The Eco -Beasts of St Andrews International School Bangkok will be meeting with the Primary Leadership Team and Epicure to further reduce the amount of waste produced at Primary School...Read on for more information on how you can recycle cardboard at school.
Don’t forget, next week we are closed on Monday 20 May for the Visakha Bucha compensation day.
Next Thursday, 23 May, is the second of our catch-up Monday timetable days. This means that the children will need to bring everything they will need for a Monday timetable. ECAs will run on Thursday's schedule as normal.
As you know, this year, as a school, we have been thinking more about our impact on the environment and have been looking at ways to reduce our waste and ensure that it doesn't all end up in landfills. We have also been talking to the children about saving energy, and you might have seen these reminders across both Primary and High School as we try to embed this message.
This week will bring a meeting with Ms Helen and the St Andrews Eco-Beasts group with representatives from the Primary Leadership Team and Epicure to look at how we can reduce the use of plastic, and waste in general as we move forward towards a sustainable future.
Already all of the food waste collected by our canteens is sent to a local fish farm and we introduced recycling bins across both campuses and are talking to the children about thinking carefully about their use of resources.
But Here are The Facts…
A group of parents and students have been at the fore in helping us improve our waste management as a community, but we want to make a bigger impact.
By popular request on Thursday 23 May, we will introduce a monthly paper and cardboard recycling scheme for our community. So, if you have any paper and cardboard please bring it into school and place it in the recycling bins to the rear of the T Block. You can do this at any point during the school day. If you have large or heavy loads, a trolley will be available at the main school gate.
This will then be sold to a local recycling company and the proceeds go into an Education Fund for the children of our 6-day staff.
Last week we advertised the forthcoming Transition Meetings for Parents, but there was an error in this information.
There will be two meetings.
FS3 to Y1 - 11 June at 4.00 p.m. (Not, as advertised Y1-Y2 which is held in August.) Venue: T Block 2nd Floor Shared Area
Y2-Y3 - 13 June at 4.00 p.m. Venue: R Block - Y3 Classrooms
School closed - compensation for Visakha Bucha Day - Monday 20 May
Monday timetable - Thursday 23 May
Meeting for STARs Parents - 24 May - 8.30 a.m.
School closed - Half Term - Monday 27 & Tuesday 28 May
Primary Project week - Wednesday 29 to Friday 31 May
Transition Meeting for Parents FS3 to Y1 - 11 June 4.00 p.m. (Y1)
Transition Meeting for Parents Y2-Y3 - 13 June 4.00 p.m. (Y3)
FS/KS1 Class Swap morning - Monday 17 June
Primary House Music Competition - Monday 24 June
End of term assembly - Wednesday 26 June
Last day of term - Wednesday 26 June
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.
