Year 3 create Acrostic poems based on the word 'Rainforest'! Year 6 work with our Juilliard Drama expert, Aurea Tomeski, exploring how to express energy physically. Also, see the scrumptious food Year 6 prepare from Tanzania. We have raised 500,000 baht for Klong Toey. Well done, everyone! Finally, find out how FS1 and FS2 created activities based on their Favourite Stories.
Last week the Year 3s wrote Acrostic poems based on the word ‘Rainforest’ for their (yes you’ve guessed it!) Rainforest topic. They had to write a bank of words to do with rainforests to help them compose the poems. There are some excellent efforts below.
Today the year 6 students had the opportunity to work with a Juilliard Drama expert, Aurea Tomeski, from the Juilliard School of Performing Arts in New York. In the Drama lesson, the students explored how to physically express different levels of energy in connection to character creation and differentiation.
In the lesson the children began by exploring their own energy levels at the time and how they would express these. They then looked at different animals and discussed what they thought their energy levels would be like and how they could physicalize these using story as guided imagery. Finally, they explored an excerpt from Familie Flöz’s performance of Teatro Delusio and explored and rated the different energy levels of the various characters.
This week Y6 were looking at the food eaten in Tanzania. They first looked at the different types of food the people of Tanzania ate and why that food was popular there. They then had the chance to create their own wonderful dishes. Here are a couple of really tasty examples!
In FS1, we started the week with the lovely story of Rosie's Walk, a nursery favourite that follows the adventure of Rosie the hen walking around the farm and at the same time it helps the children understand positional language and story sequencing. The children made their own hens using recycled egg cartons, painted using anything but paint brushes (leaves, twigs and cocoa) and of course followed their own interests such as finding out about dinosaurs and helping Daddy to cook dinner.
In FS2, the focus was around the lovely Julia Donaldson book ‘what the ladybird heard’ which not only helps the children understand the language around farms but also helps them to develop their listening skills. The children looked at symmetry and counting, made ladybird pizzas, did some lovely ladybird drawings and continued their learning of phonic sounds, rhymes and segmenting and blending.
Most of the FS1 and FS2 families have now been able to collect their learning packs. If you have not collected them yet they are in the sports hall just near the guard’s hut.
Mrs Meg
Thank you again for all of your donations for the Klong Toey appeal. We have raised around 500,000 baht so far from our community contributions. If you have not yet donated please do so as this is a really worthy cause that helps our neighbours here in the city who are going through a particularly difficult time at this moment due the ongoing pandemic.
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.
