Head's Lines: Freaky Friday, Loy Krathong, Poetry Slam, ECAs and VEX Robotics

Last Friday certainly was a “Freaky” Day. It was great welcoming all our Primary children into school dressed in their imaginatively spooky Halloween costumes.

These costumes also helped to set the mood for some frighteningly good fun across the whole school. The activities at both the Primary School and the High School proved equally entertaining with lots of Halloween themed games happening on the football field at Primary and a really great dance competition involving teachers in the High School Atrium. All these activities and costumes made this year’s FREAKY Friday a truly memorable one!

But that wasn’t the end of the festivities…

As the sun went down at High School, Key Stage 3 students were thrilled to dance into the night at a disco party at school organised by Year 12 students. There was a haunted house along with lots of other activities perfectly designed to elicit lots of screams and bumps throughout the evening. Thank you to all the teaching staff and students for putting in the extra work to make this day so successful.

Loy Krathong

Next Tuesday we will be celebrating the national festival of Loy Krathong at school, so there will be assemblies and Krathong activities happening at different times throughout the day. This is a wonderful Thai festival celebrating the end of the rainy season and a time for giving thanks for the gift of clean water without which life could not be sustained. With the spirit of this season in mind, we ask everyone to come to school wearing traditional Thai costumes. Children and students across this school will be given the opportunity to make traditional Krathongs to take home with them and float with their families on the closest bodies of water to their homes.

I look forward to seeing everyone dressed in traditional Thai garb on Tuesday for this year’s Loy Krathong celebrations.

Year 6 Poetry Slam in High School

This year our Year 6 students are really enjoying becoming part of the High School through plenty of great transition activities. They have already been over twice this first term, including taking part in a heart dissection in a Science lesson. This week after lots of preparation in their classes they will once again be going to High School for the annual Poetry Slam - a thoroughly enjoyable event which offers yet another opportunity for our Year 6 students to get to know the High School and the teachers there well before their move in Year 7 next academic year.

The Week Ahead - Something for Everyone

This week ahead looks to just get even busier with so much happening around school and as part of our Sports and Extra Curricular Activities (ECA) programme.

There will be no shortage of sports fixtures throughout the week with our teams competing at all levels. At the weekend there will be a volleyball tournament for the boys and girls U19 teams. Our girls and boys U12 and U14 basketball teams will compete in tournaments held at other international schools in Bangkok. The girls and boys U14 Flames Tennis Squad will be attending a tournament held at ISB next weekend.

On top of all these sports, there will be a Dance Festival held at our school. This should be a fantastic event with a great number of our students involved with other dance squads from international schools across the city. There will also be a Junior VEX Robotics event held at the Atrium of the High School. This again will involve several of our teams competing against 10 or 11 teams from other international schools. 

Another group of our students have been working hard on a coral reef redevelopment project. As a culmination of their work, this week they shall be going off to embed the structures they have created on which new coral can develop. It is hoped that the result of their efforts will be an important new coral reef off the Rayong coast.

This is just a small sample of the wide range of opportunities there are for all our young people to participate and further develop their interests and talents.

For parents with enquiries, please contact support@standrews.ac.th. You can also call the Primary School directly at +66 2 381-2387-8 or the High School at +66 2 056-9555.