his commitment during his two years on the Board, particularly with the mentor programme, as well as various events such as the garage sale and school supplies orders! We know that Jérémie will continue to support us even after leaving the Board, and we are very grateful to him for that!

Thank you also to Pauline Bocquillon and Cécile Cottet, who joined the Board last year to get involved in secondary school matters, as well as the school fair and the Tombola!

Thank you all!

The vote was conducted electronically and ended on Thursday, September 24 at 8:00 p.m., officially bringing the General Assembly to a close. All members whose 2026-2027 membership fees were up to date received an email inviting them to vote on:

• the activity report;
• the financial report;
• the candidates for the new Board;
• the unchanged membership fee of JPY 1,000 per year per family.

Thank you all for taking part in the vote, and please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or comments after reading the documents.

Thank you for becoming members and encouraging other families to do the same, in order to support the work of our volunteer parents! We are also always looking for volunteers to help us, so please do not hesitate to get in touch.

You will find the voting results and details below.

Voting Results

A total of 211 members registered as of September 23, 2026 were invited to vote. 70 ballots were submitted, representing a voter turnout of 33%.

The activity report, financial report, and membership fee were approved.

Regarding the election of the new Board, we had 20 candidates for 20 positions, in accordance with our bylaws. All candidates were approved to form the Board for the 2026-2027 school year (R = returning member, N = new member):

• Marie Carbonero (R)
• Nicolas Clavel (N)
• Caroline Després (R)
• Charlotte De Certaines (N)
• Nicolas Divry (N)
• Jean-Bernard Dumerc (R)
• Jacques Faure (N)
• Philippe Fritsch (R)
• Adrien Hansel (R)
• Célia Hughes (R)
• Taeko Kitao (R)
• Dorra Mahjoubi (R)
• Yuko Magne (N)
• Charlotte Marillet-Cahill (N)
• Stéphane Marot (R)
• Séverine Nakamura (N)
• Normann Polidoro (R)
• David Sallé (R)
• Christophe Scicluna (R)
• Simon Talvard-Balland (R)

Meet the new Board very soon on our homepage!

Voting details:

Dear parents, dear members,

Every year, during our annual general meeting, we present to our members our annual report for the year past.

You will find it it a summary of the activities, actions and projects of the association

We hope to meet you during our AGM on Wednesday 23 September at 9am

If you haven’t done it already, do not forget to register here

The FLT team

Dear parents,

We invite you to our General Assembly which will be held:

📅 Wednesday, September 23
🕘 9:00–10:00 AM
📍 LFI Tokyo Auditorium

→ It’s a public holiday, but students have classes that day.

The agenda for the meeting includes:

• A look back at the past year and a review of FLT activities
• A presentation of our financial report
• Outline of projects for the coming year
• Election of the members of the board

And since this public holiday gives us a little time to get together, we suggest extending the morning with a Coffee Workshop

☕ Coffee Workshop: “What events could be planned for 2026-2027?”

📅 Approximately 10:00–11:30
📍 LFI Tokyo Auditorium

From 10:00 am, we invite you to extend the morning with coffee and a snack, on the theme:

“Imagining events for families in 2026-2027”

The objective: to exchange, share experiences and collectively generate new ideas for activities or meetings, for families and their children, from kindergarten to high school.

In small groups, we will reflect on, among other things:

• opportunities to bring families together;
• cultural and linguistic exchanges;
• activities for children;
• ways to open the establishment up more to families or the neighborhood.

The exchanges will then be pooled.

And if some of these ideas inspire you to take them further, the FLT will also need people to bring them to life!

Whether a member or not, this discussion time is open to all parents.

Wednesday, September 23rd is a public holiday : take advantage of this to take the time to get together for these two highlights — to review the past school year and to think together about the one that is beginning.

Register to participate here

We hope to see many of you there.

The FLT team