Put it in your diary…

Date Event Location Time

Thursday 16th

December to

4th January

School

Holidays

School Closed

Tuesday 4th

January 2011

Teacher INSET.

Pupils not in

school.

Both

Campuses.

All Day

Wednesday 5th

January 2011

First day of

Term 2

Both Campuses 7.50AM-

2.45PM

Friday 14th

January 2011

Chinese Ney

Year

Celebration

Upper School 1:00PM to

2:30PM

Saturday 15th

to Saturday

22nd January

2011

Year 7-10

School Trip

Beijing, China

Wednesday

26th January

2011

Humanities Day Upper School All Day

Saturday 29th

January 2011

School Fayre Main Campus 10:00AM to

4:00PM

Friday 4th

February 2011

Design

Technology Day

Upper School All Day

Monday 14th to

Friday 18th

February 2011

Half Term

Break

School Closed

Loy Krathong

On Friday the 19th of November we celebrated Loy Krathong onboth the First School and The Upper School. This wasundoubtedly the best Loy Krathong celebration we have had,where all the pupils performed a Thai song or dance in theirclasses. Costumes were beautiful, krathongs were floated andfun was had by all. Well done to the Thai department and toall the children who took part.

Making a wishLoy Krathong Parade

Playing Traditional

Thai InstrumentsMr. Stokes never made his!

Year 5 and 6 entertaining teachers and parents with

their dancing

Sports DayFirst School

Sports DayUpper School

1st Place: Mekong

2nd Place: Kwai

3rd Place: Chao Praya

Shakespeare’s Visit!Ok, so it wasn’tactually William Shakespeare himself, but it was

as close as you can get! Actor Director, Daniel Foleypresented a workshop entitled 'Shakespeare for Beginners'.Daniel was visiting from London with the groupPerformance Exchange when we secured his services for ourschool. Daniel was very popular with our pupils who are stillasking me when he can return. Daniel Foley has also reportedto Performance Exchange that he very much enjoyedworking with Garden Students.

To be, or not to….what?

Great fun!

I thought there were only

3 witches…

Thank you Daniel!

MUSIC DAY!The Inter-house Chorals

Competition

On Wednesday December the 1st we held our inaugural Inter-house Chorals competition where all houses sang in a choir.There were also spectacular individual performancesincluding singers, pianists and guitarists. It was a wonderfulevent enjoyed by pupils, parents and teachers alike. In theend, by a unanimous decision, Kwai House were deemed thesinging stars and won the day.

1st Place:

Kwai

3rd Place:

Mekong

2nd Place:

Chao Praya

School Fayre29th January 2011

Please can you donate raffle prizes, bric-a-brac, good quality,genuine second hand DVD’s and books & bottles. Remember toput the date in your diaries and if you have any questions, pleaseemail either Jane atmarketing@gardenbangkok.comor thefayre organizer Caroline oncarolinee@gardenbangkok.com.

It promises to be a really fun day so don’t miss out!