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GIS Remembers

This clever Year 7 student made her own mini poppies to give to teachers.

Mark Beales
Photos by Ritche Guisona and Egor (Year 10)
Students from Garden International School (GIS) paid respects to victims of war during a moving Remembrance Day service.
At GIS there was a special whole school assembly where a minute’s silence was observed and the Last Post was played on November 11. At 11.11am, students and staff stood for a minute’s silence to remember the fallen.
Students also read out several poems, including one by a Vietnamese poet to highlight the fact that Remembrance Day thinks about the victims of conflict from all around the globe.
A group of students from near Pattaya travelled to Kanchanaburi to visit a War Cemetery and took part in a ceremony to lay wreaths.

Several students from GIS went to Kanchanaburi for a special memorial service at the War Cemetery.

A GIS student carries a wreath at a service in Kanchanaburi.

Students from GIS wore poppies to remember the victims of war.

GIS students read out anti-war poetry at a whole school assembly.

St Andrews Drama to perform “Holes”

“The Boys” take a break from digging at Camp Greenlake.

Douglas Heron
St Andrews International Secondary Drama Department is getting ready for their production of “Holes”, the classic novel by Louis Sachar now brought to life on stage. It’s a story which will be familiar to most students at St Andrews as it’s part of the English curriculum and one of the students’ favourite texts.

A study in nastiness. The Warden - do not cross her!
The hero of the piece is Stanley Yelnats - a kid who is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Stanley is unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys “build character” by spending all day, every day, digging holes five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake: the warden is looking for something. Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous play of crime and punishment and redemption.
Come along on Tues 2nd December or Weds 3rd at 7.00pm at the St Andrews Performance Hall. Tickets are free and are available at the School Reception (Tel. 038 030 701). See you there.

Madame Zeroni warns Elya about the “curse”.

GIS Remembers

St Andrews Drama to perform “Holes”