A celebration of courage, skill, and resilience! The Year 13 Higher Level Theatre Arts Solo performances took centre stage in the Jo Adamson Theatre and thoroughly impressed us with their professional productions, brilliant staging, and dramatic execution!
This work culminated with a great deal of creativity and industry from these students as they emerged from VSE straight into the theatre!
In the final performance, each of them captured their moment on the stage, communicating ideas and issues of importance to them in an engaging and impactful manner.
For this assessment, students explore a theatre practitioner of their choice whose work is unfamiliar to them. This year's areas of focus were:
The global refugee crisis employing Bertolt Brecht's epic Theatre techniques
The impact on 'identity of third culture adolescents utilising Robert Lepage's multimedia approach
Olwen Wymark play 'Find Me' integrates Jaque Lecoq's 7 Levels of Tension
Lady Macbeth's soliloquy experimenting with Peter Brook's approach to movement.
Preparation
Initially, the students completed deep research into their practitioner, identifying how the cultural, social, and historical context influenced the formation of the ideas. These skills will benefit them immensely at the university level.
They then identified their artistic intention and desired audience impact, followed by a sustained period of independent rehearsals.
The students had all the High School resources at their disposal, including the theatre, rehearsal rooms, set, lighting, sound, music, costume, props, and also the support of our theatre technician Khun Nat.
Throughout this process, feedback and reflection from mentors who included their teachers, peers, and family members were integral to their learning. Not only have they been challenged with managing a project from start to finish but they have acquired further technical skills as well as taking into account the arrangements of ensuring a physically distanced audience and safe performance space for all.
It takes a lot of courage to stand alone on stage and display your work publicly and then ask an audience to give you their feedback during a public talkback. This challenge will develop our students’ confidence in the future whether that future holds a career in theatre or other professions. It was wonderful to be given the opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the talents of our IB Year 13 Theatre Arts students.
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!
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.
