Wednesday, November 22, 2006

New contributions from the Thailand school

Royal Flora Ratchaphruek 2006 at Chiang-Mai

Tai Piyaphen


I went to the Royal Flora Ratchaphruek 2006 at Chiang-Mai with my school. It’s very big project of Thailand because it was made for The King of Thailand’s 60 year reign. It has many strange and beautiful flowers and trees. Some flowers and trees at that come from another country. My favorite zone is cactus’s zone. It has many types of cactus. It’s the most interesting zone.


Scuba Diving in Phuket

Nida

On my holiday I went to Racha Island with my family. I went there by speedboat. This Island is in the south of Phuket. I went snorkeling and scuba diving with my father. Racha Island is very beautiful with a nice beach with beautiful white sand. The water here is clear and prefect for snorkeling.


The Horticultural Exhibition.

By Arum.

I went to Chiang-Mai for my school trip, I went there because of the horticultural exhibition that opened on November 1, 2006. It opened because we want to celebrate the king’s reign of 60 years, but I went there on November 3, 2006. When I arrived there it was very wide, big and lots of people like ants. There are many kinds of flowers and trees that I have never seen before. I like roses, tulips and cactuses the most because they were beautiful and the cactuses were cute. It made me understand the many different kinds of flowers and trees. It was hot and very tiring because I walked all day, but it was fun. If you want to know something about the horticultural exhibition you can ask and I’ll answer you.

My holiday to Chiang Mai.

By Tae.

In the last week of this summer I went to Chiang Mai. I like the Hall Of Opium very much; it has many interesting points of history and information and the history of opium in Thailand: Number of people who smoke opium, types of pipes and the dangers of smoking opium. It was very educational and made me understand why you shouldn’t do drugs.


My golf competition

Phusin Temas

This summer, there was a golf competition. It was a big competition in Thailand. It was in Rachaburi at the Dragon Hill Golf Course. The competition’s name was the Majestic Creek Amateur Master. If I won this competition I could have a scholarship. I competed for four days. I was so tired as I walked all day and carried a golf bag but it was a very good experience. I learned how to control my mind and emotions while I’m playing golf.

My good trip to the Royal Flora Festival 2006

By Bung.

I felt so excited when my holiday begun. I was on the bus number 4 and we were traveling to the north of Thailand for the Royal Flora Festival 2006.
When I arrived at the Royal Flora Festival 2006 the first thing that the guide told us was “please be careful. There are lots of people here, you can get lost with your friend.” I know that is true. First me and my friend walked to the tent of glorify the King. This tent is very interesting because they have a cinema showing the activities of His Majesty the King.
It was very exciting when I was in the tent of cold plants, desert plant it has got many plants that I don’t know. I think the Royal Flora Festival is very interesting. If you don’t believe me, come to Chiang-Mai, Thailand, you’ll have a good experience here.

Vegetarian Festival

By Beer

Here in Phuket, we have many festivals. On October, we have Vegetarian Festival it happens from 22 October to 30 October. Many people in Phuket believe that some Chinese angels came down to the earth to see what was going on in the world. People who want to give respect to the angels have to be a vegetarian during the festival, and have to pray for the vegetarian-promise. They can get some vegetarian foods from the Chinese temple at meal times. We believe that if the guys who can be a vegetarian for 9 days, then they will have good luck. Many people will pierce their skin with objects during the festival, this can be strange









General Information on The Royal Flora Show

By Bozz

Chaing Mai has been selected for The Royal Flora Ratchapruek 2006. The exposition started on the 1st November 2006. Royal Flora Ratchaphruek 2006 represents Thai people creating one of the world’s most beautiful international plants exposition in order to express the love and respect for their Beloved King. Royal Flora Ratchaphruek 2006 is organized to present the world plants of over 2,200 species plants and flowers. 2,500,000 plants in total have been planted on the land and ready for the visitor to be proud of them.

Chaing-Mai.

By Liab.

On my holiday. I went to Chaing-Mai with my school. First day I went to Ayutdhaya, and checked in at Ayutdhaya hotel. Second I went to Payao. Then I went Srinakaritdra the pricess mother school Payao. I slept in this school. and looked around the school. The third day I went to Chaing-Rai and I bought something in the market near Burma. I checked in at Buakam resort. On the fourth day I went to Chaing-Mai.I went to The Royal Flora Ratchapruek 2006, this was a very beautiful garden and flower show.


Chiang-Mai
This summer I went to Chiang-Mai with my school and my friends. In Chiang-Mai there are many things, it’s more fantastic than Phuket because Chiang-Mai is bigger than Phuket. Doi-Tung is a mountain in Chiang-Mai, it’s many kind of flowers and in each kind of flower very beautiful. Now in Chiang-Mai has Royal Flora Festival, 2006. I hope that you will come to this festival.

School trip to Chiang Mai

By Ploem

I went to Chang-Mai with my school trip, Chang-Mai is in the north of Thailand .Today Chang-Mai is very beautiful, because It has been selected to have the Royal Flora Show.The first day we went to Ayuthdaya and the ancient temples. The second day we went to Payao to the Chalermprakait School The Princess Mother Schoo, it has the same name as our school. The third day we went to Chang-Rai, in the north west of Thailand. On the forth we went to the The Royal Flora Ratchapruek 2006, we spent time looking round the gardens. Finally on the last day we came back to school with a happy but tired face.



Chiang Mai
By Pooh
HI, my name is POOH and I’m going to tell you about my holiday. My friends and I took a trip to the north of Thailand, especially to see ‘The Royal Flora 2006 festival’ in Chiang-Mai. In addition, there were approximately 150 students and teachers on the trip. We traveled by buses and we visited many places during the trip such as the Hall Of Opium, Ayuthaya (the old capital of Thailand), The Golden Triangle which is the area between 3 countries composing of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos. Finally we went to the Rong Khun temple which is the one of the great-grand temples in Asia

Monday, November 06, 2006

Tania Operchuk from Dniprovska school

Hello! My name is Tania.I am twelve. I am a pupil of the 6th form. I go to the secondary school in Dniprovske. It is situated in the center of the village.
We study Maths, Nature studies, English,Geography, History,Native language- Ukrainian, Ukrainian literature,World literature P.T., Computer Studies,Art and Music. We don’t choose the subjects.They are compulsory for everyone in the class.
Pupils get a lot of homework every day.
We can have lunch in the school canteen. It’s cheap.
Extra school activities usually start after classes. The school has an excellent Dancing club.
Some students go to the Science club. We also have a football field outside.
I like my school. It’s very interesting to study there.
What about your schools?
What are you favourite lessons?

Monday, October 30, 2006

A student from Australia

My name is Shenae Hodge I live in Victoria Australia and I attend a school called Kurnai College and it is in a small town called Churchill. I am 15 years of age. I have brown hair with bits of blonde in it. I have 2 best friends and their names are Nikki and Kim, they all attend this school as well. We start school at 8:30am and we finish at 2:50pm. At school our main subjects are English, Maths, Science and SOSE everybody in the school has to take part in those classes, we also have course selection which is where we choose more classes that we would like to participate in.
Out school is good at sports, arts, music and other academic subjects.
We do not have any after school clubs to enjoy after school.
Our food in our canteen is a whole heap of different stuff like pies, hotdogs, chicken burgers and we have some lollies and drinks, we also have cakes and cookies.
We are able to leave school at the age of 15.
We do not sing our national anthem every day.
My opinion about school is that it is a great opportunity to learn new things and make new friends, although it gets annoying going to school everyday.
This is me and my 1 of my best friends Kim

A student from Australia

A student from Australia

Hello, my name is Mason; I am a 14 year old male. I go to school in a little town called Churchill, the schools name is Kurnai. I live 10 minutes away from the school and I catch a bus every morning.
Our school is very small it only has about 300 students. We have a school uniform of a polo shirt that has to be Moron or white we have to where blue shorts or pants. Our school always competes in sports competitions like football, basketball, soccer, hockey and netball. We start school at 8:30 and finish at 3:30.our school has a couple of clubs the air cadets and the cordial club. In the air cadets you go to the local airport and learn about planes and in cordial club you catch up with work.
We do not have any Thai students at our school but we have a lot of other nationalities. I do not particularly like school, but some subjects I enjoy like PE, English and maths. At our school you can leave at the age of 15 but you won’t have a good enough education to get a good job. That’s me >>

A student from Australia

Hi my name is Nikola Brighton, I’m 15 years old. I go to a school in the Latrobe Valley called Kurnai College. Our school is very small because it only consists of about 320 students, in the whole school. I’m currently studying in year 9, we study English, Science, Math, Sose, Arts and Sport. Our school day starts at 8:30 am and finishes at 2:50 pm. My school is good at sports because we’re all pretty athletic, we love to go to our sports day and doing our P.E physical education. I don’t really have an opinion about my school just that I like school because I can see all my friends, we can leave school at the age of 16 if we want but hardly nobody does they go right through to university unless they get an apprenticeship. I’ve never wanted to change schools and have never tried Thai food, I love it when school is finished because I can go and do all my sports which are basketball, netball and tennis and no I don’t sing my countries national song every day.

The picture up the top is a picture of me and my action squad group I’m the second girl

Another stucent from Australia

Hello my name is Nikki Hammett and I go to Kurnai College High school in Churchill which is a small town. I am 15 years old and I’m in year nine. Our school starts at 8:30am and goes to 2:50pm which is about 6 hours at school. We have 5 periods a day for work. Our main subjects are maths, English, Sose and Science. These are our subjects that everyone has to do. Our school has about 300 to 350 students. Our school has all year levels from year 7 to year 10. We have to go across the road to go to year 11 and 12.
We leave school at the age of 15, which is our age now. Many students go to university as a far as I know. We do not sing our national anthem everyday. We have one assembly once a month. I have never even thought of changing the school in any way. Our school is not the best school around but I suppose the teachers teach us things that we take in. We have about 25 - 30 teachers that are mostly at our school everyday. Our food is ok at our school canteen. We do have clubs after school hours but I have never gone to any. We have this special program for after school hours which is called cordial club it is for people to come and do their homework and after they have finished they get cordial and biscuits. There are many teachers that help out at the cordial club. We have course selection classes also which include: sport,. Art classes, computer classes and many more. We do not have any Thailand students going to our school as far as I know. Well I have told you as much as I know and well I’m off. Bye.

Another student from Australia

Hello my name is Emma Wyhoon, I’m 15 years old and I live in Yinnar of Gippsland in Victoria, Australia. I go to the school Kunai College Churchill Campus, which I have to catch a bus to get there and back every day. My hobbies consist of netball, basketball, shopping and socialising with friends. I have a younger brother and an older sister, along with my mum and dad. I have 3 pet dogs and their names are, Bella Billie and Amy.

1. What is your school good at? Sports/competitions?
My School is good at Soccer and Badminton, both of these sports got far too state finals.
2. What time do you go to school and what time do you finish the school?
I catch a bus to school which is at 7:30 am, but school actually starts at 8:30 am and school finishes at 2:50 pm and I catch the bus home also.
3. Do you have any clubs to enjoy after school? (Scouts/Girl Guides/Army.)
There is a club for netball and I’m a member of this.
4. Do you know any Thai students, what do you think or know of Thailand?
No I don’t know anything about Thai students or really anything about the country.
5. What is the food like at school? Have you tried Thai food?
The food that is at our school is quite yummy and I have never tried Thai food.
6. What is your opinion about school? Do you like school?
My opinion about School is that it keeps me getting up in the mornings and helps me get a good education and school is ok but I don’t love it.
7. Have you ever thought that you want to change your school?
No I have never really thought about changing school but I still like the school that I’m at.

A student from Australia

Hey people!! It’s me Cathleen Bennett from Kurnai College Churchill Campus. I am 15 years old and my birthday is the 8th of May. My hobbies consist of playing Soccer, Basketball, talking on msn, hanging out with friends and going shopping. I am in year 9 and I live in Churchill in the state of Victoria in Australia. I really enjoy doing sport and I love running. I have a pet dog and his name is Freckles. I have an older and a younger sister and their names are Brycelyn and Lindsay.

1.What is your school good at? Sports/competitions?
My school is good at soccer and badminton. In our school soccer team, they got to the grand final and they played in the Melbourne stadium for the state finals. In our badminton competition, they came second in the state finals.
2.What time do you go to school and what time do you finish the school?
Well because I walk to school, I start to walk at 8:00am because our school starts at 8:30am. The end of the school bell finishes at 2:50pm and because I walk home I get to my house at about 3:10pm.
3.Do you have any clubs to enjoy after school? (Scouts/Girl Guides/Army.)
Yes I do, I play soccer and I belong to the Churchill Soccer club for the girls’ team.
4.Do you know any Thai students, what do you think or know of Thailand?
No I don’t know any Thai students. I also don’t know anything about the country Thailand.
5.What is the food like at school? Have you tried Thai food?
The food in our school canteen has improved a lot since I was in year 7, the food is good and no I haven’t tried any Thai food.
6.What is your opinion about school? Do you like school?
My opinion about school is that I do like school because it provides me with an education that I know I can take to the future. I don’t exactly love my school but yeah it’s ok.
7.Have you ever thought that you want to change your school?
Well I didn’t exactly want to go to this school in the first place, because I was going to go to a different one but then mum decided that it would be easier for me to go here because then I wouldn’t have travel as much. Well since I’ve been here at Kurnai I don’t think I’ve thought of changing because I have heaps of friends here.
8.What age can you leave school?
You can leave at any age, but to properly finish school up to year 12, you’ll be 18.
9.Do your students go to University a lot?
The majority of our students do continue to University so that they can get different degrees but some people don’t bother to go to University because it’s much more harder and much more work.
10.Do you sing your countries national anthem every day?
No we don’t but when I was in primary school we had to do it every Friday.

A student from Australia

Hey my name is Cassie, I live in Victoria, Australia. I go to a school called Kurnai College Churchill. We start school at 8:30am and finish at 2:50pm.
Most people at our school do sports out of school such as, footy, netball cricket basketball, baseball and swimming.

Our school has only about 350 students in it, we have a canteen that serves a large variety of food and drinks. At out school we can leave school at the age of 15. We don’t sing our national anthem at our school but we use to at primary school. Our school goes up to year 10 then we go across the road and do year 11 and 12.

Our uniform is a white, dark blue or maroon polo shirt with dark blue short or pants, girls can also wear school dresses and winter skirts.

A student from Australia

Hi my name is Adam and I go to school in Australia.
Our school enjoys sports and inter school sports like bowling and swimming.
Our school starts at 8:30 am and we finish at 2:50 pm. Our after school activities include sports such as Australian rules and football (which we call soccer). Our summer sports include basketball, netball and cricket.
We don’t have any Thai students and I have never tried Thai food but I would like to. Our school canteen sells normal food like rolls and chips and chocolate.
Our school is good but I don’t really enjoy it, I’d prefer to be working or earning something.
I’ve never thought about changing schools but I do want to leave at the end of year 10. The legal age that you can leave school or be kicked out is 15.
Some students choose to go to university but a lot of the boys go and get apprenticeships or find a job somewhere else.
We don’t sing our countries national anthem everyday. We don’t sing our national anthem at secondary school but in primary school we sung it once a week.

A student from Australia

Hello my name is Ryan and I live in Boolarra south-east Australia. I attend Kurnai College Churchill, and I’m in 9th grade. I subjects that I take are, Maths, English, Sose, Science, Metalwork, woodwork, sport, art and P.E. I’m extremely fond of Maths, Science and Woodwork and hopefully I might get a job in accountants when I’m older. I also like playing sports such as cricket, soccer and archery and get involved in team sports such as basketball, European hand ball and other different sports. Overall Kurnai College
Churchill is quite a good school, which I have enjoyed for the last 3 years. That’s enough about my school what about your’s?

My hobbies are playing sports, playing guitar, listening to music and other different things. I live in a family of 8 three sisters’ two brothers, mum and dad and me.
I’d like to know more about you and your school so can’t wait for your reply.
c- yar.

A Student from Australia

Hello, my name is Kaeshar. I go to a school called Churchill Kurnai, which is in a small town in Victoria Australia. I’m 15 years old and I’m in year 9. I have a younger brother called Dylan, he is 11. I have to catch the bus to school every morning, I catch the bus at 7:30 and school starts at 8:30. We finish school at 2:50
At my school people like to play football, basketball and soccer.
I don’t know anything really about Thailand and I don’t know any people from there either. The food from out school is a mixture between healthy foods and fatty foods. I don’t like school that much because it’s boring. Our school needs a lot of changes like the classrooms and the whole outside of the school. I can leave school at the age of 16, some students from our school go to university, it depends if the score in VCE is high enough. Our school never sings the national anthem.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

History of an institution


HISTORY OF OUR INSTITUTION

After several problems to open the institute it was finally founded on December 29th, 1978 by Leslie Casnodyn Rhys.
In 1979, the first year started with 17 students, with a timetable which went from 6pm to 10.30pm that allowed students who worked to start a career.
In 1982 despite the fact that the institute did not have the support of the state, with the teachers and staff’s effort, the institution continued working and the first group was able to graduate.
In 1991 after a long disease, the teacher and founder of IPPI died. Being this hard for the whole institution, because he was a good and kind man whose faith, honesty and perseverance were models to follow.
After this, his daughter, Lorena E. Rhys, started working as the new headmistress of the institute, with the collaboration of Sara Criado de Muñoz, the secretary and the entire staff being able to continue with the institute.
Mariana and Georgina

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Akshay Pratishthan School

About Us
Akshay Pratishthan was established in 1988, with the objective of creating voluntary opportunities and providing rehabilitative services for persons with disability. As a organization, Akshay is offering rehabilitative services through integrated education, medical care, vocational training and self - employment. While the school is imparting education to integrated group of equal number of able bodied and physically challenged, from Nursery to Class VIII, the medical care units are rendering full support in providing aids and appliances, yoga and nature cure, therapeutic services and education for children with special needs. We have a team of professionals working in our rehabilitation unit providing therapy and arranging surgery for our school children as well as people from the local community.


The provision of mobility aids, specially designed accessible transport and necessary teaching and learning material has gone a long way in enabling the persons with disability at Akshay.

While there is a barrier-free built environment, the teachers and the care givers are also trained in management of disability.
The vocational training units of weaving, textile designing, embroidery, art and craft, bakery, beauty culture, carpentry, electrical repair, computer and several others are empowering the students by giving requisite training in the school as per interest, aptitude and potential. Every child from Class V to Class VIII is given an opportunity to learn at least one vocation. Most of the courses ar accredited by National Institute of Open Schooling which makes it easier for the children to become self employed or to acquire jobs. Vocational training has helped persons with disabilities to acquire skills that make them self-reliant.
Our Chairperson
Mrs Aruna Dalmia

Mrs Aruna Dalmia is the founder-chairperson of Akshay Pratishthan . She has dedicated her life to the cause of disability and mainstreaming of persons with disability. Akshay Pratishthan is her family and her joy is in seeing children’s achievement. Mrs Dalmia is the recipient of several awards including Priyadarshini Award, Manav Sewa Award and Bharat Nirman Award.


Our Principal

Mrs Indira Chaudhry is the principal of the school. She is actively involved in the activities of the children right from the time they enter the school to the time they leave school. Her enthusiasm is infectious and it encourages the teachers to put forth their best. Being a hands-on person, she enjoys teaching the children English.


Education with a Difference

Education is an important aspect of rehabilitation of persons with disability. Catering to the educational needs of the children with special needs has been the major thrust of Akshay Pratishthan. This service is provided through integrated and inclusive education at school where nearly 400 students - able-bodied and differently-abled study together in equal number from nursery to class VIII. The school caters for the underprivileged sections of society.

The school provides students the requisite opportunities for all around development - cognitive, social, personality, emotional and physical. Opportunities for self-expression are provided through intra and inter school competitions like music, sports, banner writing, and arts and crafts. Skill training for self reliance also forms an important part of the curriculum.



After class VIII, students have the option of either joining regular school or appearing for the X and XII class examinations through the National Institute of Open Schooling of which Akshay Pratishthan is a specially accredited Centre. All these services are provided through a team of highly motivated, skilled and trained members of the staff.



Special Education

Akshay Pratishthan runs a special wing for slow learners, children with cerebral palsy and mild and moderate intellectually challenged children. The academics are conducted by special educators and rehabilitation professionals. These children are socially integrated through sports and cultural activities. This integration generates confidence and mutual acceptance amongst the children. Parents are also counseled from time to time.

Medical Facilities

At Akshay Pratishthan, the medical team works closely with the therapeutic departments to ensure successful integrations and inclusions. All students with disabilities are given special medical attention under competent professionals. Regular medical checkups and diagnostics are performed to monitor progress of the children. Corrective surgeries are organized at different hospitals. Mobility aids are provided to the children and to others in the community. Prosthetic and Orthotic appliances are assembled by qualified and experienced Prosthetic Engineers.

Participating Teachers Mrs Anuradha Sethi and Mrs Rajalakshmi Bhaskar

Mrs Anuradha Sethi has been associated with this school from 1992 and has over 14 years of teaching experience in inclusive education. She is a teacher of English for middle school. She is actively involved in computer-based projects and actively participating in the “Digital Equalizer” Program of AIF. Her motto is to leave no stone unturned for the children of Akshay Pratishthan School.

Mrs Rajalakshmi Bhaskar has been a teacher volunteer with Akshay Pratishthan School for the past 3 years. A trained teacher of English , she is making efforts to improve the language abilities of the students, since English is being taught in the school as a second language. Also involved in computer- based projects.
Working with the children of the school has given her tremendous satisfaction and has encouraged her to do more for the children.


Our Children talk about their School

1.
Hello! I am Jaffar. I study in Akshay Pratishthan School. It is a very big school. My school in the Vasant Kunj, New Delhi. My school’s chairperson is Mrs Aruna Dalmia and Mrs Indira Choudhry is the principal of my school. It has thirty teachers. Four hundred and thirty two children are studying in my school and there are five buses in my school. We have a very big and beautiful class. My school has nine vocations: Electrical, Carpentry, Beauty culture, Cutting and tailoring, Embroidery, Bakery, Music, Art and craft, and Computer. Our games teacher’s name is Mr Jagbhooshan. He comes to school every day.



2.
My name is Chandra Shekhar and my school’s name is Akshay Pratishthan School. I am very lucky because I am student of Akshay Pratishthan School. My school is the best and it is very famous in Delhi. There are many teachers and many social workers in my school and they are sensitive to the problems of the children and offer help wherever they can. There are so many facilities available in my school. Good classrooms, good teachers and social workers, workshop facilities, vocational training and computer education. They also provide medical facilities. I am proud of my school.

We learn eight subjects in school. There are teachers for each subject: Hindi, English, Math, General Science, History, Geography, Civics and Sanskrit. I like the vocational training classes best of all.

3.
I am Amit Dey, a student of Akshay Pratisthtan School. It is situated in Vasant Kunj in New Delhi. My school building is grand. There are eleven class rooms in it for 432 students. There are other rooms: library, staff room, office, music room, hall etc. There are forty staff members. Our teachers are very good. They teach us with love and care. Our school chairperson’s name is Mrs Aruna Dalmia and our school principal, Mrs Indira Choudhry, is a lady of ability. She is very kind and honest. My school is famous for its good discipline and annual examination result. The sports activities in our school are also great. We play football, cricket, basketball etc. All the children play during the break time in the playground. We have four houses, Satapura, Nilgiri, Vindhyachal and Himalaya. The children are equally distributed into these four houses. We also have lot of cultural activities like dancing, dramatics and music. All the children participate in these activities. We have a splendid school clinic. We have all the necessary medicines and we are treated really well when we get hurt or we are sick. We have exercise facilities for disabled (handicapped) children. This is an effort to make them feel equal to every one.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

All Saints School from Florida, USA


Students' introductions
My School, Your School
Introductions
All Saints’ Academy
Winter Haven, Florida, USA


Zarina : My School, Your School is a wonderful
project for me because I just this year
came to Florida from Ghana. I found a
beautiful campus with friendly people who
celebrate diversity. I am in fifth grade,
and my forty-five classmates are divided
among three homerooms. I love the small
classes - - - fifteen per room.

Samantha : I’m in the fifth grade too, and my mother
teaches kindergarten at our school. I also
have a brother in third grade. Our school
is in a rural area with sixty acres of land.
The great part about that is that the campus
adjoins a protected wetlands. That means
our only neighbors will always be nature’s own.

Olivia: I am in first grade, and I have a sister in the
pre-kindergarten four-year-old class. We even
have classes for three-year-olds. In our building
the oldest classes are fifth graders, and for
this project seven of them have partners from
my class.

Ashley: Girls in my fifth grade class outnumber the
boys two to one, but in the fourth grade it is just
the opposite. We wear uniforms - - navy shorts or
slacks with red polo shirts on Monday, Wednesday
or Friday. On Tuesdays and Thursdays we wear
our dress uniforms because we have Chapel.

Hannah: Next year, when I’m in sixth grade, I move
to another part of the campus for Middle School.
We change classes this year for science and
math, but in Middle School there are six blocks
of time and several different buildings. Our
school year runs from mid-August through mid-
May, and we divide it into four quarters with grade
reports at the end of each.

Bailey H: I’m in fifth grade, and my sister Connor, who is
in first grade, is on the My School, Your School
team too. We do projects like this one in our
enrichment classes where two different grade
levels form partnerships. Our school is college
preparatory, and altogether there are about
700 students.

Bailey L: In first grade my class has time after lunch to
play on the playground. We have swings, climbing
and swinging bars, beams and ball fields. We have
a covered patio, so we can even play outside when
it rains. It never snows where we live.

Sydney: My fifth grade class just had a field trip to
Kennedy Space Center, which is a two hour bus
ride from our school. All classes take field
trips during the year, and we also have times
when we celebrate off campus, such as the
pool party for students who complete their
summer reading.

Hannah: I’m in first grade, and we are looking forward
to a week off for Spring Break the week after
next. It is beautiful weather here this time of
year, and outside we can smell the orange blossoms.
In the summer it gets very hot, so most of the
tourists come to Florida in the winter.

Samantha: School at All Saints’ Academy is always interesting
In my fifth grade class there are students from
Winter Haven, which is the closest city, but also from
Lakeland, Lake Wales, Bartow, and Auburndale. Buses
go to all of those places to pick up students, but most
people come by car. Some of us stay after school for
clubs, like technology, chess, Mad Science, or dance.

Ms. Stewart: This is an amazing group of eleven young ladies, and
they are working hard to put together a book about
their school. We also look forward to reading books
from other schools and learning about their lives.

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Questions from Thailand for project participants

1.What is your school good at? Sports/competitions?

2.What time do you go to school and what time do you finish the school?

3.Do you have any clubs to enjoy after school? (Scouts/Girl Guides/Army.)

4.Do you know any Thai students, what do you think or know of Thailand?

5.What is the food like at school? Have you tried Thai food?

6.What is your opinion about school? Do you like school?

7.Have you ever thought that you want to change your school?

8.What age can you leave school?

9.Do your students go to University a lot?

10.Do you sing your countries national anthem every day?

Questions from Thailand for project participants

1.What is your school good at? Sports/competitions?

2.What time do you go to school and what time do you finish the school?

3.Do you have any clubs to enjoy after school? (Scouts/Girl Guides/Army.)

4.Do you know any Thai students, what do you think or know of Thailand?

5.What is the food like at school? Have you tried Thai food?

6.What is your opinion about school? Do you like school?

7.Have you ever thought that you want to change your school?

8.What age can you leave school?

9.Do your students go to University a lot?

10.Do you sing your countries national anthem every day?

Thailand answers our questions on their school history

1) When was your school founded?
The school was founded in 1996.
2)What teachers have been working from the beginning?
Teacher Juntip choo-chuay has worked here since the start.
3)What are the objectives of your school?
Develop IT technologies and languages to the students to be the best.
Develop students life skills.
Preserve and educate the students about the environment.
Create fair and equal learning opportunities.
4)- Does your school help poor people?
Yes. The school donates food to the local Monks who give it to the poor.
5)- How many teachers are working in the institution?
There are 74 teachers in the institution. Of the 74 there are 9 foreign teachers.
6)- Who founded the school?
The ministry of education founded the school.
7)- Why is the school called ….?
The ministry of education has a project to establish schools as the monument of Somdejprasrinakarin (the king’s mother), thus our school is called Chalermprakiat Somdejprasrinakarin Phuket, which means “LONG LIVE THE KING’S MOTHER”.
8)- Who was the first headmistress?
The director, Mr. Mett.
9)- Is it co-educational?
Yes, it is. There are 1,266 students. Male: 607, Female: 659
10) There are two parts of the school. One is the normal program and one is multi-languages program. The parents have to pay money for multi-languages program 35000 Baht per term.
11) No, We have not.
12) Mr Phongsak kruapade is the assistant director of the school. We don’t use the title secretary.
13) We don’t know all of them, but now our prefect is Chaiyaporn Karnchana-aksorn.
14) We don’t know who designed the school logo
15) We don’t know who designed the uniform. Every school has to wear the same type of uniform. Only the colour or the badges are different. It is usually made up of shorts and a white shirt for boys. Long skirt and blouse for girls. In Thailand the boys and girls must have short hair and finger nails. The school checks on this aswell!

Monday, September 11, 2006

Students from Thailand are describing their school

Jirawat Kuramakanok. My School
Here is my school’s name ChalemprakiatsomdetprasrinakarinPhuket School. In Thailand we have many special days such as The King’s birthday celebration and the Queen’s Birthday celebration. In My school have a special uniform. This special uniform we will use for special days. We have another uniform wee call it a Semi-Uniform. This uniform we use every Monday. I think that both of them are good. They make us look smart when we wear them. In addition, this uniform is useful for giving respect to The King and The Royal family.

Akkarachai Sae-Lee. my school
There are many kinds of sports in my school; western sports such as baseball and basketball. For me I like Thai sports, such as Ta-kraw. In the old days Ta-kraw was played in Myanmar. Thailand and Myanmar sometimes are friend; sometimes they are enemies; that’s why Ta-kraw came to Thailand. There are two teams in Ta-kraw. Each team has three people. They must kick the Ta-kraw ball across the net. It’s easy to play Ta-kraw because the players don’t run much; only a few players play; and you need only one referee. It can use the same field as basketball field. When I was a little boy I followed my father to watchhim playing Ta-kraw. So I like Ta-kraw; the most im portent reason is that Ta-kraw is cheap and easily to buy it and play.

Pasakorn Udomniyom. My school
“GO” is the name given to a board game that looks like chess. It came from China about 3500 year ago. Now “GO” is very well known in Thailand. On Sunday 13th August 2006, I went to Wuhan in China. I visited schools, universities and a shopping centre. I am a young “GO” ambassador, because of this, I have to help to make good relationships with other countries through “GO” competitions, in what we call “Go tournament for Chinese around the world.” I’m very proud of myself, because I can make my school very well known because of this activity. I won some games and the person that I beat is not a beginner but, he is the first dan.

Phusin Temmas. My school

In my school there a lot of mangroveforests. It very beautiful. I think it’s beautiful because it has different kinds of plants and animals. For example, crabs , fish , insect ,bird and monkey. We have the way to walk in the mangrove forest. In free we can go to mangrove forest. We have an environment club. We study about protecting the mangrove forest. In this forest we have an animal which we call Mae-Hop. This animal lives only in excellent mangrove forest. If you like mangrove forest you can come to see here.

Piyaphen Prasopnet. My school
My school has a different study program. It’s MLP. (Multi Language Program). This program teaches by use of 3 important languages. There are English, Chinese and Thai. English and Chinese languages are taught by teachers from another country and Thai is taught by Thai teachers. They teach very well. We love them. The MLP. has many activities for example, MLP. relationship etc.
it exciting and lots of fun. All our class rooms have air-conditioning. The MLP. has E-learning. It’s different thing for other school. E-learning is a program to study English or Chinese by using a computer. It’s very good for all students. It makes you practice listening, reading, speaking, writing, and grammar etc. I love my school very much. It’s very good for me. If you need more information about my school you can look at www.swpk.ac.th . BYE ^-^

Suksun Chanchawee. My school

“First project of my life” I managed it on last year when I was M.3. I had a project called “Relationship between Junior & Senior” I was project manager of this project. First I met with all staff and all teachers, the topic was “What can we do to make activities fun and contain benefit” We got more ideas from everybody. We began to write a proposal to send to the school director. We changed it many times; at last director signed her name to approve it.
We had it at boat lagoon resort. We had many games for everybody for example Balloon battle, Matrix and singing. When this day is finished all staffs were very impressed.

Wanida Prateep na Talang. My school
My school’s name is ChalermpragiedsomdejPrasrinagarin Phuket school. This name is the name of Princess Mother of Thailand. The Department of Elementary Education established Chalermpragiedsomdej Prasrinagarin school in memory of divining grace of Princess Mother. It has 12 schools in Thailand. I want to tell you about the Princess Mother.
In Thailand the Princess Mother was affectionatelyCalled Somdej Ya. Her formal name and title were Somdej Prasrinakarindra Boromarajajonani. Somdej Ya was born on the 21 October 1900 in thon buri as a commoner. Her given name was Sangwal. By the time she became nine years old , her parents had already died. However before that, she was entered into the service of Princess Valaya Alongkorn. In 1920, Somdej Ya married with Mahidol Adulyadej, Prince of Songkhla, son of king Chulalongkorn. They had three children :
- Galyani Vadhana (born in 1923)
- Ananda Mahidol (born in 1925, later became King, Rama VII)
- Bhumibol Adulyadej (born in 1927, later became King, Rama IX)
Somdej Ya was actively involved with numerous charitable activities . She gave donation to help build school in remote areas. She also set up the Princess Mother's Fund to help support various charitable activities. She passed away on July 18 1995, at the age of 94.

Supadet Themart. My school
My school is called “Chalermprakiat Somdetprasrinakarin Phuket”. It’s located in Phuket town, Phuket, Thailand. There are two dormitories in my school, one is the male-dormitory and other is the female-dormitory. However, all students in my school don’t have to board, they can choose what they want. In addition, most of boarding students live very far from the school such as in another city or another province. It makes students get more “closer” to the school, creates a strong relationship between students and the school. Thus, it will be very easy for my development and character. For me, I’m not a boarding student because I live not very far from the school. Anyway, I really love my school.

Jaruwichit Jarutippayaanta My school
…..Relationship between junior and senior Camp…..
This activity is about to tighten the relationship between junior students and senior students in the Multi Language Program. This year the camp was created by the senior students and of course I was the one who organized the camp too. The camp was on the 22nd July 2006 and the 23rd July 2006. The camp was great, the junior students enjoyed all the activities that we organized. Some activities made them laugh and some activities made them cry because of they had been touched. We believe that after the camp the students would be proud and this camp would be a good experience for every student.

Ahreum Kang. My school
In my school we have sports day on August 1st- 2nd for 3 days. Before sports day we have to practice cheering. On the first day, we have to cheer half a day at school. Second day, we have to cheer all day at school. Third day, we have to cheer at the gym (outside school).
On sports day we have to separate into each color. They have 5 colors: green, blue, pink. purple and yellow. Each color has it’s own Parade to walk from school to the stadium. They have to dress-up for this Parade.
Our school has many sports to choose on sports day such as badminton, valley ball, football, GO, batong and basketball, etc. Basketball is the most popular in my school. So, most of my friends play basketball and they play very well, I think.
I had to cheer my color(green) I was very tired but it was fun when we cheered sportsman they will power-up to play sports and what about your school, Do they have a sports day and what sports do they have.

Tiwat Phungraeng. My school
I study many subjects in my school for example maths, physics, biology, chemistry, geography, English, computer studies and health. My favourite subject is physics, because physics can be applied in daily life. Some teachers come from the University to teaches. In my school we have a biology room, a physics room, chemistry room and in each room there is lots of equipment. In the biology room we have a telescope. In the chemistry room we have many chemical elements. In the physic room we have many theories about physics. I study 8 hours per day and I have 2 hours for sport time. I like to play foot ball in my free time. I’m happy when I’m learning new things.

Kraisit Phakwiwat. My School
My school has a mangrove forest around us, thus we have an Environment Club which has activities on how to solve the problem about the environment. If you like sport we have Table Tennis Club, Go Club (a board game), and we have Computer Club too. My friends tell me this club teaches you how to use computer and the internet. For people who love music we have Thai Music Club and Band Club for public, but they are very loud.





Thursday, September 07, 2006

Students from Thailand are introducing themselves

Jirawat Kuramakanok.
Hello, my name is Jirawat Kuramakanok. My nickname is Beer. I was born on the 27th January 1991(Please remember my birthday because you can send e a gift).Now I’m 15 year old. I’m from Thailand. I live in Phuket. I study in Chalemprakiatsomdetprasrinakarin Phuket School. I love to have many friends. You can e-mail me at Jirawat_beer@hotmail.com

Akkarachai Sae-Lee.
My name is Akkarachai Sae-Lee. My nickname is Liab. I am 15 years old. I live in Phuket town. I have one sister. I study in grade10 at Chalerm Prakiat Somdet Prasrinakarin Phuket School. There are many clubs in my school. I am the member of military club. I like to play basketball at school. After school I play computer games. I have many classmates. One of my close friends is Bozz. My favourite food is pizza and my favourite subject is physics.

Pasakorn Udomniyom.
Hello,My name is Pasakorn Udomniyom. My nick name is Pluem. I’m 15 years old. I live in Phuket, Thailand. I’m studying in grade 10 at charlermprakaitsomdetprasrinakarin Phuket school. When I have free time I always read mystery books, play computer games and write books, but I have new one activity that I like to play it is called “GO”

Phusin Temmas.
Hello, my name is Phusin Temmas. My nick name is Phusin. I live in Phuket. I’m 15 years old. I study at Chalermprakiatsomdetprasrinakarin Phuket. I study in grade 10. I play sports and read a comic book when I have free time. My favorite food is noodles.

Piyaphen Prasopnet.
I am Tai from Thailand. I study at SW.PK. in class M.4/5 (MLP.). I’m 15 years old. My family has 4 people including my self. There is my mom, she is a housewife. My younger sister is a student, she studies at Yuwathoot Suksa School in class G.9 and my grandmamma is a housewife. When we have free-time we have dinner together. I love my family. My hobbies are drawing pictures, designing dresses and watching T.V.

Suksun Chanchawee.
My name is Suksun Chanchawee. My nick name is Pukbung. It’s Thai name. It’s a kind of vegetable. You can call me just “Bung” When you don’t see me and you want to know me, please try to look for someone who handsome and very tall. So, when you talk with handsome man, Please remember. Don’t be shy. You can contact with me if you want. My MSN e-mail is musicalzstyle@hotmail.com

Wanida Prateep na Talang.
My name is Wanida Prateep na talang. My nick name is Nida. I live Phuket , Thailand. I am 15 years old. Now I study in grade 10 (MLP.) at ChalermpragiedsomdejPrasrinagarin Phuket school. There are 4 people in my family. My father works in Switzerland. My mother is a housewife. And I have 1 little brother. He is very mischievous . But we love him. When I have free-time I like to read books, watch TV.and go swimming.

Supadet Themart.
Hello, my name is Supadet Themart, you can call me “Pooh” (Winnie the Pooh), nice to meet you. I live in Phuket town, Phuket, Thailand. I like to play and to listen to the music when I have a free time. My family and I do lots of activities on holiday such as going to the temple or traveling

Jaruwichit Jarutippayaanta.
My name’s Boss. I’m fifteen years old. I haven’t got any brothers and sisters. I live with my parents and three pets in a small house. Chatting on the internet is my hobby. Here is my e-mail address: soul_phantom@hotmail.com if you like you can add my e-mail into your contact. I’m waiting for you all. I’m good at basketball because I have played basketball since I was eight years old. I love basketball very much and I never stop practicing my skills to be better.

Ahreum Kang.
My name is Ahreum Kang. My nickname is Arum and I’m fifteen years old. I live in Phuket, Thailand with my parents. My parents are Korean but I was born in Bangkok. So, I’m Thai. There are four people in my family: father, mother, one younger brother and me. I also have two dogs. Nimo is a Boston terrier and Sunny is a Cocker Spanial. My father is a business man, my mother is house wife, my brother and I are students at Chalermprakiart School. It,s aThai school but it has English Programme that my brother and I are studying in. My brother studies in grade 8 and I study in grade10. I like to play badminton. I play badminton with my brother every day. In my free time I usually read cartoon books and watch TV.

Tiwat Phungraeng.
Hello! My name is Tiwat Phuengraeng. My nickname is Non. I’m 14 years old. I live in Phuket. My e-mail address: piju_sometimez@hotmail.com . I study in Chalerm Prakiat Somdet Prasrinakain Phuket school. Now I study in grade 10. I have 1 brother. I love my parents very much. I like to play foot ball, play games, and ride my bicycle in my free time. I have many classmates and I love my teacher. My favourite subject is Physics
Nice to meet You!

Kraisit Phakwiwat.
Hello, my name is Kraisit Phakwiwat. I am 15 years old. I have a young brother. We study in Chalermprakiat Phuket School. I like to read story books and comics in my free-time. But I don’t like to read text books very much because when I read them I need to use a dictionary a lot.

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Matulaitis School Questions to share

1- When was your school founded??
2- When was the first promotion?
3- What teachers have been working from the beginning?
4- What are the objectives of your school?
5- Does your school help poor people?
6- How many teachers are working in the institution?
7- Who founded the school?
8- Why is the school called ….?
9- Who was the first headmistress?
10- Is it co-educational?
11- Has it always been private?
12- Has it got kindergarten?
13- Who was the first secretary?
14- Who was the first prefect?
15- Who designed the logo of your school?
16- Who designed the uniform?

Photographs

This is a photo album sent to us by Thailand

Monday, June 19, 2006

Nobel Academy Higher Secondary School, Nepal

Introductions from Nepal


BIVEK KHAREL
I am Bivek Kharel from New Baneshower, Kathmandu, Nepal. I study in class 7 at Nobel Academy Higher Secondary School. I have four family members including myself. My father works in Oxfam GB, a British non-government organization. My mother is a house wife and my sister also studies in grade 3 at Nobel Academy. I love my family too much that I can't say. Now, I will tell about my school Nobel Academy. My School has different blocks. It has many buses. In this school teachers teach well. They love their students. There is Scout from class 7. We will play and enjoy sometime of the periods. We will go to excursion. Our principal's name is Pro.Dr. Jaya Raj Acharya. Nawaraj Baskota is our Academic Coordinator. There is computer lab, library, music class, dance class and other excitement activities. And I love my school very much. Telephone No. 01-6204109 Bye Bye

Anisha Upetri
I read in Nobel Academy. I study in grade 7. My hobbies are to dance sing and collect stickers I like. My aim is to be famous. If I made a movie it would be like Romeo and Juliet. The things I like and don't like are:- I am interested in sports, music, dance, but I am really not interested in maths. The thing that I like about My school are the building which is very much standard for student but it in height that we have to walk long distance and the facilities like library, computer lab, dance, music, out club. The thing that I don’t like is the facilities are more for the children that the big students.

Arpana NeupaneHi,
It's me Arpana Neupane from New Baneshower, Kathmandu, Nepal. I read in Nobel Academy Higher Secondary School. It is very nice school because; it is providing lots of facilities. There are different blocks in Nobel academy like Makalu, Nilgiri, Dhaulagiri, Sagarmatha etc. Teachers are also good, kind and friendly. They teach us in a pleasing way but they give us lots of homework. Nobel Academy is one of the greatest schools which makes your dream come true.

Pravesh Regmi
My name is Pravesh Regmi. I study in class 7 in Nobel Academy School. My school is
Situated in New Baneshwor, Kathmandu I live in Gattahaghar, which is in Bhatapur district. There are 4 members in my family. They are my father, mother, brother and me. My father's name is Pream Regmi, My mother's name is Seema Regmi and my brother's is Prarup Regmi. My school is very nice. I love my school very much. The teachers in my school are very good. My friends are also nice. There is a good environment in my school. The food is hygienic in our canteen. May this project be successful? Good bye...........

Sabina Shah
Hi, I am Sabina Shah. I am 13 years old. I belong to Hindu religion. I am from Ghattekulo of Kathmandu, Nepal. I enjoy drawing; I love outdoor games apart from reading. I study in grade 7 of Nobel Academy School. This is of high quality and very standard school. The teachers make us understand the chapters easily. So, I love my school very much and I hope reading this you would too like it.
Thank - You

Shiraz ShresthaHello! My name is Shiraz Shrestha. I live at New Road, Kathmandu. I study at Nobel Academy in standard 7. My aim is to be an artist and to be a doctor. Now, I will describe about my school. My school is located at New Baneshower, Kathmandu. It is one of the famous schools in Nepal. It was established in the year, A.D.1998. It has many blocks.My school contains boy's hostel and girl's hostel. It also has a canteen. There are about 1500 students in my school and about 120 teachers in My School. There are 4 playgrounds in my school. We all play there. My school has all the necessary items which a good school has. So, I like my school very much

Kaushika Acharya
My name is Kaushika Acharya. I have many hobbies and interests. I am living in New Baneshower, Kathmandu, Nepal. I am in grade seven and studying at Nobel academy. It is also situated in New Baneshower. My School is very wonderful; we do all extra activities apart from reading. Teachers are friendly so are friends too.

Sophia
Hello, friends I am Sophia. I study in class 7 "N". My School's name is Nobel Academy Higher Secondary School. I love this school. The environment here is fantastic, superb. The teachers are very friendly. No need to be frightened to interact with teachers. The friends are very nice. The words are less to do their description. They are helpful kind. So, if you all come to study here, I guess you wouldn't like to leave. You all are heartily welcomed here

Koushik Sapkota
Hi! I am Koushik Sapkota. I am a part of this your school my school project. I am from Ilam, eastern part of Nepal and now migrated to Kathmandu, Capital city of Nepal. I study in grade 7. I am studying at Nobel Academy. As a lover of cricket and football, I love playing and watching them. Quiet strange, but my best hobby is to laugh. I'd like to be in gastro-physicist. To talk about my school, it is good. Everything is all right. Basically, teachers are helpful but strict. There is a friendly environment treated between us. That's all I can say about my school.
Hoping for success of this project!

Sonika Khanal
I am Sonika Khanal. I study in grade 7"N". My school’s name is "Nobel Academy Higher Secondary School". It is very nice school. The teachers of my school teach well. There are big play grounds in my school. We play lot of games there. I want to read and practice many things in my school and become a doctor. My hobbies are cycling, playing basket ball, and paint and play piano. I stay in Bew bane shower, Katmandu. I like flowers very much. I have many friends in my school. I love to watch tinkling stars at the night. I like to put a dog as a pet in my house. There are altogether 10 members in my family, my grandfather, grandmother, big father, big mother, and two brothers, father, mother me and my sister. We stay together in our house. We share own feelings with each other. We all are like friends. We never quarrel with each other. So, we all are happy. I love my family very much
Shirish Shrestha
My name is Mr Shirish Shrestha. I live in Sankhamul, Kathmandu, Nepal. My hobby is to play cricket, football and basketball. I study in Grade 7 in Nobel Academy higher Secondary School. It is a big School.
There are many buildings and buses in my school. Our principal's name is Prof.Dr. Jaya Raj Acharya. Our coordinator is Mr. Nawaraj Baskota. There are many teachers. All students are getting proper knowledge in my school

AnkitPoudel
My name is Ankit Poudel. My hobbies are to play football and cricket, to read adventurous books. I go to school named Nobel Academy. I'm a seventh grader. There are lots of friendly teachers who teach us how to do our works. I really like the school because the teachers teach how to do things easily. My school has many buildings. There are more than 1500 students in this school. There are 3 computer labs, 1 library and 1 science lab.

Aava Gautam
My name is Aava Gautam. I live in Gongabu, Kathmandu, Nepal. My hobby is to dance and my aim is to be a fashion designer. I like blue colour. I like to play badminton. I study in Grade 7. My school's name is Nobel Academy Higher Secondary School. It is a big and beautiful school. Students are also disciplined here. My favorite subject is science. I like my school because we can learn things in a easy way here.

Muskan Kunwar
My name is Muskan Kunwar. I live in Kathmandu, Nepal. I study in grade 7. My school's name is Nobel Academy. It is one of famous school established in 1998. The education of my school is also wonderful. There are seven blocks and more than 120 teachers in our school. Our teachers teach us well. They treat their students in a friendly way. Our school is like our home and teachers are like father and mother. Our school takes us in different types of games and extra activities. We can do creative works like painting, collecting leaves, dancing etc here. I love and like my school.

Thursday, June 01, 2006

More to share from Indonesia

The teacher in Indonesia shared with all us more about their school





The school in Indonesia and its teacher sent us more photos from their school

Monday, May 22, 2006

School personnel at Mandania Achool, Indonesia

Personnel at our school

OUR SECURITY GUARD
At Madania we have some security guards. There are about 12 security guards. We met and interviewed MR. Iskandar, one of the security guards. He said he prepares: a complete uniform, handcuffs, a police stick, and a whistle. The security guard wears black and white colored shirts and blue and black pants. They also help arranging the parking system dropping and picking the children. MR. Iskandar said that he and his group guard from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm. So they guard until the night time. They don’t use any guns because they are not allowed to use them. Why do we need guards? So we can get protections and safety environment.
By: Damar and Adi

LEARNING SUPPORT DEPARTMENT
It’s for children whose development has been delayed for many reasons to have intense individual instruction (means 1 teacher to 1 student).
The kinds of the teachers are university graduates who are specialized in child development and education. There are thirty one aide teachers that support the special needs student. So, the main teachers only help the special needs student in LSD, but the aide teachers always support the special needs student everywhere. LSD handles 53 special students. They are from year 1 to year 9. LSD handles special needs student. What kind of special student they are? They are: Dyslexic, ADA-attention deficit disorder, ADHD-attention deficit hyperactive disorder, Asbergs, autistic, and language delayed or developmentally delayed. That’s all about LSD!
By: Ica, Janno and Ilonka

OUR HEADMASTER
Hi friend! We want to tell you about our headmaster in MADANIA School, Indonesia. Every school has a headmaster to lead the day to day operation. I am sure your school does too.
Our headmaster observes teacher the way they teach, discuss with teacher, meeting, making plan, and train teacher.
What does the headmaster do by training teachers? They teach teachers some new knowledge and skills of teaching. In our school there are 4 (four) headmasters. They are Ms Warih for headmaster of grade 1-3, Mister Ricky for headmaster grade 4-6, Mister Teguh for headmaster of Junior high school, and Ms Andry for headmaster of Senior high school. That is our information about headmaster of. How’s your headmaster?
By: Chacha & Anin

School report from Mandania School, Indonesia

This is Mandania School

A Brief Look of
Madania School, Indonesia

Completed by
Grade 3 students of Mr. Jalu’s class
Our school blog: http://mrjalu11.blogspot.com

Our school facilities

OUR SCHOOL CANTEEN

In our canteen school, there are eight workers. And there are 13 tables and 26 chairs. All the food in our school canteen is healthy.
The students mostly have to eat healthy food. Everyday the student’s buy porridge, pizza, rice, and chicken strips. They drink juice. There are five kinds of juice: orange, melon, strawberry, and guava. We eat snack at 9.20 am, and we eat lunch at 11.30 am.
This canteen is only for grade 1 – 3. When we eat we can‘t speak too much and can’t throw the food, and we must finish the food.

By: Jasmine and Jeanly

OUR STOCK ROOM
Hi friends We want to tell about our stock room. In this school there is a stock room because the stock room is a place to order things for teachers to support their teachings. Inside the stock room there are pictures, stationary, paints, a lot of kinds of papers, books, models, etc. The benefit of stock room is that it can help teachers and students learn better with good tools and equipment.
By Bayu n Farid

NURSE STATION
We need nurse station for first aid if the student is accident.
Nurse station is a room for giving to help student in accident.
Many kinds of medicine in there, like panadol for headaches, syrup, betadine for skin scratches, oil, and many more. If we are sick we have to take a rest and drink some medicine. We must be quiet in the nurse station because nurse station is a place for rest.
The worse thing that has been happen to the child is a broken arm. The disease that can easily recover is influenza.
By Naufal and Luthfan





OUR SPORT FIELDS
Now friend we want to tell about sport. There are 15 sports teachers and there are so many sport fields in our school. I know some of sport fields. There are soccer, basket, badminton, swimming baseball. And our sport teacher is Mr. Rahmat. We need sport fields because they are for playing sport.
By Dimas and Rayhan

OUR CLASSROOM
Friends, now we want to tell about classes in Madania School. In Classes there are 24 students. They are from Indonesia but in our class there is one student from Australia. Usually one class has 24 books in class as a mini library. There are two teachers in each class. One teaches in English for math, social, and science and the other teaches in Indonesian language for Indonesian language and Moral Values. The school has a special room for computers. The rule is no food, no drink, and no games, and use in-door voice. The class is 8m x 8m. There are about 46 resource books. There are display boards because people can see our work in special places.
By Alif and Radit

OUR SCHOOL LIBRARY
Hi! We want to tell you about our school library. In the library we have 10000 books. In the library we have 20 shelves and 2 teachers. The children can borrow one fiction, or non fiction book, and easy reading. We can read and borrow resources and a lot of news we can get. Every school needs a library because library is a center of information. In our library children like to borrow fiction or non fiction. The library has 12 rules. At our school we have 3 libraries. Sometimes the library at the school is used for extracurricular, like reading. We have 5 computers in the library, 4 display boards. It has internet-linked computers, magazines, and TV.
By Bagus and Kemal

MPH and KOPERASI
MPH means Multi Purpose Hall. MPH is for sport and performances.
There are 3 (three) sport teachers for grade 1 (one)-3 (three). There are so many kinds of sports we do at MPH. Example: Soccer, basketball, handball, and many more. Besides that, we can do performance, assembly, seminar, flag ceremony, bazaar, and many more. Assembly is something that we perform in front of our friends and teachers. Example: Dancing, singing, drama, and others.
We also have “OPEN HOUSE” every year at MPH.

We also have the place that called “KOPERASI” at our school. “KOPERASI” is a small market at our school. Our school’s KOPERASI sells food, snacks, and drinks. We have an idea to have KOPERASI because there are many teachers and students who want to buy some snacks besides they usually buy at the canteen. The snacks and foods become the favorite, the most is yoghurt.
By: Myra and Nadine

OUR COMPUTER AND AV ROOM
In AV room students watch movies like scientific film, comedies, cartoon and many more. In Madania we have 4 AV rooms.
Besides that, the function of the AV room is to help the child and some times AV room is use for meeting of teachers.
In the building A the AV room only is used by the grade one and two.
We have 25 computers in the computer room. In here the teacher teaches in the computer room because students must learn how to operate computers for daily activities like typing, drawing, and many more.
By Yoshi and Jedaia

Friday, May 19, 2006

Another school in Delaware

In Delaware: Caesar Rodney High School





In Delaware: Caesar Rodney High School


Aonther school from Delaware is being introduced to us by its own students:

Our school is a large high school with approximately 3000 people in it. It is a 2 story high school, with mulitple sports fields. We have 6 to 7 classes a day, with 57 minute "periods". Our school is relatively new, and has a large library and cafeteria. We each have our own lockers, and there are 4 large parking lots for students and faculty to park in. Thats the description of my school.
By Julez

Our school is probably very different from any schools out of the country. We have six classes a day, five days a week. We are able to choose what classes we want to take and if we will fill our sechdle up completely.
By Amanda

Hello All!! This is Sheraine
I go to Caesar Rodney High School in Camden, Delaware. This school is medium~sized, not too big, but not too small. It has a library [a big library with many books and computers], it has a gym [which is what we use for physical education], we have many classrooms [which is what we use for learning], we have a cafeteria [which is where we eat breakfast and lunch], there`s an auditorium [which has a stage and seats] and that`s pretty much it.

Hello, my name is Josh and i am a freshman(9th) at Caesar Rodney Highschool in Dover, Delaware. The school i attend is a big school. It is 2 story with many people in it. We have school from 8:02 to 3:00 with about 6 or 7 classes. We play many sports including lacrosse, baseball, softball, soccer, football, basketball, field hockey.

Josh -=_l_=-

The name of my school is called Caeser Rodney High School. My first year here was not the best because they were remodeling the school. Most of my classes were in old rooms with no AC. But now its my final year here and I think this is the nicest school I have even been to. And trust me my father is military so I have been to a lot of schools. It almost looks like it just got built. We have really nice computers the classrooms have AC so its easier to sit and listen to the teacher on a hot day even if it is the day before spring break. And i forgot to mention the Cafateria. It seriously looks like McDonalds but cleaner. The down side is that the school they spent 32 million dollars to remodel only holds a maximum of 2000 students and we have around 1936 students so we are pushing it. And at the beginning of the year we had way too many student in my Survey class. Students were sitting on the floor but we got that all straightened out.And finally to leave on a good note the teachers are good, well most of them are a few of them are questionable.

By Matth

Hi,
I'm Shannon from Caesar Rodney Highschool. I'm currently a junior and i will be a senior next year. It seems like time flies by so fast and its unbelievable that i will be graduating next year. School is sometimes dreadful to come to if im not prepared but its mostly decent. We have 6 classes through out the day. 4 of them are your basics, english, math, history, and science. Plus we have foreign language classes and electives which are special classes of subjects we are usually interested in. During the fall when school begins the only really fun activity is the friday night football games. Besides sports there are tons of after school clubs that people join. Our school day starts around 8am and ends at 3pm. In between we have a 30min lunch break in which we spend usually just being with friends and talking. The one thing i've realized about our highschool is that we are all very different but in a way we form a famiy that most of the time work together.Most of the school has alot of school spirit and pride in our school.

<3 shannnon

More pictures from Albania

Albania is collaborating again





Albanian students have sent us more photos to share

Everett Meredith Middle School, Delaware




My School Your School Delaware


These are some pictures of our school, Everett Meredith Middle School, in the State of Delwaware. At our school, both boys and girls go together in classes. Also, at our school, we have many freedoms like no uniforms and things like choosing the classes we want to be in. We have plenty of computers for any class we have and a library. We don't know much about what schools are like outside of the U.S., but we wanted to show you what schools are like where we live. Please enjoy.

Welcoming Indonesia!!!



Indonesia has just joined us

Mandania School from Indonesia has just joined our project and they are preparing their reports but they have started by sharing their pictures.

Friday, April 07, 2006

A school from Oman

Afra school in Oman: the students

My name's Butheinah Rashid. Am 12 years old and I am in grade 6. I go to Afra School. I like eating rice, fish, cheese and drinking milk. I don't like eating eggs, honey or drinking tea or coffee.

My name's Balqess AlDhehli. My class is 6/2. I'm 12 years old. My school's name is Afra. I like English, math and sports subjects. I don't like music or arts.

My name's Khadeeja Ali Saif Al Ma'mari. I'm in 6/2. my school is called Afra bint Obeid Al Ansaria. I like English, sports and music. I don't like art or science.

My name's Rahma Hatim. My class is 6/2. I am 12 years old. My school's name is Afra bint Obeid Al Ansaria. I like reading books and comics. I like playing computer games. I don't like listening to music.

I'm Lubna Ali Al Ma'marri. I go to class 6/2. I'm 12 years old. I like listening to music. I don't like sewing.

I'm Ameena. I was born in 1994 in Saham in Oman. I get up at 5 o'clock and I go to school at 7 o'clock in the morning. I finish school at 2 o'clock . I do my homework and I play with my friends. I like eating ice cream. I don't like playing football or drinking milk.

My name's Siham Yusif. I'm 12 years old. I like pizza and icecream. I don't like vegetables. I have four sisters; Aysha, Athar, Balqees and Raheel. I have two brothers; Mubark and Mohammed. My mother's name is Shama. She is a housewife. My father's name is Yusif. He works in the airport.


My name's Iman Saeed Al Shimoosi. I live in Saham. I have three brothers and six sisters. My favourite sport is playing tennis but I don't like playing football. I want to be a nurse in the future. That is because I like helping other people. I think being a nurse is an important job because it can draw smiles on people's faces. It provides a good salary so I can buy all things I wish for. I like English and Arabic subjects. I also like computer science subject. My favourite teachers are the Arabic teacher and the English teacher. I like fruit but I don't like jam.

Welcome USA: A new country in our project

All Saints’ Academy
Winter Haven, Florida, USA


These are our students:




Zarina : My School, Your School is a wonderful
project for me because I just this year
came to Florida from Ghana. I found a
beautiful campus with friendly people who
celebrate diversity. I am in fifth grade,
and my forty-five classmates are divided
among three homerooms. I love the small
classes - - - fifteen per room.

Samantha : I’m in the fifth grade too, and my mother
teaches kindergarten at our school. I also
have a brother in third grade. Our school
is in a rural area with sixty acres of land.
The great part about that is that the campus
adjoins a protected wetlands. That means
our only neighbors will always be nature’s own.

Olivia: I am in first grade, and I have a sister in the
pre-kindergarten four-year-old class. We even
have classes for three-year-olds. In our building
the oldest classes are fifth graders, and for
this project seven of them have partners from
my class.

Ashley: Girls in my fifth grade class outnumber the
boys two to one, but in the fourth grade it is just
the opposite. We wear uniforms - - navy shorts or
slacks with red polo shirts on Monday, Wednesday
or Friday. On Tuesdays and Thursdays we wear
our dress uniforms because we have Chapel.

Hannah: Next year, when I’m in sixth grade, I move
to another part of the campus for Middle School.
We change classes this year for science and
math, but in Middle School there are six blocks
of time and several different buildings. Our
school year runs from mid-August through mid-
May, and we divide it into four quarters with grade
reports at the end of each.

Bailey H: I’m in fifth grade, and my sister Connor, who is
in first grade, is on the My School, Your School
team too. We do projects like this one in our
enrichment classes where two different grade
levels form partnerships. Our school is college
preparatory, and altogether there are about
700 students.

Bailey L: In first grade my class has time after lunch to
play on the playground. We have swings, climbing
and swinging bars, beams and ball fields. We have
a covered patio, so we can even play outside when
it rains. It never snows where we live.

Sydney: My fifth grade class just had a field trip to
Kennedy Space Center, which is a two hour bus
ride from our school. All classes take field
trips during the year, and we also have times
when we celebrate off campus, such as the
pool party for students who complete their
summer reading.

Hannah: I’m in first grade, and we are looking forward
to a week off for Spring Break the week after
next. It is beautiful weather here this time of
year, and outside we can smell the orange blossoms.
In the summer it gets very hot, so most of the
tourists come to Florida in the winter.

Samantha: School at All Saints’ Academy is always interesting
In my fifth grade class there are students from
Winter Haven, which is the closest city, but also from
Lakeland, Lake Wales, Bartow, and Auburndale. Buses
go to all of those places to pick up students, but most
people come by car. Some of us stay after school for
clubs, like technology, chess, Mad Science, or dance.

Ms. Stewart: This is an amazing group of eleven young ladies, and
they are working hard to put together a book about
their school. We also look forward to reading books
from other schools and learning about their lives.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

A popular sport at the school in India










These are the photos of two students
1. upendra patwardhan: std ix
2. sanket dhotre: std viii

They are performing a drill in a game called
'Mallakhamb'.

This is the most exclusive game performed in our
country. Our school ranks second all over the country
for this game.

Saturday, March 25, 2006

Germany is also with us!!!






A bit about the German group...
First I want to tell you something about our project group. We are up
to 15
children and me, specialist for website konstruction (and not really a
teacher of the school), who after the official schooltime wants to do
something special. Since last monday 6th of march 2006 we will meet
every
monday after school to explore, how school-live is in other countries
of the
world.

By Norbert Valtin

A school from India has joined us...

P.E.S Modern >High School
English Medium


Respected principal Mrs.Madhuri Shah

The Principal carry out actions to maintain academic excellence. To encourage students, different competitive exam and extra curricular activities are conducted.

Challenges:
v To satisfy the main objective of education and to develop smooth going relations between teacher and students.
v To enhance new technologies to make school enjoyable.

After being interviewed, our students could explore the real expectation of the principal.

Expectations:
v To enhance image of the school in right perspective.
v To maintain the tradition of glorious results.
v To make students to be very disciplined as well as mannered and co-operative.

Report by: VI[A]

Rohan Parge, Shweta Patil, Shreyas Rathod, Kapil Wardhe
Nakul Kshirsagar

Questions from India for participating schools

Questions to be answered:

Sports:
1. Is there any unique sport played in your school.
2. do you have separate periods for sports.What do you
call it, a games period or a P.T. period.

School activities:
3. Do you have clubs running for the students
development.[like in our school we have interact club,
nature club,science club and many more]
4. Any activity taken by students to contribute for
nature.
5. What are the different disicpline rules in your
school.

Albanian organization at school

Pupils’ Government

The Genesis of Pupils’ Government

Story begin in United States of America in the state of Florida
Where the pupils wanted their representatives in a structure of school named Senate.
Also our school has this structure named Senate since 10 years, which is the voice of pupils and the opposite of the Directory.
The Senate of “Havzi Nela “school has 41 members where 39 are the senators of every class. The “constitution” of Senate is PG Manual.
October, was the time when each class elects his representative in Senate of school with
The majority votes of class.
On 24 November the Senate of School was constituted and the senators voted to choose
The President of PG and the Leader of Senate.

About organization of Senate.

The Senate has a coordinator, which is Gentjana Elezi.
Number one of PG(over 1600 members because every pupil is a PG member)
Is the President Indrit Cara (3a). His replaced one is Klodiana Duraku(4a).
Number two of PG is Arbesa Palushi the leader of Senate(3c). Her replaced one is
Elton Sinamati(4).
The Senate has a secretary which is Artenida Morina(3b).

There are three commissions of Senate.

1.The Commission of Finance
Which it leads by Sajmir Bajraktari(3d).This commission takes the budgets of Senate and
Manage it.(+2 members)

2. .The Commission of Activities which it leads by Elektra Gjana(3c).
This commission do the strategy of Senate Activities and realize them with
The aid of Senate(+2members).

3. The Commission of Control which it leads by Ervin Gera(2c)and also by Ilina Sallahu(2b). His jobis controlling the leaders ‘work and discipline in Senate etc.(+3 members).

Also the President has two consulters Ermal Nufi(4e) and Andrin Shahini(2e)
Three members of Senate are part of Discipline School Commission which it leads by the
Director of School mr.Fasli Germizi.
There are: the President
Ermal Nufi
And Agime Shuti.

Albanian students' presentations




Albanian students
My name is Elektra Gjana, 17-years old.
I am in “Havzi Nela”high school,in the 3-id year.
I like very much to talk with the others,especially
whith teenagers.My favorite subject is the math. My hobby is the old music,(Gun’s N’Roses).I want to explore the others cultures of the world.


My name is Borana Shala,17-years old. I study in’’Havzi Nela’’ high school.
I am a very good pupil.My favorite subject is the Physic. In the future I want to be a doctor because I like very much to add the others.My hobby is talking with the others bettwen the internet. Speaking with the teenagers of the other country it’s a pleasure for me.

Friday, March 24, 2006

An Invitation

Dear teachers,

I would like to invite you to take part with any of your groups of students to share the history of your schools among other topics of interest regarding school life in your place.

There is no age limit for your students to join us. To start participating,write to me to silvanacar01@yahoo.com.ar and I will kindly give you more information about our project.

Our project participants so far

Enjoy our photos

2006 Project Participants

Schools from countries such as Brazil, Albania, Germany, Pakistan and India have already agreed to be part of our project.

Our Project


My School, Your School

This is an international project that takes place in IEARN (International Educational Resource Network. Its main goal is to make students aware of the similarities and differences among schools in different parts of the globe.