Shrewsbury International School, Bangkok - British Education in Thailand

Students venture into the big world

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:39:33 +0700

Over the past couple of weeks, our students have been taking part in unique learning experiences that are a world away from the classroom.

Skiiing in Japan, business studies in Disneyland, treks in the north of Thailand and even to volcanoes in Hawaii – the activities have been inspiring, challenging and, in some instances, life changing.

In every instance, our students have been fantastic ambassadors for our school.

To read about the various trips, click on the following links:

Ski trip to Japan

Maths challenge in Hong Kong

Choral Festival in Beijing

IYA Silver Expedition to Northern Thailand

IYA Gold Expedition to Hawaii

IGCSE trip to Tokyo

Drama Residential in Northern Thailand

Watch Shrewsbury’s School Film

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:30:12 +0700

Our school film gives you a brief view of the wonderful educational opportunities that Shrewsbury has to offer.

If you are unable to view the video and would like to receive your personal copy of the DVD, please contact the Marketing Department:

Tel: +66 2 675 1888 ext 1110
Email: marketing@shrewsbury.ac.th

Click the arrow to play the video: here

Stunning spectacle welcomes in Chinese New Year

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:44:40 +0700

The sights, sounds, flavours and colour of China filled the school on Thursday when Shrewsbury took part in the Chinese New Year Celebration.

Students and staff dressed in traditional Chinese costumes or wore red and gold for luck and prosperity. In the Memorial Hall, nearly 100 students took part in a show that included drama, dance, song and a martial arts demonstration.

The show which was put together by the Mandarin and Drama department as well as dozens of Shrewsbury parents was a truly stunning spectacle. Some of the highlights included a duet between Joanna and Art, some Chinese rap from Y6 students Austin, Poom and Punn, and a traditional Peacock Dance.
Later, the Y6 students who staged the Lion Dance did a special performance for Early Year’s children who were not able to see the complete show.

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Famous British author visits school library

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:49:37 +0700

Renowned British children’s author Gillian Cross spent two days at Shrewsbury International School working with classes in the library, helping to develop their creative writing skills.

Gillian is the author of many children’s books including the Demon Headmaster series. Wolf and Picture from Underground.

All of the classes in Years 5-6 and 7-8 were able to spend an hour with Gillian, and find out about how she goes about writing a story. The sessions focused on developing characters and the dramatic parts of plotting, and involved some dastardly fantasy stories about a monster taking over Shrewsbury International School!

Librarian Ms Crimp said: We hope the students enjoyed the sessions, and that it gave them something new to consider. Who knows—perhaps one of our students will go on to become an acclaimed author themselves!”

Also joining in on some of the sessions was Ms Truslow who is the Writer in Residence at the school.

FOBISSEA maths fest gets brains buzzing

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:50:59 +0700

Last weekend four students travelled with Mr Foster and Miss Pla to Kuala Lumpur to take part in the inaugural FOBISSEA Maths competition at Alice Smith School.

Poom, Genie, Earth and Up competed in 6 different rounds of Mathematical competition. These included a Mathematics Trail around KLCC park on Friday followed by an intense Saturday where the children completed 14 Maths papers over seven hours in individual, group, problem solving and investigation rounds. It was also very intense for the teachers as we had to mark these papers!

On Sunday, the children worked together in a construction round where they had to make a rollercoaster to transport a marble at least 25cm from the ground. The children had a fantastic, if tiring time, making new friends and working hard.

In the end, we finished 5th out of 21 teams in a very commendable performance. Well done to Poom, Genie, Earth and Up for being such good ambassadors for the school.

As one of the Assistant Principals commented; we have such lovely, polite children and we are welcome back at any time!

Students’ special day at the Embassy

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:45:00 +0700

British Ambassador Mr Quinton Quayle presented Shrewsbury International School students with their certificates at the CIE Outstanding Achiever Awards on Monday 1st February.

The five students received awards including Best in the World, Best in Thailand and Outstanding Achievement across 4 IGCSE subjects in a ceremony that took place in the beautiful gardens of the Ambassador’s Residence in the grounds of the British Embassy.

Students, parents and representatives from 7 other British international schools also attended the event which is held annually to mark outstanding achievement in IGCSE exams taken in the previous year.

After enjoying a coffee morning,, the guests took their seats on the back lawn to watch 22 students receive 32 different awards. Music was provided by Shrewsbury musicians who played Quintet in D Major by JC Bach and also by Lamtharn Hantrakul (Hanoi) from Bangkok Patana School who played jazz piano.

At the end of the ceremony Best in the World winner Suchanun Chaivorapongsa (Bowling) talked to Mr Quayle about her award-winning Design & Technology work, which was on display at the event.

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