Term 1 - 18 November
Matters of Principal
Whole School News
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
Our Head girl and Head boy, Pun and Albert, accompanied Mr Maguire and Mr Sudding to the British Club in Bangkok on Sunday, where they attended a service led by Pastor Matthew Fitter, and laid a wreath in remembrance of those who have died in conflict.
ANTI-BULLYING WEEK
This week, we have been learning about Anti-bullying week and kicked off our learning on Monday by taking part in Odd Socks Day which helps us celebrate everybody’s differences. There were some fabulous and colourful socks throughout the School with students proudly wearing them all through the day.
In Pre-Prep, the focus for Anti-bullying week has been friendship, and every class has been taking part in activities to show what friendship means to them.
CHARITY GOLF DAY
Our Charity Golf Day at Siam Country Club last weekend was a great success, with an excellent turn-out from the RST community with their friends and family.
Congratulations to the winners of the tournament, Jimmy (Year 2), Xin Wang, Chung Wongbhumirapee and Yat Ching Wongbhumirapee.
In 2nd place was Ben, Ryan and Tim, and 3rd place was Mr Grindlay, Mr Groves, Shanbin Ye and Shirley Ye.
We'd like to thank our generous sponsors once again: Yee Thai Logistics, CSBC Law, FLS Group 1993, The Good Old Sea Beachfront Cafe, Pacific Prime, International Education Solutions and Baker & McKenzie.
We'd also like to say BIG thank you to the RSTPA members and everyone else involved in bringing this event to life! Proceeds will support the incredible work of Bang Jing Jai Children’s Home.
Photo credit to Khun Arm and our student photographer, Bunn.
Winning Team
Second Place
Third Place
Christmas Fair
We received an extremely generous donation towards our Christmas Fair from a mother and son within our community - thank you Dasom YU and Hyunwoo MA! Your contribution will go a long way towards raising as much money as we can for our charity partner, the Tamar Centre.
On Thursday, some of our Korean mums presented Mrs Howell a very generous Christmas Fair donation. A huge thanks to all of our Korean families across the three sections of the School for their sponsorship, which will go towards our RSTMAD charities.
TERM 2 INVOICE
As we are approaching the end of Term 1, we would like to take this opportunity to inform you that Term 2’s invoices will be sent today.
Please feel free to use the Barcode/QR code on the statement to complete the payment. For overseas payment transfers, RST has partnered with Flywire, a trusted educational payment solution that provides an easy way to complete payments by calculating a precise invoice amount using a local currency bank account. For more information, please visit http://rugbythailand.flywire.com/; a user guide is also available.
Kindly note all outstanding CCA/Activities charges cannot be carried forward to the next term and must be settled by or before 9th December 2022 for your child to be able to sign up for any paid activities next term.
Senior News
Announcements & Reminders
UNIVERSITY VISITS
Last week, we were pleased to welcome representatives from several global universities to RST:
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU) ran an admissions workshop for Sixth Form students, where they learnt about the programmes offered at HKPU and the admissions processes, preparing them to make their applications.
- Imperial College London, the University of Plymouth and the University of Melbourne delivered an informative lecture about studying in the UK and Australia
- Students from D Block, LXX and XX attended the OCSC Expo over the weekend – the largest higher education exhibition in Thailand, featuring over 250 global institutions. The boarders were inspired by the number of opportunities available to them, which has left them with lots of food for thought!
SIXTH FORM OPEN DAY
Have you signed up for our Sixth Form Open Day? If you have a child in E or D Block and would like to get to know more about RST's Sixth Form experience, join us on Saturday 26th November. Please register here: https://forms.gle/QtSr4fn9mJbefojH6
‘FUSION OF THE AGES’ ART AUCTION
You are invited to attend a live auction to bid for the art pieces that you admire the most. Not only does the auction display the talents of Senior art students, but the proceeds will support RST's microfinance fund for rural enterprises in the Isan region of Thailand. To drive sustainable growth for Thailand, we as the Rugby School community hope to play a role in promoting financial inclusivity and extending opportunities to entrepreneurs in the country's poorest regions.
The art auction will be held on Thursday, 8th December from 4-6pm finishing just in time for you to attend the evening's Winter Gala. There will be time to peruse the exhibition of art before the auction and refreshments will be provided. Please note that the event is free to enter but please do reserve seats by completing this form - ART AUCTION SEAT RESERVATION.
We look forward to welcoming you and hope to raise a large sum thanks to your generosity.
Dates for Your Diary
21st – 25th NOVEMBER: FOBISIA Games – U15 at Pattana Sports Resort
22nd NOVEMBER
Inter-House Academic Challenge week one
RST-MAD excursion to Baan Jiang Jaa orphanage
23rd NOVEMBER: Parents Coffee Morning (LXX and XX), 8.00 - 9.00am
26th NOVEMBER
Sixth Form and Boarding open day
Varsity and JV Boys and Girls Volleyball and Basketball vs Wells
26th – 27th NOVEMBER: Helios Rugby tournament
RST MAD Excursion to Hand to Hand
20 Senior students visited the premises of Hand To Hand, whose exceptional work in the poorer communities around Pattaya includes the provision of rice to 350 families on a weekly basis. Margie Grainger welcomed our students to Hand 2 Hand, and gave them a stirring on-site tour. She thanked them for the recent RST whole-School rice appeal, which amounted to a four-month supply of rice. Our students were also asked to deliver packages of rice to a nearby slum community, where they met and spoke to people with great struggles in life. Our students spoke afterwards of being saddened and humbled, but inspired to do more to support local charities such as Hand To Hand.
Whole Me: Anti-bullying Week
Our Senior students spent their Whole Me sessions this week exploring different types of bullying and the strategies needed to deal with them. With our F Block students, we used a couple of real-life case studies this week and asked students to work together to predict how the victim would feel, what advice they would give them if they could, and predict what would happen in the future.
E Block students looked at different forms of discrimination and how every person can play a role in stopping bullies in their tracks.
Finally, D block students spent their session coming up with their own unique strategies to help us combat bullying as a community in the future.
Head's Distinction
This week, a group of art students were invited to break time with Mr Groves. We celebrated their achievements and recognised the quality of their artwork which was selected for the annual School calendar. They were invited to yummy chocolate milk and snacks.
The calendar will be on sale at the Christmas fair on 26th November, and money raised will go to support two children's charities.
Learning
MANDARIN
To enhance a deep understanding of the literature piece 老舍《我的理想家庭》(My Ideal Family, Lau Shaw) and develop an article composing, students from E Block Chinese as their First Language generated ideas by presenting their ideal family with drawings.
It is great to see them communicating and collaborating in group discussions, reflecting on different individuals' views, and thinking carefully about the connection between family values and the changing socioeconomic background.
Prep News
Announcements & Reminders
STUDENT SPEECH
Last Tuesday, Yaya and Shinna (Year 6) gave a speech to the UNDP Thailand with the British Embassy on "Achieving Low Carbon Growth in the City through Electrified Urban Transport System in Thailand", which is funded by UKPACT. Well done!
CHARITY UPDATE
Our poppy sale in the Prep School has raised 8690THB for the Royal British Legion Thailand. This donation will go towards supporting serving and ex-serving personnel and their families.
Many thanks to our community for their donations!
Dates for your Diary
21st NOVEMBER: School Closed for Exeat
22nd NOVEMBER
12:45 – 13:15: Lunchtime Concert
15:00 – 17:45: Year 6 Parent Teacher Meeting - appointments made through SchoolCloud
24th NOVEMBER
12:45 – 13:15: Lunchtime Concert
15:00 – 17:45: Year 6 Parent Teacher Meeting - appointments made through SchoolCloud
24th – 27th NOVEMBER: Football Tournament v BISP - teams have been notified
28th NOVEMBER
Advance Art Activity Trip to WeStory
12:45 – 13:15: Lunchtime Concert
11:00-12:10: Y7&8 House Boys Basketball & Girls Football - Parents are welcome to attend
29th NOVEMBER
08:10 – 09:20: Y5&6 House Boys Basketball & Girls Football
09:25-10:35: Y3&4 House Boys Basketball & Girls Football
Parents are welcome to attend
1st DECEMBER: Christmas Concert
English as an Additional Language (EAL)
This half term, EAL students have been learning English through Science. They have been learning the key language involved in each stage of the Scientific method of inquiry; asking questions, making predictions and hypothesising, describing observations and reporting on data. Here you can see them conducting their own experiments to test some interesting and very colourful hypotheses on packets of Skittles!
Science
Year 7 carried out an experiment to compare the amount of energy stored in different foods by burning them. The energy released by the food heats up the water in the test tube. Unsurprisingly, crisps and cornstarch oily snacks had the highest amount of energy.
Year 3 Trip
Year 3 students went to Wisdom Valley this week, to complete one of their geography objectives. We are proud to say that they all completed their work, showed an incredible amount of enthusiasm and, most importantly, enjoyed their morning out:
Year 6 Production: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
This week, our Year 6 students have put on a wonderful performance for their audience:
Year 7 Art Trip
On Thursday, Year 7 students visited MOCA in Bangkok to see the 'Without Limits' exhibition. Banksy is a world-famous but anonymous street artist and his collection showed various funny and political artworks.
The students also enjoyed a tour of street art around the Warehouse 30 area, seeing works by Thai artists Alex Face and Bonus TMC. Now the students will write a blog on their Digital Portfolios about their favourite pieces using the photos and videos they took on the trip.
The show is open until the end of December and is highly recommended!
Lunchtime Concert
We have had more lunchtime concerts this week. It is so lovely to see so many of our student musicians and visiting music teachers performing to parents and students. They are all such an inspiration.
Pre-Prep News
Announcements and Reminders
REPORTING SCHEDULE
October half term: Settling in Meetings
December: Full Reports
February: Parent Teacher meetings
April: Short reports
June: Reception Early Learning Goal Reports, full reports and Parent meetings
June: Full reports for all
HEAD OF YEAR 2
I am pleased to announce that Mr Chris Aspinall has been appointed Head of Year 2. He will be ensuring that Year 2 runs smoothly from both an academic, and a pastoral point of view. Mr Chris will also be working with our other Heads of Year, Miss Naomi (Year 1), Miss Debbie (Reception), Miss Tracy (Nursery) and Miss Sophie (Pre-Nursery) to provide continuity and consistency in what we offer our Pre-Prep children.
CHRISTMAS CONCERTS
We are pleased to let you know that we will be holding Christmas Concerts for Years 1 and 2. These will be two separate shows due to our size. Year 1’s concert will be held on Tuesday, 6th December at 9am, and Year 2’s concert on Wednesday, 7th December at 9am. Spaces are limited to two adults per child. Our Early Years classes will not have a show this term, but will have a show for parents in Term 2.
THANK YOU
Miss Anna and Miss Lurica joined the Hand to Hand team for the bike ride day which ended our rice collection. As a School we successfully collected 5462 kg of rice worth 207,556 THB to help support families in need. A huge success- well done to everyone!
Thank you to Miss Anna and Miss Lurica for driving this collection and for their bike-riding fun with Margie and the team.
PERFORMANCE AT THE CHRISTMAS FAIR
We invite Pre-Prep Ballet, Street Jazz and Hip-hop students to take part in a dance performance at the Christmas Fair, on 26th November 2022
Show Time: around 4.30 p.m.
Dress:
- Ballet: your own Ballet dress
- Street Jazz and Hip-hop: white t-shirt, tights and sneakers.
If you would like your child to take part, please could you confirm their attendance by emailing aowmod@gmail.com
Dates for Your Diary
23rd NOVEMBER: Monster Phonics Day
Please come dressed as your favourite Monster Phonics Character
29th NOVEMBER: ‘Whole Me’ Parent Workshop
Learn more about our PSHE programme
2nd DECEMBER: Father's Day Breakfast (8:00 – 9:00am)
6th DECEMBER: Year 1 Christmas Show (9:00am)
7th DECEMBER: Year 2 Christmas Show (9:00am)
8th DECEMBER: Christmas Party Day
9th DECEMBER: Christmas Jumper Day and Christmas Lunch on the last day of the term
Reception Geckos
Reception Geckos have been learning about rice as part of their ‘Where Does It Come From?’ topic this week. Miss Ta shared her knowledge with the children, and we watched a demonstration of how to cultivate rice and then got to plant some ourselves! Thank you, Miss Ta, for teaching us all about rice.
Year 1 Elephants
This week in topic, the Elephants worked on gathering and recording data. We are continuing our learning about the five senses. We went around the Oval in small groups and interviewed staff. We asked them what their favourite food was, and then we tallied our results. We then created sentences based on the information we collected.
Makaton Signing
Our signs of the week are: stop, wait, go.
Thank you to the Giraffe class for their help in making this week's video.
Happy signing!
COBIS Art Competition
We are excited to announce that Sherlyn (Y2 Dolphins) and Eric’s (Y2 Hedgehogs) art pieces have been chosen as the winning entries by our Senior Art levee, Miss Scarlet Corr; their entries have been sent to COBIS for submission. The winners will be announced on The COBIS website and social media channels in January 2023.
We’d like to thank everyone who sent in an art piece and we hope to get even more entries in future art competitions! All of your work is very impressive, and Miss Wendy has decided to display all of the pieces downstairs until next week for people to admire
Eric (Y2 Hedgehogs)
Sherlyn (Y2 Dolphins)
Useful Links
Enrichment & Sport
We had another fun-filled morning of sport for RST last weekend: football, swimming and basketball. We played 11 football matches, 6 basketball games on campus, an U9 football festival and a swimming gala in Bangkok.
Results are available to view on our SOCS sports website: https://cc.rugbyschool.ac.th/Default.asp
PRE-PREP ART ACTIVITY
In Mr. Roger's Art & Craft activity this week we made some super-duper colourful fish!
Boarding Life
In the boarding house, School House enjoyed a wonderful prefect team volleyball evening with the help of our expert coaches Miss Olds and Mr Mills; great fun was had by all, apart from Mr Ennis-Billing who took a ball to the face from Matron Ney and had to retire. Well done to Team Charlie for winning the event and to all the boys for excellent sportsmanship and house spirit.
On Sunday afternoon, the Rupert Brooke girls baked red velvet and chocolate chip cookies, they tasted as good as they look!
Last weekend, Marshall House boarders enjoyed a trip to the bowling alley where they celebrated MinMin's birthday. It was a busy week, so Saturday afternoon was spent relaxing by the pool and in the house, before the girls rearranged their beds to bunk up together in one dorm for a weekend 'sleepovers'.
Sunday was spent doing some excellent community work, with the boarders kindly helping out at our Charity Golf Day. Good karma came straight back to Ayla, who won the most valuable prize in the raffle - a large Swarovski crystal elephant!
RSTeam Spotlight
Get to know the people who make RST great by learning more about them and their roles.
This week's spotlight is on Kate Arnold, Head of Year 6 and Science Teacher, Prep:
Community Events
FREE FOOTBALL CLINIC
Wisdom Academy is hosting a FREE football clinic at RST from 12th – 16th December, for boys and girls aged 7-15 years old.
There is a limited capacity of 30 people for each session, which will be as follows each day:
- 9-11am: Children aged 7-11
- 4-6pm: Children aged 12-15
For more information about this event and others, follow Wisdom Academy Thailand on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wisdomacademythailand
THE TRAIL MASTERS
Discover THE TRAIL MASTERS: the strongest and the fastest men and women of 10k, 30k, and 50k, with winners for each age and gender group in each trail. At the end of it all, enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of Wisdom Valley beyond finish line. There will be chill-out music from a famous DJ, a variety of delicious food and drinks from restaurants, and shops to pick up running and trail equipment for your next race. There will also be medical support on-site at the event.
Rugby School Thailand Family Rates Registration is NOW - 30 NOVEMBER 2022.
Click link below;
https://docs.google.com/forms/
Race Date: Sunday 8 January 2023
SAVE THE DATE! And see you all soon
