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MCCI students parade in the Year of the Horse
 Elementary
students lead the parade on Chinese New Year’s Day at the Montessori
School.
This year the students at MCCI School in
Naklua celebrated Chinese New Year 2002, the Year of the Horse, with a
party in the sala on the school grounds. They sang songs about dragons and
lions, heard a story about the first Chinese New Year and how an old man
chased away a dragon by wearing red and banging pot lids together. After a
big and noisy parade the children were treated to Chinese noodles and
Chinese sweets.
A
fearsome dragon gets ready to pounce during festivities marking the New
Year.
Students
of Montessori Children’s Center International School celebrate the Year
of the Horse.
Victory Family Church - MERCY Ministries looking for bicycles for new charity program
Victory Family Church - MERCY Ministries have been
providing educational sponsorship for some very needy Thai children from
School #7 for the past school year. They now have 26 students in school 7,
two of which will be moving on to secondary school at a new location next
term.
Many of them have to walk a very long way to school
& back each day and to help them, MERCY Ministries have begun a new
project.
MERCY Ministries initiated a type of ‘community
involvement program’ for students that involves the students working for
the betterment of their community & neighbors wherever they live
(usually in very poor or outright slum areas). Students sign a agreement
that commits them to work at a designated community improvement project
which is overseen by MERCY Ministries Thai director Achan Sanay Srisa-ard.
At the end of their work agreement they can earn a bicycle which will help
them get back & forth to school.
The extra benefits are that they learn a sense of
practical community responsibility; they learn to care about the needs of
others, even when their own needs seem to be so desperate; they learn that
hard work is profitable; they learn that no matter how desperate their
circumstances may be, God will always make a way for them. Obviously the
list could go on.
MERCY Ministries need help collecting bicycles. If
you’re willing to help, contact Dianne Doell Victory Family Church -
MERCY Ministries, tel. 038 373 226, email [email protected]
Over 10,000 students flock to summer tutorial camps
Students preparing for their university entrance
examination are flocking to summer camps in droves in a bid to win a
coveted place at one of Thailand’s state-run universities.
As early as 5:00 a.m. a queue had begun to form for
registration at the 13th Brand’s summer camp held at Kasetsart
University, with students unable to squash into the building. By the end
of the registration period, 12,414 students had put their names down for a
place on the 10-day camp, which will be taught by nearly 40 teachers.
The popularity of the camp attests to the growing
number of school children wishing to attend one of Thailand’s
government-run universities, which offer considerably cheaper education
than their private-sector counterparts. Places are determined by the
results of the nationwide university entrance examination. (TNA)
Thailand to host international conference on gifted children
Thailand will host an international conference on
gifted children, aimed at exchanging new techniques to take care of and
promote genius children, according to a senior organizer of the
conference.
Prof. Dr. Boonrod Bindasant announced that Thailand
will host the Seventh Asia-Pacific Conference on Giftedness at the Sofitel
Central Plaza between August 12 and 16. “The five-day conference is
aimed at exchanging techniques among participating countries on how to
properly promote and develop children and youths with special talents in
various areas,” he said.
“With proper and suitable techniques, children and
youths with special talents can be developed to their highest potential to
become valuable human resources of their countries,” he pointed out.
About 1,000 representatives of countries in Asia and
the Pacific, including those from North America, Europe and Australia, are
expected to attend the conference.
About 3% of Thailand’s children and youths have
special talents, according to Asst. Prof. Dr. Usanee, who is another
senior member of the organizing committee of the conference. “These
children and youths should be properly taken care of and developed to be
valuable human resources of the nation,” she said. (TNA)
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