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Issue # 18, Friday, 29th January 2016
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IMPORTANT DATES
Thank you Ms Angelique!
Friday, 29th January – Sunday, 31st January
FOBISIA Swimming
Saturday, 30th January – Sunday, 31st January
Secondary: Model United Nations
Tuesday, 2nd February
Secondary: Year 12 and Year 13 Student Led Conference
from 3.30pm – 5.30pm in the 6th Form Centre
Thursday, 4th February – Friday, 5th February
Primary: Year 3 Residential Trip
Friday, 5th February
FOBP Funky Friday from 2.00pm – 4.00pm in the Undercroft
area
Friday, 5th February - Sunday, 7th February
Drama workshop with ‘Frantic Assembly’ in the Drama Studio
Monday, 8th February
The school would like to take this opportunity to thank
Angelique Leijdekker who has been a dedicated and
committed President of FOBP. Her energy and charisma
ensured that many memorable FOBP events generated
funds for the children of our school. In addition, her
efforts as President have enabled the community spirit to
remain at the heart of all we do at Bangkok Prep. Once
again a huge thank you, Angelique, from all the staff at
Bangkok Prep.
Chinese New Year Celebration starting from 7.45am
Thursday, 11th February
Open Morning from 8.00am – 10.00am in the Gallery
Monday, 22nd February – Wednesday, 24th February
Mid Term Holiday
Saturday, 27th February
Spring Fair from 2pm – 6pm
After School Activities
Dear Parents,
Please note that all after school activities will begin on Monday, 1st February. There will be no activities on Thursday, 25th
February and Friday, 26th February 2016.
If you require further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact Ms Book, After School Activities and PE Coordinator by
email at [email protected] or Ms Jeab at [email protected] or by telephone on 02-260-7890 Ext: 102 or 108.
Hatairat Bootrsing (Jeab)
Events and Activities Manager
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Poetry Competition Award Winners
Friday, 22nd January saw the announcement of the winners of Bangkok Prep’s second whole school Poetry Competition.
This year we had a tremendous response to the competition, with over 400 entries from across the school. The entries –
on the themes of ‘Nature’, ‘Persecution’ and ‘Mirrors’ – were by turns funny, dark, sad, joyful, nostalgic and choosing
which poems were to be selected for the shortlist was a difficult task.
But select we had to do, and eventually we arrived at a list of poems which we then turned over to our judges. Like last
year, there were four awards for both Primary and Secondary: the Head Teacher’s Award, chosen by Ms Thomas-Peter;
the Poet’s Award, this year chosen by New York-based performance poet, Taalam Acey; the Student Choice Award,
chosen by the student body of Bangkok Prep via an online voting system; and the World Languages Award, chosen by
the World Languages teachers for the best poem written in a language other than English.
After some long and difficult deliberation, the following students received awards:
Primary
Head Teacher’s Award: Angeline (Year 5JK) – “Mirrors”
Poet’s Award and Student Choice Award: Isaac (Year 6NW) – “The Undesired”
World Languages Award: Shunta (Year 6SC) – “海” / “Return to the Sea”
Angeline (Year 5 student)
Isaac (Year 6 student)
Shunta (Year 6 student)
Secondary
Head Teacher’s Award: Kieran (Year 9JPD) – “The Monster in the Mirror”
Poet’s Award: Lana (Year 13JM) – “i am never present. an observer”
Student Choice Award: Pailin (Year 8DK) – “A Monster in the Mirror”
World Languages Award: Teo (Year 11SR) – “Réchauffement Climatique”
Kieran (Year 9 student)
Lana (Year 13 student)
Pailin (Year 8 student)
Teo (Year 11 student)
All awarding winning and shortlisted poems will be published in the upcoming 2nd Bangkok Prep Poetry Anthology.
John Lockwood
Secondary English Faculty Leader
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Bangkok Prep 2016 Poetry Anthology – Shortlisted Poems
The poem below is one of the poems shortlisted for the Bangkok Prep 2016 Poetry Anthology. The competition asked
students to write a poem based on the themes of 'Mirrors', 'Nature' or 'Persecution'. The Poetry Anthology will be
published during Book Week later this term.
The Sound of Nature
By Khowjow (Year 2 student)
The rain howls in pain whilst thunder shrieks,
The thunder can be heard on top of the peak.
The wind whooshes loud while trees reach high,
The sound of birds is from the sky.
The sound of waves crashing loud,
It seems like someone is listening to the sound.
The sound of birds chirping,
The sound of bears burping,
Also, the sound of lions slurping,
The sound of coconuts clanging,
The sound of angry bees buzzing,
The sound of growing from the peas,
The sound of grazing sheep,
The sound of tigers eating meat.
Other carnivores join in the feast,
And like nature,
The nature of treasure.
John Lockwood
Secondary English Faculty Leader
Chinese New Year Celebration
Bangkok Prep will be celebrating Chinese New Year on Monday, 8th February at the main pitch and Undercroft area. For
Year 1 to 9, the performances will begin at 7.45am. For children in the Foundation Stage, the performances will begin at
8.50am and end at 9.10am. All students are welcomed to dress up to celebrate Chinese New Year. We welcome all
parents to join this wonderful celebration which promises to be an excellent display of Chinese culure. See you then!
Shu-Fen Wang (Ivy)
Mandarin Teacher
Learning Support – working in partnership with parents
Rising Above I.Q. – How the Readathon is a Key to Eradicating Poverty
Dr. Nisbett, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, argues that what we think of as intelligence is quite
malleable and owes little or nothing to genetics. He further argues that perhaps success depends less on intellectual
endowment than on perseverance and drive. As Professor Nisbett puts it, “Intelligence and academic achievement are
very much under people’s control.”
This is why supporting the Readathon is so important, as it is a decisive weapon against poverty. It offers an opportunity
to ‘at risk house holds’ to have a chance to access books. This is because most of the poor are born into their situation
and while transferring payment after payment is altruistic, it doesn’t really affect change. Whereas the Readathon
inculcates independence and allows education, education and education.
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Please help raise a childs I.Q. today and support the School’s Readathon by contributing a small payment that will fund a
library for those individuals less fortunate and enable them to reach their potential.
Dominic Proctor
Head of Learning Support
Readathon is on!
Our students are reading full tilt! The school has come together and read more than 5,000 books, with Elmer the
Elephant leading the lot. However, the race for first place swaps about twice a day as the numbers are so close. It's
anyone's game, but everyone wins. Please encourage your child to read for the Readathon – for themselves and for our
charities. Also, remember you can collect sponsors throughout the entire race! Even one book and one sponsor makes a
difference. Thank you!
Mia Livingston
Head Teaching Librarian
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Open Morning
Date: Thursday, 11th February
Time: 8am – 10am
Location: Bangkok Prep
Bangkok Prep will host an Open Morning on Thursday 11th
February at 8am with a presentation about our school where we
will share our fantastic facilities and information about our
curriculum.
Both parents and children are invited to explore our Foundation
Stage and Primary School area, and see learning first-hand by
exploring our classrooms during the school day.
If you or your friends have children between the ages of 18
months to 5 years, this is a great opportunity! Please help
spread the word around!
RSVP for the Open Morning by clicking here.
Springtime fun at Bangkok Prep’s Spring Fair
Date: Saturday, 27th February
Time: 2pm – 6pm
Location: Bangkok Prep
Entrance Fee: Free Admission
Bangkok Prep’s Spring Fair is arguably one of the most attended
family fair in the heart of Sukhumvit Road.
For the past 10 years, over 700 adults and children have been
attending this annual fair, featuring a host of attractions such as
the ferris wheel, amusement rides, games, activities, shopping
lane, international food stalls and performances from the
students of Bangkok Prep.
Bangkok Prep’s Spring Fair is open to the whole community – so
grab your family, friends, and neighbours for an exciting day of
non-stop food, fun and friendship.
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PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWS
Dear Parents,
As we come to the end of January, I have asked the children to
reflect on the Value of the Month – Honesty. The importance of
honesty should be recognised by all and fundamentally being true to
ourselves is the very foundation of honesty.
During Term 2, there are many planned enrichment trips and
curricular residentials. These types of activities provide children with
crucial independent skills that help to define them as unique
individuals. Thank you for your continuing support in these events.
It was great to meet the many parents that attended the Primary information sessions this
week and this reflects the wonderful community spirit that we hold ‘so dear’ at Bangkok Prep.
We wish the FOBISIA Swim Squad ‘Good Luck!’ as they are currently participating in the annual swim competition this
weekend.
School uniform
It was unusually cool at the beginning of this week and I relaxed the uniform rules slightly because the outside
temperature was below 21 degrees. The temperature has now returned to normal and the school uniform policy must be
followed. Children must wear ‘school shoes’ with their school uniform. Please see examples of appropriate school shoes
below:
Boy's shoes
Girl's shoes
Please check the school uniform policy on page 23, 24 and 25 in the Parent Handbook. Many thanks for your support in
this matter.
Best wishes,
Duncan Stonehouse
Head of Primary
Year 6 Solar Power Lesson
On Tuesday 26th January, Year 6 had the privilege of
hosting solar energy experts Mr Peter Sprenger and Mr
Rolf Aeschbacher, from Kruthwong & Sprenger Ltd.
The gentlemen gave a fantastic, high energy,
presentation that really captured the imagination of the
children and staff involved. The Year 6 students
learned how to calculate energy usage, before having
an opportunity to experiment with solar energy in a
number of practical, hands on, activities. This linked in
with the school wide ‘Eco Schools’ initiative and also
complemented our current Year 6 theme, where we
have been learning about global resources.
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Everybody had a fantastic morning and the children learned a lot of very valuable skills. The most important message for
all involved was that Science and Engineering must be fun in order to be innovative, and Tuesday morning was certainly
that!
On behalf of the Year 6 students and staff, we would like to extend our thanks to Mr Sprenger and Mr Aeschbacher. We
look forward to working with them again in the future.
Kris Leverton
Year 6 Leader
Highland Games 2016
The children participated fantastically well in the Foundation
Stage Highland Games this year. The children all joined a
Scottish clan and completed a variety of sporting activities;
for example, Jumping Jock’s, Ben Nevis and Toss the Welly.
Thank you to all the Year 6 students who helped – you
were amazing. Thank you also to the Foundation Stage
teachers and TA’s who led the clans. A final thanks to FOBP
for providing the delicious shortbread. It was a braw day!
Isla Gordon
Foundation Stage PE Teacher
TISAC Primary Arts Day
On Friday 22nd January, a small, and extremely enthusiastic, group of Primary children attended the TISAC Primary Arts
Day at St. Stephens International School Bangkok. The day rotated around a number of activities involving Thai
traditional instruments, dance, drumming and crafts. All of the children who attended were divided into groups, so that
all of the schools that attended were mixed together and the children were able to make some new friends. All of the
activities were performance based and practical, offering exciting hands on opportunities for our students to explore new
types of music. During the course of the day, the children developed many skills and had a lot of fun!
Linda Owen
Primary Music
Teacher
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SECONDARY SCHOOL NEWS
Dear students, parents and colleagues,
We can all argue about the most important invention in human history, but I hope you
would agree when I suggest that the Gutenberg Press in 1440 (although it might have
been from China or Korea) is probably in the Top 10. It accelerated the spread of ideas
and brought us all closer together. We now see reading and writing as fundamental
skills, and we at Bangkok Prep are celebrating reading over the next few weeks in our
Readathon. Please use this as an opportunity to discuss with your child what they are
reading, and more importantly what you are reading. Take a moment to think, are you
acting as a good role model? Do your children see you read not only as a necessity but also for pleasure? I picked up all
the books I’m reading at the moment (I love my Kindle!) and couldn’t believe I had five on the go! Each is giving me
something different, but they are making me think afresh, reflect, imagine and in one case tearful.
Thing Explainer - Randall Munroe
Talk Like TED - Carmine Gallo
The Chimp Paradox - Steve Peters
I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that - Ben Goldacre
Larger than Life - Jodi Picoult
In our quest to bring the Primary and Secondary school sections closer together, we in Secondary are focusing on the
same Bangkok Prep Life Value as Primary each month. January was honesty whilst February will be problem-solvers.
Unfortunately, the actions of leaders at FIFA, IAAF, UTC and WTF have not given our students very good role models,
although they have given us as teachers lots of material to work with. These leaders were meant to make our world a
better place for its youth and have sorely disappointed us. I am confident that future leaders graduating from Bangkok
Prep will not show such poor traits and behaviours.
Our FOBISIA swimmers are currently en route to their annual competition and I hope that their dedication and training
pay-off. Some medals would be lovely, but PBs (personal bests) for all would be far better and a great reward for Matt
Ferrier and his coaching team. Good luck!
Finally, have a warm weekend!
Nigel Wilsonlock
Acting Head of Secondary
Year 10 Geography Trip
Bangkok Prep's Year 10 Geography students spent the morning
doing their IGCSE fieldwork in Thong Lo. They were
investigating environmental quality, land use, traffic issues and
analysing the reasons people shop at J Avenue. The students
were working towards the skills required to be able to assess
differing hypotheses and had spent 3-4 lessons in school
discussing how they would do this. They will now spend some
time analysing their results and importantly thinking about the
problems and difficulties they had and how they could improve
that sort of fieldwork in the future. I was delighted to see the
students working hard and behaving impeccably, especially
when interviewing members of the public.
Josh Morris
Geography Teacher and Head of Year 13
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PE NEWS
U9 Girls TISAC Football
On Wednesday, 27th January, ten Under 9 Girls went to a football match: Bonus, Panpoon, Yumin, Prim, Coco, Lottie,
Annisha, Katinn, Petch and Poey. We played against St. Andrew Sathorn International School. When it started, it was
very exciting but sadly we lost by 0 and St. Andrews scored 3. At the end, both schools got in line and high fived every
player. On the way back to school, we made up our song about the Bulldog.
By Jidapond (Bonus)
Year 4 student
We started off by doing some stretches and then we got ready for the match against St. Andrews Sathorn International
School. They played really well. After the match ended, we congratulated them because they won the match and went in
the bus back to school and then we all went home.
By Charlotte (Lottie)
Year 3 student
U11 Girls TISAC Football
On Tuesday, 26th January the U11 Girls set off to their match at Arsenal Football Stadium against St. Andrews 71. The
weather was really cool and we were all ready to go, unfortunately we didn’t win, but we all still had a spectacular time
playing football. Special mention to Lanna (lady of the match!) and Joy who played strong defence and never let us down
with their great tackling! Everyone had a fabulous time, thank you to Coach Ms Moreton and all the lovely parents who
went and cheered us on! Luck isn’t on our side this time, but we will win the next match!
By Pyncha
Year 6 student
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U11 Boys Football Resounding Victory!
The U11 Boys began their league season with a resounding 3-0 victory over
Ascot. They knew Ascot would be a tough team to beat based on last
season's league table but they went into the game with a positive attitude
and some fantastic support from fellow students. After a close first half in
which both teams adopted a rather direct style, Bangkok Prep found
themselves 1-0 up with a goal from Pawdee, brilliantly assisted by Shunta.
Bangkok Prep found their stride in the second half and thanks to the
goalkeeping of Isaac and a solid defensive display from Parky and captain
Nadol, they never looked troubled. Artin came on to score a brilliant goal to
make it 2-0. He showed great technique to bring the ball down on his chest
and score on the turn. Pawdee's headed second goal made it 3-0 and sealed
the victory.
It was a solid display by every single one of the boys and we will now begin
to focus on our next game against KIS in two weeks' time.
Daniel O'Sullivan
Football Coach
FOBP NEWS
Dear Parents,
A Heartfelt Thank You
The FOBP President for the past year and a half, Angelique Leijdekker, or Angie as she is fondly known has stepped
down. The FOBP Committee would like to thank Angie for her dedication and enthusiastic leadership that helped foster
the sense of community Bangkok Prep greatly cherishes. FOBP will always remember the positive changes she brought to
the committee and will miss her innovative ideas and tireless energy. During her tenure, Angie did an outstanding job
leading the FOBP into organising several amazing activities that brought the school, the children and the parents together
seamlessly. Our job now is to build on this great relationship. Once again, a heartfelt Thank You, Angie.
Funky Friday on Friday, 5th February from 2.00pm – 4.00pm
Always popular with the children, this month’s Funky Friday will have a Valentine’s theme. As always there will be the
ever-popular lemonade, plus snacks and other goodies for the kids to indulge in. Make sure to provide your children with
a little cash to buy some of the nice refreshments. FOBP is always looking to involve more parents in events like this, so
if you have the time and would like to volunteer please get in touch by emailing us at [email protected].
Spring Fair Lucky Draw Donations
This year the Spring Fair is on Saturday, 27th February and as always FOBP will organise its popular lucky draw. We are
asking parents for prize donations by way of gift baskets, gift items, vouchers, etc. This is a great way for the parents to
promote their businesses within the school community.
How FOBP Uses its funds:
If you have ever wondered where the funds that FOBP raises go, wonder no more. A casual look around the school will
reveal the involvement of FOBP in adding value to our children’s school experience. In the past, FOBP has donated the
electronic scoreboard in the Sports Hall, Baht 100,000 to the Music department for instruments, outdoor coolers in the
Undercroft area, trophy cabinets, helped the Drama department with lapel microphones, organised Teacher/ Staff
Appreciation snacks and lunches, sponsored snacks for drama and musical productions, ice cream for the children during
Sports Day and drinks during swim galas, raised funds for charitable organisations and helped with Foundation Stage
events. This by no means a complete list.
The FOBP Committee
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