YWCA & Rotary donate musical instruments to Nong Chak Ngaew

Regent’s Scholar wins place at Oxford University

Redemptorist Vocational School opens new course for the disabled

YWCA & Rotary donate musical instruments to Nong Chak Ngaew

Treat students to a lunch on National Children’s Day

YWCA Bangkok-Pattaya Center’s president, Nitaya Patimasongkroh and members donated 40 musical instruments to the Ban Chak Ngaew School band worth 13,300 baht and treated the students to a nice lunch on National Children’s Day, January 11. The Rotary Club of Taksin-Pattaya also donated 5,000 baht in scholarships to the school.

The school band thanks the YWCA and Rotary for providing them with new instruments.

The school band is very active and has performed at various places to the great enjoyment of the public. However, the band still lacked an adequate budget for instruments, therefore the YWCA decided to use part of the club’s charity allocation to buy instruments for the school to encourage the students and teachers to continue their public performances.

School director Bamnet Jinkaow welcomed the group and accepted the donation on behalf of the school. As a gesture of appreciation the band put on a show for the guests. Their performance of 10 songs delighted all the club members as well as the teachers and parents.

Regent’s Scholar wins place at Oxford University

The Regent’s School Pattaya announced this week that Sixth Form student, Jee Woon Hwang, has received an unconditional offer to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at St Hilda’s College, Oxford University.

Jee Woon will take her place at Oxford in October 2003.

Jee Woon’s astonishing progress since joining the Regent’s six years ago as an ESL student is borne out by a string of academic successes. Ten grade A’s at IGCSE (eight at A*) were followed by five grade A’s at A Level, allowing her to apply to the most prestigious universities worldwide.

The Regent’s School Principal, Mrs. Patricia Metham was quick to offer praise for Jee Woon and her teachers, “Such an outstanding result shows what can be achieved when a bright and well motivated student is given highly professional and dedicated support by her school. We are all immensely proud of Jee Woon and look forward to enjoying her continuing successes.”

Jee Woon will take her place at Oxford in October 2003, thus setting what is to be hoped will be a Regent’s School trend!

Redemptorist Vocational School opens new course for the disabled

The new courses include computer and electronics with an aim to help disabled people learn professional skills so that they can improve their quality of living and live a productive life in the society.

There is no tuition fee and the qualification program will be conducted from March 30 to April 2, which will allow the participants to select the skills that best suit their abilities.

The vocational center also provides jobs and training for people who are not accepted into the program.