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Secondary Theme Day

Understanding Diversity is vital for students to gain a wider perspective of the world. Because Regents International School has many nationalities we used this as an opportunity to allow staff and students to celebrate this. The day itself focused on some key issues such as; race, age, gender, religion, disability and nationality.
The day started in small tutor groups discussing what equality and diversity means to them. Students were then given a list of occupations and asked to draw them. Students then looked at some people who hold these occupations and were asked to compare them to their original drawings. From this activity students were able to see that our ideas of the “type of” people who take certain occupations is not always accurate and you should not limit yourself because of your preconceived idea of the “type” of person you are.
The fantastic prefects then delivered a session in the auditorium. Here they lead interactive games to question their peers knowledge and opinion on diversity and issues that have arisen in today’s world. The category game was highly effective as it allowed every student to see that even though we have some differences we sometimes can share similar opinions with Ms. Edwards being a clear winner of the students favourite teacher!!
To complete the day students took part in a discussion on where we originated from with help from an important video from LetsOpenOurWorld. This video used science to show some volunteers their actual heritage. Students thoroughly enjoyed this and some even said it should be made compulsory for everyone to do.
As diversity is all around us, it is always important to take some time, reflect and celebrate our differences. We feel as though this theme day contributed to the promotion of diversity awareness in an engaging and active way.

IB Learner Profile Competition

Proud 7YH was the winner of the IB Learner Profile Competition. The 10 qualities of an IB learner are as follows: Inquirers, Knowledgeable, Thinkers, Communicators, Principled, Open-minded, Carers, Risk-takers, Balanced & Reflective. I think you’ll agree with us that Proud produced a wonderful response to the difficult task of putting these words in an artistic form.

Secondary Student Council

During English Democracy Week, students in Year 12 & Year 10 campaigned to represent their houses as House Captain & Deputy House Captain. The students then voted, and the vote was passed to a panel consisting of the Headmaster, the Deputy Head, the Head of House, the Head Boy & the Head Girl. At the end of a closely-fought and election, with a turn-out of 56%, the results were as follows:
Blue House: Andrew Y12 & Sunny Y10
Green House: Poojan Y12 & Na Y10
Red House: Fay Y12 & Xinxin Y10
Yellow House: Tyler Y12 & Sarah Y10

Following which, interviews were taken place for the new Year 12 prefects, who will work with the present Year 13 prefects.The Deputy Head, Head of Sixth Form, the Head Boy and Head Girl took part in these interviews. 19 excellent candidates came forward for the jobs – and it was extremely difficult to come to a decision. The quality of the candidates is partly demonstrated by some positions being filled by two candidates and partly by the feelings of sadness that some of the candidates were unable to be given positions. As with many appointments, the strength of the team, rather than individual appointments, was seen as an essential factor in coming to decisions.
The final appointments were as follows:
Vice Chairs of the School Council: Maryam, Jung Seok
Events Assistant Coordinators: Toy, Po
Service, Charity & Community Assistant Coordinator: Sonam
Duty Assistant Coordinator: Kim D
Eco Assistant Coordinator: Yasmin
Coordinator for Internationalism: Dechen

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Eco-Club Recycling Audit

Year 12 and 13 took part in a ecology audit this week, they spent their lunch times collecting any items that could be recycled. Over the course of the week they collected nearly 720 litres worth of trash, over a 36 week school year this would be approximately 130,000 litres. To put that into perspective it would be enough to fill 194 mini cooper cars with trash every year. They will now put together a plan to see how we can reduce the amount of waste we produce and become a greener school.

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New student newspaper

This year has seen the launch of a new student newspaper, The Regent’s Chronicles. Edited and produced by Year 11 students, this fun-filled weekly newspaper contains unmissable Regent’s secondary news, such as sports fixtures, House Points updates, interviews with students and teachers, world news and topical photographs. Our students produce all the content, in the process developing a wide range of skills such as lay-out, reportage, interviewing skills and time-keeping. We hope the Regent’s Chronicles will lead a long and healthy life; perhaps becoming another grand Regent’s tradition.

 

IGCSE PE class at the GYM

The Year 11 IGCSE PE class have been learning about Methods of Training as part of their course. This involved them using the brand new school gym facilities to learn about Circuit and Weight Training. The students really enjoyed being able to use the space and take part in active learning, which previously would not have been possible without the weights in the school gym.

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Model United Nations Bootcamp

On September 23rd 6 Year 12 students visited Harrow International School to attend a boot-camp to help prepare them for the rigours of a real Model United Nations conference.
The MUN is designed to replicate the real UN as closely as possible and gives students the chance to debate real world issues and try to develop real, working solutions to the world’s problems. The six students learned the formality of a UN conference and were each assigned a country to represent. They then researched about their given country before presenting their stance on the issues being debated.
Although it was quite nerve wracking to stand up in front of strangers and debate difficult issues the students all performed really well and found the experience very enjoyable and thought provoking.
Regent’s students will be attending the upcoming 24th Bangkok MUN Conference soon and will be hoping to put in to practice some of the skills they learned at boot-camp.

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Secondary English Week

It’s been a busy time in English this week.  In celebration of ‘English Week’, all students have presented speeches to their classes on the topic ‘If I Ruled The World’.  Winners from each class competed for a spot in the final next week: so far it’s looking to be a fantastic selection of thought-provoking and entertaining speeches.

In addition to activities in the classrooms, students have also been taking part in a range of games and quizzes created by their English teachers.  From word games to Shakespeare recitals, cryptic clues to selfie booths, the foyer has been a hive of English activity.  All the games aimed to encourage students to speak, read and interpret ideas in English.

Lastly, the stage has been filled every lunchtime with potential candidates for the positions of House Captain and Vice House Captain.  Watch this space to find out the election winners!

– Ms Lucy Brookes, English Teacher

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University Visits

We were very pleased to welcome a representative from the University of British Columbia to talk to our Y12 and Y13 students about their courses and campus life in Vancouver and Okanagan. Regent’s enjoys a great relationship with UBC and we are encouraging our current students to find out more from the four 2016 leavers who secured places there.
Upcoming visits include City University, HK, Carleton University, Canada and University College Dublin, Ireland and don’t miss the talk about how to secure a place to study Medicine at Thammasat University on November 1st at 3pm. Please encourage your son/daughter to show you the information on the Google Classroom about all the university fairs and events that are taking place at school and in Bangkok.

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