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Koh Larn schoolchildren receive wall painting awards
The happy benefactors arrive
at Muang Pattaya School 10 (Koh Larn).
Narisa Nitikarn
Pattaya School No 10 on Koh Larn was the destination on December 1 for
Nittaya Patimasongkroh, chairwoman of the YWCA Bangkok-Pattaya Center, and
charity chairman of the Pattaya Sports Club Bernie Tuppin as they set out to
present awards for wall paintings performed by the pupils and to present a
slap-up lunch for the kids into the bargain.
Both associations are active in awarding scholarships to Pattaya
schoolchildren and on this occasion Koh Larn School received two special
scholarships from the PSC and one scholarship from Dieter H Precourt,
co-president of the Taksin-Pattaya Rotary Club.
The wall painting competition was divided into primary and secondary school
classes and held under the theme, “Love Pattaya, preserve the environment”.
Given the difficulty of judging what proved to be very high-class work, the
judges distributed awards to all the participating student groups.
Pattaya School No 10 at present has 410 students, with 16 of them receiving
scholarships from YWCA.
Time to distribute awards.
We should not forget the
sponsors of our painting this time.
YWCA Bangkok-Pattaya Center
and the Pattaya Sports Club present themselves to Muang Pattaya School 10’s
students.
Eat as much as you can.
St. Andrews Bangna enjoys fun
Loy Krathong
St. Andrews International School, Bangna Campus held
their annual Loy Krathong festivities recently. Students, teachers and
staff had the honour of welcoming H.E. Mr. David Fall, the British
ambassador to enjoy the singing and dancing performed by students and
professional Thai dancers.
 Children
present the grand krathong to special guest, H.E. David Fall, British
ambassador to Thailand.
The ambassador was greeted by the school’s managing director, Graham
Sullivan, and head of school, Miss Karen Jones, along with the students
and staff who were all dressed in traditional Thai costume for this
special occasion.
In addition to the performances, the special guest was invited to draw
the winning Prince and Princess Noppamas from each year group. The
students then presented the ambassador with his own krathong to thank
him for visiting the school.
Activities continued with the children making and floating their own
krathongs and a grand buffet lunch which was kindly provided by parents.
Children at St. Andrews Bangna enjoyed their Loy Krathong Day at school
very much and were very grateful to have the opportunity to perform to
their parents and such an important guest.
The students performed
traditional Thai song and dance.
Shopping with a difference with PILC
The children say a big Thank
You to PILC members who took them shopping.
Helle Rantsén
Welfare chairperson PILC
If you went shopping last Thursday in Carrefour you might have noticed a big
group of children all wearing similar T-shirts from Ban Jing Jai. Ban Jing
Jai is a home for 48 children in all ages. Some of the children have
families, some have not, but everybody has in common that they have nowhere
to live and no one to look after them if they had not been living at Ban
Jing Jai.
Accompanying the children were 14 Pattaya International Ladies Club (PILC)
members all trying to help the children find the perfect set of cloths for
this year’s Christmas party at Ban Jing Jai. All children were allowed to
buy one set of cloths and one pair of shoes by their own choice.
It is not always easy to help, especially if the store does not have Hip Hop
cloths and the right pair of shoes. But in the end everybody found what they
liked.
The children were very well behaved and some of them even spoke a bit of
English making it easier for the non-Thai speaking PILC members. The
shopping is not only fun for the children it is also a fun and eye opening
experience for the PILC members.
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There are so many to choose from! |
The youngsters enjoy
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Regent’s Senior Girls Shine at International Convention for Youth Leaders in Singapore
Pom and Tina (Year 12 IB)
Marite and Jar
(Year 11 IGCSE)
Between the 20th-24th November 2006; Pom, Tina, Marite and Jar went off for
the 1st International Convention for Youth Leaders in Raffles Girls’ School,
Singapore under the theme, ‘Empowering Leading Ladies for the World Stage’.
Over 130 female delegates from different regions of the world came together
for the journey of leadership. This convention’s aims were to heighten
delegates’ sense of identity as female leaders as well as provide a platform
for delegates to find their voices as female leaders. This provides us with
the fundamental grounding in understanding others and ourselves.
Not only that, we learned more about new cultural interactions. Friends,
relationship and love were the crucial benefits that we achieved from it.
We were glad that we had this great opportunity to represent the Regents’
and Thailand by being in one of the best leading schools in Singapore. It
was such a wonderful and most memorable trip that we have ever had. This was
achieved through the use of the PEAKS Profiling System, the Sight Flight
Light Leadership Framework throughout the convention through dialogues with
speakers, workshops, fieldtrips, scenario planning, and also we had the
chance to explore Singapore.
Through-out the convention we had many creative and interactive games. The
first day, we had an orientation. First we all thought that they were going
to make us run around the school but instead they had prepared 8 different
stations where each group had to go and receive points for their
performance. Each team had to make up a cheer.
The objectives of the orientation were:
* To allow for student leaders to get to know one another better and
possibly exchange experiences and knowledge
* To introduce the theme - female leadership - through the RGS Sight Flight
Light Leadership Framework and PEAKS model to student leaders
* To introduce the participants to the various facilities within the Raffles
Girls’ School compound
* To allow for participants to understand the leadership models better by
establishing links between daily life anecdotes to the leadership models in
discussion
* To increase the awareness of the sub-themes of the Convention - Sight,
Flight, Light - among participants
For the scenario activity on the fourth day, we were provided with different
scenarios based on our cluster and assigned a stakeholder role as a group.
We were provided with minimal research materials in the handbook; informal
journalism was the only way for us to gather the information by interviewing
the public. To be able to carry out a successful interview, we were given
several tips.
My cluster group “Mother Teresa / Charity” was a proposition for feminist
supporters of the gender quota policy. We were the supporters of the
feminist movement, arguing that influential companies ought to represent the
gender mix of population. With traditional Asian values significantly in
play, it is socially awkward for men to relinquish their roles to women.
Also, there is a social stigma for women to move from their domestic arena
to the working world. Thus, the gender quota is a practical and necessary
approach.
The scenario topic for debate was empowerment, affirmative action and
meritocracy. I was responsible for the introduction of the debate. When my
clusters’ friends voted me into position, I panicked and was not sure what I
was supposed to do.
Luckily, my facilitator supported me and kindly gave me some advice about
the debate. This teamwork helped us win the debate. I was glad that I took
part in the debate and gained encouragement to speak up in front of over 130
youth leaders.
Before the last day, we had a great chance to take part in the RGS-ICYL
concert; as we were the only school which came from Thailand, we were asked
to perform a short cultural exchange for everyone that night. We chose Thai
dancing which was carried out successfully. All of my friends love it and
they wished that we could have time to teach it to them. Unfortunately, the
conference was too short and we were sad to leave on the next day. However,
we gained so many wonderful experiences from it and I am sure that everyone
after reading this article would want to have been there with us as it was
the most amazing convention ever!
We learnt that a true leader is one who empowers others and we are sure that
we are one of them.
Tina with the Regent’s flag
and fellow delegates.
Tina and her new friends.
Pom leads the way.
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