Si Ri Panya News Highlights

Welcome to our Friday May 22nd 2025 Newsletter (issue 12).

As we break up for our half-term holiday, it's the perfect moment to pause and celebrate some of the beautiful, in-depth work our students have been engaged in. We’re delighted to share a glimpse into the vibrant learning taking place across the school. It’s always a joy to witness our hardworking learners in action, and we hope you enjoy browsing through this week’s gallery of photos.

Wishing all our families a restful and enjoyable holiday!

We return to school, Monday 2nd June, so we look forward to seeing you then!

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Year 3 - Saving the Planet: Environmental Diorama's and a Poster Campaign

As part of their subject deep-dive into saving the planet, Year 3 have been looking at the effects of pollution and industry on the environment. These wonderful, colourful and well-executed three-dimensional models show off some real collaborative research and thinking around the topic.

Our pupils took great pride in carefully bringing their models to school, and we'd like to thank parents for supporting and encouraging Y3's to enjoy and achieve, even when at relaxing doing their homework. These models show a real committment to the topic of understanding pollution and if we can understand it, we can do something about it and take action to care for the world we live in.

Shining this week's Spotlight on Year 3 Maths

Year 3 superstars are under the spotlight again in this week's newsletter! As Head of Primary, one of my jobs is to walk around the school and keep up with all the hard work that's going on. During this particular Learning Walk, I was so impressed by what I saw.

Working in pairs, our pupils were fully engaged and not distracted at all by the presence of their headteacher taking a look at what they were doing while they were in action! This was wonderful to see. Being "on task" was their norm.

They worked on sums that used both numbers and words, and they looked genuinely mesmerised. It reminded me that while not everybodies favourite subject, maths is actually really cool!

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Secondary International Culture Day

We are proud of our diverse and multicultural school community, and our annual International Culture Day has become a popular event on the calendar. This is an opportunity for students and their families to come together to share and celebrate the many different cultures that they bring to the Si Ri Panya family.

Students worked together to share information about their home countries and cultures, but enjoyment was at the top of the agenda, and everyone contributed to the two elements that put smiles on people's faces - music and food! With music from every country as a backdrop, students and parents enjoyed a feast of different tastes, loving the familiar flavours and trying new things. This was a real-life example of what a powerful bonding experience sharing food can be - and we hope that our students will remember this as they journey through life, and how important shared food and an open heart can be.

"When you have all you need,

build a longer table,

not a higher fence"

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What Do Sound Waves Look Like?

Year 7 have been learning about the different senses in Science, and were given an assignment where they could either Remember, Analyse or Create to show their understanding of Sound Waves. They had 30 minutes to complete the tasks, and it is amazing what the creative students were able to produce in that time - making a model that shows information in a clear and fun way, with the clock ticking, is an example of a skill that our students will find useful in the future, as well as helping to reinforce their learning. Great job, Year 7!

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.