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Students showcase musical talent for Secondary Music Concert
Beautiful boys’ trio in Year
8 singing “Where is Love” from the musical Oliver Twist.
Mr Mario Maxwell Müller, Head of Music, St. Andrews
International School, Green Valley
The month of March has been very special for the secondary students as St.
Andrews International School, Green Valley Campus. The music department
hosted its very first Secondary Music Concert. If it comes to musical
talents this school definitely can proudly say they have it!
The concert was well attended by parents and students (Year 7 - 13)
showcasing their musical abilities with fantastic performances, which
included various duets, vocalists, various instrumentalists, ensembles and
soloists.
Girl’s sextet in Year 8
performing “Wide Awake” by Katy Perry.
The show featured such crowd favorites as music from the
James Bond movie “SkyFall” to Handels “Lascia ch’io pianga” from the Opera
Rinaldo; Mozart’s “Che Soave Zeffiretto” from Le nozze di Figaro, Michael
Gore “Out here on my own” from the musical Fame, Bob Thiele “What a
wonderful world”, a beautiful piano soloist performing the Chopin “Nocturne
Op 9.2” and many more other spectacular performances.
The GCSE music students performed the very first St. Andrews Green Valley
Overture and the closing ended with a high note with two spectacular
performances by the senior choir singing “Viva la Vida” by Coldplay and
“Titanium” by David Guetta.
The music students performing
the St. Andrews Green Valley Overture.
Fantastic flute duet.
Year 10 GCSE music students
performing a beautiful “Thai love song”.
Beautiful piano solo by
Gregory Gates.
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Garden promotes understanding
with anti-racism assembly
Students perform the Black Eyed
Peas ‘Where is the Love’ to spread the anti-racist message.
Mark Beales
Photos by Ritche Guisona
A special assembly was held at Garden International School (GIS) on March 21 to
mark the United Nations’ ‘Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination’.
The whole school met in the main hall for the assembly on March 21, which was
led by Principal Dr Tasker. Year 9 first gave a presentation explaining exactly
what racial discrimination was and then Year 8 students put on several skits to
demonstrate how damaging and unfair racism is.
Teachers wore the school’s new white polo shirts, but some who ‘forgot’ and wore
the blue variety were gently mocked - to help demonstrate how racism is unjust
and hurtful.
Students then rapped to the Black Eyed Peas ‘Where is the Love?’ and performed
their owner version of Michael Jackson’s anti-racist anthem ‘Black and White’,
renaming it ‘Blue and White’.
All of GIS attended the ‘anti
discrimination’ assembly and saw some powerful images.
Year 8 students put on skits to demonstrate why
racism is wrong.
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St. Andrews International School’s first
Walk-a-Thon raises in excess of 200,000 baht
Best fancy costume (left) and friends.
PTG Committee
On Friday 22nd March the Parent Teachers Group at St. Andrews
International School organized their first Sponsored Walk-a-Thon on the School
Field. The aim of the event was to create a chance for the whole School
Community to have fun with everyone’s friends and family, to get fit and help
make this a great day for the whole school. This was accomplished with over 300
children participating, many with Parents and many in fancy dress, walking
between 4 to 12 laps of a 500 metre walking circuit.
During the afternoon many attractions were arranged for the children including a
bouncing castle, face painting, and the school’s Football Academy giving
demonstrations to which the children of all ages were invited to join.
Refreshments were provided by the school’s sport’s committee and we were
fortunate to have our own special MC - Chris Parsons - on hand during the
afternoon.
Head of School and our teachers.
Prizes were handed out to the students who raised the highest
amount of pledged money and for the most outlandish fancy dressed walker. The
event raised in excess of 200,000 baht - the highest amount ever raised from a
one day event at St. Andrews International School and way ahead of our original
target. The money will go towards our three main identified projects which are
as follows:
* Assist funding a proposed Habitat for Humanity Thailand rebuilding project
that the students and parents will get involved with in June this year.
* Purchasing Resuscitation Annie Doll.
* Assist funding a new sala for the school’s hard court area.
The event would not have been such a success or an attraction without the
positive support received from Cartoon Network Amazone who not only provided the
prizes but also provided goodie bags and a balloon for all walkers and special
gift bags to the winners. Mrs. Jennifer Doig, Chief Marketing Officer of CN
kindly presented the prizes.
Family: You will never walk alone.
A special visit to the school from the Ben 10 mascot was also
arranged. He not only started the walk but also was available for photographs
with the children during the afternoon. Cartoon Network Amazone also provided a
static display of the world’s first Cartoon Network themed waterpark which is
set to make a huge splash in Bang Saray in late 2013.
Success for an event such as this is not down to one or two people - it was a
team effort. Many parents and older students during the afternoon were involved
with both registering the walkers and monitoring the number of circuits
completed. Mr. Andy Harrison, the headmaster and the teachers were all actively
involved in the planning and organization of the event before the day and also
supporting the event on the day in many helpful ways. But last and not least we
all have to thank the children who happily took part and raised this substantial
amount of money.
The whole school community is now talking about this, our successful event, and
we can go forward to planning our next event on 26 April which will be a
sparkling “Grand Opening” of the school’s new canteen.
Pure Joy from the field.
The walker’s laughter.
Hero of the day: Ben 10!
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GIS goes native
GIS students tried all kinds of activities for
Native American Day.
Mark Beales
Photos by
Ritche Guisona
Young students from Garden International School (GIS) had a fun day
living like Native Americans.
The Year 2 students took part in Native American Day by doing various
activities. These included putting up a teepee, craft activities, singing,
dancing, hunting for, cooking and eating Native American food.
How! Do you want to visit our teepee?
Students got to make their own traditional headgear.
How do we look? GIS students admire their own
creations.
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