Primary School Sport: Depth and quality on display

Primary School Sport: Depth and quality on display 50 of our U9 footballers test their skills in our latest football tournament and a huge number of Primary athletes impress in a myriad of different sports and tournaments.

50 of our U9 footballers test theirs skills in our latest football tournament and a huge number of Primary athletes impress in a myriad of different sports and tournaments.

It is great to see all our children enjoying their PE lessons from gymnastics to teeball, dance to tennis and badminton. The PE curriculum has so many opportunities for our young children to experience new sports and learn new skills. This week we have a team of Juilliard Dance teachers coming to the Primary School on Wednesday to help integrate their amazing dance scheme into our dance programme. We also have the FS3 Triathlon on Monday morning which is another positive experience for our younger children.

We are coming up to another busy period of sport.  We had football at the weekend and also tennis hosted at STA. During the week it is the turn of our U11 Girls football team to see if they can claim the TISAC League Championship. Before the end of March, we have have FOBISIA Golf @ Black Mountain, BISAC Athletics, BISAC swimming, Gymnastics Moose Games and more tennis.

Football

On Saturday 50 of our U9 footballers tested their skills against the rest of Bangkok at the BPS  Football 7s. The U9 children had a great time and produced some fantastic performances. The boys’ team was so close to winning but lost 2 important games. Our B team finished 2nd. In the girls’ tournament both our teams looked so strong throughout the tournament, with our Blaze team finishing 4th out of 10 teams and then our Flames team coming runners up. The U9 next tournament is the end of season TISAC Tournament on 26 March.

Once again well done to all our U9 girl footballers for winning the TISAC U9 Girls League. Some real progress has been made over the year and all the coaches are really proud of them.

• 12 March - TISAC U11 Girls Festival 2 - 12.15 leave - 1.00 - 3.00 p.m. @ Soccer pro

• 20 March - TISAC U11 Boys A Festival 2 - 11.00 a.m. leave @ Ascot, 2.00 p.m. finish

• 26 March - TISAC U9 Tournaments - 9am to Midday. Boys @ 107,  Girls @ Soccer Pro

• TBC - U11 TISAC C League Festival 2 - BIC

• 30 March TISAC U11 Football Tournaments - Boys @ 107, Girls @ Bromsgrove

Swimming

This coming week starting Monday 11 March to Friday 15 March, the Swim Department will be conducting time trials for our ECA and Swim Squad swimmers. Please ensure that your child is attending the normal signed up session for this trial. You could also contact goh.ph@standrews.ac.th by Wednesday 13 March to book your trial if your child isn’t currently signed up in Term 2.

Another big competition is coming up this Saturday 16 March as our 12&under Marlins are set for the BISAC Junior Swimming Championships at Harrow. We are looking forward to competing against other Bangkok international schools. Good luck.

Golf

Best of luck to our STA golfers who have gone to compete at Black Mountain Golf Resort, Hua Hin. The FOBISIA Golf Tournament first round starts on Tuesday 12 March. We will update you on Facebook and then in our Newsletter next week.

Gymnastics

Once again well done to all our gymnasts for their excellent efforts and performances last weekend. We have several more opportunities for our gymnasts coming up soon.

Badminton

Well done to all the U11 badminton players who went to play in their first friendly of the season. Some great games and game time before our upcoming tournaments.

Tennis

A massive well done to all the players who represented their country in the World Tennis Day events over the weekend; it was great to see so many players having fun! A big thank you to Coach Pair and her team for organising the event.

Outside School Sport

Well done to all the children who competed at the lastest Tri-dash over the weekend. Great to see our children enjoying sport outside of school.

Just some of the upcoming events in Term 2...

• 12 March - TISAC U11 Girls Festival 2 - 12.15 leave - 1.00 - 3.00 p.m. @ Soccer pro

• 16-17 March - BISAC Swim Champs

• 20 March - TISAC U11 Boys A Festival 2 - 11.00 a.m. leave @ Ascot, 2.00 p.m. finish

• 23 March - BISAC Athletics U11 hosted by STA

• 24 March - BISAC Golf

• 26 March - TISAC U9 Girls Football Tournament @ Soccer Pro - 9.00 a.m. start

• 26 March - TISAC U9 Boys Football Tournament @ 107 - 9.00 a.m. start

• 30 March TISAC U11 Football Tournaments - Boys @ 107, Girls @ Bromsgrove

• 30 March - Gymnastics Moose Games

• 28-31 March - BISP Phuket Tennis 4s (U11 - U14)

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. Damon (damon.se@standrews.ac.th).

Some of the Events coming in Term 3

• 27-28 April - BISAC Gymnastics

• 27 April - BISAC Teeball festival

• 3-5 May - BISP Flying Fish Swimming

• 2 May FOBISIA Parent meeting with Mr Damon - PE Classroom

• 4 May - Water Polo @ SHB

• 4-5 May - BISAC U11 Tennis

• 9 May - TISAC Badminton Tournament

• 11 May - Harrow Football Festival

• 14 May - Teeball @ Patana - FOBISIA team- 2.15pm leave

• 18 May - NIST Gymnastics

• 25 May - Mini Marlin Mayhem

• 30 May - U9 Invitational Tennis vs Bangkok Patana

• 8 June - U9 Orange Ball Tennis Tournament

• 10-14 June - Primary FOBISIA Games

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.