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Chonburi continues planning for January student games
Chonburi Gov. Khomsan Ekachai
(center) announces the 31st Thailand City Students Sports Competition will
be held in Chonburi this month.
Chonburi officials continued planning for the 31st
Thailand City Students Sports Competition in January, picking ballots to
divide teams into groups.
Chonburi Provincial Administrative Organization President Wittaya Kunplome
and Gov. Khomsan Ekachai held a Dec. 17 press conference to publicize the
Jan. 19-28 “Chol Games.”
Sports included in this year’s competition include table tennis, volleyball,
football, takraw, beach volleyball, futsal, petanque, badminton, Thai chess,
Thai checkers, 10 km run, and track and field. Students are broken into four
age groups: 12, 15, 16 and 18 years old.
Pattaya, however, will send athletes to compete in only seven of the 12
sports: football, futsal, petanque, sepak-takraw, volleyball, beach
volleyball and athletics.
Begun in 1984, the local games were held in Bangkok until 1995, when the
decision was made to move them around the kingdom annually. (CPRD)
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Kindermusik comes
to Regents
Primary School Music teacher Lucy
Lewis is Regents’ fully-authorised Kindermusik educator.
Charlotte Summersby
Regents International School Pattaya is pleased to announce its launch
of Kindermusik, making it the only school in Thailand to offer the world’s
leading music and movement programme for pre-school children.
The school’s Primary School Music Coordinator and authorised Kindermusik
educator, Lucy Lewis, is eager to begin the ‘sing and play’ and ‘cuddle and
bounce’ sessions this coming January. Each session of playing, singing and
movement will last 45 minutes.
Lucy is not only a fully-authorised Kindermusik educator, but importantly she’s
also a highly-qualified Primary School Music teacher. She learned piano from age
4 and flute from age 7, earned a BSc (Hons) degree and a PGCE, and is an
Associate of the London School of Music with a Diploma in Speech, Drama and
Communication.
Lucy commented, “It is really exciting to be offering Kindermusik to the
pre-school children in and around Pattaya. I’ve experienced first-hand the
benefits music and play can have on a young child’s development and these
sessions allow your child to learn musically and cognitively whilst bonding with
their parent or carer!”
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Pattaya Breakfast Challenge
benefits Father Ray Foundation
David Brindsley from Newcastle
make a good attempt, but the ‘Breakfast Challenge’ was just too much for him.
Derek Franklin
According to the majority of health care professionals, breakfast is the
most important meal of the day, and many people live by the well known mantra to
‘eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper’.
Here in Pattaya the population is spoiled for choice when selecting a suitable
location and affordable price to eat their first meal of the day.
Food carts selling moo ping and sticky rice and street kitchens selling noodles
and khao thom can be found in most sois.
Traditional English, German and other European fare can be found throughout
Pattaya and Americans can find their own breakfast favourites such a pancakes
and waffles.
Hotels, from the lowly budget establishments to the most expensive five star
hotels, all offer a breakfast menu, usually a buffet, and most will have a wide
range of foods to please most people to give them a good start to the day.
But there is one breakfast served in Pattaya that no one has ever been able to
finish, and this gargantuan plateful is served at the i-Rovers bar in Soi LK
Metro, just off Soi Buakaow.
Consisting of twelve sausages, twelve rashers of bacon, 10 eggs, slices of black
pudding, baked beans, grilled tomatoes, five rounds of toast and several slices
of fried bread, this is no ordinary breakfast.
Apart from being a lot of food to eat, this ‘Breakfast Challenge’ also has a
very large kitty attached to it, consisting of almost fifty thousand baht, all
of which will be donated to the Father Ray Foundation if anyone can eat
everything on the plate.
For 2014, forget your New Year’s resolution to cut down on the food you eat.
Instead, make a resolution to take on the ‘Breakfast Challenge’ at the i-Rovers
Bar and make a large donation to the children of the Father Ray Foundation.
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7 Chonburi schools nominated for Education Ministry
anti-drug program
Seven Chonburi schools have been nominated for the Ministry of Education’s
“white schools” program, designating them as institutions free of drugs and
vices.
 Deputy
Gov. Pornchai Kwansakul announces Chonburi’s participation in the Education
Ministry’s anti-drug program.
Deputy Gov. Pornchai Kwansakul announced the province’s participating in the
ministry program Dec. 19.
Launched in 1998, the “white schools” program encourages schools to control the
spread of drugs through education and involvement of teachers and parents.
Pornchai said the program creates focus groups composed of educators, parents
and students, and another containing police and monks. Efforts focus on
prevention, research, maintenance, surveillance, and management. Directives call
for planning, information systems, networking.
Chonburi had set up a committee to evaluate schools in the province and will
pass on the best facilities to the ministry.
Wat Nongree Community School, Koh Chan Pre-School, Wat Boonsamphan School,
Chonburi Technological School, Wattananusart School, Chonburi Vocational
College, and Sriracha School have all been nominated. (CPRD)
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Thousands of children helped as aid programme expanded
Lisa Jones, Senior Media Officer, Plan UK
Thousands more vulnerable children are being helped after children’s charity
Plan International expanded its aid programme in Myanmar.
Plan is already providing education and psycho-social support for thousands of
children in IDP (internally displaced people) camps in Kachin state.
Now it has opened a new field office in Myitkyina in Kachin - with the aim of
helping a further 7,000 children in 50 camps.
Aid workers are also assessing the needs of IDPs in Rakhine state, where it aims
to start aid operations soon.
“Plan is expanding its humanitarian operations in Kachin and is exploring
options in Rakhine,” says John McDonough, Plan’s Country Director in Myanmar.
“Assessments are ongoing to identify longer-term needs and make sure key
priorities are addressed.
“IDPs continue to face critical protection concerns due to the prolonged
displacement and we want to ensure that all of our work reflects the needs of
IDP children - especially girls,” he says.
As well as distributing food, aid workers have been holding workshops to raise
awareness about the issues of human trafficking, drugs and HIV/AIDS.
Around half a million people have fled their homes over the past two years due
to conflicts in the country’s border areas.
Many have been unable to return and remain living in camps, where access to
health, education, water, shelter and jobs are key concerns.
Although the government has signed ceasefire agreements with several armed
groups, there have been continued outbreaks of violence.
For more information on Plan’s work or to make a donation call 0800 526 848 or
visit www.plan-uk.org
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Regents’ students race for victory
at Secondary Sports Day
Head of PE, Paul Madden watches on as Red House
safely stride to the finish line in the classic Egg and Spoon Race.
Charlotte Summersby
After their recent 50 medal success at the FOBISIA Games and a fourth
consecutive win at the annual ESAC Cross Country Championships, the students at
Regents International School Pattaya celebrated a great first term of sport with
their very own Secondary Sports Day.
On Thursday 12th December students gathered on the school’s Oval on a gloriously
sunny day for an afternoon of fun-filled sport and cheering of their fellow
classmates.
In a sea of red, blue, yellow and green sports kit, Regents’ students and their
teachers embraced their in-house competition and raced for team points in many
track and field events including the classic egg and spoon race and the
all-important Teachers’ Relay race.
Principal Mike Walton awards hard
working student’s with their medals.
There were dives for the finish line, roars from the crowd
and even extreme levels of competiveness in the teachers’ race, all of which
contributed to a great day of sport, challenge and teamwork.
Head of Physical Education, Paul Madden commented, “Events like Secondary Sports
Day highlight the additional benefits sports can bring. The camaraderie between
the students and their teams was fantastic and the atmosphere electric. Students
of all skill and ability took part and every participant was applauded across
the finish line no matter what place they came. Needless to say there were some
very impressive times recorded - well done to all participants!”
Green House sprint for the finish
line supported by Deputy Head of Sixth Form, Glen Bolland and Geography Teacher,
Alyric Merriott.
Green team leads the way in the
3-legged race.
Jumping for joy in the always-fun
sack race.
It’s thumbs up for the yellow
team.
Red House run victoriously through
the finish line.
Head of Music Robert Duff is hot
on the heels of Head of Maths Andrew Perrins in the Teachers’ Relay Race.
Blue House show off their medal
collection.
A fantastic start to the race.
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