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Regent’s Coin Challenge 2007 breaks all records
Hsu Ching-I (Jenny) Year 12 IB Student
Photos by Ann-Marie Magus (Year 12 IB student)
On the 5th of October, the Regent’s School Pattaya invited the children from
the Fountain of Life Center to the campus to donate their one baht coins and
work with the Regent’s students on the Round Square ‘Coin Challenge’
project. The aim of this project is to place as many coins as possible
around the school oval making a complete chain and hoping the amount of
money raised will be higher than the previous year’s total. There were
around 75 children from the Fountain of Life that came to the Regent’s
campus and participated in this event.
 Students
from the Fountain of Life enjoy their tasty lunch.
The Fountain of Life children arrived at the campus at about 12.30pm. After
first meeting with Mr. Crouch, the Student Guild kindly invited the children
to join them for lunch in the school’s canteens. The children were very
polite; they followed the form reps to the canteen and were very patient
while the form reps fetched the food for them. On their smiley faces, you
could see that they enjoyed the delicious food.
After the lunch, half of the Fountain of Life children went to play in the
primary playground and the other half went to the primary building for a
meeting with the Primary Round Square Council. The children that went to the
meeting played a few games with the Round Square Council. One of the games
they played was that they had to find two new friends to sign for them. At
the end of this game, the children started to talk to each other and the
language barriers didn’t seem like a big problem for any of us anymore.
 Year
13 pleased with the amount of coins they collected.
At 2pm the ‘Coin Challenge’ started. All the forms brought their coins down
to the oval and started to lay down the coins. Students have been collecting
coins since the beginning of the term and hoping to raise more than 5%
compared to last year.
At the end of the coin challenge, all the students went to the Globe Theatre
for an assembly. In the assembly, certificates were awarded by the form reps
to the Fountain of Life children as thanks for donating their own coins.
These certificates were made by all forms with the students’ signatures on
it.
Overall, the Regent’s school Pattaya has made approximately 50,000 baht this
year, which is a lot more than the previous years. This money will be
contributing to the many different Round Square service projects that
Regent’s work on throughout an academic year, e.g. HIV/AIDS awareness, hill
tribe projects and tsunami relief work on Phi Phi Island. This increase in
the amount of money raised will cause a few teachers to have to do some
funny things in front of the whole school as the result of their promises,
for example, wearing wigs and shaving their heads!
Even though coins often seem useless and not important, when you join lots
of coins together, they become as useful and as powerful as the big notes
and allow you to help many more people around the world.
(For more information on Regent’s Round Square projects please contact Paul
Crouch at [email protected]).
The Fountain of Life students
wait to place their coins around the oval.
Students complete police anti-drugs training
Sawittree Namwiwatsuk
Certificates for schoolchildren who took part in the DARE
project, a training course organized as part of the anti-drugs campaign
by Pattaya Police Station, were distributed at Pattaya School No 8 on
October 4.
 Miss
Kanika Arampra, one of the students on the course, said that she really
had learned a lot about the dangers of drugs and how to stay away from
them.
A total of 280 students from primary school class 6 at School No 8 took
part in the educational project over the period June 18 to September 12.
Mayor Niran Wattanasartsathorn and Pol Col Sutin Suppuang,
superintendent at Pattaya Police Station handed out the award
certificates, with police officers and parents joining the teachers and
other schoolchildren for the ceremony.
Pol Col Sutin said the DARE project had been the result of cooperation
between the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Health, the
Ministry of Interior, Bangkok Municipality and the Royal Thai Police.
Police officers who held training sessions on the course made the
youngsters aware of the dangers of drugs, taught them how to resist peer
pressure if drugs were being handed around, and advised them on what
they could do as individuals to help prevent the spread of drugs.
The course also dealt with alcohol abuse, cigarette smoking, and the use
of other substances such as inhalants.
The leading officers on the course were Pol Sen Sgt Maj Thongchai
Naknaen, Pol Sgt Maj Tinakorn Suwannakut and Pol Sgt Maj Srongtham
Naksawat.
Miss Kanika Arampra, one of the students on the course, said that she
really had learned a lot about the dangers of drugs, and how to stay
away from them. She said she is ready to spread the message amongst her
family and friends, and added that with her knowledge of the dangers of
smoking, she would try and persuade her father, who smokes cigarettes,
to give up the habit.
Mayor Niran tests students
to see what they learned during the project.
Mayor Niran
Wattanasartsathorn (foreground left), Pol. Col. Sutin Suppuang
(foreground 2nd left), and other officials present certificates to
students who participated in the Education Against Drugs project.
Students promise to use
their new found knowledge from this training for society’s benefit.
A sign of the times for School No 8
Lions Club members attend
the Pattaya School #8 signboard presentation ceremony.
Sawittree Namwiwatsuk
Pattaya School No 8 has been presented with a new signboard by Chonburi
Pratamnak Pattaya Lions and Lions Club member Naowarat Khakai at a cost
of 90,000 baht, replacing the old sign that had become outdated and did
not represent the modern aspirations of the school.
 Rewat
Chiangchin presides over the new Pattaya School #8 signboard
presentation ceremony.
The installation ceremony was held on October 8 at the school, which is
also known as Pattaya Nukul, with Rewat Chiangchin of the Chonburi
Pratamnak Lions and Naowarat Khakai presiding.
Rewat said that the old school sign was an iron structure that had
become outdated and unattractive. Located at the front of the school
premises it was not a very good advertisement for what is one of
Pattaya’s most high-profile schools. The decision was therefore taken by
the Lions Club to present a new sign, representing the modern spirit of
the school.
The ceremony, which was held on International Lions’ Day, unveiled the
sign that had been completed in September. Building of the sign had
taken one month and cost 90,000 baht. Chonburi Pratamnak Pattaya Lions
Club donated 50,000 baht, and Lion Naowarat Khakai donated 40,000 baht.
The new signboard measures 7 meters x 5.50 meters.
Chonburi Pratamnak Pattaya Lions Club and Lion Naowarat Khakai have also
built signboards for four other schools under Pattaya City jurisdiction,
namely Pattaya School No 1, 2, 3 and 4. Pattaya School No 8 is the fifth
school to receive a donated signboard.
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