Healthy Holidays
We’re planning for two camps over the holidays before Christmas: our Multi-Sport Camp and our Basketball camp. More details will follow by email soon.

Sporting Conferences
We appreciate that you are often hearing different acronyms - TISAC, BISAC, FOBISIA - that we are involved in but may not know much about them. We hope that the following overview will therefore be useful.
We are currently members of four conferences or organisations:
TISAC: Thailand International Schools Activities Conference
We have been members for many years. This has 16 schools involved which vary in size from small to very large. Currently, we mostly enter Blaze teams in TISAC. There are leagues and tournaments in several sports from U9-U19 and next year, TISAC will also start its own multi-sport Games for Primary children.
BISAC: Bangkok International Schools Athletic Conference
This is our first year in BISAC. The 12-school membership includes the largest international schools in Bangkok in leagues and tournaments across many sports, from U9-U19, split into four seasons through the year. BISAC schools also run invitational tournaments.
FOBISIA: Federation of British International Schools in Asia
This has three major multi-sport Games per year (Primary, U13 and U15) that take place in Phuket against other schools across Asia. There are also single-sport events in Tennis, Golf, Swimming and more, which take place across Asia and provide some amazing travel opportunities.
NAE: Nord Anglia Education
We are part of the South East Asia division and meet for a U11 multi-sport Games once a year. Our schools take it in turn to host the NAE Games.
In addition, we are part of the wider circuit regionally which means we are invited to a whole range of other events across Thailand.
Currently we are able to offer STA students opportunities through these conferences in Football, Basketball, Swimming, Tennis, Badminton, Golf, Teeball, Track and Field, Triathlon, Cross Country.
If you have any questions about these conferences, please don’t hesitate to contact Mr. Ollie (HS - ollie.fa@standrews.ac.th) or Mr. Damon (PS - damon.se@standrews.ac.th).
Squad Sessions
With a very busy period of tournaments and competition coming up, this list below highlights our last seasons for different sports. Also, a reminder that all squads, including lunch times squads (not boys development that has changed to Friday after school), will start again from the 14 January on the same days and times as Term 1. FOBISIA training is only on Fridays this year due to all the other extra commitments our child have.
Football last session
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Boys U11/U9 - 26 November
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Girls U11/U9 - 27 November
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Boys U7 - 28 November
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Boys U11/U9 Development Squad - 28 November
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Girls Development Squad - 27 November
Basketball last session
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Girls U11 Flames - 26 November
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Boys U11 Flames - 29 November
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Girls and Boys U11 Blaze - 23 November
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Girls and Boys U9 - 29 November
Gymnastics Squad
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Year 1/2 - 4 December
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Year 3-6 - 6 December
Dance
All lunchtime Dance squads finish on Friday 30 November unless Miss Cherry needs you to come to rehearse for a performance.
Term 2 Sports
There are some new developments for Term 2 ECA sport. We are always trying to offer even more sporting opportunities for our children and hopefully our new Sports Programme for Term 2 will not disappoint. These will all start from the 14 January.
Monday:
Tuesday:
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Open badminton will continue (2 slots: 2.45 - 3.45 p.m. and then 3.45 - 4.45 p.m.) - Sports Hall
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Due to the large number of U9 girls who want to play football, the STA Girls’ football @ Soccer Pro will be split into a Flames and Blaze teams with another BSS coach to work alongside Mr Stuart.
Wednesday:
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STA Badminton/open badminton (more badminton for our children and a chance for children who want to play more and also for children playing for STA in Term 2 competitions) - Pridi Soi 41 - 2.45 - 4.15 p.m.
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An email will be sent to invite children to be part of the STA badminton going over to Pridi Soi 41.
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Cricket and striking games on the field - 2.45 - 3.45 p.m.
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Athletics @ track TBC - 2.45-4.15pm
Thursday:
Dates for your diary
We have some major sports competitions coming up this term. Please keep the following in your diary.
Term 2 (just some of the events next year)
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11-13 January - Swimming FOBISIA
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19-20 January - Gymnastics FOBISIA
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18-19 January, Harrow International Football 7s, U9 Girls & Boys Flames and Blaze, U11 Boys Flames, U11 Girls Flames
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2/3 February - TISAC Primary Games
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2 February - BISAC Girls and Boys U11 Football Tournament
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7 February - U9 Invitational Tennis Vs Bangkok Patana
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9 February - U11 STA Invitational Tennis
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2/3 March - Marlin Mayhem
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16/17 March - BISAC Swim Champs
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23 March - BISAC Athletics U11
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30 March - Gymnastics Moose Games
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30 - March, U11 NAE SEA Football Tournament
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27/28 April - BISAC Gymnastics
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3-5 May - BISP Flying Fish Swimming
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4-5 May - BISAC U11 Tennis
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11 May - Harrow Football Festival
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18 May - NIST Gymnastics
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25 May - Mini Marlin Mayhem
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30 May - U9 Invitational Tennis Vs Bangkok Patana
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10- 15 June - Primary FOBISIA Games
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8 June - U9 Orange Ball Tennis Tournament
Here is a small selection of fun videos from last year for you to enjoy and remember what a fantastic year of sport we had:
If you any questions about Primary Sport you can either email Mr Damon (damon.se@standrews.ac.th) our Head of Primary PE or book an appointment to speak to him about the opportunities your child’s/children’s will have at STA.