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Students lead the way
with energy and enthusiasm
The Regent’s Secondary Student
Guild, which is once again a ‘Care for Kids’ Bronze sponsor, present Woody
with a cheque for 10,000 baht.
Karyn Walker
Youthful energy and enthusiasm was much in evidence this week when
representatives from International School Eastern Seaboard (ISE) and The
Regent’s School got together to reaffirm their commitment to supporting the
2006 Jesters ‘Care for Kids’ Charity Drive, now in its 9th year.
Heather, Alexandra, So Hyoung and Tae Ho took great pleasure in representing
the ISE Student Council and presented Lewis ‘Woody’ Underwood, Jesters
Charity Drive chairman, with a cheque for 25,000 baht, making ISE once again
a Silver sponsor of this year’s charity drive.
The students worked hard at their fundraising this year – they held their
annual ‘Walkathon’ in January on the beautiful Burapha golf course with
students from the ISE, and some children from the Fountain of Life Center,
energetically walking distances of up to 14 km! All the effort and ‘legwork’
paid off, however, as the event raised around 130,000 baht and enabled the
council to continue to support charities in the region. Namely the Fountain
of Life Center, the Camillian Center, and once again be a Silver sponsor of
the Jesters Charity Drive.
Pom and Nics represented the Regent’s Secondary Student Guild which is once
again a ‘Care for Kids’ Bronze sponsor. Woody visited school recently to
receive the cheque for 10,000 baht.
Like ISE students, Regent’s students work hard at their fundraising, with
money raised through many different events like student discos, bake sales
and mufti days. (Sounds like these initiatives give everyone the opportunity
to have fun AND raise money at the same time!) This year, as well as
supporting Jesters ‘Care for Kids’ the Guild also initiated a Hill tribe and
AIDS projects.
Woody was full of praise for the students who continue to support the
Jesters annual charity drive and show such dedication to helping people in
need.
“I cannot thank the International School communities in the region enough
for their continued support – the generosity of students, staff and parents
is great and their enthusiastic efforts make a valuable contribution to the
Jesters ‘Care for Kids’ annual fundraising effort and at the Jesters
Children’s fair and family day.”
So, having already had a busy and successful year fundraising, the students
are now looking forward to the Jesters Children’s Fair, which will be held
once again at the Diana Garden Resort and Driving Range on Sunday, September
10. The fair has something for everyone and international schools in the
region provide lots of fun for the younger ones with a range of stalls and
exciting activities. Don’t miss it! Make a note in your ‘family events’
diary now – Sunday September 10, Children’s Fair and, six days later on
Saturday September 16, the Jesters Pub Night at Jameson’s.
Pom and Nics represented the
Regent’s Secondary Student Guild which is once again a ‘Care for Kids’
Bronze sponsor.
Sports Camp returns to St. Andrews
Over seventy students from
the Eastern Seaboard participated in last year’s Sports Camp.
Last July, St. Andrews International School, near
Pattaya, hosted a Sports Camp for the first time. With over seventy
students from the Eastern Seaboard participating, including students
from all four major international schools in the area, the Sports Camp
was a resounding success.
St. Andrews School is happy to announce that this year’s camp, Sports
Camp 2006, will take place on Monday July 10 through Friday July 21.
Sports Camp caters for children aged 6-16 years and St. Andrews Play
Camp provides a stimulating and secure environment for children aged 3-6
years.
Camp organizer, Spencer Bragg, insists that this year’s camp will offer
the children even more choice than last year, and that families should
reserve places in order to avoid disappointment. Reservations can be
made direct with Spencer at: [email protected] or call St. Andrews
School direct: 038 893716-8
Sports Camp was established to:
* Offer children a structured and stimulating environment, where they
can enjoy fun and friendship with other children of a similar age.
* Encourage the children to stay healthy and active during the long
holiday.
* Offer a wide variety of sporting opportunities in order to encourage
lifelong leisure interests.
* Emphasize the need for a balanced diet and regular exercise in order
to stay fit and healthy for life.
Sports Camp offers a wide range of sporting and leisure activities for
children, age 6-16 years, including; yoga, dance, gymnastics, tennis,
badminton, table tennis, tee ball, outdoor adventure, football,
horsemanship, mountain biking, golf and much more!
The new Sports Camp and Play Camp brochure will be out in a few weeks
where you will find a whole range of sporting opportunities on offer.
The camps operate Monday-Friday from only 6,000 baht/week/person!
Transport is also available from all local areas. Remember to reserve
places early to guarantee that your child’s vacation gets off to the
perfect start!
Sports Camp encourages
children to stay healthy and active during the long holiday.
Regents look to go “Green”
The winning models and
designers of the fashion show.
Paul Crouch
Last week was the Round Square “Green Week” at The Regents School,
Pattaya. Environmental awareness is the third Pillar of the Round Square
IDEALS and every year both the Secondary and Primary RS Councils look to
promote environmental awareness throughout the school. This year “Green
Week” took place from the 22nd – 25th May and involved the coordination
of the Green Committee lead by Gaby (Year 12 IB student) as the
Environmental Pillar Leader for this academic year.
 A
primary “Eco-Dude”.
In the primary school, an extremely vibrant and enthusiastic group of
students, called the “Eco-Dudes,” have promoted a cleaner school
environment and recycling throughout the year. A petition was even
presented to the secondary students in an assembly a couple of months
ago by the primary “Eco-Dudes,” highlighting the disapproval of litter
dropping around the oval and secondary school buildings and demanding
that a more concerted effort was made to keep our own environment clean
and tidy.
Green Week brought the efforts of both environmental groups together and
saw a number of green initiatives implemented across the school campus.
Recycling has been one of the main objectives (and hopefully now a long
term and permanent one) initiated by the Green Committee, focusing
mostly on paper recycling and energy conservation in all the classrooms
and offices in the school. Each House has also been encouraged to
recycle by being designated large recycling bins, placed and colour
coordinated under the clock tower. By the end of the week, all four of
these were full of plastic bottles, cans and cardboard.
 Prasong
and Margaret model for Red House.
During the week, the “Green Guerrillas,” who stated environmental facts
and demonstrated the importance of paper recycling and energy
conservation, interrupted normal academic lessons. On the Tuesday and
Wednesday lunchtimes two environmental debates were held in the school
library, contested between the Houses. The debates generated heated
discussions and questions regarding the impact of humans upon the
environment and the importance of a sustainable approach to development
in the future.
The week finished with a bake sale to raise funds for future green
initiatives (e.g. more recycle bins and litter picking gloves), and a
very entertaining fashion show under the clock tower. The fashion show
theme was recyclable materials and each House, plus the primary school
entered a male and female contestant. The judges found it very difficult
to choose winners for the different categories as the effort and design
work was extremely impressive. It was great to see so many students from
both the primary and secondary schools under the clock tower at a
lunchtime supporting such a fun event but with an important message. The
students are already looking forward to “Green Week” which will be held
at the same time next year.
Kevin and Seung Min
demonstrate how to use the new paper recycling boxes.
Twice the teachers they were
Assumption College Sriracha has doubled its
foreign staff over the past 12 months.
A prestigious school has doubled its number of English teachers - in a
year. Assumption College Sriracha, in Chonburi, has expanded its English
departments over the past 12 months. There are now 29 English teachers
at Assumption, compared with 14 last year.
The school currently runs several English programmes for its 4,200
students. The Catholic-run college educates children from Kindergarten
through to Mathayom 6 and is the largest educational facility on the
Eastern Seaboard.
It recently introduced an English Programme, in which students learn
English, maths and science from native-English speakers. The growth of
after-school classes has also meant there has been a need for more
English teachers.
Brother Director Surasit Sukchai said, “We place great importance on
learning English as part of preparation for the outside world. We are
delighted to welcome so many new faces to Assumption and look forward to
seeing the benefits they will undoubtedly bring to the school.”
For more details visit www.acs.ac.th
Nurse trainers from Nonthaburi improve their English at Asian U
King of Boonland visits the Queen.
Mrs Jones at the tax office.
For the past five weeks a group of eleven trainers from Borommarajonani
College of Nursing in Nonthaburi have been studying hard at Asian
University to improve their English language skills. They were very
motivated students, partly because they are off to a conference in
Perth, Australia next week, to put their new knowledge into practice.
They have been in class for 25 hours each week, and have also had to
complete homework assignments and project work.
The ladies have enjoyed their time at Asian U, and on their last day
there, they put on three very entertaining plays to show off their new
skills.
Everyone at Asian U is looking forward to welcoming another group of
twenty-two nurse trainers from the same college next month. These
courses form part of the English Immersion Programme, more details of
which are on the website at www.asianust.ac.th
The photos show the ladies made-up and dressed-up for the parts they
played. Faculty members and other staff from the university provided an
enthusiastic audience.
Chaos at the fire station, one of the
entertaining skits the trainers performed.
Cast and Ajarn George.
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