Si Ri Panya News Highlights
- Nicola Bunchuay
- May 9
- 4 min read
Welcome to our Friday May 9th Newsletter.
Today's newsletter begins with us celebrating students who take initiative. What does that mean or look like? It could be doing something meaningful for our school community, without being asked.
Handpicked examples include Year 1 trash hero, Ted, who joined Si Ri Panya from Sweden. This week he took it upon himself to pick litter up around the school.
Also from Year 1 was Ethan, pictured below, who brought in an incredible piece of art which he'd made with his dad at home, into school. It displayed an important message about littering plastic. Read on to see more various ways that Si Ri Panya have been showing initiative this week.
Helping Hands Assembly
Our Primary assembly this week was about how we can use our hands to help others. It's part of a bigger campaign to make students aware that we have a duty to keep our hands and our feet to ourselves and to use them appropriately.
During our busy playtimes and sometimes during class, whether students mean to or not, from time to time there are occasions of pushing, shoving even hitting. To an extent, using our hands and feet to express anger or frustration or even in play is part of human nature that we learn to grow out of, as we develop self-control and awareness of ourselves socially.
We are committed to helping our students to find ways to manage difficult emotions and carelessness around touching others with their hands or feet and so in assembly this week, we learned a new song about using our hands to help others. We also listened to a story called Helping Hands in the Forest which you can read HERE.
If you want to get onboard to help us to help our students use their hands to do good and serve each other with kindness, you can help them learn this song at home, which easy to remember as it's sung to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star:
Hands for helping, not for harm,
Keep them kind and keep them calm.
Respect our friends, show we care,
Courage grows when love we share.
Hands for helping, strong and true,
Build a school for me and you.
While this is might be aimed at our students in Years 1-4, our upper years should continue to keep these words as a school blueprint on how to treat others and stay mindful about the message.
Racket Sports Are In!
Badminton fever is taking over secondary! Students are learning badminton & racket sports and part of the physical education curriculum, and choosing to play it during breaks and lunch times. We’ve seen a lot of new skills, teamwork and improved coordination on the courts!
Watch this space for more smashing action!
Writing Stories Together
Year Seven and Year Three have been regular reading buddies, and last week the students took their collaboration one step further when the year seven students supported year three in creating their own stories. The children played a literary game together rolling a dice to inspire a story that they then planned and discussed as a team. The year sevens then wrote the story and the year threes worked on creating the illustrations. Great team work, and some incredible imaginative creations that they can be proud of!
Ongoing Weekly Reminders
Library Reminder: Please check at home for any lost books and return them to the Primary or Secondary library so everyone can enjoy them!
Bottle Cap Collection: We're collecting bottle caps for our Precious Plastic Project! Please bring your bottle caps to the collection point located inside the Primary school gate on the left. Secondary students can bring theirs to the Design and Technology Lab. Find out more about this exciting long-term project here: Precious Plastic Phangan Facebook.
Drop Off and Pick Up: Drop-off is at 8:30 am (not earlier). Pick-up times are 2:50 pm for Primary (or 4:00 pm if attending an ASA) and 4:00 pm for Secondary. Please be punctual, as some Primary children have been waiting up to 30 minutes after 2:50 pm, which can be distressing for them.
No Idling Zone: Help make the area outside our school a NO IDLING ZONE which means switching car engines off while you wait for your child. We appreciate your action for the environment and health of all.
Absence and Illness: Notify your child's class teacher (Primary) or form teacher (Secondary) directly to inform them of absence and sickness.
Head Lice Check: Continue to check your child's hair for head lice regularly and treat accordingly. Boys and girls with long hair need to tie it up.
Class WhatsApp Groups: Join the parent WhatsApp group for your child's class via the QR code HERE
Healthy snacks: Healthy snacks only. No sweets, crisps/chips or cakes at break times. Birthdays are the exception and dealt with per class policy
