|
St Andrews parents involved in children’s learning
Oanh Crouch
We have indeed so many talented and creative parents at
St Andrews International School. A working party, comprising of 11 parents
volunteered their skills to become involved with their children’s
learning, in a different way. These hard working individuals have used their
talents to create fantastic story sacks for the children. Games, story tapes
read out by parents as well as children, puppets, wooden puzzles, and jigsaw
puzzles are just some of the exciting things parents have designed and
created. Children will now find inside the story sacks a myriad of
activities and games to accompany the specific book inside. Parents have
also used individualised decorations on the story sacks so that they can be
easily recognisable and distinguished by our students.
 Mrs
Juncker created “Mr Grumpy’s Outing”
A big and tremendous thank you needs to be shouted from
the rooftops, to the parents who have donated their time, resources and
energy in order to enhance the enjoyment of books and incite a love of
reading for Early Years and Key Stage 1 children.
We now have added four new book sacks to our growing
library of story sacks.
The titles include:
* “How Do I Put It On? ‘“ created by Meryl, Mrs Belbeock and Mrs
Denning
* “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” created by Mrs Gray, Mr and Mrs Sabin
* “Mr Grumpy’s Outing” created by Mrs Juncker
* “Peace at Last” created by Mrs Yamamoto, Mrs Kono and Mrs Silvestre
* “Dear Greenpeace” created by Mrs Juncker and Mrs Pahl
 Mrs
Juncker and Mrs Pahl created “Dear Greenpeace”
The parents introduced the story sacks to the children
last Thursday. The children’s faces were certainly that of excitement and
amazement (not to mention the teachers’ faces!), as interesting items
continued to come out of the story sack for the children to play, interact
and use in order to explore the different teaching themes and plot lines of
a story. Parents also considered ways in which the activities could be
differentiated so that they can be used from the youngest and beginner
readers right through to challenging our older and more experienced readers.
Excitement and motivation continues to reign with our parents. Further
projects are underway to make even more sacks. St Andrews children are
certainly looking forward to seeing the next set of story sacks made.
Mrs
Gray, Mr and Mrs Sabin created “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”
Regent’s have a ball
in Kuala Lumpur
Thailand’s Regent’s School athletes competing in the Annual
Secondary FOBISSEA Games recently in Kuala Lumpur had more than a close eye
on the ball.
Thailand’s
Regent’s School athletes ran away with top honours and medals including
an unbeaten streak of gold medal winning performances in basketball and
netball in last four years at the Annual Senior FOBISSEA Games, a
prestigious regional tournament among the British International Schools,
recently in Kuala Lumpur.
In fact they had two of them; sisters Helen and Jenny
Ball ran away with top honours and universal plaudits from the 800
competing students, parents and coaching staff at this prestigious regional
tournament held at several locations throughout the Malaysian capital.
Their excellence on the basketball and netball courts
contributed hugely to the Regent’s unbeaten streak of gold medal winning
performances in each of the last four years.
Couple that with the sisters’ top honours in field
events and undisputed popularity off the field of play and it’s not hard
to see why the whole Regent’s squad were inspired and celebrating.
Double golds for Merle Laur and Tonis Tasa in track and field plus an
invitation to play against a full Malaysian under 21 basketball squad, were
other highlights of a very successful Regent’s tour.
Pat Floeth celebrates her birthday amongst children of Huay Pong
Elfi Seitz
Pat Floeth, the landlady of the restaurants “Deutsches
Haus” in Pattaya and “Old Germany” in Maptaput, accompanied by her
husband Dieter Floeth and a few friends, recently celebrated her birthday at
the Huay Pong Home for Children.
Walter
Stephan (left) donates 600 euros to Pornchanok Kitdamrongkui, as birthday
girl Pat Floeth (right) smiles with delight.
Pat treated the kids to a special birthday lunch and
spoiled them with 300 freshly baked donuts. The children and their teachers
were delighted by the hearty food and delicious sweets and showed their
appreciation by singing birthday-songs for Pat, who was so touched her eyes
glittered with joy.
 As
part of her birthday celebration, Pat Floeth treated the kids at the Huay
Pong Home for Children to a special birthday lunch and spoiled them with 300
freshly baked donuts.
Walter Stephan, a policeman from Hockenheim, Germany
(many will remember the city for its Formula 1 races) and a friend of
Pattaya Blatt’s sports reporter Guido Roth, who spends his yearly vacation
in Pattaya, came along as well. He delivered 600 euros to the home. This
money was collected by schoolchildren of St. Leon-Rot,
Baden-Wrttemberg, and the principal of the school, Willy Willhauck,
asked Walter to pass that money on to orphans in Thailand. His students
insisted that the money was given directly to the children.
The principal of the home, Pornchanok Kitdamrongkui, was
very happy to receive this donation and remarked that it will come in handy
to buy underwear for the children.
After the lunch many photos were taken, some games were played and all
were happy to find new friends.
Spirit Week at ISE
Students at the International School Eastern Seaboard (ISE) participated
in a Spirit Week sponsored by their Student Council. Each day, students
were encouraged to dress in unique attire that represented the theme for
the day.
 ISE
10th grade students Aino-Kaisa Leskinel and Angela Engle pose for Wild
& Wacky Day.
Monday was Red & Pink Day; Tuesday was Halloween
Day; Wednesday was Peace Day; Thursday was Wild and Wacky Day.
Spirit was high and the ISE student body & staff
came up with some awesomely creative outfits.
This coming Friday the ISE community will participate in a school-wide
talent show and next Friday will hold a Spring Fling Dance.
Chinese students keen on Thai Education
Convenient and cheaper
Thailand expects more Chinese students to study here, as higher
education in Thailand has become very popular with Chinese students.
Chinese parents are keen to send their children to study in Thailand
because it is close to China, it is cheaper and offers good value for
money.
A recent two-day Thai higher education fair in Kunming,
the capital of the southern Chinese province of Yunnan, drew crowds of
enthusiastic Chinese students and parents, according to Thai government
officials. More than 45 public and private universities in Thailand took
part in the fair. Rajabhat University campuses in the northern provinces of
Chiang Mai, Lampang and Uttaradit proved very popular, especially as
undergraduate students offered an interpretation service to their Chinese
visitors.
Random surveys of Chinese parents visiting the education
fair found they were keen on Thailand as they wanted to send their children
to study in credible institutions that were close to China. In addition, it
was important that Thai degrees are officially recognized in China’s job
market.
Prof. Pavij Thongroj, secretary-general of the Higher
Education Commission which organized the event said he was pleased with the
response they had received in Kunming. (TNA)
|
