Key Stage 2: Wild for tigers

Parent Consultations

Tuesday 15 January is the first of our parent consultation afternoons. The consultations continue next Tuesday - 22 January. You can check for confirmed appointment times below. If you haven’t yet scheduled a meeting and would like to meet with your child’s teachers, please email them directly to arrange an appointment.

CONFIRMED APPOINTMENTS

Eco-BEASTs and Sustainability and Well-being Market

Last Thursday’s Eco-BEASTs conference was a resounding success. Sixteen schools, including ourselves, were represented by teams of student delegates. Throughout the day, the students were able to participate in a range of workshops which either gave them information about the problems of pollution and non-sustainable living, or showed them some solutions to living a more sustainable life. The day was rounded off with the children having the chance to create an action plan for their school to either begin or continue their journey to becoming more sustainable and doing their bit for the future of our planet.

Well done to Ms Helen who helped organise this event. Also, well done to the students who took on leadership roles and helped make the day so successful.

You can click on the links below to find out more about each of the workshop providers that came along on the day.

Courageous Kitchen - Good food education

Permaculture Thailand - Organic farming

Precious Plastic - Upcycling plastic into useful household items

Soap Opera - Making your own soap

Scholars of Sustenance - food waste

Style seal - Air pollution. Will be selling high quality masks

Super Bee Me - A replacement for plastic wrappers made out of beeswax

Plastic Free NIST - Selling bamboo straws

Bambew - Selling sustainable straws

Eco bricks Thailand - Waste management and upcycling

Trash Hero - Community action project

Refill Station - How to shop smart

Kayaking for Chao Phraya - Cleaning up the waterways in Thailand

Once the children had finished their plans and headed off to share their ideas and enthusiasm with their friends back at school, the Sports Hall was transformed into our first ever sustainability market. A mixture of workshop hosts from during the day plus vendors from sustainable businesses from around the city, set up stall to share their wares and initiatives with our wider school community. There was a large turnout for this event and everyone seemed to go away happy, whether t was with some delicious spring rolls, a new bamboo straw or having made their first ever eco-brick.

Tiger Conservation Day

Last Friday, there was a certain orange glow around the Primary campus as many of the students (and teachers came to school dressed as tigers, ready for our assembly to launch Sustainability Week. For the assembly, we were visited by a research doctor from the WWF whose focus is on tiger conservation. She was accompanied by three wildlife rangers whose job is to look after the wild tigers of the Huai Kha Kaeng Sanctuary and the Mae Wong forest. They explained about the plight of the tigers in the wild and how tiger farms are threatening wild tiger populations by driving up the prices, meaning many turn to hunting wild tigers. They also showed the children what a ranger needs to survive in the forests, as well as the equipment used to track the tigers. All of the children who came in dressed up made a donation to the WWF in Thailand. We are happy to announce that we raised a fantastic 13,000 Baht, which will be making its way to helping the tigers.

A display outlining the history of tiger conservation in Thailand as well as giving some fantastic tiger facts, has been set up in the small quad beside the Drama Studio. This will be in place all week if you’d like to come along and find out more, or to have your photo taken with our tiger cutouts.

Moodle Workshop for New Parents

To support new families especially, Mr Keith, our Director of Learning Technologies, will be running a workshop for parents to explain Moodle, our online learning platform. This Thursday- 17 January- at 7.45 a.m. in the Library Classroom. It will last around 30 minutes and will explain how to navigate around the system. There will also be members of the senior team at the meeting to answer any general questions.

The meeting is of course open to anyone who would like to find out more about using Moodle.

Important dates for the term

Sustainability Week - 14 - 18 January

Parent Consultations Day One - 15 January

Wai Kru Ceremony in Primary - 16 January

Moodle Meeting for new families - 17 January

Parent Consultations Day Two - 22 January

Year 4 Residential: Pranburi - 30 January - 1 February

FUN DAY - 2 February

Year 6 Residential: Rayong - 4 - 8 February

Year 3 Residential: 13 - 15 February

HALF TERM - 18 -22 February

Year 5 Residential: 25 February - 1 March