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.