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GIS stages awesome show
Year 8 students launch into ‘I
Won’t Grow Up’.
Mark Beales
Photos by Ritche Guisona
Students from Garden International School staged a special performance to
show their newly-found musical and dramatic skills.
At Garden International School (GIS), the non-Thai students in Years 7-9
have had special music and drama lessons - known as Awesomeness.
At a recent assembly, everyone else got to see what they’ve been up to. The
group put on an excellent show, starting with ‘I Won’t Grow Up’ from Peter
Pan, followed by ‘Hard Knock Life’ from the musical Annie.
They followed this up by performing John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ in sign language
and ended with a rousing performance of ‘America’ from West Side Story. Well
done for an amazing show!
Check out the Media link on
www.gardenrayong.com to see a video of the assembly.
What you looking at? Year 7
GIS girls give some attitude.
It’s a Hard Knock Life, performed
by Year 7 students.
Students performed John Lennon’s
Imagine - using sign language.
‘La, la, la, la la, America’ -
GIS students finish with a big number.
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Human Help Network Foundation awarded 3rd Runner-Up for
Thailand at NGO Awards 2013
The Human Help Network Foundation
accepts their award for earning 3rd Runner-Up for Thailand at the 2013 NGO
Awards.
Radchada Chomjinda
Making the third consecutive year in Thailand, 118 organizations applied for the
Thailand NGO awards 2013. All entries received were put trough a selection
process and 12 organizations were selected for the finals. These finalists were
presented to a national jury panel that selects NGOs of the year in the small-
medium- and large-categories.
Among the finalists for the large category, we, Human Help Network Foundation
were nominated and earned 3rd runner-up on the 4th of November in Bangkok.
Human Help Network was officially established in August 2008. The two major
projects under the foundation are the Child Protection and Development Center
and the Drop-in Center. We aim and have managed to save hundreds of vulnerable
children from exploitation, sexual and physical abuse, poverty, drugs and crime.
We also help a lot of very poor, less fortunate Thai people to get their
citizenship and identity so they can access government benefits. We are proud to
say that CPDC is the first and the only Child Protection Home in Chonburi and
the Eastern Seaboard that is administered by a private NGO.
All the children who stay in our Center are integrated into
family life and we ensure they all go to school and have access to vocational
training. We firmly believe education is the key to help these children escape
from poverty, drug abuse and crime. We also believe that each child should be
entitled to experience their childhood in a loving family environment.
We fight against human trafficking, pedophiles and those individuals who abuse
children. We are fortunate to have excellent working relationships with all
major embassies that support us in tracing those who abuse children and ensure
that these people are dealt with to the full letter of the law.
In spite of being the newest organization among the 12 finalists, our grateful
thanks to the Rockefeller Foundation, the Resource Alliance and the KENAN
Institute Asia for considering and honoring us with this nomination. The
Thailand NGO Awards have created an opportunity for people to learn of our
efforts in the field of children protection and for this we are extremely
grateful.
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GIS talent contest features dancing, singing and awesome guitar riffs
Sarah Chi (IB1)
Photos by Ritche Guisona
Garden International School held an impressive talent contest that
featured dancing and singing and awesome guitar riffs.
A Year 9 student sings at the Talent
Show.
There were eight acts, with special entertainment coming from
the GIS Music Department, as staff played ‘Son of a Preacher Man’ while the
judges were picking a winner. The amazing Music Department staff consisted of Mr
Shiells, Ms Peralta, Mr Oat, Ms Mindy, Mr Bird and Mr Allan.
The student performances included solo singing, singing with accompaniments,
dance and bands. The superbly-talented performers were: Shilpi, Antra, Anna and
Jasmine, Jason and Praw, Daseul, Erica, Pauline and Trisha, and two bands: one
of which included Gear, Maria, Seren, Jun Beom and Knight while the other
consisted of Sony, Teng, Praw, Jason, Pauline and Huieun.
In third place came Jason and Praw, who performed a beautiful song called
‘Distance’; in second place was Daseul who amazed the audience with her powerful
dance moves. First place was announced, with a special drum roll from Jason, and
the winners were the band ‘Upside Down’, who gave a fantastic performance
playing a song called ‘Still Into You’.
The event was organized by Sarah Chi in IB1, along with a lot of other students
and teachers who supported and helped her with various things.
Another great performance at the GIS
Talent show.
A Year 9 student breaks out her best
hip-hop moves.
The winning band, ‘Upside Down’.
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Fallen war heroes remembered on Remembrance Day at GIS
GIS students stand by a grave at the War Cemetery in
Kanchanaburi.
Mark Beales
Photos by Ritche Guisona
Students from Garden International School (GIS) visited a war cemetery,
met the British Ambassador and raised funds for war veterans to mark Remembrance
Day.
A volunteer from the Royal British Legion came to GIS to talk to Year 9 students
about why we wear poppies each November. He explained that the Royal British
Legion collects donations each year, and this money is spent on helping families
who have lost relatives in wars. Funds are also spent on helping soldiers who
have been injured while fighting. In Thailand, 20 percent of donations go to
help local groups and families.
A group of Year 9 students went to Kanchanaburi with History teacher Mr
Armstrong. They visited the Death Railway and the Bridge Over the River Kwai and
also took part in a moving ceremony at the main War Cemetery in the town. While
there, the GIS students helped war veterans from Southeast Asia and were able to
chat with the British Ambassador for Thailand, Mr Mark Kent. Students took part
in the ceremony and laid a wreath by the cemetery’s cenotaph.
Generous GIS students help sell poppies in
Kanchanaburi.
Back at GIS, which is based in Ban Chang near Pattaya, there was a whole school
assembly. Students read out poems, including Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred
Owen, and sang songs, including John Lennon’s Imagine, to mark the occasion.
Parents also came in to school to teach students how to make paper peace cranes
- as it was World Origami Day - and in addition these helped students think
about Remembrance Day.
Students bought poppies and wristbands to remember war victims in the week
leading up to Remembrance Day. Last year, generous GIS students raised more than
anyone else in the region - and they are hoping when the totals are counted up
this year, they are again number one!
To watch a video of the Remembrance Day activities, visit the media page at
www.gardenrayong.com.
GIS students along with the British Ambassador for
Thailand, Mr Mark Kent (back row, far left).
Parents helped students make hundreds of ‘paper peace
cranes’ to mark Remembrance Day.
A Royal British Legion volunteer sells poppies to GIS
students.
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Regent’s School hosts moving remembrance service
A Regent’s student reflects on
Remembrance Day.
Charlotte Summersby
This year’s Remembrance Day was honoured by The Regent’s School Pattaya with
drama performances, readings, arts and crafts and a visit to Don Rak War
Cemetery in Kanchanaburi, hosted by the British Legion.
On Monday 11th November, Head of History, Samantha Jones and
Instrumental Teacher, Mr Clarence Mansell were invited to the Remembrance Day
Service at Don Rak War Cemetery in Kanchanaburi to represent the school and pay
their respects to those who gave their lives in past conflicts, alongside the
British Ambassador and most importantly veterans and ex-prisoners of war and
their families.
Back at The Regent’s School’s Globe Theatre, the secondary school put on a
fantastic assembly with the help of a Year 7 performance of ‘Sadako and the
Thousand Paper Cranes’, the school Choir singing ‘Nunc Dimittis’ and a Year 6
reading of ‘In Flanders Fields’.
The assembly was graciously closed with additional readings and the ‘The Last
Post’ played by Mr Clarence Mansell and students.
The Regent’s School Choir pay their
respects singing ‘Nunc Dimittis’.
Don Rak War Cemetery, Kanchanaburi.
Class 7G put on a fantastic
performance of ‘Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes’ in the Regent’s Globe
Theatre amongst the one thousand paper cranes hand made by students.
Instrumental Teacher Clarence
Mansell plays at the Remembrance Day Service at Don Rak War Cemetery in
Kanchanaburi.
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