How are our youngest students settling in?

I caught up with some of them in the newly refurbished soft play room, practicing those all important physical skills.

Meanwhile their friends were in the classroom and garden enjoying some of the activities set up by their teachers. They have settled very quickly into school life and will hopefully enjoy some of the International Week Activities that are planned for this week.

International Week Reminders

• National Costume Day for Y1 & Y2 - Wednesday 30th September.
  • Photo opportunities for parents before school and then after registration. Please remember to wear your masks.
• National Costume Day for Foundation Stage - Friday 2nd October
  • Photo opportunities for parents during the first part of the day. Please remember to wear your masks.
• International Food Hall - Friday 2nd October
  • Contributions of food for Foundation Stage should be taken to the classrooms
  • Contributions for Y1-Y6 to the Sports Hall

Please note that parents are only allowed onto campus to drop off Foundation Stage children and food. After 8am, to limit the number of people on campus, only the Official Parent Foodhall Helpers will be allowed on site.

• KS1 and KS2 children can come to school on Friday wearing clothes that are the colour of their national flag.
• All of the Assemblies and the Karaoke Competition will be videotaped and shared with you, and our professional photographers will be in school taking lots of photos that we will also share.

We are looking forward to seeing the children dressed in their fantastic costumes later this week. A big thank you to the parents who have been signing up to do special activities in the classroom and to the PTG for coordinating the Food Hall.

Pridi 20 Entrance Closing

This is a reminder that as of next Monday, 5th October, the gate on Pridi 20 will no longer be available for drop-off and pick-up. We have had to take this measure as requests to help reduce the traffic in Pridi 20 have been unsuccessful.

During this week and over the weekend, we will be changing the Pridi 20 gate so that entry will only be available to people with RFID cards. The gate will still be accessible to shuttle bus users and to residents of Pridi 20 and its sub-Sois. Pick up and drop off will no longer be permitted from this gate and cars from the STA community will no longer be permitted to park in the Soi. We will have members of our senior team on the gate from Monday morning to remind people about the new system and help manage the flow of allowed users through the gate.

Families and their drivers who currently use Pridi 20 for drop-off and pickup will instead have to make use of the drop-off and pick up facilities in the Main Car Park (for KS2 the drop off is in front of the car park). Parking for KS2 families is at Suk 71 (Pridi 24), or you can use the free ‘park and ride’ shuttle bus service from Max Value on Sukhumvit 71.

*Families with children no younger than Year 3 age must use the drop-off in front of the car park.

**We will be in touch with families who residents of Pridi 20 and its sub-Sois to arrange for RFID cards to access the new gate.