One of our overseas trips during Term 1 is the NAE Games, which is a 2-day tournament combining basketball and tee-ball. This year we travel to Vietnam for 4 days. It is a great, fun tournament for the children and the PE look forward to taking the 20 children from Year 5 & 6 on the trip. Children will be invited on the trip once we have looked at both our basketballers and our tee ballers. If you would like any further details about the trip, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Swimming
We hope everyone had a wonderful beginning of the school year. The swim team will hold in-class assessment during curriculum swimming time throughout this week, kindly note that this assessment is for new students who would like to join the Swim ECA Programme and Swim Squad.
Returning students will be assigned automatically to ECAs and Squad based on Term 3 2018/19.
All Swim Sign-ups will be preference-based and you have from Saturday 31st Aug to Tuesday 3rd September to list your preferences.
Tennis
This year we had over 200 primary students and 100 students from High School come for the Tennis ‘Come and Try week’. It was a great start and we are delighted to see our children interested in joining the STA Tennis Programme.
For those children who came for the tryout, please be informed that there will be an email informing the pathway/programs your child/children will be joining. If you would like your child/children to continue please sign them up for a place on Moodle.
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The ECA sign up will take place from 10 am on Saturday 31st August - 5 pm on Tuesday 3rd September. Please be aware that spaces are limited, please advise your preference as part of our whole school preference-based ECA sign up process.
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Tennis sessions will begin on Monday 9th September. Children are also encouraged to continue their development as part of our weekend programme if they would like.
Whole School ECA, Sport & Swim Sign-ups
Following 'Come and Try week' you will need to sign up your child via Moodle to join our full program as part of the whole school ECA sign up.
The ECA sign up will take place from 10 am on Saturday 31st August - 5 pm on Tuesday 3rd September. Full information on our whole school ECA program will follow later next week.
Sessions will begin on Monday 9th September.
Keep in touch
Please stay up-to-date by joining our STA Flames & Marlins Facebook group for parents and students who are part of our Sport Programme.
As it’s a closed group not open to the general public, please complete the questions so that we know if you’re part of our STA community.
Parents may post to this group and it’s been great to see some of your photos of our kids in action!
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).