Airing your concerns in a new school year greeting – toilet troubles
If you have any concerns related to school life, you should inform the school as early as possible. The beginning of the new school year is a good opportunity. Schoolteachers will provide special care for your child as necessitated by your concerns, which you can mention when you write a new school year greeting. You should speak to teachers directly to share more detailed aspects of your child’s behavior or your own thoughts and feelings. Here are some messages dealing with toilet troubles.
Model
Conversational flow and useful expressions
Greeting
Saying that you have a concern
Your concern
Request
Parent's name
Supplement
To describe grades in preschool, some schools give the class or grade names such as himawari-gumi ("sunflower class") or tsubasa-gumi ("wings class"). They may use "san" instead of "gumi", for example himawari-san or tsubasa-san, or a combination of the two, as in himawari-gumi-san or tsubasa-gumi-san. Although it depends on the school, younger classes may be given names with the -chan suffix, such as zero-chan for age 0-1, issai-chan for age 1-2, and nisai-chan for age 2-3. Kindergarten children, or children 3 years of age and older, are often referred to by their level in a three-year system: nensho-san for first-year students (age 3-4), nenchu-san for second-year students (age 4-5) and nencho-san for third-year students (age 5-6). For classes of children under 3 years of age, -chan tends to be added to the name, with –san used for classes of children over 3 years of age.
「すみませんが、よろしくお願いします」(sumimasen ga yoroshiku onegai shimasu, or "I’m sorry to trouble you but thank you in advance") is acceptable as a closing sentence. However, if you are worried that you will be creating extra work for the teachers, you may use the more polite phrase: 「お手数をおかけしますが、よろしくお願いします」(otesu o okake shimasu ga yoroshiku onegai shimasu, or "I’m sorry to trouble you but thank you for dealing with this matter").