Primary Sport is back with a bang! Swimming, football, BISAC basketball, TISAC Basketball and X Country all in an action-packed week of sport at St Andrews International School Bangkok.
There is a really exciting week of sport coming up with so many children getting the chance to represent STA. There will be over 200 different children competing for STA over the coming weeks and many competing for the very first time. This week we have U9 football @ Harrow, Primary football @ Shrewsbury, U11 Boys TISAC Basketball vs St Andrews 107 @ STA, Blaze Basketball @ Shrewsbury, BISAC X Country and the Tiger Prawn Swim Meet.
We have been invited to Shrewsbury on 28 September for our Blaze Basketball teams to play, plus our U11 Boys Flames team will be playing in their first TISAC fixture on Thursday.
Just in these three fixtures alone there be close to 100 different children representing STA and if you combine the Flames girls and boys basketball last week and then the BISAC X Country, Primary football @ Shrewsbury and the Tiger Prawn Swim Meet there will be over 200 different children who have represented STA in the first 4 to 5 weeks of term.
Our U9 children got the chance to play in multiple games against Harrow and Shrewsbury today. All of our U9 footballers, around 50 children, got to have a really positive experience playing some highly competitive games. We had close to 20 children who represented STA for the time and were a credit to the school. More positive news was the number of girls playing and enjoying sport.
Our U11 basketball teams were in action last week in other BISAC games. It was a basketball double header with the girls playing first. It was the girls’ first game of the season and they were very dominant winning convincingly. For the boys it was a chance for our new U11 Blaze team to play their first game together. It was an exciting game which finished in a draw. In the last 2 weeks we have had over 30 different children represent STA in basketball with some children playing their very first games for STA. We hope to continue to give opportunities for our children to represent STA across the squads.
We now have basketball, football, dance, gymnastics and yoga all at the Primary School that makes an impressive variety of opportunities for our STA children to come and enjoy sport on a Saturday with their friends. There were over 50 children at basketball and over 70 children for our new football clubs. If you would like your child/children to come and be active on a Saturday morning please contact Mr Damon (damon.se@standrews.ac.th).
We have some major sports competitions coming up this term. Please keep the following in your diary.
24 September - U9 Girls and Boys Football @ Harrow, Flames and Blaze teams
27 September - U11 Boys TISAC Basketball @ STA vs 107, 1pm tip off
28 September - U11 Basketball Blaze Squad @ Shrewsbury, 2.30pm leave
29 September - U11/U9 Football @ Shrewsbury
30 September - Tiger Prawns Swim Meet
30 September - BISAC Cross Country
1 October - U11 Girls TISAC Basketball @ STA vs BCIS, 1 pm tip off
5 October - U11 Girls and Boys Basketball @ Patana - 2.15pm leave
8 October - U11 Girls TISAC Basketball @ STA vs PREP, 1pm Tip off
10 October - U11 Girls and Boys Football @ Shrewsbury, Flames and Blaze teams
13 October - Patana Friendly Swim Meet
18 October - U11 Boys TISAC Basketball @ PREP, 1 pm tip off
18 October - U11 Girls TISAC Basketball @ STA vs SATHORN, 1 pm TO
1 November - U11 Boys TISAC Basketball @ STA vs REG, 1pm TO
3 November - BISAC U11 Basketball
6 November - U11 Girls TISAC Basketball @ DUSIT, 1pm tip off
9 November - Athletics @ Shrewsbury
10/11 November - ISB Swimfest
14 November TISAC Dance Competition
15 November U11 Boys TISAC Basketball @ Charter, 12.15pm leave
17 November - Marlins Swim Champs
18 November - U11/U9 Harrow Cup
22-25 November - BISP Soccer 7s U9 Boys, U11 Boys and Girls
29 November - 2 December - NAE Games
I December - Gymnastics Bambi Games
8 December - Gymnastics Junior ISB
Here is a small selection of fun videos from last year for you to enjoy and remember what a fantastic year of sport we had:
If you any questions about Primary sport you can either email Mr Damon (damon.se@standrews.ac.th) our Head of Primary PE or book an appointment to speak to him about the opportunities your child’s/children’s will have at STA.
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