Term 3: dates for your diary…Date Event Location Time

Monday 4th June School open (Visakha Bucha) Whole School

Monday 4th to Friday 8th

June

Exam Week Upper School

Monday 11th to Friday

15th June

Secondary residential visit to Khao

Yai

Year 6 SATs Year 6 class

All week

Monday 18th June End of Year Reports out

Parent – Teacher meetings

Whole School

First School 2.00pm

Tuesday 19th June First School Awards day

Parent – Teacher meetings

First School

First School

9.00am

2.00pm

Wednesday 20th June Parent – Teacher meetings First School

Upper School

2.00pm

3.30 – 7pm

Thursday 21st June Upper School Awards day

Upper School performances

Goethe Institute

Goethe Institute

9am – 12pm

6pm – 9pm

Friday 22nd June End of year – last day of school First School

Upper School

2pm

2.45pm

Tuesday 21st August First day of Term 1 2012-2013

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Dear Parents and friends of GIS,

With so little time left of this academic year itseems a suitable point to clarify theinformation regarding events at the end of thisterm as well as inform you of developmentsthat will take place during the holiday periodready for the start of the new academic year:

• The Upper School awards day andperformances will be held on the same day atthe same venue: the Goethe Institute. TheSecondary pupils are expected to remain atthe Goethe once the awards have concluded sothat they can rehearse and prepare for theirevening performances. More informationregarding this will be sent home to you verysoon.

• The school will construct a new classroomon the First School site as part of our plannedexpansion and increase in pupil numbers.

•Miss Sarah will be offering a 3 week summerschool for children aged 2 to 6 years old.

• There will be a few staff changes for nextyear: we say farewell to Miss Sarah, Ms.Mary, Kevin and Mrs. Hodges, Ms. Dixonand Mr. Robinson. I am sure that you willwant to wish them all the best for the future.

Please rest assured that I have recruited thevery best, experienced and fully-qualifiedteachers to ensure that the education providedby the school continues to improve. A full listof all staff will be included in June’s edition ofthe newsletter.

If you are keen to plan for the next academicyear the school calendar for 2012-2013 isincluded at the end of this newsletter. Pleasenote that the school is open on Monday 4th

June (Visakha Bucha) so that we provide yourchild with a complete academic year due tothe enforced closure during the floods lastyear.

Please read and enjoy the rest of this month’snewsletter. As always, if there is anything thatyou wish to discuss further please do nothesitate to contact me.

Warmest regards,

Jeremy Stokes MA Ed.

Principal

jeremys@gardenbangkok.com

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On Friday the 25th of May the First School enjoyed a Rainbow Day. The childrenwere very busy making rainbow wands, a rainbow collage, rainbow biscuits andrainbow fish. The children loved the colourful water play and in the afternoon wegathered together in the garden to enjoy a variety of colourful, tasty food.

In the First School we love to recycle and create wonderful objects with your oldjunk so please keep old birthday cards/buttons/bottles/large and smallboxes/plastic bags. Please pass them on to your child's teacher for us to re-use.

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The First School were extremely excited to have a visit from the BNH ambulance.The doctors and nurseskindly showed us theirambulance and let thechildren try theirstethoscopes. Somechildren were even braveenough to lie down onthe doctor's stretcher!

A huge thanks toNicolas and Lucie’smum and Keith's mumfor making lovelycolourful bean bags forour new Library. Thechildren can now relaxand read incomfort.

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Last month, the World Scholar's Cup rolled into town and pupils from GIS decidedit was high time their school was represented. The World Scholar's Cup promoteslearning, co-operation and achievement by challenging participants to explorechallenging topics. This year's main topic was 'A world in flux'. Nat (Year 10), Koki(Year 10) and Aliff (Year 9) formed a team, and set about preparing for the eventby researching and reading material provided by the organisers. The day itselfwas a great experience for the pupils with over 100 competitors from schools asfar away as Jakarta and Singapore. The tasks throughout the day were aimed attesting the pupil's writing, debating, reasoning and general knowledge skills.Although it was a long and intensive day, the team worked really well and had afantastic time, coming away with eight separate awards. The World Scholar's Cuphas only been coming to Bangkok since 2008, and it is growing all the time, withtwice as many competitors at this years event as last year.Hopefully more pupils from GIS will be encouraged toparticipate in future events, and take part in what is aunique opportunityto interact and learnalong side otherschools andnationalities.

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Garden International Schoolheld a lively Chinese SpeechContest. All the studentswho participated are non-native Mandarin speakers.We had two divisions ofspeakers, the Primary groupand the Secondary group.The students woretraditional Chinese costumesand spoke very fluent

Chinese. All the students were very confident. For example, Amina fromYear 9 delivered a very enthusiastic speech. She spoke about her trip toBeijing last year with her teachers and friends from Garden and how thiswas a most unforgettable trip.Of the Judges group, Mr. Fowler is a Chinese expert. Another fourSecondary students are all excellent students in Mandarin. Parents,teachers and students cheered them on from the sidelines. All involved –judges, teachers, students and parents – came together to create a verysupportive atmosphere for those speaking at the contest.As well as creating a special occasion for the school, this kind of speechcontest inspires and motivates students in their studies of Mandarin.They now have more confidence and renewed interest in ChineseLanguage and Culture.

(This is the translationof an article from aChinese national dailynewspaper)

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