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Pattaya School No. 8 dominates To Be No. 1 dance finals
The
“Excellent Team” from Pattaya School No. 3
won the Junior category.
The
“Success Team” from Pattaya School No. 8
won the early-teens division.
Chonburi Public
Relation Department
Young dancers from Pattaya School No. 8 placed in all
three categories of last month’s To Be No. 1 Aerobics & Dancercise
Championships.
The Sept. 26 event at the Central Chonburi department
store saw the “Success Team” of early-teens win first place in the regional
championship. The school’s “Rabbit Team” of kids ages 6-9 and “Stronger
Team” of teens 14 and up took second place in their respective categories.
The
“Explosion of Satit Team” from Satit Udomsuksa School won first place in the
Teens division.
Pattaya School No. 3’s little ones took first place in
the music-dance contest while teenagers from Satit Udomsuksa Academy won
first in the older-student category.
Pattaya Arunothai School students placed second in the
age 10-13 bracket and third in the 14 and up bracket.
The To Be No. 1 Foundation was set up by HRH Princess
Ubolratana Rajakanya to help keep Thailand’s youth away from drugs. The
dance competitions play on youngster’s love of music to get them working in
groups of 12-20 kids to be creative and motivated to compete. The Chonburi
final was one of three regional contests this year and was sponsored by the
Chonburi Public Health Department.
More than 90 area children participated.
St. Andrews host in-service
development for primary teachers
Teaching and learning is a lifetime journey
Developing fine motor skills.
Jude Payne, Year 5
teacher at St Andrews
Recently, St. Andrews International School, Green Valley
hosted the annual “In-service Day” professional development and teacher
workshop seminars for primary staff. Seven schools from Bangkok and the
Eastern Seaboard region participated, taking part in workshops, networking
conferences and guest speaker presentations.
The day started off with a welcome from keynote speaker
and St. Andrews International School’s managing director, Andy Harrison, who
also provided the motivation for the day’s learning. Urging all educators to
“make a difference,” Mr. Harrison spoke about the need to “think outside of
the box” and cultivate the motivation for learning.
In-service days provide opportunities for teachers to
connect with each other and develop their teaching skills. This day included
engaging activities that challenged the teachers to try out new educational
techniques and encouraged them to step outside of their comfort zone by
exploring innovative ways to teach and revolutionary methods of learning.
Teachers
getting into the groove.
St Andrews year 2 students are powerful communicators
Careful
planning and construction of the power stations.
Carole Parker, Year 2
teacher at St Andrews School
The year two children at St Andrews have been making
power stations as part of their unit on Electricity. First they had to look
at different types of power station, then talk with their group members
about the type of power station they wanted to build.
Collaborative painting during their project.
Using a variety of materials such as card tubes, cereal
boxes and glue they then made their models. A week later they painted them
to make them look more realistic.
They have had to be really good communicators when doing
this task, listening to each other and putting forward their own ideas.
Helping them have been four girls from Year 12 who have encouraged them,
added helpful ideas and even mopped up paint. Thank you to them for coming
to our class.
Maura
from year 12 helps the year 2 students.
Pattaya, Sheraton, Chonburi
agency donate 52,000
in scholarships, aid to poor
Local
children receive scholarships from 3 benevolent organizations.
Vimolrat Singnikorn
The Sheraton Hotel Pattaya, Chonburi Social Development
Center and Pattaya City officials handed out 52 scholarships and welfare
stipends to poor children and families.
Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome hosted the presentation ceremony
Sept. 29. He said the city has aided 164 families and children with gifts of
up to 2,000 baht. Last month he handed out 42 stipends of 1,000 baht each to
poor families.
The Sheraton, which operates a “Brother Teaches Sister”
mobile children’s education center that assists kids with homework and
offers hotel occupational training, donated an additional 10 scholarships
worth 1,000 baht each.
The mayor said the city continually surveys the local
population to determine which families have real need. However, due to city
regulations, it needs assistance from the Chonburi Social Development Center
to distribute cash. The city does, however, also offer counseling and other
support services.
R.E.P.S. Fun Run for Mercy
Raymond Klassen (REPS
English Teacher)
On Saturday Sept. 25, Rayong English Programme School (R.E.P.S.)
in Ban Chang held its first charity walk/run as a fundraiser for Mercy
Center orphanage in Pattaya. On a very hot morning, dozens of participants
ran and walked around the field at Garden International School.
The big
reward was the collectively raised donations of videos, toys, puzzles, and
games, and more than 5000 baht for the Mercy Center.
People ranging from kindergarten students all the way up
to people in their 60’s got exercise and had fun, with prizes awarded for
winners and participants in each age category. The big reward was the
collectively raised donations of more than 25 kids videos, plenty of toys,
puzzles, and games, and more than 5000 baht for the Mercy Center. Fun and
friendship were shared by all.
R.E.P.S. will again be hosting another such event in late
November or early December with the hope that dozens of participants will
become hundreds. For more information on future “fun runs” please contact
Mr. Michael Delcalvo at: [email protected]. To contact Mercy Center
to volunteer or contribute directly, call (66) 38 422-678, or check their
website: http://mercypattaya.com.
Fun in
the sun, but taking a break in the shade during R.E.P.S. first Fun Run for
Mercy Center.
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