Nursery Rhyme Week and Loy Krathong were highlights of the week at St Andrews International School Bangkok...We look ahead to Christmas with dates for your diary and a fun activity with STEPS.
This year, we are making a slight change to the reporting cycle in KS1. Your children’s Term 1 reports will be available to download from Moodle on Friday 14th December. These reports focus on their general progress in their new year groups, as well as their progress in maths and English. The parent consultations will take place on Tuesday 15th and Tuesday 22nd January from 2.45 - 5.30 pm. Parents are also welcome to schedule meetings outside of these times.
You can request an appointment using the following links:
Last week saw a new event for St Andrews International School Bangkok as we joined World Nursery Rhyme Week, and showed that Nursery Rhymes are for everyone not just for the Foundation Stage students!
So much work went on across the whole of Primary. We had charades, animations, miming and illustrating, as well as the early morning singing sessions in the Rhyme Tent, which became more and more popular as the week went on. We even had some of the teachers signing the rhymes too, which lots of children joined in with.
Many of you will have been in school last Thursday to celebrate Loy Krathong with us. It was lovely to see so many children and their teachers dressed up in Traditional costumes, learning about this special Thai Festival.
The assembly performances in the morning were brilliant. The narrators, actors and musicians were so confident in their delivery and produced a wonderful spectacle. Congratulations to all of the students from Y2-Y6 who were part of this and to their teachers.
Following the assembly it was nice to see the older students helping the younger ones to make their krathongs - a really special part of the St Andrews Loy Krathong tradition.
Word Mania is over for another year and the final results are in. The STA students have done an absolutely amazing job over the last few weeks. Fingers have been furiously tapping out words in a bid to be number one in the word for each year group. It was really interesting to see the children’s ability to build words increase over the weeks in terms of speed and variety.
We are very happy to inform you of the final standings:
Year 1 - 41st in the world!
Year 2 - 45th in the world!
What an amazing job of putting St Andrews firmly on the Word Mania map.
The Vocational Training Centre STEPS, who run our wonderful Primary Cafe, is offering a different way for you and your family to start getting into the Christmas spirit. Join them on the next 4 Saturday mornings to Christmas Sing and Sign. No experience necessary and it is completely free of charge.
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4 December 8.30 a.m. |
FS3 Christmas Show |
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6 December 8.30 a.m. |
FS1/FS2 Christmas Show |
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6 December 1.00 p.m. |
Y2 Show - 1st Performance (Tickets only) |
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7 December 8.30 a.m. |
Y2 Show - 2nd Performance (Tickets only) |
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7 December 1.00 p.m. |
Y2 Show - 3rd Performance (Tickets only) |
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11 December 8.30 a.m. |
Y1 Christmas Celebration in the Quad |
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12 December |
Christmas Fair and Concerts Y3 & Y4 Concert 1.00 p.m. Christmas Fair 2.30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Y5 & Y6 Concert 4.00 p.m. |
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.
