Regent’s School opens new tree nursery and aims to reduce carbon footprints across the school

Asian University welcomes Mahidol University for sports day

Regent’s School opens new tree nursery and aims to reduce carbon footprints across the school

Sara helps the primary students plant their seeds.

Jenny and Sally are proud of their little seeds and look forward
to them germinating.

A couple of primary Ecodudes plant their seeds.

Secondary Student Guild members are ready to get their hands dirty!

The Student Guild’s hand over the money raised for the new tree nursery
to Chris from PATT.

Sara Menges Year 13 IB student Environmental Pillar Leader
The Regents School is part of the Round Square which is made up of six pillars called the IDEALS - Internationalism, Democracy, Environmental Awareness, Adventure, Leadership and Service. This organization encourages students to be well rounded and thrive as individuals in all aspects of life other than academics. So, under the Environmental pillar the Regent’s School has now established a tree nursery on campus which was initiated during the Regent’s School’s “World Around Us Week”, Oct 29th -Nov 2nd 2007.
One of the key aspects of the World Around Us Week was to raise awareness about how we individually affect the environment through our Carbon Footprints and how we can help to reduce this impact. Along with posters to promote this issue we welcomed a visitor from the Plant-A-Tree-Today organization based in Bangkok. Mr. Chris Doherty visited the school on Thursday November 1st.
During his visit, Mr. Chris provided seedlings and equipment (sponsored by the Regent’s Secondary and Primary Student Guilds) for the new tree nursery. He also instructed us on how to care for the seeds and gave a well informed presentation on the PATT organization and the environmental issues concerning carbon dioxide and our own personal footprints. Growing trees is a key way to reducing the carbon dioxide in the air and to improving our environment in the future. Therefore the Regent’s School is planning to grow the seedlings over this academic year - with the help of the primary Eco Dudes and the Secondary Environmental Group - and hoping to eventually plant the grown trees in June during our Round Square Week and form a RS Garden on the campus. However, the environmental projects don’t stop there! Along with dealing with our Carbon Footprints, the Environmental group is also promoting the reduction of plastic waste, saving electricity, recycling paper and cleaning up our school environment from litter which we hope will all lead us to successfully preserving our environment and making the world a better place both globally and locally.

Asian University welcomes Mahidol University for sports day

Asian University played host to Mahidol University International College on Saturday 3 November in their annual competition. This year was the turn of Asian University, on Highway 331, to invite Mahidol University from Bangkok.

Nut and a competitor from Mahidol jump at the net during the volleyball competition.
The day started with a traditional welcome to the visitors at Asian University’s modern sports facility. A full day of sports had been arranged and both universities won several games and matches.
There were a number of sports on the agenda with the first being the men’s basketball match, which Mahidol won with a comfortable lead. Many other sports followed, such as the men’s and women’s table tennis and single and mixed badminton matches as well as the first ever women’s volleyball match. Both universities took an equal share of wins in all of these matches.
One of the highlights of the day was the men’s volleyball game with each team taking a game apiece with the two point advantage changing sides frequently; this ensured a very entertaining and nail biting time.
The third and deciding game was a very tight affair with Asian University taking the final score of the game to 15 - 12 resulting in a narrow but well deserved win.
The final match of the day was the football game which was played outside in the true tradition of the game under a beautiful setting sun in the natural surroundings of the campus.
Mahidol was leading 2-0 at half time when Asian U fought back to bring the score at the ninetieth minute to a very respectable draw of 3-3.
The day finished up with a BBQ and a show by Asian U’s dance and music club. It was a truly wonderful day of sports and another step in cementing a strong inter-university sports and academic relationship, which has now been growing for five years.

Yot and Ong battle in the badminton games.

The first ever women’s volleyball match at Asian U was a closely contested match.