Year 9 artists from St Andrews International School Bangkok visited the Ancient City to draw and photograph interesting scenery.
On Wednesday 17 October Year 9 art students visited the Ancient City, known as Muang Boran, in Samut Prakan. The purpose of the trip was to collect visual information for their current thematic unit ‘Mindscape’ during which they investigate the Surrealist art movement. Students drew and photographed a variety of architectural and natural sights, including the Kuan Yin dragon statue and fountains. They also recorded observations at the temple of the Footprint of the Lord Buddha, a version of the temple in Saraburi. The students will go on to use their visual research to inform strange, dream-like images that they will create over the course of the term. In total we took over 160 students and without exception their attitude and application to the tasks was exemplary.
This week our ‘Artist of the Week’ award goes to Nan in Year 13, whose self-portrait suggests an inner narrative, created with personal and interesting use of symbolism. In the painting Nan depicts a classic head and shoulders composition, but discreetly swaps the body for mountains covered by a blanket of tree foliage. This is one of her studio pieces that will form her IB Visual Arts exhibition in March 2019.
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.
