Garden International School’s sporting all-stars have brought home a record medal haul from the annual Primary FOBISSEA Games.
The GIS team, consisting of 21 students and three teachers, won dozens of medals at the Primary FOBISSEA Games, which were held at St Stephen’s International School in Bangkok from May 7-11. Having done brilliantly in swimming, athletics and other events, they came home with the highest ever medal tally in the history of GIS.
The team travelled to Bangkok on May 7 for three days of competition, which included athletics, swimming, T-Ball and football. On the first morning the track and field events took place at the Thai Royal Air Force Stadium; GIS students produced excellent results, bringing home a total of 37 medals.
Garden International School’s sports stars brought home a record medal haul from the annual Primary FOBISSEA Games.
For the afternoon session the students moved to the swimming pool and again GIS performed exceptionally well, winning a total of 51 medals.
Moving to the second day of competition, the students competed in the T-ball event. The GIS Year 4 team finished in third place to claim the bronze medal. The Year 5 team played very well and were unlucky in a number of games not to be in the final mix for the medal placings.
On the final day, the team participated in the football event. Garden’s Year 6 girls were very strong and stormed to victory to win the gold medal. Both the Year 4 and Year 5 boys’ teams faced strong opposition from other schools and were again unlucky not to finish in the top three. The Year 5 boys played St Andrews and beat them 1-0 to secure a fantastic victory in a local derby game. Two GIS girls from Year 4 joined SIS and came in third to receive a bronze medal.
Many thanks to Ms Lucy for her help with preparing the athletic team, Mr Grisdale with the football squads and Ms Aletta with the swimming team.
A big thank you also to Garden’s sponsors of the sports uniform. They are: Thunder Cranes, Victory International Family Church, Aimon of Thomai Resort and Coffee Shop, Yindee of MYWAYS and James from GIS who supplied the swimming kits.
FOBISSEA is the Federation of British Schools in South East Asia (and East Asia), which currently consists of 38 schools – with plans to grow quite markedly over the next few years. Being a member of the federation gives students many opportunities to participate in sporting games and other festivals (such as music, choral and drama), conferences (such as Community Service and Model United Nations) and competitions (such as Short Story and Mathematics).
