I wonder how many people noticed a change that happened in the KS1 Playground over the weekend? Quite a big change but it went unnoticed by a lot of people! Above the climbing frame and covering a large area of the playground we have installed a fabulous new shade sail.
With this in place we can start to fully develop this area to be used especially by the KS1 children.
Last Monday was a very busy day, with new children arriving and being helped to find their classrooms, and an air of excitement across the campus.
Today has been no less exciting, but with the children being well-settled in their new classrooms, it has had a completely different feel to it. Already the children are taking ownership of the areas and playing confidently with teachers and new friends.
In Reception the Shared Area is starting to come to life with teachers setting up role play areas, and children really using their language. In Y1 and Y2 there was a whole range of activities happening - some of which were led by the teachers and others initiated by the children, already in Week 2 taking some responsibility for their own learning.
This week, like last week, saw the entry into school for some of our youngest children. Our staggered intake helps us to give the new children all the time they need to get used to the new environment and support them in making new friends.
With the help of academic staff, school nannies and maids, children who have only been with us for a few days are already starting to learn the routines and say goodbye to mums and dads - some of them for the very first time.
In Mr Paul’s section of the newsletter you will have see that this week we have the Meet the Teacher sessions. The sessions for Foundation Stage and Y1 happened earlier this month but the Y2 session will be on Thursday this week - 31st August.
This will be a chance for you to introduce yourself to the teachers but is not the opportunity for a one-to-one consultation. This will come a little later in the term following the first report.
With the goal of providing meaningful help to the flood victims in the northern regions of Thailand, our entire community at St Andrews Bangkok came together to raise funds and donations for the affected families. In the span of a few short weeks, added to donations of food and clothing, we managed to raise an astounding total of 386,676.50 THB in donation funds. To all students, teachers, parents, and staff who participated in our efforts and contributed to this cause—thank you!
Last Friday, the STA Primary campus was transformed into a celebration of all things maths! The day was packed with engaging, hands-on activities across all year groups, making maths truly come alive for our students.
Senior student at St Andrews Bangkok, Pun (Year 13), devises an innovative solution for effective waste management. Recently, he completed an ambitious project: an AI-powered waste sorting system. After much research and testing, he got the system to work and put the model to use in one of our rooms at school!
Physics students from St Andrews Bangkok made quite an impression at the Beamline for Schools (BL4S) competition and won the Best Outreach Award for their brilliant work. BL4S is a prestigious global physics contest organised by CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland) and DESY (the German Electron Synchrotron in Hamburg, Germany), inviting High School students worldwide to propose detailed experiments to be conducted at a particle accelerator beamline. While our students did not win the main prize of conducting their experiment in Geneva, they still stood out and were recognised from an entry of over 400 teams.
