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Anglo Expands to New Campus by Nat (P6) & Gin (P6)Many parents and students are asking aboutthe new campus at Sukhumvit 64 and so weat the Anglo E-Newsletter have decided towrite an update for our readers.During an interview with this reporter, theschool director, Mrs. Julie said that the mainschool building is ready but just waiting foran approval letter from the MOE (Minister ofEducation). The MOE must tour each newschool and approve of it and its facilitiesbefore an educational institution can open.Angloʼs new campus has many new features.The school has three buildings in total.The first and main school building is fivestories high, the second one is four storieshigh, but the third one has not been confirmedyet as to its size.The entire Sukhumvit 64 campus covers 8rai. The new campus is located directly nextto the Bunam Punnatthi BTS Station, so it isvery convenient to get there via BTS. Yousimply walk out of the southeast exit anddirectly to the sidewalk in front of the schoolcampus.The only thing that would make the campusbetter located is if it were closer to downtown,as some students and teachers willnow have a longer commute to school. But,where would Anglo ever find 8 rai of vacantland in lower Sukhumvit? In short, the locationis good and the campus itself evenbetter.Some of the E-Newsletterʼs favorite iPadfeatures are listed below:eBook Reader This feature could beamazing if publishing houses get their actstogether to offer more books. The iPadcould be perfect for educational text booksas well as novels and as mentioned above,the ease of vocabulary learning through thedictionary and thesaurus features isamazing.Web Research Browsing should be asgood as a laptop yet more personal andflexible.Presenting Itʼs great for handheld presentingto a small group of peers.The Sukhumvit 64 campus will sportfour complete science laboratories, anathletic training room, a theatre-likeauditorium for various performances,an indoor gym with basketball courtand a 25 meter swimming pool.Once completed, there will also be avariety of outdoor athletic facilities suchas a running track, badminton courtand tennis court.The new campus will be open forNursery students all the way to JCstudents, so it will be a campus toserve the full range of Anglo studentsfrom the very young to those ready tohead to university. The Sukhumvit 31campus will then only include classesfrom Nursery to Primary 4 students(should any wish to stay nearer todowntown).All new school enrollees must pass aseries of entrance exams to enter theschool.Publishing With Pages & iBooks Authoron the Mac and Book Creator & CBB onthe iPad, itʼs easy to create original ePubtitles.Art Work There are some great appsfor drawing & painting for all ages, someof which are quite sophisticated.Note-taking Itʼs an easy, portablemethod for learners to make notes andmind-maps of class and lectureinformation.Digital Storytelling With built-in stilland video cameras plus a decentmicrophone, the iPad is ideal for simpledigital storytelling.Creativity So many apps offer opportunitiesfor learners to create & developoriginal ideas & stories.This is to ensure the high-qualityacademics that Anglo has becomefamous for.Mrs. Julie also mentioned thatthere will be new school uniformsfor the Sukhumvit 64 campus; anew campus and a new image forAnglo.Everyone is looking forward togoing to the new campus. It surelysounds like a marvelous campusand we at the E-Newsletter hopeto see many students at the newcampus!Music There are an increasingnumber of musical apps comingalong which encourage learners tocreate music in new & innovativeways.Video Editing iMovie uses the built-in cameras to take footage & dosome basic video editing. Expectthis app (and others) to becomemore sophisticated with every newrelease.7. Conclusion: When all thepotential functions of the iPad areadded up, its form, the iOS, thecameras, & the apps, it becomesclear that the iPad is a PersonalLearning Studio. It can be a sciencelab, literacy tool, research station,history archive, language lab, artcanvas, music studio, video editingsuite, games console & library. Weat the Anglo E-Newsletter firmlyrecommend iPads as a learningdevice for all students from aboutP5 upwards.
Khao Yai Mathematics and Science Camp By Ann Ann (P6) and Taisei (P5)From May 10 th to the 12 th , Anglo students from Primary 4 toSecondary 2 attended the 5 th Annual Mathematics andScience Camp in Khao Yai.Mr. Ricky was the CampCommander and studentswere divided into ninegroups: A, B, C, D, E, F, Hand I with two teachers incharge per group. Eachgroup consisted of about14 to 15 children. Everychild is assigned a buddywho went with each otherwherever they went. Studentsslept in dormitorieswhich were also dividedinto sections of A (1to 12), B (1 to 12), C (1 to12), and D (1 to 12), with B7 as an infirmary room.Once everyone arrived, children were given a camp bookletwith the total of 17 pages including camp rules and space forthem to write each dayʼs reflection.On the first day, we went to the morning assembly until7:45, when we set off for the camp with a pit stop at PetrolKiosk. We arrived at the Holiday Park Resort at 1 p.m. wherestudents were assigned their rooms and roommates and thenwere sent off for a very brief lunch break.Ms. Mary and many of other teachers had a hard timetaking off the leeches and cleaning the openings andbruises made by them. Blood seeped out of the smallopenings but the wounds were not painful. In fact, it wasprobably the best lesson learned duringthe whole trip. We were in natureafter all.While half of the students weretrekking, the rest of the groupsstarted with the outdoor- Prefectsʼ-Games with the total of five stations.The questions/equations were allabout mathematics. They used a lot oftechniques in the games and in someof the games we solved the equationsalone, and sometimes, we had tosolve them as a team.Then, students had anotherice-breaking game which was ToxicLand Mines, in which we had to cross the toxic land to thesafe place without stepping off of small pieces ofnewspaper that students slid under their feet. This gamerequired a lot of teamwork.When the groups A, B, C, D, and half of E came back andAfter lunch, we started doing team building games in whichpeople in the group got to know more about each other. Itstarted off with the Four Facts Game, and then thePicassoʼs Time (as we call it) in which each group would learnabout communicating and doing things in a team. After that,we had another team building game in which people in thesame group held hands without letting go and went to findthe clues that would lead to solving the game.There were also some ice-breaking games which includedlining up from tallest to smallest with communication andoldest to youngest without communication. Another gamewas Longest Line and in it, we had to use the things on ourbody to make the longest line.Later that night, we had a “night walk” in which we had todepend on others to walk in a dark room. Most students werehoping that the night walk would actually be a walk throughthe natural environment at night but it wasnʼt.After that, we had our late supper and went to sleep around11 p.m. As we went further inside the monsoon rainforest,the weather started to turn bad. By the time it was about11:25, tiny droplets of the water started to fall from the skyand thunder could be heard in the distance. We came out ofthe forest at about 11:45 and at that time, some of the studentsnoticed many leeches were stuck on their legs.told their story about leaches, plans were changed andthe next group went to a vineyard instead.The most enjoyable time of the entire camp was duringthe last night of the campfire. This year we had a realcampfire and along with that, every group acted theirown parody with prizes given to the group who put onthe best shows. It was a good finale for the trip.We felt that this yearʼs math and science camp wasenjoyable but that it could be better if students wereallowed more time to think quietly and reflect upon thingsbefore being rushed right into yet another activity.Another thing that could make the camp better in thefuture is for more activities to be based around theenvironment that we are in. In other words, it would bebetter to have more lessons about the naturalenvironment while in the natural setting.
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