Patana News Volume 19 Issue 23

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What Can We Learn from Drama? Page 2 Young’s Double Slit Experiment

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FOBISIA Sailing Champions

Bangkok Patana is an IB World School, accredited by CIS and NEASC

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ast week I went to see the Senior Play, Shadow Girl, written and directed by one of our Secondary Drama teachers, Mr Paul Gatiss. I was amazed by the quality of the writing, and thrilled to see some of the younger Secondary students involved in this production – faces that were in Primary not too long ago. As I watched I could not help but think of all the skills that these students have learnt as a result of being involved in the production, which reminded me just how important Drama and role play are to our children’s learning.

themes; providing context and purpose for skills in Connected Learning. We have used drama techniques such as teacher in role, freeze frames, soundscapes and ‘mantle of the expert’ to help the students think analytically and engage with their learning on a deeper level.” Ms Emma Gardner, Leader of Learning and Curriculum, Year 3 “Drama has been used as an immersive tool creating meaningful and memorable themes across units of learning. It has made learning more relevant, engaging and led to deeper understanding.” Mr Matt Smith, Leader of Learning and Curriculum, Year 4 “We regularly use role-play in PSHE (Personal, Social, Health Education) to provide opportunities for the students to act out different scenarios, which helps them to empathise with others and to experience situations from different perspectives.” Ms Bryony Wilson, Leader of Learning and Curriculum, Year 5 “We have used ‘Text Maps” to encourage the students to act out a paragraph of text they have written, which really helps to bring their writing to life.” Ms Sarah Carritt, Leader of Learning and Curriculum, Year 6

Through Drama, we have the opportunity to develop real-world skills such as working collaboratively and empathy for others, as well as encouraging our students to improvise and problem solve. In the Primary School, we don’t see Drama as a distinct subject, but rather use it as a vehicle to enhance the learning in all subjects. In Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1, we use role-play on a daily basis to facilitate the exploration of our learning themes. Here are some of the ways we utilise Drama in Key Stage 2: “We have developed the use of our shared learning spaces to create a role play area to enhance our literacy and to drive the narrative of our learning

On March 15th and 16th next week, we will present our Primary Play, CreaTed. This will be a wonderful opportunity for some of our students to share their love of theatrical performance while expressing themselves and showing their confidence and public speaking skills, as well as their use of physical movement as a form of communication. I hope to see many of you at the performances in the Black Box next week.

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ascinating updates are coming in regularly from Ms Thew and Year 10 student Rebecca as they participate in the International Antarctic Expedition with 2041 and Robert Swan. They have now crossed the tumultuous Drake’s Passage and have stepped foot onto the Antarctic Peninsular!

There are lots of ways to see what they’re up to and follow their journey, simply click on the links below:

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ately, the Student Environmental Committee’s ‘Energy’ group have been focusing on reminding people that we don’t need to constantly use lights and air conditioning throughout the day. Furthermore, during lunch and break times, we have been begun to check some of the Primary classrooms to make sure that each class has turned off their lights and air conditioning.

Next week, we will distribute some ‘mini posters’ around classes and other rooms in the Primary and Secondary Schools reminding us all to switch off the lights and AC whenever it is unnecessary. Moreover, these posters will remind us all about how the electricity we use (which mostly comes from burning fossil fuels) affects the world’s climate, including Antarctica where wildlife suffers with climate change. We believe that while Rebecca and Ms Thew are visiting Antarctica, we should all be doing our bit to take action here at school.

If we all take the small steps to switch off electricity when it isn’t needed, we can greatly reduce the energy the school uses each day. Consequently, this will help the school with one big, greener and cleaner step to the future.

Please join us by taking small steps to help our school become more sustainable.

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he increasingly popular sport of Sailing took centre stage last week as the FOBISIA Sailing Championships took place at Royal Varuna Yacht Club in Pattaya. This year’s event saw teams entered from Bangkok Patana, Shrewsbury and Harrow. Despite being fewer schools competing this year than last, the competition has certainly developed and improved, which lead to an entertaining and challenging competition for all sailors. Sailing is a sport that holds a lower profile for many students compared to other sporting activities so here’s a little a competition guide for those of you wondering how it works…

The competition is made up of three different events; Individual Optimist Sailing, Helm and Crew RS Vision Sailing and RS Quba Team Sailing. Each event has overall winners and the placing in each event then contributes to the overall scores to see who is crowned FOBISIA champions.

Optimist boats are small, single-handed sailing dinghies with one sail. In this event sailors between 8 and 15 years of age compete against each other. Each placing counts as points and the aim is to have the lowest points at the end of ten races. For example, finishing first in all races has an overall score of 10—this would be the lowest score possible and therefore the sailor would finish in first overall.

In this year’s Optimist sailing category, the Tigers’ fielded three students from very different Year groups: M.L. Weka Bhanubandh (Year 5), Christopher Marsh (Year 6) and Jade Gavin (9W). All of the Bangkok Patana sailors were very competitive and in the final few races of the event it became a close fight between our sailors for first, second and third placings. In the end, experience came through with Jade taking first overall in

this category. A special mention to both Christopher and Weka who, even being youngest competitors of the races, managed third and second placings. These two are definitely ones to watch for the future!

This larger boat is designed for two adult sailors, a Helm and one crewmember. Due to the size of this boat, teams were made of four students; one helm and three crewmembers. These teams were made up of our older sailors and the event was open to students up to the age of 18. Again, in this event each team competed against each other. Each placing counting as points with the aim to have the lowest points at the end of ten races.

In this year’s RS Vision sailing category we fielded two teams; Team 1 made up of Joanne Gavin (Year 11), Alessandro Miotto (Year 11), Alexander Han (Year 12), Gabe McCartan (Year 6) and Team 2 with Far Vernon (Year 9), Philippe Ledoit (Year 12), Peter Pakdeejit (Year 7) and Aim Lisahapanya (Year 8). Both boats competed extremely well over the 10 races with Team 1 taking first place and a third place finish for Team 2.

Team racing is probably the most exciting of all sailing events due to the tactics that teams can use to win a race. At FOBISIA each team had three boats that compete in a race against three boats from another school.

The idea is that your team’s three boats finish in a better combination of positions that the other teams. It sounds simple…sail fast get to the finish line first, but in this race if you have one boat in first place and another two in fifth and sixth that is a losing combination. The racing gets exciting when the sailor occupying first place uses tactics to slow down boats from the other team to bring the fifth and sixth place boats back into the race.

Over the three days, the Tigers’ took part in 20 races against the other schools with Bangkok Patana finishing second overall in the round robin series. In the final (a best of three races event) against Shrewsbury, Patana won 2-1 to claim first place in the team racing. A special mention goes to the mixed Bangkok Patana and Shrewsbury team who managed to take a fantastic third position overall.

After such success across all events, the Tigers took first place overall and were crowned this year’s FOBISIA champions drawing to an end this academic years’ sailing schedule. The team are always looking for more sailors, whether you have sailed or not before, keep your eyes open for notices next year about the 2017/18 season of sailing events.

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abitat For Humanity’s campaign days, held last week, centered around the core principles of its cause - community, collaboration, and fun! Students from all Year groups came to the Lounge to participate in the activities offered by one of Bangkok Patana’s biggest clubs. One of the games at the stall was to build a house out of Jenga blocks under time pressure. It served as a small simulation of the annual Habitat Build trip, where volunteers build a home in three days for an underprivileged family. Participants were rewarded with one of Habitat’s new stickers, designed by a member of the club.

Students visiting the stall were also encouraged to share their responses to the prompt: “What does HOME mean to you?” Many expressed their love for their family, gratefulness for a roof over their heads, and described the feeling of being in a familiar environment.

A house symbolises warmth, family, and safety. Not everyone is fortunate enough to have a home, something most of us take for granted. Habitat for Humanity's campaigns aim to fund the annual trip, during which a house is built for underprivileged people. If community, kindness and service are values you uphold, support Habitat For Humanity at our various events, or join the club and be a part of our family!

Chavisa Boonpiti, 12P

I would like to thank all of the CATs for their contributions to Fun Day 2017. The stalls looked amazing and the activities were entertaining and fun. Well done to Habitat for Humanity, Hand 2 Heart, Patana Animal Welfare Society, Project Star, Spectrum, The Mercy Centre, Playing 4 Change, Patana Marine Conservation Group, STOP, Amnesty, World Food Project, Lets Erase The Stigma and the SEC for all of your dedication and hard work.

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welve intrepid delegates have just spent three days in heated debate at the International School of Yangon. The SEASAC Model United Nations (MUN) conference was a great success and all of the delegates from Bangkok Patana acquitted themselves excellently. Topics ranged from LGBT rights and automation as the cause of unemployment to the Boxer rebellion in China and modern day slavery.

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ear 12 Physics students were again utilising the excellent blackout facility that all of our five Physics labs are equipped with, to conduct an experiment to determine the wavelength of laser light. In the experiment a laser is aimed at a black slide which has two adjacent and very narrow slits (the “Young’s Double Slit� experiment). The light that passes through one slit interferes with light from the other slit and a characteristic interference pattern of bright fringes separated by dark bands is produced on the whiteboard. You can see students taking measurements of the fringe spacing from these patterns. The slit spacing and the distance from the slits to the whiteboard also need to be measured so that the wavelength of the laser light can be calculated. Students then experimented with how using red, green and violet lasers changes the results.

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EDHEC Business School

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Senior Studies, Second Floor

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Les Roches and Glion International School of Hotel Management

Simon Phillips

Senior Studies, Second Floor

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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology -

Senior Studies, Second Floor

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The University of Manchester

Fran Haliwell

Senior Studies, Second Floor

14.03.17

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UK Universities Application Day

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Pathumwan Princess Hotel, Bangkok 15.03.17

12:00

Newcastle University

Dr. Morris

SEC302

16.03.17

12:15

University of Birmingham

Jugjit Cheema

Senior Studies, Second Floor

16.03.17

12:15

Fordham University

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Senior Studies, Second Floor

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12:15

University of Bath

Justin Moseley

Sec 302-303

21.03.17

12:15

University of Exeter

Justin Moseley

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21.03.17

12:15

The University of Warwick

Justin Moseley

Sec 302-303

21.03.17

12:15

The University of Melbourne’s Virtual Fair

Australian Eastern Online Chat- from mobile, tablet or Daylight Time computer

22.03.17

17:00

University of British Columbia

Jeff Kiyooka

Senior Studies, Second Floor

24.03.17

12:15

IE University

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Senior Studies, Second Floor

24.03.17

12:15

York University

Carl Sachs

Senior Studies, Second Floor

24.03.17

12:15

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VARSITY BADMINTON FRIENDLY AT RIS The Varsity Girls’ Badminton team started off the season with their first victory at RIS Invitational. Although we had some very close games, we managed to beat every school in the round robin placing us at first place and champions for this invitational. We are looking forward to our next invitational this week which is at NIST. Go Tigers!

Parawin Sungkboon, Year 12 The Bangkok Patana Badminton team was definitely a shadow of its former glory, having lost a total of six members the previous year. The RIS Friendship tournament truly threw the team straight into the deep end, as many of the players had little to no experience with Varsity level play. Despite the fact that the team hadn't had much time to gel prior to the friendly, every single player was in the highest of spirits going in, and despite many close losses, gained invaluable experiences that will undoubtedly prove beneficial to our preparation for SEASAC and BISAC. Taisho Laopraneechon, Year 13

Under 13 FOBISIA (KLASS) 10th-12th March FOBISIA Golf 13th-16th March BISAC Athletics 17th-19th March SEASAC Softball (Home) 24th-26 th March SEASAC Badminton (NIST) 24th-26th March

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SEASAC SWIMMING Last weekend, the Bangkok Patana TigerSharks endured a tough competition at SEASAC Swimming in Singapore with our team being a relatively young one. Despite the odds, we managed to overcome them and exceeded expectations with both boys and girls placing 3rd, therefore achieving 3rd place overall. We saw the 11-12 boys’ age group take home the silverware as they won age group champions! Throughout the weekend, over 75% of races resulted in new personal best times along with many school records being broken. Overall, it was both an enjoyable and successful weekend, all fitting for Coach Richard’s final SEASAC. As captains of the Tigersharks, we would finally like to thank all the coaches for their hard work, including the time they sacrificed for the team, and to congratulate all the swimmers that took part!

Lachlan Dibbawayan, Year 13 and Lauren Zimmerman, Year 12

EAGLE CUP GOLF TOURNAMENT The Eagle Cup was hosted by ASB on Sunday. It was a large tournament with many players who attended from various schools and were of different ages.

It was hosted at Green Valley which was quite a hard course and also it was quite windy that day. Eight players from Bangkok Patana went to the tournament.

It was quite enjoyable and a good experience for the new members that recently joined the team. Our team finished well, and I really enjoy golfing with the Bangkok Patana team.

Connor Kelly, Year 11

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he TigerSharks Swim team returned from a very successful SEASAC 2017 swim meet at the weekend with four Gold, 13 Silver and 13 Bronze medals. Swimming in the outstanding facility of the OCBC National Pool at the Singapore Sports Hub, personal best times were re-written and every member of the team contributed points to the overall team result from individual or relay swims.

Special mention to the Under 12 Boys’ team of Max Stockdale, Andrew Bertoli, Prin Chantarangkul, Nicholas Changbencharoen and Puddy Boonkongcheun for winning their age group trophy at the event. The 13-14 year Girls and 15 and over Girls both took third place in their respective age groups whilst Bangkok Patana were placed third overall Girls’ and Boys’ team behind the UWC powerhouses in Singapore.

Individual school records were set by Misol Cheung (13-14 Girls), Ela Rylichova (15+ Girls), Daniel Fuschs (13-14 Boys), Puddy Boonkongcheun (12 and Under Boys), Lachlan Dibbayawan (15+ Boys) and Max Stockdale (12 and Under Boys). In the Open category, Misol (100 and 200 Backstroke) and Lachlan Dibbayawan (50m Freestyle) established new school records. The Under 12 Boys’ broke all four of their age group 200m and 400m relay records (new SEASAC meet records) whilst the 12 and Under Girls’ 400m Free relay and the 15+ Girls’ 200m Freestyle relay records were broken.

One swimmer commented, “SEASAC Swimming is one of the most mentally and physically tough thing I've gone through but I was lucky enough to have had the support of my wonderful team mates and coaches which made the weekend so much more enjoyable and a weekend of fun that won’t be forgotten” Many thanks to Lachlan for making it to his final SEASAC as captain, a huge thank you to Tanglin Trust for hosting, thanks to the travelling Orange Army of parent supporters and all the coaches and swimmers for your hard work since the start of the year at training.

The team now look forward to BISAC in two weeks’ time here at Bangkok Patana on Sunday 26th March.

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If your children will be attending the Primary production next week, please remember to cancel their bus home on the day of the performance. Students in the production will automatically be cancelled but students in the audience will not. Please help to avoid delaying the departure of the afternoon buses due to waiting for students who do not plan to use the bus.

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Please remind your child to always wear their seatbelt for the duration of the bus journey. They should also report fellow bus users if they undo their belt before departing the bus. The safety of our transport users is our highest priority. Thank you for your help to reinforce this important message.

Contact Us The Transport Department’s direct phone number is 02 785 2470. The office is staffed from 6:00am 6:00pm Monday to Friday. You can also contact us via email at transport@patana.ac.th

#54 To Raise a Leader Reader…

Many aspects of this post on reading to your children resonated with me as a parent. Just take a look at some of the benefits of reading aloud:  Increases vocabulary acquisition  Improves reading comprehension and fluency  Increases engagement in reading  Broadens their imaginations  Improves student writing  Fosters relationships between the adult and child  Develops listening and speaking skills  Facilitates meaningful conversations Do not feel guilty if you are not doing it or struggling to find the time; just start now.

You can get some amazing extensions (sometimes called addons) in the Chrome browser. On useful one is called ‘Distraction Free (DF) YouTube’. By default, DF YouTube hides the video recommendations sidebar as well as the related videos that appear at the end of videos. It also removes the grid of recommended videos that appear on your homepage. These settings are all configurable. It can also hide comments and disable playlists sitewide.

You can install it here.

Have fun reading and distraction free viewing!

Brian Taylor Assistant Principal, Campus Curriculum Technology Integration

ANAPANA MEDITATION COURSE FOR CHILDREN Anapana (Mindfulness of Breathing) teaches children 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 everyday life.

The next Anapana Meditation course will be given on

Sunday 19th March for students aged between 8-14 years.

The course is completely free!

To enroll or for further information, please contact Eva Sophonpanich at evasophon@hotmail.com This site www.children.dhamma.org/en/children/about-meditation.shtml will give further information about the course.

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