Preparing children for school was theme of fair

Regent’s remember with poppies

Get set for a rollicking ride to Canterbury

New student loan fund system to begin next year

Preparing children for school was theme of fair

Ariyawat Nuamsawat

The BPH Kids’ Fair 2005 was held on November 12 at Bangkok Pattaya Hospital with the aim of supporting child development and preparing the very young for school. Deputy director of the hospital, Dr Narin Bunchongcharoen was the opening presenter and lots of parents and their children attended the event.

Dr Narin Bunchongcharoen, deputy director of Bangkok Pattaya Hospital, was the opening presenter.

Dr Narin said that the hospital recognizes the importance of child development at each age and that support in this area can help the children develop mentally. This will in turn enable them to make the most of their abilities and will help them go on into further education after leaving school.

The fair offered useful advice to parents on how to take care and develop their children prior to them reaching school age. Activities included a crawling competition, turning over using only the feet, and a form of yoga for the very young.

Assistant Prof Dr Sompot Iamsupasit, lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, presented a talk on preparing children for school.

Lots of parents brought their children to attend the event.

Children happily taking part in the activities.

Regent’s remember with poppies

Every year the Regent’s Secondary Student Guild and Amnesty International group raise awareness of conflict and the devastating effects that thousands of wars across the globe have had on millions of innocent people. By ordering red poppies from the British Embassy and making numerous white poppies at break and lunchtimes, the Student Guild was able to sell poppies to the Regent’s community during the build up to Remembrance Day on November 11.

Alex and Ulla are proud to wear their poppies.

This year the Student Guild has sold over 100 poppies, priced at 10 – 20 baht. In total 2,000 baht has been raised for the International Red Cross. In addition to poppy sales, the Amnesty group and IB Historians presented a very emotional assembly to the whole school on the morning of November 11. Reading poetry and stating significant facts about current conflicts being fought throughout the world made the Regent’s students think about the current global problems during a one minute silence. The silence was appropriately ended with a rendition of the Last Post played by Mr. Ian Alexander.

The Round Square Service group set up their key chain stall under the clock tower.

Regent’s are on target for their most ambitious AIDS awareness campaign yet

This year is the third consecutive year that the Round Square Council and Student Guild have targeted AIDS awareness in the Regent’s School. Money is raised, each year, by the RS service group and awareness campaigns led by the students to students. This year the RS Service group has already sold over 400 key chains ordered from the Camillian Centre; this will raise 25,000 baht for the Rayong Centre.

Gaby and Maria sell poppies at the parents and friends meeting.

In addition 650 international badges have been purchased from the Kidzpositive organization in South Africa, raising 46,000 baht for the women and children who hand make the badges. Once these badges have been sold (hopefully by 1st December) the service group will have generated another 50,000 baht for Heartt2000 in Pattaya.

December 1 is International AIDS Awareness Day and the Regent’s will have a busy schedule of AIDS awareness events that week. Some of the highlights will include: “Mercy”, a documentary of the Mercy Centre in Bangkok being shown at lunchtimes; whole school assembly and drama presentation on the morning of December 1 in the Globe Theatre; and a visit from Dr. Philippe Seur on December 2 for a question and answer session with the students. If you would like to support or be involved in the Regent’s AIDS awareness week please contact rs-pty@ regents.ac.th

Get set for a rollicking ride to Canterbury

Following the success of last year’s productions of ‘Haroun and the Sea of Stories’ and ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, this year the Secondary School students of the Regent’s School, Pattaya, present an updated version by Michael Bogdanov and Phil Woods of ‘The Canterbury Tales’ by Geoffrey Chaucer which will be performed in the Globe Theatre on November 29 and 30 at 7.30 p.m.

Students in rehearsal for ‘The Canterbury Tales’.

‘The Canterbury Tales’ is the best-known work of the 14th Century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, who is generally regarded as one of the first great authors to write in English. In the original work, a group of pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury decide to tell each other stories to pass the time during the journey. The pilgrim who tells the best story will receive a free meal when they return to London. They tell tales ranging from courtly romances full of gallant knights and maidens-in-distress to rude fabliaux telling of the perils of drink, fighting and lust! Seven hundred years later ‘The Canterbury Tales’ is still considered one of the greatest English literary masterpieces.

The Regent’s production follows a script written by Phil Woods and acclaimed director Michael Bogdanov. It updates ‘The Canterbury Tales’ into modern English and sets it within the context of contemporary Chaucer storytelling competition. On a simple set, eight different tales are performed, each having a different theme and atmosphere. With such variety, the audience can be confident that they will be entertained, surprised and amused: they may even learn a moral lesson or two!

Rehearsals involving 35 students have been taking place for the last three months and you can see the results of their hard work this week. There will be also an opportunity to see an exhibition of students’ art during the interval, during which refreshments will be served. Tickets cost 150 baht for adults and 50 baht for students. They can be reserved by telephone on 090143002 or by email on [email protected]

New student loan fund system to begin next year

Suchada Tupchai

A seminar to ensure that educationalists are fully conversant with the new system of providing loans to university students, which comes into effect next year, was conducted in Jomtien by Dr Prempracha Supasamout, manager of the Student Loan Fund office.

Dr Prempracha told delegates that all public and private educational institutes would commence the SLF system next year. SLF binds future income of the students after they graduate so that the loan is repaid, under a scheme entitled ICL (Income Contingent Loans) in accordance with government policy.

It is expected for this first year there will be about 700,000 students coming into the ICL system, which is a high quantity. The purpose of the SLF seminar was for all institutes to be ready for the ICL support systems, and for all institute SLF officers to have management knowledge and understanding of the SLF systems.

This seminar was held for five provinces over the period November 7-10, and was divided into two parts; November 7-8 was for SLF officers from the public and private universities, and November 9-10 for Ratchapat and Ratchamongkol university officers. Seminars will also be held in the North, Northeast and Southern regions.

Dr Prempracha said the SLF officers must have complete understanding of all the systems, right from the e-registration, through to application processing and money transfers.

Only pre-college and freshman university students can apply for this kind of loan. The system is open for loan repayments with an income contingent after graduation without a fixed payment period. As in the former system students must start to pay back the loan two years after graduation.

For more information please visit www.studentloan.or.th

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