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Here's to a prosperous, happy and healthy New Year. We are back learning online and there have been campus developments in Primary helping to keep our school clean.

This week, the first university offer for the Class of 2021 has been received. The first of many offers! Congratulations Arin!

Y4 children got their glad rags on and stepped back in time to board the RMS Titanic. Find out the following for Christmas: when and where your Christmas Concert is being held, details of the Primary Christmas Fair and how to give this Christmas.

Alumni St Andrews International School Bangkok - Meet the Alumna, Simran. She graduated in 2016, completed the International Baccalaureate and has great advice for students about her experiences at St Andrews International School Bangkok

Recently, a total of 26 STA students from Year 5 and Year 6 submitted entries into the "Education Perfect Languages video making competition". Among many fantastic and creative videos, we’re pleased to announce that one of the Year 6 groups has won the competition

Inspirational young people have brought concerns about our damaged planet into the mainstream. And youngsters are leading calls for more sustainable lifestyles, greener approaches to business and government action across the world. International schools are challenging themselves to tailor the education they offer to prepare their students to tackle the environmental problems we face.

The British Ambassador, H.E. Mr Brian Davidson hosted a dinner at his residence in celebration of St Andrews International School Bangkok winning the 2020 International School of the Year Award.

We had a Makaton master class workshop, a search party assembled in FS2 in search of our endangered house mascot animals and Santa’s elves have been busy putting up Christmas decorations. How wonderful!

The big Christmas trees are up! Over the next month, we have concerts galore and the Christmas fair to look forward to. Find out when your Christmas concert is being held and how to donate during this time of giving. And finally... the Christmas card competition results are in.

There were songs and rhymes aplenty in the Nursery Rhyme tent. The Nursery Rhyme Craft competition was nip and tuck. We got dressed up specially, throughout Anti-Bullying week. And Christmas will soon be upon us and is a time of giving. We also have some important health updates!

Don’t forget to leave a present or two under the Christmas tree for the children at the Bangkok Refugee Centre (BRC). A big well done to KS2 for helping make Nursery Rhyme week a massive hit! We have learnt a lot this past Anti-Bullying week. And….EVACUATE! Find out how Y6 took us back to the WWII era.

Congratulations to Summer and Khushi (both Year 13) who achieved Second Place overall and Highly Commended respectively in the Bangkok Essay Competition 2020 that took place during lockdown earlier this year.

Year 6 ended last week with some uplifting pop songs, let’s work together this anti-bullying week and there have been health-minded additions to our internal learning environment.

Find out about the experts that will be virtually visiting us from Juilliard, an update on Air Quality, details of Year 9 IGCSE information evening and the Flu Vaccination Programme.

Some of our students climbed into the art during a unique visit to the ‘Art in Paradise’ gallery. Loy Krathong day at school was a special one. Find out how Year 6 are raising money for the Royal British Legion. And a former St Andrews student taught us the science behind an environmentally-friendly invention that turns air into water.

Loy Krathong was a sight to behold for the community. Our Marlins and Flames got stuck into an action-packed weekend of sport. This week, we have a performing arts extravaganza, special Juilliard virtual visitors and a PTG coffee morning in Primary School.

The learning cycle is never linear for any child, it naturally fluctuates. In the classroom or through virtual schooling, every student experiences times of acceleration and others which are more challenging.

More information on the Loy Krathong school celebrations and keeping the St Andrews community healthy and safe.

The Thai Department wants our St Andrews International School Bangkok community to appreciate the special significance that water holds in Thai society and enjoy our traditional celebrations of the water through our annual Loy Krathong assemblies, Krathong making, and Loy Krathong activities.