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Three Father Ray Foundation teachers win Teacher of the Year awards
Lyndy Moore
Three teachers from the Father Ray Foundation, Pattaya, received
Awards for Excellence from Chonburi Educational Service during the Best
Teacher of the Year ceremony held on January 16 at Assumption Sriracha
School, Chonburi.
 Khampan
Ratchda (left) receives his Award for Excellence from Nattaset Positong,
director of Chonburi Educational Service.
Khampan Ratchda, of the Father Ray Vocational School for the Disabled, Ms
Wandee Chujit and Weerachai Kiatjanyar from Father Ray School for the Blind,
each received recognition for their devotion to their work.
Khampan Ratchda works with the Electronics Science course students and has
taught at the Vocational School for the Disabled for almost ten years.
Khampan is loved by his students for his kindness and excellent teaching
skills.
 Wandee
Chujit (left) receives her Award for Excellence from Nattaset Positong,
director of Chonburi Educational Service.
Wandee Chujit is a BA graduate from Ratchapat University in Kanchanaburi and
has worked at the School for the Blind, in primary education, for many
years. Wandee is recognized for her hard work and patient personality.
Weerachai Kiatjanyar, also from the School for the Blind, is a BA graduate
from Sukhothai Thammatirajch University in Bangkok and teaches primary
education classes. Weerachai is a kind and generous person who also demands
the best from his students.
 Weerachai
Kiatjanyar (left) receives his Award for Excellence from Nattaset Positong,
director of Chonburi Educational Service.
Directors, staff and volunteers from the Father Ray Foundation would like to
congratulate and thank all three teachers for their hard work and may they
continue their good work in the future.
With 850 needy children and disabled young adults in their care, Father Ray
Foundation needs continuous support. Please donate now at www.fr-ray.org/donate,
tel: 038 716 628, e-mail: [email protected]
Orphanage children help tidy up Pratamnak Hill
Hey look! We’re helping to
pick up your trash.
Radchada Chomjinda
After making arrangements with one of the Pattaya Orphanage
benefactors, fifteen orphans and teachers headed up to Pratamnak Hill
early Sunday morning when many other people were still asleep.
Whilst there, the youngsters went to work picking up trash from
alongside the road. Their goal? To make the area free from garbage and
plastic trash.
There was so much trash on the roadsides that the children were able to
collect nearly 20 bags of garbage. And at least for the time being, they
certainly achieved their goal of making the area look much better and
clean.
They also hope that maybe some people saw them hard at work, or maybe
will see them in this newspaper, which will make litterbugs think twice
before polluting our loving Pattaya City.
The children returned to the orphanage with big hearts filled with
happiness that they are part of a team making Pattaya City Clean.
Some of the nearly 20 bags
of garbage
the children were able to collect Sunday morning.
Lion and Pattaya cultural center handover encyclopedias
The Pratamnak Lions Club
and Pattaya Cultural Council Department recently donated Thai
encyclopedias, a television, clocks, and CDs to the students at Muang
Pattaya School 11
Sawittree Namwiwatsuk
The Pratamnak Lions Club and Pattaya Cultural Council Department
recently donated Thai encyclopedias to students at Pattaya School No.
11.
Two sets of the 34-volume encyclopedias were presented to Vice-Principal
Tharinee Jiaranaipong Jan. 22 by Lions President Wasana Chitsom and
other members. The Lions then stayed on and served lunch for the
children.
Wasana said the donation was one of many efforts the Pratamnak club
makes to help underprivileged children. In addition to lunch for the 350
students, the club also donated a television, clocks, and CDs worth a
total 22,500 baht.
Despite the boom in free online encyclopedias, Thai books continue to be
helpful and popular, due in part to HM the King actively encouraging
their production and use. Subjects are grouped for three age groups with
each level being printed in different-sized characters.
St. Andrews’ students hit the highest standards a year early
Pictured with their
provisional Physics results are Hathaitip Nantiyakul (A*), James Popp
(A*), Benji Huber (A*), Felicia Hyvarinen (B) and Boonanuch Sornkajorn
(B).
Beverly J.
Most students who study in an international school and sit the
British IGCSE examinations do so when they are 16 years old, at the end
of Year 11. But for five students at St. Andrews International School,
Rayong Campus, this was too long to wait and they took up the challenge
of sitting 3 subjects a year early. Not only did they pass, but between
them they reached the very highest standards with six results at grade
A*, five at grade A, three at grade B and one at grade C.
The students are now hard at work studying for a further 8 or 9
examinations to be taken this May, when they hope to match their
previous success. These students have already been offered provisional
scholarships at St. Andrews to study the prestigious International
Baccalaureate Diploma Programme during the next academic year.
“We have a very strong group of students in our current year 11. Not
only are they academically talented, but they really get involved in
school-wide activities and act as role models to others,” said Neil
Wrightson, Head of Secondary. “We are immensely proud of them and I
expect that in a few years time they will be studying at some of the
best universities in the world.”
726 students given lessons in global warming
Patcharapol Panrak
More than 700 Junior Red Cross and Girl Scouts from Chonburi’s
Chonkalyanukul School were given a lesson in how to slow global warming
during a field trip to Nong Nooch Tropical Garden.
 Junior
Red Cross and Girl Scouts from Chonburi’s Chonkalyanukul School
studiously take notes during their field trip to Nong Nooch.
The 726 secondary school Class 2 students took part in the park’s
“Preservation of Plants to Reduce Global Warming Project” January 29
learning, among other things, how to grow their own vegetables.
Trip leader Wanee Jaimai said it is important for youngsters to learn to
protect the environment by conserving energy, using public
transportation, closing department store doors and even eating leftover
food to prevent it from spoiling and creating methane that contributes
to greenhouse gases.
Students were also encourage to plant trees, recycle foam and plastic
containers, conserve paper and not to support activities that adversely
impact the environment.
Some of the girls enjoy
ice cream and sodas
as they learn how to take care of plants.
South Korean high school arts students perform
traditional dance for Thai counterparts
Patcharapol Panrak
Hoping to create friendship and cultural exchange through music
and dance, the Korean Tourist Service Center of Thailand brought 54
South Korean high school arts students to Pattaya to show off
traditional dress and performances.
 The
performance is amazing.
The music and dance students from the Kwangju Joongang Arts and Cultural
Acting Institute toured Pattaya and visited the Four Regions Floating
Market and Nong Nooch Tropical Garden Jan. 26.
Korean center director Kim Ming-Ja arranged for the students to perform
at Nong Nooch in the “butterfly garden” under the world’s largest
umbrella. The young performers impressed the audience by using their
heads to control a long white ribbon to the rhythm of Korean music they
played on instruments.
Kim said the students’ visit was aimed at publicizing art and cultural
exchange between South Korea and Thailand.
Nong Nooch resident manager Manit Narinrak agreed that not only would
Thais learn more about Korean culture from the visit, but that the young
visitors would return to their home with tales of Thailand, which would
be a good foundation for future cultural exchanges.
The young performers use
their heads to control a long white ribbon to the rhythm of Korean
music.
The drum beat adds to the
excitement during the acrobatics.
It takes a strong man to
hold up pretty girls like that.
The colorful troupe
performs acrobatics, too.
After a great performance,
the troupe poses for photos.
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