Years 4 and 5 work hard and have fun at their Sports Days and our footballers, teeballers and gymnasts continue to impress with some excellent results. Don’t miss out on the U11 Friday Night Game - come and join in the fun. Plus with FOBISIA nearly upon us please check the kit list for the trip!
Well done to both Year 4 and 5 for their excellence Sports Days last week. The PE team hope the children enjoyed the new layout and new activities.
The week ahead sees two big sporting events with the HIS football festival and also BISAC Tennis on Saturday 11 May. St Andrews International School Bangkok will be taking 90 children to the morning of football which is more than any other school in Bangkok. It’s is the last football tournament of the year and a great chance for our children to show the progress they have made and enjoy playing together one last time.
Tickets went on sale this week for the exciting new event for U11, the FRIDAY NIGHT GAME, hosted by Mr Ollie and his team at High School. Tickets are for sale in the main Primary School Office and also in front of the Office this coming Thursday and Friday morning. It will be a really fun event with live music, dance and popcorn for the children. The tickets are 50 baht which is donated to charity.
Year 4 & Year 5 Sports Days took place last week. The aim of these sports is for the children to work hard and enjoy the different activities to win points for their Houses. Well done to the winning teams Karen and Akha.
Last Monday our boys played their friendly FOBISIA football fixture. Both teams won their games in convincing fashion with some very strong performances from our teams. This should give them great confidence going into the tournament @ HIS on 11 May and the FOBISIA Games in June.
Next is our tournament at Harrow on 11 May. These will be the last matches before FOBISIA.
11 May - HIS Football Festival - U9 Girls A/B/C teams, U9 boys A & B team - U11 Girls/Boys A & B teams.
Some great photos from last weekends BISAC tournament.
Our girls’ teeball goes from strength to strength building on the confidence gained from last weekend’s BISAC tournament. This time they had a friendly BISAC game and were convincing winners.
Next up we have the boys’ fixture on Wednesday and then a very important FOBISIA teeball friendly with Patana on 14 May.
8 May - U11 Boys teeball friendly @ NIST, 2.15 p.m. leave
14 May - teeball @ BPS - FOBISIA team, 2.15 p.m. leave (FOBISIA teams)
Well done to our gymnasts last weekend for their excellent performances at the BISAC Gymnastics Competition.
Miss Bogi is very proud of the progress they have been making. Here are some more photos from the last weekend.
18 May - NIST Gymnastics
More sport news with our U11 Flames Tennis children playing in their friendly over the weekend. So great to see so many children playing sport over the weekend and in two sports, tennis and gymnastics, that have had massive growth over the last two years.
We hope everyone has settled in with their swimming ECA and Squad in Term 3. Please can you contact our ECA coordinator or goh.ph@standrews.ac.th if you wish to be withdrawn or added from Swim Squad and ECA.
On Saturday 25th May, our Primary school will be holding Mini Marlin Mayhem swim competition specifically designed to give our Learn To Swim and developmental swimmers the opportunity to race and represent our school. Kindly stay tune for further information.
On 17 and 18 May, we have two big basketball events for our U11s to enjoy, starting with our FNG#3 against visiting teams from Pattaya and Phuket. This will be a fun event with music and dance as usual, as well as an exhibition 3on3 game featuring our own coaches against some of our U16 ballers.
Tickets are 50 thb and go on sale Wednesday morning (from 7.15 a.m.) at both campuses (near the entrance). We’re asking all parents and non-participating students to buy a ticket. All proceeds go to charity.
You’ll need to show your ticket on the door.
It will not be long before 40 of our athletes travel to Phuket to represent St Andrews International School Bangkok at the Primary FOBISIA Games. The Games start on 11 June (travel to Phuket on 10 June) with 3 days of sporting competition (swimming, athletics, teeball and football) before heading home on 14 June. Once again it will be a tough few days with our children competing against some of the best sports schools in Asia.
We have some fixtures arranged for our children before the Games. These are brilliant opportunities for the children to play in their teams before the big three days.
11 May - HIS Football Festival
14 May - Teeball @ BPS - FOBISIA team - 2.15 p.m. leave
STA Kit List (uniform shop):
Football shirt x 1 (if you child does not play football then they will not need one)
PE shorts x 3
STA Cap x 1
Blue Football Socks x 1 pair
PE top with Flames Teeball Logo (Bring to K. Seung in the PE department by Thursday 9th May to get the Flames Logo printed on the front)
STA swim suit x 1
STA swim cap x 1
PE top or Marlins top optional for swimming event x1
Athletics vest x1
Tour bag x 1 (if they have stock, if not child's own bag is fine)
STA new Tour top x 1 (Bring to K. Seung in the PE department by Thursday 9th May to get trip name put on the back of top)
Children are allowed one top free. So if you do not have a Tour top then please go to the uniform shop and say your child is part of the Primary FOBISIA team and they will give you the tour top for free. If you already have a tour top from a previous trip/tour with us then you can get one of the other tops you do not have for free.
8 May - U11 Boys Teeball friendly @ NIST, 2.15 p.m. leave
9 May - TISAC Badminton Tournament
11 May - HIS Football Festival
11 May - BISAC Single Tennis Tournament @ ISB and BPS
14 May - Teeball @ BPS - FOBISIA team - 2.15 p.m. leave
18 May - NIST Gymnastics
25 May - Mini Marlin Mayhem
30 May - U9 Invitational Tennis vs BPS
8 June - U9 Orange Ball Tennis Tournament
10 - 14 June - Primary FOBISIA Games
Please stay up-to-date by joining our STA Flames & Marlins Facebook closed group for parents and students who are part of our Sports Programme. We try to add as many of the events we go to and also keep you updated on fixtures,competitions and tournaments coming up.
As it’s a closed group not open to the general public, please complete the questions so that we know if you’re part of our STA community.
Parents may post to this group and it’s been great to see some of your photos of our children in action!
We know how supportive our parent community is in the lives of our students at St Andrews International School Bangkok - it’s one of the things that makes our school so special - and we are excited to announce that we have a new range of parent supporter T-shirts just for you.
These great shirts are now available at the Uniform Shop at both Primary and High School for the very reasonable price of 250 baht (220 baht for the sleeveless top). Be a part of the team.
We appreciate that you are often hearing different acronyms - TISAC, BISAC, FOBISIA - that we are involved in but may not know much about them. We hope that the following overview will therefore be useful.
We are currently members of four conferences or organisations:
We have been members for many years. This has 16 schools involved which vary in size from small to very large. Currently, we mostly enter Blaze teams in TISAC. There are leagues and tournaments in several sports from U9-U19 and next year, TISAC will also start its own multi-sport Games for Primary children.
This is our first year in BISAC. The 12-school membership includes the largest international schools in Bangkok in leagues and tournaments across many sports, from U9-U19, split into four seasons through the year. BISAC schools also run invitational tournaments.
This has three major multi-sport Games per year (Primary, U13 and U15) that take place in Phuket against other schools across Asia. There are also single-sport events in Tennis, Golf, Swimming and more, which take place across Asia and provide some amazing travel opportunities.
We are part of the South East Asia division and meet for a U11 multi-sport Games once a year. Our schools take it in turn to host the NAE Games.
In addition, we are part of the wider circuit regionally which means we are invited to a whole range of other events across Thailand.
Currently we are able to offer STA students opportunities through these conferences in Football, Basketball, Swimming, Tennis, Badminton, Golf, Teeball, Track and Field, Triathlon, Cross Country.
If you have any questions about these conferences, please don’t hesitate to contact Mr. Damon (damon.se@standrews.ac.th).
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.
