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Regent’s Community Treasure Hunt Car Rally 2011
Boonchu (Khao By Si School), Phil Larkin
(Regent’s)
and Mario (Centara) holding the cheque.
Amber-Barnes Roberts -
Year 9 student
On Sunday 30th January Regent’s School Pattaya organised
the Community Treasure Hunt and Car Rally 2011. The point of this is to help
community groups in and around Pattaya. What you have to do is collect the
clues and go to the places they describe. Sometimes you have to stop there
and do an activity, sometimes you have to answer a question. Most of the
things were related to community service and interaction. At first I wasn’t
sure what it actually was, but I tagged along anyway and it was a whole
bunch of fun.
When we first arrived at the school oval in the morning,
there were only a few cars, but 15 minutes later the place was full. We set
off looking at signs to find the answer to our first question. Our first
stop was at 7-Eleven to buy our first items, e.g. cooking oil, tinned fish,
noodles, water and rice, which we would later donate to one of the community
groups. On the way to our first stop we also picked up paint and
paintbrushes. At the first stop we took our clothes to donate with us as
well and gave them to the wonderful kids at Kate’s Project Trust.
Throughout the day we visited the Father Ray Foundation
and painted two squares on a wall to bring in more colour to the garden when
they play outside. At another project, the Child Protection and Development
Centre, where they grow mushrooms to make money we bought some mushrooms and
tried some of the delicious tasty treats they had kindly made for us. We
also donated the food we bought earlier to a charity. At the main community
beneficiary, Khao By Si School in Sattahip, we stopped and our task was to
make a flower out of beads and then we bought some that the students there
had already made.
As well as visiting amazing communities and donating
things to them, we did other fun things as well, such as going into the
Chinese Temple and counting how many feet of the kung fu fighting statues
were touching the floor, going to a vineyard and finding out what shoes were
by the windmill, going to Pan Pan Restaurant for a lucky dip and we also had
to collect an ice-cream container.
At the end of the treasure hunt we all ended up at
Centara Hotel. There were eight activities for us to do, e.g. catching a
water balloon without it exploding, water gun fights, throwing a ball into a
pipe when you are blindfolded, football games, a dart game, a tennis game
where you had to get the balls to land in the hoop and a game where you get
spun around in a chair 10 times and then have to sit on a balloon to pop it.
All the games were loads of fun and I would definitely do them again.
Later on, in the evening, there was a scrumptious buffet
supplied by Centara with a lot of variety and plenty of food so no one would
go hungry. There was Thai dancing from the Khao By Si students, and music
from Ralf and Naufal Regent’s IB students. An auction where all the money
was given to the Khao By Si School ended the day with an amazing 20,000 baht
being donated to add to the already impressive total of 150,000 baht.
Overall, it was a fantastic, fun day that’s good for the
whole family. I recommend that you join it next year, I certainly will be!
Not only is it a good day of fun, but it’s also giving to the community.
Many thanks to our wonderful community partners and also the event sponsors
including Centara, First Step Construction, Mix 88.5 FM, Horseshoe Point,
Pan Pan, Bangkok Hospital Pattaya, The Theory of Excellence, Isuzu, Jotun,
MAS, Wongratt Hardware, Windsor and The Regent’s School Pattaya.
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Robin Hood play
delights parents
Robin and his friends prepare for action.
Parents were treated to a special musical production from
primary students at Garden International School.
The
wicked Sheriff of Nottingham!
The youngsters staged a performance of โ€�Hoodwinkedโ€?
at the school on February 10. Playing before a packed audience of parents
and friends, the Key Stage 2 students put on an excellent musical adaption
of the timeless Robin Hood story.
The production had an amazing set, one minute showing
Sherwood Forest and the next a village full of shops thanks to some movable
props. Studentsโ€? costumes were just as impressive, from the robes of Friar
Tuck to the fair Maid Marian.
Early Years children at St Andrews
School are super safe in the sun
‘Think and drink’ table offering healthy water and juice.
Jane Thompson,
Kindergarten teacher at St Andrews School
Early Years began the New Year with a ‘Let’s be Super
Safe in the Sun!’ awareness week. The learning focused on remembering to
wear your hat, how to apply sunscreen, playing in the shade and drinking
lots of water.
To encourage the children to think more about
drinking plenty of water at playtime, a fun ‘Think and Drink’ table was
set up offering a choice of healthy water and refreshing fruit juice.
The children enjoyed the fun of putting ice cubes in their drinks and
choosing their favourite coloured straw. Children also enjoyed the
social interaction with each other and lots of ideas were shared whilst
enjoying a refreshing drink.
The children enjoyed this initiative so much that the
Early Years Team has decided to continue the ‘Think and Drink’ table
throughout the year. Some small jugs have been purchased for eager
little helpers who are keen to be responsible and help to serve drinks
to their friends.
The children finished their ‘Sun Safety Week’ with a
‘Sun Safety’ assembly where children showed their beautiful sun safe art
and craft work.
Ready and equipped for the sun.
I am
being super safe in the sun.
Do
you like my ‘cool’ shades?
Making some shade in the Early Years playground.
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NTT makes generous donation to Father Ray Foundation
Ms. Midori Kawaguchi
(third left), from the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public
Corporation, presents a donation to Father Peter Srivorakul C.Ss.R.
(third right), President of the Father Ray Foundation, to help provide
daily necessities to the 850 children and students with disabilities
currently living and being educated at the Father Ray Foundation in
Pattaya. Also present were Boonthavee Klinsukon (first left), director
of the Father Ray Day Care Center, Hideki Shizuka, Managing Director of
Yoshinoki Co., Ltd. (second left), and Somnuk Phao-Ngon (first right),
Customer Relations Manager at the Father Ray Foundation.
Rotary Club of Eastern Seaboard donates water filters to CPDC
Everybody smiles at the water filter
presentation.
Elfi Seitz
The Rotary Club of the Eastern Seaboard donated 10
portable water filters to the Child Protection & Development Center.
President Jan Abbink and members Ference Friskay and
Walter Mller presented the equipment to the shelter Jan. 31.
The system restores the cleanliness of water by
filtering it through Swiss-made strainers. No matter how dirty the water
is, it comes out clean.
Pattaya Sports Club Charity presents Bikes for Tikes
The
presentation is made.
William Macey
Rick Bevington is a remarkable man. He spends 6
months of the year in Pattaya, the whole of December disguised as Father
Xmas. The rest of his stay, he reverts to his familiar form using his
time to help various charities in any way he can.
It was in 2007 that Rick and Pattaya Sports Club got
together and came up with the idea of Bikes for Tikes whereby a number
of deserving children at schools No. 4 & 7 received a bicycle. With the
teachers help, a number of children are selected to receive a bicycle
and the selection is made based on the child coming from a poor family,
cannot afford a motorcycle and have to walk many kilometers to school.
The other requirement is that the cycles are awarded for achievements in
their school work. Again decided by the teachers.
Before they are presented, Rick services each machine
to make sure that everything is working as it should and is safe to
ride. In addition, they receive a helmet and padlock and are urged to be
very careful and observe the rules of the road.
Pattaya Sports Club are delighted to join forces with
Rick to continue with the Bikes for Tikes and to see the smile on the
children’s faces is ample reward for the effort involved.
Some
of the children present.
All
set for take off.
We
can wait no longer.
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Pattaya orphans receive ‘divine straightening’ from German couple
Group picture after the healing session. In
the back row (from left) Alexander and Caroline Toskar, Vicky Weber,
Father Michael, Radchada and Sampan Chomjinda.
Elfi Seitz
A pair of well-known German spiritual healers
subjected orphans and disabled children to a bit of “divine
straightening” during a stop in Pattaya.
Alexander and Caroline Toskar were joined by Bangkok
healer Vicky Weber at the Pattaya Orphanage and Children Protection and
Development Center during the couple’s late January Thailand tour.
Not claiming to be physical healers, the couple
practices what they call “divine straightening,” which purportedly
“aligns the spirit, cleanses the soul, straightens the spine and creates
harmony with the universe.” The two carried out their ceremony on 70
kids, of which 23 are deaf.
The Toskars said any healing was focused on “mental
and psychological problems.”
Alexander Toskar is the son of the well-known Russian
healer Pjotr Elkunoviz. The spiritual healing initiated by him twenty
years ago became known in Germany and Europe through numerous television
reports. The couple has founded centers for spiritual healing in Germany
and Switzerland and in 2007 and 2008 were invited by Thailand’s Ministry
of Public Health to demonstrate the “straightening” on television.
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