School Update
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t’s hard to believe that the end of the school year is almost here. As a Secondary School we have been very busy after the winter break. Although academics always play a major role in the day to day lives of our students, the second semester often adds extra challenges for all of our secondary students. For the High School there are PSAT, SAT, UKMT, ACER, and HSK exams to be taken, as well as our DP students taking Mock exams, IAs, and Final IB exams. Also during this time G9 complete their Individual Service Project, G10 complete their Personal Project, G11 start their Extended Essay, and G12 complete their Extended Essay. Middle School students are busy as well with G6/7 completing service projects, G8 completing the Community Project, as well as G6-8 taking ACER, UKMT, and HSK exams. Our students were also involved with many service related clubs such as Operation Smile, Habitat for Humanity, Care, Tutoring, The Planting People, and Heart 2 Heart. Although not a club, the G10s started raising money for the School Build project they will complete in G11. This year they planned, organized, marketed, directed and acted in the production of High School Musical for their School Build. Students were also involved in other clubs such as Radioactive (the school radio), Science Magazine, Photography, World Scholars, and Model United Nations that gave them a venue to explore their interests and creatively express themselves.
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Sports have also played an important role in the social and emotional wellbeing of our students. As a school we had several successes: The Varsity Girls placed 3rd at the CDNIS Volleyball tournament in Hong Kong; The G10U Girls won both the regular Basketball season and AISAA tournament; The G7U Girls won the AISAA Football tournament; The Mixed G7U and G10U won the AISAA Table Tennis Tournament; and Putter won the boys AISAA Tennis Tournament. We also had several teams from many different sports take 2nd or 3rd in AISAA league or season ending tournament. As can be seen, our sports program for the secondary school is getting better and better each year. Extracurricular activities also played an important part in our students’ lives. While our students take part in a wide variety of activities these are a few of their notable successes: Nina (G7) won the U14 Thailand Pattaya Youth Chess tournament; Kimi (G7) won the Tuagom Go tournament; Hui Hui (G8) took second place in the Sornthong Contest; Ryu, Kaka, and Gyn’s (G6) Hockey team won the U12 CCM Thailand Cup; Tonchok (G6) was selected to play the violin as a member of the World Youth Orchestra; Man and Mon (G7) earned their way on to the U15 Thai National Team for Table Tennis, and Putter (G7) is currently the #3 U14 boys Tennis player in Thailand. As can be seen the Secondary School is a very busy place which is probably why the time seems to fly by so quickly. We strive very hard to expose students to as many different types of activities as possible to help them find where their interests and passions lie. Another important aspect of the Secondary School is teaching our students to advocate for themselves and both the Middle School Student Council and the High School Student Government have done an outstanding job of that this. Please read about their accomplishments on the following pages. As this school year comes to a close, I wish the entire Concordian community an enjoyable, relaxing Summer break.
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- Mr. Bill, Secondary School Vice Principal of Student and Faculty Affairs