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Breaking business ground at the Regent’s

GoldFish Garden so far.

Louise Jenkins

The Regent’s continues to show off their entrepreneurial skills with students of all ages organizing and getting involved in their own businesses. Originally an after-school activity for students interested in doing something practical and outdoorsy with a beneficial outcome, The GoldFish PLC’s Garden project has cultivated its first vegetables.

The combined effort of the school’s senior students (Years 10-12) and a group from Primary has produced a 20sqm garden filled with tomatoes, dill, coriander and basil (they expect pak choy and cabbage to be ready in the next couple of weeks).

With the dedication of the students (particularly a group from Year 12), the garden has been well maintained outside of activity times and the entire group is hoping to extend their produce to other vegetables and herbs.

Link, Denis and Hugh making sure the plants are watered.

The Garden project gives students invaluable horticultural skills for growing their own organic food and hopes to educate them about good nutrition and caring for their environment.

In parallel footsteps follow a group of business-minded Year 7 students with their smoothie business HealtheDlite. The entire concept, from planning which drinks to sell, how to make them and whose turn it is to buy the ingredients, to setting up the business and promoting it, has been devised and executed by this group of entrepreneurial girls.

The profits have been used to purchase equipment for the business, such as blenders and utensils, as well as to further research to meet consumers’ needs and wants. All in all the company is a staple of cooperation with no girl taking a CEO-type position but each having individual responsibilities.

The enterprises of the Regent’s School students continue to grow, expand and educate, and we hope you stay tuned for more tasty, healthy and reasonably priced products from both HealtheDlite and the GoldFish Garden.


Mechai Viravaidya visits Regent’s School

Mechai Viravaidya talks to Regents students about the School-Bird project.

Katrin Puutsa

On Friday 23rd January we were privileged to have Mechai Viravaidya from the Village Development Project at The Regent’s School. He spoke to all the students from Years 6, 7, 8 and 9 in the Globe theatre. He came to talk about the School-Bird project which is aimed at moving the rural poor out of poverty through educational programmes and the support of local businesses. The idea is to set up social enterprises which focus on skills and profits.

We are fortunate to have been selected as a beacon school in our area to trial and develop a school based farm. This will run as a business enterprise, which the students will lead and make all decisions as a group. This will eventually lead to these students training others in the setting up and running of a farm.

Initially 27 students have volunteered to take part in training which is being offered by the Birds and Bees Resort in Pattaya. They will then design a programme for growing limes, cantaloupes, bean sprouts and mushrooms, initially. These will hopefully be sold to our own community (the school canteen and parents). This is an exciting long term project to be involved in that hopefully will help develop many skills for own students and also help maintain our close links with other local Community Partners.


St. Andrews attends Fobissea Model United Nations Conference

Year 8 students who took part in the Maths Challenge.

Brendan Phillips, St Andrews International School

Between the 19th-21st of January, 20 student delegates and 4 teacher advisors from St. Andrews International School, Green Valley attended the 2nd Fobissea Model United Nations in Bangkok.

Students successfully prepared position papers related to human rights, the environment, economy and society politics and Security Council issues. St. Andrews delegates worked with 275 students from various Asian nations to debate and ultimately create resolutions for the committee issues. They were very successful in maintaining the perspective of their assigned nations which included Greece, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Portugal, Romania, New Zealand, Liberia and Mexico.

This was a fantastic experience for the students which will certainly stand them in good stead in their future careers.


Regent’s team at Fobissea MUN Conference

Regent’s Pattaya staff and student delegates (Y12 and Y13).

Mrs. Sarah Travis-Mulford

Students from Fobissea Schools and non-Fobissea Schools across Asia were invited to attend the Fobissea MUN Conference recently. Preparations for the conference actually began in June 2011, but were interrupted by the floods. In the end, 12 schools attended bringing over 270 student delegates together to debate current global issues in the same manner as the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council membership.

As this was the first time the 7 Regent’s Pattaya delegates had taken part in a MUN style conference, they were extremely nervous, not knowing if they would match up to the skills of seasoned debaters from other schools. All 7 student delegates held their own and contributed resolutions and debates to all of their committees.

Batya’s resolution was accepted after much debate - this was the product of a very late night’s research and drafting in the comfort of our Bangkok hotel! It was clearly well worth the effort!

Jisu Chae from Year 12 commented on the conference, “It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life! I never thought it was possible to gain so much in just 3 days.”

Future debating conferences abound for any keen students. For details of these, contact Mrs. Travis-Mulford (Head of History). For those of you who cannot wait for these conferences, don’t forget to sign up for the Inter-House Debating competition, which is being run during lunchtimes from 2 – 6 April in the Round House.


St Andrews’ students learn to be risk-takers and problem-solvers

“I liked everything at the sleepover!” said Felicitas.

Mara Cary and Toni Hayden, Year 3 teachers

On the night of the sleepover at St Andrews School we were all super excited. We put up our tents, with the help of teachers from around the school, and then we played team-building games and participated in a challenging ropes course.

For dinner we ate pizza, chicken, sticky rice and ice-cream (with some healthy food on the side!) After dark we gathered around the fire to sing campfire songs and roast marshmallows, then finished our night with our teddies, listening to a bedtime story while drinking hot chocolate.

On Friday morning we were all a bit tired (especially the teachers) so we tucked into a healthy breakfast of cereals and toast to give us some energy. We then had a fantastic time at the swimming pool, before continuing with our normal school timetable.

“My favourite part of the sleepover was playing games because it was fun and made me healthy! And everything was wonderful, that was the best sleepover ever!” said Katee.

This was an extremely important experience for all the children where they learnt to be risk takers, problem solvers and communicators. They really developed their independence and, above all, had loads of fun!

Berdy, one of the year 3 children, summed up the experience: “It was my first time to leave home and I went camping at school. I took many things to school for this camping. At night I saw a campfire burning. I had hot chocolate at story time. At last I went into the tent and slept in my sleeping bag. What a nice camping day!”

“The best part of the sleepover was when we did the rope challenge,” said Megan.

Mr Cary let us have a lot of fun on the ropes course.

“My favourite part of the sleepover was sleeping in a tent. It was my first time to sleep away from my family but I enjoyed it. Jake was sending signals with his torch. I sent back ‘ok’ with my torch,” said Chogoon.

“My favourite part of the sleepover was when I had cocoa with my friends and sleeping with my friends… and I liked to sing at the campfire,” said Gracie.

“I liked the part when I played games with my friends,” said Fiat.


PILC throws belated Children’s Day party for Fountain of Life Center

(Above) The celebration continues with a birthday cake for students and who had birthdays in January.

Vittaya Yoondorn

The Fountain of Life Center celebrated Children’s Day a little late, returning from a school holiday for a party thrown by volunteers at the center, along with members of the Pattaya International Ladies Club.

The Jan. 27 event saw musical and stage performances from the children. PILC volunteers and Fountain of Life Center staffers handed out awards and brought out a birthday cake for students and volunteers who had birthdays in January.

Then it was the volunteers’ turn to sing and dance, delighting the kids.

Little ones are happy and thankful for the gifts they are receiving on this special day.

Parents, staff and children are having a great time at the Fountain of Life Center’s Children’s Day celebration.


HEADLINES [click on headline to view story]

Breaking business ground at the Regent’s

Mechai Viravaidya visits Regent’s School

St. Andrews attends Fobissea Model United Nations Conference

Regent’s team at Fobissea MUN Conference

St Andrews’ students learn to be risk-takers and problem-solvers

PILC throws belated Children’s Day party for Fountain of Life Center
 

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