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Budding scientists at St Andrews International School work together to make batteries
from fruit and metal
Science can be so much fun!
Gary Foster, Year 2 teacher
In Year 2 at St Andrews International School, we have been learning
about electricity and were lucky enough to be invited by the Year 9 students
to spend a lesson with them in the science laboratory. In teams of Year 2
and Year 9 students, we tested a hypothesis that electricity can be created
using a piece of fruit and two metals.
During the experiment, we used several different kinds of fruit and a
variety of different metals. We recorded the results shown on the voltmeter.
Every group was able to find successful combinations of fruit and metals, to
make a ‘fruit battery’. In addition, we created posters showing our methods,
results and conclusions.
We really enjoyed working alongside the Year 9 students and they were
fantastic teachers. Science is so much fun and it is really interesting to
carry out experiments. We would like to thank Mr. Thorp for setting up the
experiments and can’t wait until the next time.
We completed the circuit with
a piece of fruit as the battery.
The year 2 and year 9 students
worked as a team.
The Year 9 students were great
teachers.
We tested each fruit with two
metals.
We watched the voltmeter when
we tested each piece of fruit.
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Floods don’t stop Year 11 boys visit to Koh Chang
David McCabe, Head of Year 11
Regent’s Year 11 boys struggled slowly through some serious flooding
recently on their way to the IDEALS centre on Koh Chang. Reports of further
heavy rainfall could not dampen any enthusiasm for what was to be an
excellent week, where both the weather and the boys’ performances, well
exceeded expectations.
 Year
11 boys explore the jungle at Koh Chang.
These students quickly established themselves as a promising group of young
gentlemen as they embarked on a full and challenging programme of
activities. These included some environmental service projects around the
centre, rope work that enabled them to cross fast flowing streams and build
secure rafts and a challenging team adventure race that pushed all to their
limits.
Gagik won the “Man of Koh Chang” award, with the staff impressed by his
progress and his positive attitude. The boys also competed in their groups
in the evenings on a variety of activities - from sumo wrestling to stair
climbing to rugby scrums. Other evening activities included night
search-and-rescue drills, moonlight canoeing and IGCSE study skills
training.
On the last day the boys completed a half-day hike through the jungle -
wading through rivers sometimes waist deep with bags held aloft over their
heads - to a beautiful white sands beach. Here they gathered firewood and
then proceeded to cook delicious Australian damper bread on a beach fire. It
was then time for body surfing on some excellent Thai waves and a swim
across to the boat anchored in the bay, before an afternoon relaxing with a
sail along the coast.
On the last evening we enjoyed a campfire get-together, with Daniel
performing on the guitar and leading the Men of Koh Chang in song. An
excellent week was had by all.
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88 Kids join 1st Weekend English Camp
The students have an
intense experience ahead - even with lots of fun, an intensive English
weekend is hard work.
Ulrich Werner
On Saturday, October 8, 88 students grade M1 to M3 from the
international programme at Satri Suriyothai School in Bangkok travelled
to Asian University for an intensive English weekend, accompanied by
four of their teachers. Eight English lecturers from Asian U and 20
teacher assistants offer a weekend programme full of fun where learning
English happens just automatically. The team is headed by James Saville,
the head of Asian U’s successful Summer Camps that run every year in
April and May. Ajarn Panit Nilubon, vice president of Asian U, welcomed
the guests and invited them to come back later for their degree studies
if they think a weekend might be not enough.
 Ajarn
Panit Nilubon, Vice President of Asian U, welcomes the students with a
humorous speech in English.
The Weekend English Camp was initiated by Dr. Viphandh Roengphitya,
president of Asian U, as an intensive short version of the Summer Camps
that attract several hundred Thai students every year. The kids are
looked after around the clock. When classes finish, the assistant
teachers take over and conduct a framing programme full of sports, fun,
and science games. After a barbeque on Saturday night, the students
spend the night in the Asian U Dormitory on Campus.
Weekend Summer Camps will now become a permanent opportunity for schools
to send their students into a weekend-long intensive English course.
This first Camp was organized together with AFS Thailand, the
international student exchange organization. Some AFS volunteers joined
the Asian U students as teaching assistants over the weekend.
Asian U students volunteer
as Teacher Assistants. They may look like Thais, but they can’t speak
Thai language (at least for this weekend).
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And the winner is…?
Chanyuth Hengtrakul, secretary to the
Minister of Transport, on the catwalk.
Derek Franklin
It was a day that many in Pattaya had waited a long time for. The day
when the winning tickets in the Father Ray Lucky Draw 2011 would be
selected and Pattaya would discover who had won one of two hundred
available prizes, totaling more than 1.2 million baht.
 Mayor
Itthiphol Kunplome selects the winning ticket.
The Father Ray Foundation organised the Lucky Draw as a way of raising
much needed funds, and used the day to raise awareness of one of its
projects, the Pattaya School for the Blind who celebrate World Sight Day
each year in early October.
After a brief rain shower the afternoon event at Central Festival
Pattaya Beach started with a fashion show. Thai supermodel, and local
Pattaya girl, Cindy Burbridge, organised a group of her model friends,
including Miss Universe 2005 Natalie Glebova, who paraded down the
catwalk wearing Father Ray Foundation t-shirts which they had redesigned
and accessorized.
 Aurora
Sribuaphan poses with local supermodel Cindy Burbridge.
Each model was accompanied by one of the blind students, but it was
Aurora Sribuaphan, principal of the School for the Blind, who stole the
show, and who could teach the younger models a thing or two about how to
pose in front of a camera.
Local VIPs, dignitaries and business leaders also took to the catwalk
accompanied by the children of the Father Ray Foundation.
Prizes that were won included one of four motorbikes, gold jewelry, meal
vouchers for Sammy’s Bar, Mata Hari and Linda’s restaurants, flights
donated by Bangkok Air and Orient Thai, and accommodation courtesy of
Siam Bayshore, Amari, Dusit, Royal Cliff, Horseshoe Point and Centara
hotel groups.
 Natalie
Glebova, Miss Universe 2005, with a new friend.
Other prizes included food blenders, fans, tickets to Nong Nooch,
Tiffany’s, Alangkarn and vouchers for tae-kwondo, English tuition, dance
and horse riding classes.
Even though several hundred turned out to see who won the top prize,
there was silence as the Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome, reached into the
tombola, dug deep down and selected one lucky ticket which would give
the winner the top prize of a brand new Toyota Vios.
All winning ticket numbers can be viewed on the Father Ray Foundation
website www.fr-ray.org
Future models from the Father Ray Children’s
Home.
Volunteers were ready to answer any calls
which pledged a donation.
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Hand to Hand & Pattaya Sports Club spread the word
To some, computers are a necessary evil, to others
they are the future on which a successful business is based or, perhaps,
the key to an expanded social life. Many individuals and businesses ask
‘where would we be without them’.
 The
soon to be famous sticker.
But they have also presented us with a problem. Internet cafes are
appearing everywhere and, with children learning to use computers almost
before they can walk, it is a simple matter for them to gain access to a
computer, but unfortunately, often to make friends with others they are
not acquainted with, via chat lines.
Margaret Grainger of Hand to Hand, with the backing of City Hall, has
been so concerned with this situation, she accepted the invitation from
the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), a company
that makes every effort to prevent children being exploited and the
possibility of being abused via the internet, to work together. CEOP
have experienced great success in the UK and are now expanding to many
parts of the world including Vietnam and Thailand.
 Margaret
proudly showing the Foundation Certificate.
CEOP was formed in 2006 and has proved to be extremely successful in
bringing online child sex offenders, including those involved in the
production, distribution and displaying of child abuse material, to
count in the UK. They are now in Pattaya and, working with Margaret and
City Hall, the plan is to develop relationships with owners of internet
gaming shops and students, to educate children about the dangers of
online liaisons and who to turn to when help is needed.
Thousands of posters will be displayed throughout Pattaya and eye
catching stickers given to children to use on clothing, bags, motorbikes
and anywhere they will be noticed.
After only 6 weeks of trying, a record for anyone in Pattaya, Margaret -
Hand to Hand - has been granted Foundation status and, with the help of
a number of teachers, will approach all the schools in the area to
spread the words among students.
This is a first in Pattaya and Pattaya Sports Club, having provided the
stickers, are fully behind Hand to Hand Foundation in their endeavours
and will support their every move promoting this scheme.
Margaret and Pai -
Margaret will be the first to admit that without Pai’s help, life would
be so much harder.
The ever present Pai.
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