Lim Dong Hyun wins the gold
medal in the boys shot putt.
Garden International School, Rayong, competed in their
first FOBISSEA games last week.
FOBISSEA (the federation of British type international schools in the South
East Asian region) aims to promote good practice of British style education
in the region and to create opportunities for students from member schools
to come together and share programmes of sporting and cultural activities.
The G.I.S. team joined the 550 other competitors from 12 other schools from
the S.E.A. region for two days of swimming and athletics. The games were
hosted by Tanglin Trust School, Singapore, and took place in the first class
facilities offered by Singapore Polytechnic and the Anglo-Chinese College.
All the schools put in excellent performances providing a high level of
competition and great excitement for spectators. Our own athletes, although
from a smaller school than some of the others, put in some outstanding
personal efforts and achieved many personal bests. Special mention should be
made to our Gold Medal winners; Lim Dong Hyun (boys shot putt), Fiona Allen
(girls ball throw), and to Lauren Wilkinson for silver medal in the girls
shot putt. Other notable performances came from Eoin De Puis, Peter Nugent,
Gareth Sutcliffe, Mart Jan Laauw and Nicholas Ranner, the latter coming in
fourth in two swimming events and two athletics events which was really an
excellent all round performance.
Thank you to all the staff and parents from the school and the hosts Tanglin
Trust School, Singapore. Our first year in FOBISSEA is proving to be great
fun and very successful with our students and staff building valuable links
with schools around the S.E.A. region.
Garden International School would like to thank its sponsors who made this
venture possible: S.P.R.C.; The Rayong Refinery Company; B.H.P.; Safe with
SAVAL; Pioneer Concrete and Hogan’s Restaurant Ban Chang.
Well done to all the schools who participated in this memorable event, we
shall see you in K.L. in 1998!
The G.I.S. team were; Fiona Allen, Gina Meurer, Eoin De Puis, Allan
Wilkenson, Pat Markovich, Park, Hyun Jong, Neil Balstra, Peter Nugent, Lee
Coventry, Leon De Jong, Hannah Hinchcliffe, Gareth Sutcliffe, Sam Ranner,
Ashleigh Nugent, Mart Jan Laauw, Nick Ranner, Vanessa Allen, Lauren
Wilkenson, Andrew Lewicki, Lim Dong Hyun. Staff: Mr. M. Newman, Mrs. A.
Leonard, Mr. N. Smith, Ms. M. Mason, Ms. M. De Wit, Ms. T. Garmston.
