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Warm Project visits Ban Pongsaket School
Charles Evans (back row, 2nd
right), president of the Taksin-Pattaya Rotary Club, presents printers to
Ban Pongsaket School, as students and benefactors look on.
Narisa Nitikarn
The YWCA’s Warm Project paid a visit to Ban Pongsaket School on November 20,
with Nittaya Patimasongkroh, chairwoman of the YWCA Bangkok-Pattaya Center,
Pattaya Sports Club charities chairman Bernie Tuppin, and Charles Evans,
president of Taksin-Pattaya Rotary Club present to meet the children.
The Warm Project provided lunch for the school, presented scholarships, and
organized a painting competition. Birthdays for that month were celebrated,
including those of Bernie Tuppin, Dieter H Precourt, co-president of
Taksin-Pattaya Rotary Club, and Dutduan Ruangwatiwong, head of general
activities for the YWCA Bangkok-Pattaya Center.
Taksin-Pattaya Rotary Club also donated two printers to the school.
Director of Ban Pongsaket School Charat Jeenkhawkham said the school
currently has 515 students in primary and secondary classes. Twenty students
received scholarships from the Scholarship Project.
Ban Pongsaket still lacks many supplies, and at present has urgent need of
student lunch tables, ventilators for the computer room, and playground
equipment for the school grounds, amongst other items. Anyone who wishes to
make a donation can contact Charat on tel 0 81947 8100, 0 3834 6307, or 0
3834 5741.
The theme of the painting competition was “60 Years on the Throne as King of
Thailand” and it was divided into two categories for primary and secondary
classes. Winner from the primary class was Miss Uthaithip Liamkrathok, who
received 700 baht as a prize. Winner from the secondary class was Master
Pramuan Mansuk, and he also received 700 baht as a prize. Taksin-Pattaya
Rotary Club presented both awards. Awards for first runner up, third place,
and a consolation prize were distributed in the amount of 500 baht, 300 baht
and 200 baht in order of placement.
The children thanked those present by reciting poems, singing songs and
giving ever lasting beautiful smiles.
It was difficult for the
judges to make a selection from all of the nice pieces.
Secondary class school
students took part in the “60 Years on the Throne as King of Thailand”
painting competition.
Bernie Tuppin, Dutduan
Ruangwatiwong and Dieter H Precourt cut their birthday cake together.
Regent’s use change to make a change
Paul Crouch
It was a fantastic effort on top of the other service projects that have
been happening during the first term of the year. Term 1 at The Regent’s
is traditionally directed at raising money and awareness for HIV / AIDS
(more to follow on this later). After the success of last year’s coin
challenge the RS Council decided to keep it on the school calendar again
for this year. The idea being that every student collects their loose
change and brings it in to school on Monday 27th November to attempt to
make a complete chain of coins around the school oval.
 Alex
enthusiastically helps complete the project.
The secondary school raised a total of 23,000 baht and the primary
school a total of 8,000 baht. Not quite as much as last year but each
total will support our Hill Tribe project in Baan Ompai, Mae Hon Song,
and the ongoing tsunami relief work at our two adopted schools on the
island of Koh Phi Phi.
The Baan Ompai Hill Tribe project will take place in February 2007 and
will involve about 30 Regent’s students working on 3 projects in the
village of Ompai in Mae Hon Song for one week. The Regent’s primary
school is visiting Baan Koh Phi Phi School in January 2007 with 12 of
our Year 6 students. Both the primary and secondary school will then
send students down to Koh Phi Phi in June 2007 to work with the Baan
Laem Tong School and start on the construction of the new resource
centre being built there and financed by Round Square Schools.
If you would like to support or know more about any of the Regent’s
major Round Square service projects (AIDS awareness, Baan Ompai Hill
Tribe, Koh Phi Phi tsunami relief / lunch project) please contact Paul
Crouch at [email protected].
Andrew and Carol are a big
part of the project’s work.
Bavin, Big and friends in
Year 8 are obviously enjoying the fun.
Cattreya, Joyce, Marcel
and Year 12 friends are happy to get a day out, and help people less
fortunate.
Special award for Scout teachers
Mark Beales
Dedicated teachers have been given awards for helping to teach Scouting.
Around 200 teachers from Assumption College Sriracha have been improving
their knowledge of Scouting, which they will then pass on to their students.
 One
of Assumption’s teachers receives her new kerchief.
Leading figures from the world of Scouting came to Assumption recently to
hand out special kerchiefs to the teachers who achieved the required
standard.
Assumption College Sriracha teaches Scouting skills every Tuesday. Students
learn how to camp and cook, how to make knots, and have drill practice.
Brother Director Surasit Sukchai said: “We place great importance in the
skills and values that can be learned through Scouting, and have many
dedicated teachers who help our students every week.
“We are delighted that so many teachers were able to receive this special
award.”
Assumption College Sriracha is the largest school on the Eastern Seaboard.
It educates many children from Pattaya and has a variety of English courses.
For more details please visit www.acs.ac.th
Asian U in top three universities: TV game “Wad Duang” comes to Asian U
Free tee shirts
On Wednesday afternoon a group of excited Asian
University students welcomed the team from the Channel Five TV programme
“Game Wad Duang”, or Test your Luck, to the campus. The team included the
famous TV presenter Andy, better known as “Dragon Five”.
The TV crew set up their equipment in the sports centre and put up a marquee
and advertising display with games and music outside. They had with them a
group of pretty young ladies and motorcycles to promote the show’s sponsor,
Shell.
The games consisted of groups of students carrying large inflated balls
using only the long poles provided. Once one group completed the run from
one end of the sports hall to the other, another group could start. The
students were put into groups of ten on each side to carry the poles which
were used to support the large balls. They were allowed a practice run, and
then donned the promotional tee-shirts to take part in the timed event.
Co-ordination was essential, and the Asian University students quickly
adopted chants to keep their teams together. Meanwhile the remaining
students cheered their peers along. 4th year BA student Zai said that the
afternoon was fun and a good exercise in teamwork. First year multimedia
student, Ninja, explained that the oil company used the university students
to advertise their products in exchange for Asian U being advertised on the
TV show.
This is part of an inter-university competition, and in this heat, there are
15 universities competing against the clock.
The crew left to visit the 15th university, but before they left they gave
the students the good news that Asian U is currently standing second out of
the first fourteen teams who have participated. Asian U’s time was only half
a second slower than the first place team. The students look forward to
hearing whether they are second or third in the final placing.
It was a busy afternoon at the university as after the game show, the annual
mini-marathon was run round the campus.
Made it
Receiving instructions before
the games begin.
Go!
The teams were allowed a
practice run.
PSC presents weightlifting
set to Pattaya Youth Center
Narisa Nitikarn
Pattaya Sports Club has presented weightlifting and other equipment and
clothing to The Crossing, the youth center located behind Big C in South
Pattaya where youngsters play sports that range from snooker and soccer
through to skateboarding and freestyle bicycling.
 Bernie
Tuppin (front right), PSC charity chairman presents weightlifting and
exercise equipment to Jeremy Carter, owner of The Crossing.
Bernie Tuppin, charity chairman of PSC, presented the equipment to The
Crossing’s director, Jeremy Carter, on November 23.
Carter said that The Crossing is a center for sports and for teaching the
principles of Christianity. Between 30 and 40 youngsters use the center
every day, but they lacked equipment and exercise clothing.
Daniel C Docto Aka, marketing manager of the Muay Thai division at Fairtex
Sports Club and Resort had alerted the PSC to the fact The Crossing lacked
weightlifting and other equipment, and the PSC responded with a donation
that was worth in total 15,000 baht.
The Crossing has its own outdoor courtyard area that is used for sports such
as freestyle cycling and skateboarding.
Freestyle bicycling is also
exciting to watch.
The children from the youth
center performed some thrilling skateboarding maneuvers.
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