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Golden Tickets for Roald Dahl Day
Winner! A lucky GIS student
finds her golden ticket.
Mark Beales
Photos by Ritche Guisona
Hundreds of chocolate-loving students hunted for special golden tickets to
mark Roald Dahl Day at Garden International School (GIS).
The students bought more than 1,000 Kit-kat bars in the hope that theirs
would contain the magical golden ticket, just like in Dahl’s Willy Wonka and
the Chocolate Factory. Money raised will help a Pattaya charity.
GIS’s Prefects, led by Languages’ Prefect John Caules, organised the event,
which aimed to raise awareness of children’s author Roald Dahl, and to raise
money for a good cause.
By the end of the day, several golden tickets had been found and exchanged
for prizes, and GIS raised 7,700 baht, which will be given to the North Star
Library in Pattaya. North Star Library is part of the Father Ray Foundation.
A GIS student proudly holds
his golden ticket high.
GIS students sold hundreds of
Kit-kats to help a Pattaya charity.
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Perfect Prefects ready for a challenging year
The GIS Prefects and Head Boy and Girl for 2014-15.
Mark Beales
Photos by Ritche Guisona
Garden International School (GIS) has welcomed a new group of Prefects for
2014-15.
The Prefects, who are all from Year 12, will represent the school at various
events and also help organise a range of activities for students.
At a whole school assembly on September 12, the Prefects were revealed. They
then said a pledge to work hard for GIS and were given a special white
wristband, watched by their parents and mentors.
Each Prefect has their own portfolio which they will represent. The Prefects for
2014-15 are: Renee Harris - Humanities portfolio, Teng Chilver - Action, Hui Eun
Park - Sciences, Jason Tang - Creativity, John Caulees - Languages, Kevin Gulati
- Service. In addition, for the first time at GIS, there is also a Head Boy,
Patrick Van Der Poel, and a Head Girl, Pauline Gallemit.
Dr Stuart Tasker, GIS Principal, said: “Being a Prefect is a big responsibility
for these students, but as our students are all so amazing and hard-working, I
know they will step up to the challenge. They have already organised some great
events, such as a fun sports afternoon for students and a Roald Dahl Day, and
I’m sure there will be many more exciting activities to come over the year.
“As well as helping ensure GIS is a fun place to learn, the Prefects will also
gain lots of new skills, and gain more responsibility,” Dr Tasker concluded.
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Regents International School Pattaya to host Fine Foods and Artisan Craft Fair
The free-to-enter fair will give over twenty exhibitors a
chance to impress the Pattaya public with their incredible recipes and dazzling
arts and crafts. The range of culinary delights on offer range from fine wines
to organics to melt in your mouth deli meats. Gates open on Sunday the 12th of
October at 11 a.m. and the fair will run until 3 p.m.
Tim Eaton of Regents says, “The Fine Foods and Artisan Craft Fair is a great
opportunity to try the culinary wares of different producers in and around the
Eastern Seaboard. Being a part of the wider Pattaya community is really
important to us and Regents can’t wait to host what should be an amazing day.”
Fair organiser Rainer Rössler comments, “It’s a one of a kind event for Pattaya.
It gives people a chance to try something new or re-discover something they once
craved for. In addition fair-goers will have a great time checking out hand-made
jewelry, leather bags and even yoga fashion.”
Clear Sunday the 12th of October in your diary as this event will take on
gastronomic proportions!
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Bromsgrove International
School goes to Yale University
Bromsgrove’s students proudly
display their World Scholar’s Cup alpacas.
A global ‘Olympics of the mind’, the World Scholar’s Cup
stretches young brains in divergent and creative directions often missed by the
taught curriculum, and provides a level of challenge on which only the very most
able students in the world can flourish. One of the foremost international
schools in Thailand, Bromsgrove International School entered two teams for this
year’s contest. So strong were the teams that not only did they qualify for the
global round in Singapore in June 2014, but they are also amongst the global
elite and only team from Thailand to have progressed to the final stage - the
Tournament of Champions at the prestigious Yale University, USA in November
2014.
Exploring every conceivable angle of this year’s theme, ‘The World Within’, the
World Scholar’s Cup pits the brightest minds of their generation against each
other in writing, academic study, debate and divergent thinking - diving deep
into topics as diverse as abnormal psychology and secret societies, the history
of Espionage and Japanese court music, Martel’s The Life of Pi and Camus’ ‘The
Myth of Sisyphus’. Two of the debate motions in Singapore were ‘The World
Scholar’s Cup is a competition for geeks’ and ‘The World Scholar’s Cup should be
renamed the World Scholar’s Cult’ - and it is true that this intellectual and
idiosyncratic competition, whose proud mascot is the alpaca, represents a unique
community of teenagers proud of their intellectual might and cerebral
idiosyncrasies.
Fifty nations were represented in the flag march on the final day of the global
round, a reminder that Bromsgrove’s ‘alpacas’ went into battle against the best
in the world and came out triumphant. And now Bromsgrove students Thomas and
Daisy Savage, Surabhi and Devi Vanalia, Joon Ho Byun and Jeana Lee are immersed
in intensive training for the final furlong in wintry Connecticut.
To find out more about the World Scholar’s Cup, have a look at new.scholarscup
.org. For a window into Bromsgrove International School, Bangkok’s Premier
Boarding and Day School, please visit www.bromsgrove .ac.th, or come and pay us
a visit.
Top students Thomas Savage and
Surabhi Vanalia preparing for a debate.
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