The meaning of friendship at Primary School is greater than it has ever been as our students continue to show resilience and perseverance. STA take the Big Shakespeare Festival hosted by NAE’s Global Campus by storm with a long list of commended entries. Well done to everyone. We have nearly raised 600,000 baht for Klong Toey!
The whole community was disappointed to hear that the school will have to remain online with the VSE programme and not open to our students for the end of term. Please look out for emails from your class teachers and Year Leaders to let you know the plans for the last couple of weeks of Term 3.
What has impressed me so much this year and, especially this term, is the resilience and perseverance the students are showing in the face of receiving such disappointing news. Although students must be upset not to meet their friends in person at school to say their goodbyes before the long holidays, they have carried on with their friendships online and shown maturity in their interactions with each other.
I have no doubt that the friendships and close bonds the students have continued to make with each other this term will continue and, in some ways, be more robust in the new school year as a new appreciation of what friendship means has emerged, whether those friendships are back at school or across the globe with those students who are leaving us at the end of the year.
As you may have seen featured in the newsletter earlier this term, STA took part in the Big Shakespeare Festival hosted by NAE’s Global Campus. Below is a write up and a list recognising some of their favourite contributions. Well done to you all!
“Some are born great, some achieve, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
In April 2021, the Big Shakespeare Festival launched on Global Campus with many challenges across the performing and visual arts to inspire and engage NAE students. Students were invited to create or recreate dramatic, musical or dance performances or design costumes based on some of Shakespeare’s most memorable characters and scenes.
From Shakespearean monologues translated and performed in Spanish, to performances of Taylor Swift’s and Elton John songs, and creativity expressed through dance and drawing, NAE students have proved that Shakespeare is as relevant today as he has ever been.
Over 1,000 students entered the festival and a team of judges from all arts disciplines and every corner of the globe reviewed their performances and creations. I would like to say a huge thank you to them for all their hard work. The judging team have commended several students whose festival entries stood out.
Here are the STA winners:
Commended Entries to Big Shakespeare Festival
Drama (Age 8 – 11)
- Maya 5K
- Mia 6S & Kali 6K
- Freyada 4K & Lily 4K
- Lisa 4K
Costume Design (Age 8 – 11)
-Kiara 6G
Music Composition (Age 8 – 11)
- Do Yeon Kim (Chloe 5K)
- Poonika Leenabanchong (Grace L. 6H
Dance (Age 12 -14)
- Kiana 7E
There was fierce competition across many NAE schools including San Roberto, Oakridge, BIS Hanoi, British School Warsaw, Nord Anglia International School Dubai and the British School Kuala Lumpur to name a few. Well done to the above students representing St Andrews International School Bangkok for their commended work!
It was a tremendous effort by everyone that entered. You can see the results on the Global Campus page here.
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Primary and Foundation Stage Calendar: Term 3 |
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Monday 21st June - Tuesday 22nd June - Wednesday 23rd June: Primary Sports Awards |
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Tuesday 22nd June: Reports Published |
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Thursday 24th June: End of Term 3 |
Thank you again for all of your donations for the Klong Toey appeal. We have raised around 600,000 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 challenging time due to 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.
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.
