Patana News Volume 20 Issue 29

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Friday 11th May 2018

Volume 20 Issue 29

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Socially Responsive Design IB students innovate products for children with physical disabilities

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Is There Really A Problem And What Does it Have To Do with Me? Jackie Houghton, Assistant Principal Professional Learning

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ur philosophy is ‘Learning for Life’ and, as such, we have a strong commitment to valuing continuing professional development (CPD) for all staff. Professional learning for our teachers is essential and as part of our ongoing development programme, we invite experts to school to inspire, inform and help our teachers improve. On occasions, the message from the expert is one that the whole community benefit from hearing and last week was no exception. We had the privilege of welcoming into our community a truly inspiring man, Dick Moore. A former English teacher, rugby coach, boarding school housemaster and, for over twenty years, the headmaster of a co-educational day and boarding school.

Dick has visited over 300 schools across the globe sharing his message that mental health and emotional well-being are crucial for the development of young people. During his Bangkok Patana visit, he met with teachers, students, parents and the leadership team. He shared statistics about this largely hidden epidemic: Did you know that that 10% of young people are suffering from a diagnosable mental health disorder today? This figure increases to one in every six once they arrive at university. 75% of mental health disorders originate during adolescence, 50% by age 15. Not only does this mean that a vast number of young people are unhappy, it also means that they are underperforming at school, university and in the early stages of their careers. The consequences for families and schools are dire.

Throughout the visit, Dick was open and honest with all the groups he met. He did not claim to be a doctor, psychologist, psychiatrist or counsellor but explained that he has a deep interest and desire to educate people about mental and emotional well-being. He did not shirk away from difficult issues and used humor and warmth to engage with all the groups he met by sharing his own personal stories and experiences of working with young people.

On Sunday, Dick met with the academic leadership team to deliver an internationally recognised course called Mental Health First Aid. This course was extremely thorough and helped the leadership see the importance of how we as a school can ensure mental health and well-being.

“Working with Dick Moore was inspirational; it has developed my understanding and increased my confidence in helping students understand positive mental health. Bringing mental health out of the dark and allowing staff and students to talk about it in a safe environment is imperative to our school’s focus on well-being.” Lena Perriam, Senior Teacher Key Stage 3 “An outstanding session highlighting the paramount importance of prioritising the emotional and mental well-being of our students.” Rachel Jones, Head of Admissions On Tuesday, Dick met all the academic team to explore issues such as adolescent development, the importance of the primary years, grief and loss, anxiety, stress, depression, self-harm and the signs and symptoms to look for in the children we teach. In addition, he challenged each of us to take responsibility for what we can do as individuals to support the young people with whom we work. Following the day, when asked what went well colleagues commented:

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“Dick Moore's message was powerful and important. He was very well prepared and a superb speaker.”

“The keynote was very inspirational and made me realise the importance of mental health for our students and ourselves.”

“Dick Moore was very entertaining, interesting and thought-provoking.”

“It was so refreshing to have a day dedicated to student well-being with such an inspiring speaker/facilitator. It is THE most important aspect of our jobs, which so often is overshadowed by other expectations. It was great to strip everything back and focus on what's important above everything else.”

“It is great to see well-being highlighted as a major focus for all children and teachers to be aware of and to act on - particularly if well-being turns into anxiety - The whole CPD has generated so much positive discussion from all colleagues.”

On Wednesday, in collaboration with the PTG, parents were invited into school to meet with Dick. As a father of four children and a trainer for the MHFA course, he was able to share tips with parents on how to cope with their adolescents and some tips for how adolescents can cope with parents!

“It was such a great presentation with balance of humour and humility! Vulnerable and perfect.”

Rachel Mills, Parent of Year 11 and Year 13 children Probably the most important groups he met last week were the students. He tailored the sessions for each Year group and all students benefited from his insights.

“I really enjoyed Dick Moore’s talk! I thought it was really interesting and I learnt a lot from it. I’ve definitely gained a further understanding of mental health and now I understand my own health a lot more. Overall, it was thought-provoking and I am glad we got the opportunity to listen to him and to learn from him.” Anna Meller, Year 9 “There is no doubt that Dick Moore had every single person’s attention during his speech. His ability to deliver powerful and sometimes harrowing messages in a comfortable and open way made it even more interesting. Dealing with my first year of the IB diploma has been stressful to say the least - but for me, it was comforting to hear about the ways I can deal with my stress and more importantly, what I need to do to reduce it! Undoubtedly, everyone took something from his talk, whether it was to do with school or relationships, I'm sure it help when things get difficult in the future.” Alex Williams, Year 12 Ensuring our students are protected, safe and secure will continue to be a priority for Bangkok Patana Community. We have had a fantastic week of learning but there is lots more to learn.

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Pataroma - Roaring with Flavour!

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he Patana Coffee Project - Pataroma - is a student-led Social Enterprise formed in collaboration with RIS, ISB, KIS and NIST, collectively known as ‘InterFAIR’, who invited us to join them on their venture of selling premium quality, ethically sourced coffee beans. This project was born out of a desire to directly solve problems through a creative business perspective. The unique aspect of our project is that our aim is not to make profit for ourselves (as one would expect from a typical business), but to make profit that will be donated to an agricultural community called the Maeramit Community. This community is situated in Omgoi, a remote region of the northern Chiang Mai province, and is in need of financial support to aid and stimulate agricultural development.

nual income of approximately 18,000 baht. To help solve this, our coffee is supplied directly from our farming source in Northern Thailand with a price that is fairer than through regular businesses. By doing this, we will also promote the idea of equality among jobs as many farmers are not receiving the amount their work is worth.

Pataroma’s two years in operation have been extremely successful and rewarding; the company held one of the most popular stalls at the the annual ServICE Conference and more recently went on to win the Greenest Vendor award at Fun Day. Our coffee also popular among teachers and parents in our Patana community, with many loyal customers.

Buy Bangkok Patana’s very own The coffee beans themselves are Fair Trade, ensuring that coffee NOW at the Tiger Shop the farmers receive a fair price for their commodity - cur- (near the 25m Pool) or contact us rently, the average Thai coffee farmer makes a meagre an- at pataroma@patana.ac.th.

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Checkmate

Cindy Adair, Assistant Principal, Extra Curricular Activities and Sport

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ast weekend, Bangkok Patana in association with IWICA (Indo Western Institute of Cultural Arts) hosted a Chess tournament. The competition was well attended by various other schools where IWICA also teaches chess. Chess is a fantastic activity that hones your concentration, strategic thinking and perseverance. Competitive Chess is also a great way to meet new friends from other schools. Many students from both Primary and Secondary who currently participate in our Chess ECAs took part in Sunday’s tournament with Bangkok Patana finishing third overall. Well done to all our competitiors and congratulations to the following students who placed in their category: Under15 Boys’ Champion – Ian Slater Under 9 Boys’ Second Place – Kieran Leung Under10 Boys’ Second Place – Ian Hong

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Tuesday 22nd May PTG AGM Friday 25th May Sports Awards Dinner Tuesday 29th May Visakha Bucha Day (School closed) Friday 1st June Bangkok Patana School AGM Wednesday 6th June Patana United Wednesday 13th June Dance Extravaganza Friday 22nd June End of Year Assembly

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Socially Responsive Design in Practice: IB Design + Technology Students Visit Nonthapum Home for Disabled Children

By Richard Smith, Head of Faculty, Design + Technology

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ver the past three years, the focus of the IB DT Internal Assessment Design Project has been ‘Socially Responsive Design’ with ‘User Centred Design’ at the core of students’ work.

We feel a design project with a real life brief of this nature prepares students well for life beyond school and develops awareness and empathy towards the needs of others in local communities, further cultivating Global Citizenship.

who work in shifts. The home also operates a ‘buddy’ system where children are encouraged/taught to help other less-functioning children as well as the staff in duties such as feeding, cleaning, hanging up washing and at times accompanying some children who are on wheel-chair to and from places within the compound. This creates a wonderful caring environment with lots of happy smiling faces everywhere you go! It This year our students are focusing is certainly humbling to see. on designing to meet needs of children For the duration of the project, we will at Nonthaphum Home for Disabled be working with help from Bangkok Children. This home cares for 371 chil- Patana parent Kuhn Krisana Lhal and dren between ages of 7-18 with many Thailand Friendly Design, an organisadifferent categories of disabilities. The tion within Nation News that promotes children are looked after by a small awareness for products and services for number of dedicated care workers people with special needs, be it people

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with disabilities, the elderly or people who are not well, with an emphasis on “Access for All in Thailand”.

On Wednesday 9th May, we took 16 Year 12 IB DT students on the first of four planned visits to Nonthaphum Home. The purpose of this visit was to identify design opportunities, the starting point of the design process and their project. During the visit, our students observed the children and collected data during three different activities, occupational therapy, physical therapy and eating lunch, all the while searching for opportunities where a designed product could improve the life of the children.

Our students examined the activities in great detail, taking photographs and interviewing the children and staff, col-

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lecting empirical evidence of ergonomic and anthropometric data, conducting a detailed study of the environment in which the children were in, from tables to eating and drinking implements, to the floor space in the designated areas.

In the afternoon we were joined by a Nation News reporter and film crew representing “Thailand Friendly Design”, who interviewed our students for a news feature.

leading the way for other IB schools to follow. We feel that the experience gained in this sort of work has great value towards an IB and Global Citizenship mindset. We hope our students use The final testing and evaluation will this experience to their full advantage in be conducted on the fourth visit in Jan- their future studies.

We would like to thank the following uary 2019. Products can be donated at people for helping to make all this happen; dents will run a booth at the Expo and conduct important marketing and evaluation work with visitors to the stand. The experience of a trade show gives our students important skills for the future.

The IB students colOur students returned to school after lected empirical eva busy day and worked until 8.00pm documenting and discussing their find- idence of ergonomic ings while the experience was fresh in their minds. Our next visit will be on 20th and anthropometric June where the students will take low fidelity prototype design ideas to test data, searching for with the children. The third visit in Sepopportunities where tember will be to further test more developed prototype solutions. Throughout a designed product the design aspect of the project, students are using an iterative approach could improve the to their work: A continual development and testing of ideas until a fully resolved lives of the children. product is reached using mainly CAD/ CAM, CNC and 3D printed rapid prototypes. We plan for our students to exhibit their final work at the “Thailand Friendly Design Expo 2018“, Nov 30th -2nd December at IMPACT exhibition centre alongside national and international commercial designers and some of the best universities in Thailand. On the opening day of the Expo, our stu11/05/2018

• Everyone at Nonthaphum Home for disabled children.

• Kuhn Krisana Lhal of “Thailand Friendly Design“ and Nation News • Khun Kulvadee Siribhadra; Director of the Foundation Board Office • Khun Benyapan Apisontasombut; Secondary School Secretary

this date or modified as directed by the results and then donated later. Some of the products will have been designed so that they can be made in volume.

With the Socially Responsible IB Design Project, an assessed piece of coursework constituting 40% of marks at IB we are breaking new ground and

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Ror Dor Programme

By Surapee Sorajjakool, Head of Thai Programme

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ongratulations to Khun Thityaporn (Gigg) Pangpeng, Buildings and Grounds Department, who has recently completed a RorDor Supervisor training course from Territorial Defence Command.

Khun Gigg’s preparation included seven days of training at Khao Chon Gai Military Camp, Kanchanaburi. She is now officially the Bangkok Patana Ror Dor Supervisor. She will work closely with the Thai Department and Year 11,12, 13 Thai students who join the “ RorDor Course” (Reserve Officer Training Corps Course).

Immigration Department Facilitates Efficient Visa Renewal Keith Bunnell, Head of Human Resources

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ith more than 300 teaching staff with the majority of whom are from the UK and other non-Thai nationalities, the processing of work visas and proper documentation at Bangkok Patana takes a lot of organisation. On Saturday 5th May, we were fortunate to have 19 officers from the Immigration Department spend the day at the school.

They processed the documentation for the renewal of 242 of our teaching families. A big thank you to the Government of Thailand Immigration Department and the business departments at school who worked together to make this happen!

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NEW TRANSPORT ZONES ANNOUNCED DO YOU LIVE BETWEEN 0 - 12 KILOMETRES AWAY FROM SCHOOL?

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uring this school year, our school community has been looking at how to make a difference in the challenges of parking at school and heavy traffic on Lasalle Road. The school Transport Service offers one solution to these issues and we have been looking at ways to make the service more accessible.

Starting from the next academic year, Zone 1 will be sub-divided into three zones. Those families living in the new zones 1A and 1B will see a reduction in costs. The new annual fee for the two new zones will be effective starting 15th August 2018 as follows: Zone 1A (0-16km round trip) One Way THB 36,500 Round Trip THB 62,500

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION

Zone 1B (17-22mn round trip) One Way THB 38,900 Round Trip THB 66,600 If you would like to use the school transport service or want additional information please contact transport@patana. ac.th or call 02 785 2470.

Transport Corner

Important notices from the Transport Department

EVENTS AFTER SCHOOL If your child is attending an after school event such as rehearsals, the Duke of Endinburgh’s International Gold Award Evening, Sports Awards Dinner or any other event that is outside of their normal ECA schedule please ensure that you cancel the bus home for your child if necessary.

Not cancelling the bus causes inconvenience to other bus users, Transport staff, bus drivers and monitors as the bus is delayed in departing from school due to waiting for students who are not coming to the bus. Your help with this matter is very much appreciated.

SCHOOL AGM If you are planning to come to the School AGM on Tuesday 22nd May please remember that you are welcome to use the school Transport service with your child. Please book a seat to ensure availability.

YEAR 11 PARENTS Please note that Year 11 students who were on school transport this year will automatically resume the transport service as normal from the start of Term 1 2018/19. If you would like to withdraw from the Transport Service, please contact Transport by Friday 22nd June, 2018.

MOVING HOUSE? Are you planning to move house over the summer? If so, NEW ENROLMENTS/WITHDRAWALS please contact Transport in advance to ensure we have a If you would like to join the school transport service or canbus service to your new location. Advance notice of the cel the school transport service for 2018/19 school year, move and new address is required to enable route plan- please do so by Friday 22nd June 2018. ning for the start of 2018/19. Please advise Transport at your earliest convenience about any planned change of address.

P h o n e : 02 785 2470 E m a i l t r a n s p o rt @ pata n a . ac . t h The Transport Office is staffed from 6:00am - 6:00pm Monday to Friday

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New Look Sports Kits in 2018/19 Cindy Adair, Assistant Principal, Extra Curricular Activities and Sport

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t Bangkok Patana School we follow a four-year cycle for the design and supply of our seasonal sports kits. This year marks the end of a cycle so next year you can expect a new look to these kits. This will mean that upon selection all students will need to purchase a new kit from the school shop next year. Please note the new designs will then be in place for a period of four years. All teams from Under 13 to Varsity will wear the same design so you will not need to our purchase a new kit as your child moves up the school. Varsity teams will still design their own second strip for SEASAC tournaments.

Kits shown are for illustration purposes only

click here for the Canteen

Please note the menu is updated for the following week on Friday at 1pm

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STEM@Patana: Maths in Motion

Stephanie De Guzman, Secondary Mathematics Teacher pplying their learning to unfamiliar situations, practising their collaborative skills, taking risksall in an attempt for a podium finish: On Wednesday 2nd May, the Year 7s worked in mixed teams with students from other international schools in Bangkok to create cars that could stand up to the challenge of the Monza circuit.

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“We saw success and failure, which empowered us to further improve our designs,”

As part of STEM@Patana, the students used Maths in Motion to apply their knowledge of percentages, rates and angles to making the ideal race car that could withstand 50 laps. The students had to analyse the race circuit, determine maximum speeds for each section, plan pit stops for fuel and tire changes and factor in the weather conditions. “We saw success and failure, which empowered us to further improve

our designs,” said one student. There was much excitement in watching the results of their meticulous calculations and measurements. The students’ comments summed up the overall sentiments of the day: “We got to meet some cool, new people from other schools and have fun working together!” and “It was an awesome experience and we hope to do it next year!”

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#90 Artificial Intelligence

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ll over the tech news this week has been an announcement at the Google I/O developer’s conference in Mountain View. They demonstrated a natural-sounding Google Assistant making an appointment on your behalf over the phone. The feature is called Google Duplex. Watch the video below and see how far Artificial Intelligence has progressed.

Other worthy future releases from the tech giant are the ability to use your camera to help figure out which direction you’re heading when using Google maps to navigate on foot – quite handy when you’re trying to follow the blue dot and realise you are walking in the wrong direction. Also, if you’re a Gmail user, you’ll soon have Smart Compose that can suggest complete sentences within the body of an email as you are writing it. Now I’m beginning to wonder if I could use it to write there technology tips…..

Have a fantastic, human-conversation-filled weekend!

Brian Taylor Assistant Principal, Cross Campus Curriculum Technology Integration

Term 1 2018/2019 School Fee Invoices Invoices for school fees for Term 1 2018/2019 were sent to families/companies on Wednesday 9th May 2018. If you have not received your invoice, please contact the Accounting Department or email accounts@patana.ac.th. Please note that the due date for settlement is on Friday 8th June 2018 and payments received after this date will be subject to a late payment charge of 1% per month.

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Get Your Name on the Wall and Provide a Village with Power W

e should all be very proud of our students in Bangkok Patana’s Roots and Shoots subgroup of our Student Environmental Committee, who have been working hard raising money to support Pang Wua Village in Chiang Mai’s Wiang Haeng District. This Lisu Hill tribe village is located in a very remote area of Chiang Mai Province and is inhabited by approximately 70 people who currently live without electrical power. Being too far from the government grid, solar power is their only option. So, our Roots and Shoots students have taken it upon themselves to adopt this village and generate funds to help provide electricity to the villagers.

Some of our Roots and Shoots students have also been involved with the new natural building that is being built at the Outdoor Classroom this term. In addition, they thought it would be a great idea to raise money by selling naming rights to the bricks that will be used in the building.

During Fun Day, the Roots and Shoots group received well over THB 30,000 for their solar project! It was a great start to their fundraising efforts but this was just the beginning. The students are hoping to continue their fundraising campaign in many venues and at many events. With this in mind, they need your help to spread the word of their objectives and fundraising efforts as widely as possible. The Roots and Shoots members overall goal is to raise one million baht for the Pang Wua village in order to provide ample solar power for basic electricity.

There are several ways Bangkok Patana Community members can be part of this project: BASIC DONATION

Your name on a brick: 200 Baht

BRONZE PLAQUE DONOR Name engraved on a Bronze plaque to be prominently placed on the earthen building wall: 1,000 Baht SILVER PLAQUE DONOR Name engraved on a Silver plaque to be prominently placed on the earthen building wall: 2,500 Baht GOLD PLAQUE DONOR Name engraved on a Bronze plaque to be prominently placed on the earthen building wall: 5,000 Baht The Roots and Shoots students are also hoping to find a very special donor who is willing to donate a significant sum to the entire building named after them or their family!

Internal donations by cash/cheque can be submitted to the cashier, please use the internal account name “Roots and Shoots”.

Donations can also be made by bank transfer to the school account: Bangkok Patana School, SCB Saving: 015 269 0206. Email pay in slip to: keni@patana.ac.th; sasu@patana. ac.th; cosm@patana.ac.th. Please note on your email that it is for Roots and Shoots.

We would love to hear from you, whether you are interested in donating or simply learning more about this very special project, please contact Mr Coke Smith by emailing cosm@patana.ac.th.

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CATs Corner

Tania Leyland, Youth Club and Community Services Coordinator

SKILLS WORKSHOPS AND THE PATANA VALUES

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rederick Herzberg once said that the powerful motivator in our lives is not money or financial reward. It is the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others and be recognised for achievements. Although he was mainly talking about employees within the workplace, the same sentiment can be applied to the students who are members of, and lead the Community Action Teams. They are motivated to make a difference to the lives of others and in doing so, develop the opportunity to learn and grow. In recognition for their commitment and hard work, they are rewarded with positions of responsibility and leadership. Once they reach this position however, it is easy for young people to become demotivated and unfocused. Through no fault of their own, they often lack the skills necessary to ensure a smooth pathway to success and as a result, either give up the position or ‘approach it half heartedly’. This can lead to frustration and increased workload amongst other team members, as well as leaving themselves feeling a little bit low.

As a way of addressing this, and in keeping with the Bangkok Patana School mission statement, we have developed a number of skills based workshops that students can sign up to once they accept a position of responsibility. The skills workshops are aligned to the needs of the students as well as some of the Patana values:

Finance - committed to integrity: In this workshop, students learn about the importance of accurate financial record keeping to ensure complete financial transparency. They are given the tools to create a simple financial record system and are given complete control of team finances.

Digital marketing - respectful contributors to digital communities: In this workshop, students learn how to create exciting digital media campaigns whilst respecting the rights and privacy of the student volunteers as well as the beneficiary communities. They learn how to use colour and images to create eye catching blogs that provide up to date information to external stakeholders.

Trip planning - active volunteers: Volunteering is integral to the success of many of our CATs. Whether it is visiting an external organisation or bring groups of children into school to use our facilities. Without active volunteers, many activities would not exist. This workshop gives students the tools they need to organise successful internal and external trips that have child safeguarding as their main priority.

It has been fantastic to see young people using the skills they have developed and maintaining their levels of motivation.

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LETS - Mental Health Awareness Week

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iven that it is Mental Health Awareness week, the purpose of the slime making activity was to help reduce stress, especially since it is exam season. Here’s a quote from someone: “I feel so childish but I’m having so much fun!”. Members of the club decorated the black board with compliments and words of encouragement for students to read and some students joined in. On the first day we underestimated how many students would want to make slime, so the next day we made sure there was enough to go around.

Operation Smile T-Shirts

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pproximately one in every 700 babies in Thailand is born with a cleft palate:, which can result in a difficulty to breath, drink, eat and even speak. Many children suffer from malnutrition, medical and psychological problems. In as little as a single 60-minute surgery, a child’s life can be changed for the better. Operation Smile has one major goal, to raise enough money to fund these costly surgeries for the children; the operations cost roughly 25,000 baht.

Operation Smile Patana have been selling T-shirts in the lounge for the past week and the money raised will go towards sponsoring surgeries for children in rural areas in Thailand. T-shirts cost only 499 Thb Please come and show your support, every dona-

If you would like to buy a shirt and support our cause, then you can contact Niki at anst19@patana.ac.th or Keito at keyo19@patana.ac.th.

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Community

Job Vacancy: Communications Director Communications Director Position Opening at AMCHAM to start immediately. The Communications Director is responsible for managing all communications channels, liaising with local media and overseeing the AMCHAM website and publications.

The position requires a minimum of 5 years of professional communications experience and outstanding English writing skills to write articles on economic and trade issues, speech writing and editing of advocacy papers. Knowledge and experience with current digital technology and trends necessary. The ideal candidate would be a Thai National with a strong U.S. education background or a U.S. citizen (visa and work permit provided). Click here for job description. To apply, contact execdirector@amchamthailand.com.

Application Deadline: May 21, 2018. Interviews will be conducted on May 25.

The American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand 7/F GPF Witthayu A, 93/1 Wireless Road Lumpini, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330 Phone: +66 (0)2 254-1041 www.amchamthailand.com

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ANAPANA MEDITATION COURSE FOR STUDENTS

Anapana (Mindfulness of breathing) teaches students improved concentration skills and enhances calmness of the mind. This technique helps to relieve anxiety and is very useful at exam time to calm those nerves, but also for every day life.

The next Anapana Meditation course will be on

Sunday 27th May for students between 8-14 years.

The course is completely free!

To enrol or for more information, please contact Eva Sophonpanich at evasophon@hotmail.com You may also find this site useful: http://www.children.dhamma.org/en/children/about-meditation.shtmlÂ

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