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After School Activities
June 2011
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Round Up—Term 3 2011
What a fantastic term it has been for the Regents After School Activity Program. With over 35 different
activities running on a Monday and Thursday evening the students really have been spoilt for choice.
There have been a number of new sporting activities offered this term including dance, hockey, girls rugby,
kung fu and cricket . We have also enlisted the help of our very talented I.B students who have organised and lead an activity
each week to contribute to their CAS hours.
A big well done and thank you to Edvinas our tennis specialist, Ben our Kung Fu champion and Abeera our photography
queen. We are always looking to start new activities with our IB students so if there is anyone else who would like to run
an activity new term please see Miss Nicholls as soon as possible. As well as having new sporting ventures we have also
introduced an E.V Tuk Tuk project, clowning around, making computer puzzles and first aid to our growing list of activities.
With in the ASA round up you will find a number of articles written by both the students and the teachers describing what
has been happening in their activity this term. For further information on how to get involved in a particular activity please
contact the teacher by clicking on their name.
A huge thank you to all staff and students for your continued efforts in ASA. I very much look forward to next term, enjoy
your holiday break keep checking ‘moodle’ for up to date info on activities!
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Best Wishes, Miss Nicholls
After School Activities Coordinator
33/3 Moo1, Pong, Banglamung, Chonburi 20150 Thailand
Tel: +66 38 418 777 Fax: +66 38 418 778 email: snicholls@regents.ac.th

Karunyawet Disabled Ladies Home
Activity Coordinator: Miss Victoria Wells
Every Thursday afternoon since January, Regent’s students
have been visiting Karunyawet Disabled Ladies Home, one
of our more recently established Round Square community
partners. There are almost 400 ladies who live at the centre,
all having some form of physical or mental disability. The
ladies rarely receive visitors and this is one of the reasons
this activity is so worthwhile and a rewarding experience for
all involved. The ladies love to be pampered as this is a rare
novelty for them so the students paint their nails, do their
make up and style their hair.
Word spreads quickly around the centre that the Regents
students have arrived, as after 5 minutes they are queuing
up to have their hair and nails done. After they have all been pampered, the last 15 minutes of the activity consists of a lot
of singing and dancing which the ladies love. The students this year have been incredible and have made the most of the
opportunity to engage with the ladies who they realize are so much less fortunate than themselves. Every Thursday ends with
lots of goodbye hugs and smiles all around.
Drama Japan Appeal: Minamata
Activity Coordinator: Mr Mike Thomas
Students from the Year 10 GCSE
Drama and Year 12 Drama groups
have used the Monday activity session
to prepare a play about Minamata,
the story of a small fishing village
in Northern Japan severely affected
by mercury poisoning in the 1950’s.
The ensemble (which also included
students from Years 8 and 9 plus
exchange students) quickly realized that
this very human tragedy was a powerful
metaphor for the suffering that Japan,
in particular, has experienced over the
last half century, beginning with the
attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
culminating in the recent earthquake in
Fukushima, not too far from Minamata
itself. As part of the preparation for the
performance, the students engaged in
historical, geographical and scientific
research: much of this material can be
found on Moodle.
They also attended a Performance
Arts workshop day hosted by the
International School of the Eastern
Seaboard which enabled the students
to experience workshops on Suzuki and
Butoh movement- both these important
strands of theatrical expression formed
the spine of the resulting piece of
devised theatre which was performed
in the Roundhouse at lunchtime on
Wednesday 8th June and which raised
2700baht for the Japan Appeal. The
performance had a powerful impact
on the audience which was held in
rapt attention throughout, particularly
by the almost hypnotic effects of the
Butoh movement. Science teacher,
Ms Anderson and English teacher,
Ms Labunda both remarked on the
excellence of this challenging piece
of theatre and how they intended to
use the work as a cross-curricular tool
in their respective subject areas. All
students who took part in this activity
project are deserving of the highest
praise.
Girls Rugby
Activity Coordinator: Miss Charlie
Women’s Rugby has been running for
the first time here at Regent’s during
the third team and has been very
successful and with a large number
of attendants. With none of the girls
having any previous knowledge of how
to play Rugby, nor any of the laws, if has
been a very steep learning curve.
The activity accommodates girls in
year 7 right up to year 13 and of all
abilities. Initially we began with touch
rugby, learning the basics of running
forwards and passing backwards,
spatial awareness and support play. The
girls have also been working on some
contact activities, using the tackle
Minamata Play
pads each session and slowly moving
onto full contact. The girls have really
enjoyed this activity and have asked
for it to be continued next year, where
we hope to continue to improve and
compete against other school teams.

So you think you can dance?
Activity Coordinator: Miss Dewsnap
Throughout this term a group of
talented dancers from Years 8 to 12
have assembled on a Monday to
work on two individual dances of a
hip hop style. One of the dances uses
choreography from the popular series
So You Think You Can Dance, the
other was choreographed by one of our
own students, Bam Sutheeissariyakun
(Year 9), and both will be performed
during the end of year assembly in front
of the secondary school. The students
have worked very hard on their dances
and show a very positive introduction
Activity Coordinator: Mr Graham
to dance performance in the school.
The next academic year will see the
formation of a Regent’s School Dance
Group with the aim of providing regular
classes in various dance disciplines and
the opportunity to showcase dance
more within the school. Students will
be encouraged to take part regardless
of their dancing style, the more variety
the better! There may even be some
competition opportunities for those
with the desire and capability to take
part!
Fr Ray Children’s Village Murals.
Last school year, the walls of Father
Ray Children’s Village were blank,
remaining bare concrete or covered
with a uniform cream paint. What
followed in the following months
was an awesome explosion of creative
activity. The Round Square inspired
designs of the Village’s children took
shape on its inner boundary walls as
first, Conference delegates and then
successive waves of Regent’s students
together painted a kaleidoscopic
backdrop for the childrens’ daily lives.
This process has continued during
activities, as yet more murals have
been produced by Regent’s students.
Next year, this fantastic project will
continue as more murals are painted,
and exciting new projects in music and
landscape design further enrich the
lives of the villages’ young residents
Orchestra
Activity Coordinator: Mr Bob and Mr. Tomlinson.
Fr Ray Childrens Village
Orchestra has studied three works this
term, arranged by Mr Bob: Radetzky
March - Strauss Senior, Gavotte from
Classical Symphony - Prokofiev
and Clarinet Rag - Ployhar. The
pupils have enjoyed playing these
works. Other works in the pipeline
include Morgenblotter - Strauss Junior,
Incidental music from “La Chica
Mexicana” - Hayden-Gilbert, Troika
from Lt. Kije Suite - Prokofiev, Jungle
Tango - Hayden-Gilbert.
Mr. Bob has managed to make
orchestra not just an activity, but also a
learning experience in which rehearsals
are couched in a jocund, diligent
environment without diluting high
levels of performance expectation.

Amnesty International RS Spanish Club
ASA Coordinator: Miss Karen Partyka
During Amnesty activity this term
we looked at Joke for Burma with
the Burma group. We heard about
the case of Zag who was arrested and
imprisioned for telling jokes against
the Burmese government. We studied
it and then started our campaign to
collect as many jokes as possible from
pupils and staff, then collate them and
they will be sent to Burma Campaign
and hopefully Zag will find out about
our work and how we are supporting
him.
Next term we will be joining in with the
Amnesty Christmas Card campaign
and Amnesty Thailand’s Human
Rights Speech Competition. Miss
Karen Partyka
Fundraising Madness—Burma
ASA Coordinator: Mrs Chermside
This term the Fundraising Madness Burma group met and worked hard to plan several activities that will take place at the
start of the next school year to raise money for BHSOH an orphanage for refugees on the Thai-Burma border.
The group made logos, advertising posters and also started communication links between themselves and the students at the
orphanage. They worked really hard and also learnt much more about the current situation faced by the people that live in
Burma and on the Thai border.
Activity Co-Ordinators Mrs Gormley and Miss Fernandez
Originally used to celebrate the
birthday of the Aztec god of war,
piñatas are bright colored papiermâché
decorations filled with sweets
and little treats; a must do fun activity
in every party in the Hispanic culture.
With two of the Round Square ideals in
mind, internationalism and service, our
Badminton
Badminton club has continued to prove
one of the most popular and oversubscribed
after school activities. We
have enjoyed the use of 7 courts in the
gym on which the students have played
a mixture of singles and doubles games.
We finish each session with a game of
“around the world” in which students
have to run around the court after
hitting the shuttle, and are eliminated
if they fail to get it back over the net.
students have learned and enjoyed the
art of piñata making this term.
They have become aware of various
traditions and history of pre-colonial
and contemporary South America
while discussing the needs of the local
community.
ASA Coordinator: Mr Andrew Chambers
Needless to say this gets quite difficult
when only a few students are left! We
have also enjoyed two competitive
fixtures against GIS and ISE, with the
participants drawn from the badminton
activity sessions.
The piñatas will be donated to one
of our community partners, The
Pattaya Orphanage, in a visit that will
take place during Round Square week.

Making Computer Puzzles
ASA Coordinator: Ms Trudgett
The aim of this activity was to produce
a variety of online puzzles, such as join
the dots, colouring sheets, mazes and
word searches. These would then be
available to download and print. A great
many of the Round Square activities
involve visiting community partners
and it is very useful to have a variety of
worksheets and puzzles to use on these
trips.
The students visited different websites
to get ideas and then created their own
puzzles. Mazes and join the dots were
very popular and there were some
very creative designs, including the
“Dinoshark” by Cole.
The resources were trailed during
the visit by Goldfish Plc to the Hway
Ka Loke School and proved very
successful. The younger students
Round Square displays
ASA Coordinator: Mrs Burden
During the Round Square Displays
Activity we learned about the different
articles of human rights and developed
designs to illustrate therm. We had to
plan carefully simple, bold designs and
lettering. Working on the displays was
great fun, we used acrylic paint which is
waterproof, as some of the displays will
be outside, and it gives a professional
finish. The designs are really funky and
colourful
at Hway Ka Loke really enjoyed
colouring and join the dots, while the
older students completed the more
complicated mazes.
Well done and thank you to all the
members of the group who worked
hard to create these interesting and
useful resources.