Weekly Update #10, 4 November 2022

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A big thank you to all of the families and individuals who have supported us in our mission to continue our long term partnership with the Phuket Sunshine Village and the great work they are doing to care for over 100 underprivileged children. Your donations will help to pay for all of the supplies that the children will need for the coming academic year: school uniforms, shoes & socks, stationery, lunch money and transportation to and from school. Donations can be made in cash by an individual, a family, a company or even a class in school. All you need to do is choose a child to sponsor and contact the front office to make your donation. Thank you to:

✅️ The Jai-Jom family who sponsored nut just one but two children from the Phuket Sunshine Village Foundation!

✅️ Mew and her family for sponsoring Nawa, a 17 year old girl who has 7 brothers & sisters and wants to be a Chef someday.

✅️ The Delsol family has sponsored 13 year old Jo who is dreaming of being an Astronaut.

✅️ To little Reon and Kevin for sponsoring Man, a 14 year old boy whose dream is to work in the Air Force and Way a 13 year old boy.

✅️ Milin and Karn for sponsoring Mint, a 17 year old girl who wants to work in the service industry.

Casual Clothes Day: Next Friday, 11 November, is a non-uniform day. Everyone is invited to come into school wearing the clothes of their choice in exchange for a 50 baht donation (or more!) for the Phuket Sunshine Village Foundation. The donations will be collected by the Homeroom teachers.

Relive the magic of our Wai Kru Ceremonies last week with these beautiful videos.

Halloween

Well done everyone for coming in to school dressed up in so many fun, scary and imaginative costumes for our Halloween activities on Monday. We hope you had a fantastic day!

English Faculty Week from 7-11 November

A host of events and competitions will run throughout the week for Primary and Secondary students. Parents and teachers can also get involved by taking part in the Cryptic Author Quiz or the Guess the Author Photo Competition which will both be up in the atrium all week long. - Mr. Pollicutt, Head of English

The Student Leadership Team are a key part of the culture at HeadStart and have expanded rather dramatically over the last few years. They oversee whole school events like the recent Halloween Disco. They run Lunch Bunch (activities for all Secondary students) every lunchtime. They have a huge amount of energy and seek to develop the sense of community at HSI through creating opportunities to connect students. Each Prefect is connected to a Homeroom. Through Lunch Bunch and the links with Homerooms they seek to foster vertical relationships in the school so younger students have older students to refer to whether as models or support when they need it.

We also have Heads of Committee who are committed to developing specific aspects of the school. We have an Eco Committee, Student Welfare committee, Service committee, House Activities Committee. All of these committees seek to serve the students of Headstart and to continue to develop the school’s provision and culture to make this a better school for the student community. -Ms Bedi, Head of Sixth Form

Congratulations to Karina in Year 4, Rene in Year 3, Amari, Pokpong and Jan in Year 5 for being nominated Library Monitors this term. Their job is to act as role models to all students and show them how to behave in the library, as well as to support general inquiries from fellow students.

BTEC Business have been working on Unit 4 Planning an Event this term and their focus has been on the execution of the Halloween Disco, working as a collaborative team being allocated to the food and beverages segment. The students carried out market research, held meetings with other stakeholders and were given a budget to manage. They worked alongside the chef purchasing the quantities of food and beverages and from this were able to analyse their break even point and profit forecast. They created a marketing strategy and Gantt chart which supported the planning process and all contributed to selling and offering customer service during the event. Well done for another successful event BTEC Business! -Ms Yardenna Jones

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This week our HeadStar is Emma Delsol in year 8. Emma was nominated for her commitment to all her CAPA subjects and our CAPA academies. Emma comes to every class and rehearsal with a smile on her face, ready to learn and work hard. Well done Emma!

Battle of the Bands Winners

After careful deliberation, we have finally revealed the winners of our secondary Battle of the Bands. It was an incredibly difficult decision to make as there were so many fantastic performances. We are honoured to work with such talented and dedicated students.

• In third place: Graham Crackers
• In second place: Baroque and Roll
• In first place: Hypnotise

Design Technology

Our DT department have been working hard over the past month to create and build a ‘tool wall’. This is a visual learning tool which has transformed the learning environment for our students helping them develop their knowledge and understanding of approaches to practical work.

Active Learning

Students in Active Learning have been learning all about sculpture. They started with how to do face and hand casting using mod roc and lots of Vaseline! The students thoroughly enjoyed this practical, messy and engaging approach to learning!

Secondary students have been planting and pollinating flowers in the new beds as a part of the secondary young farmers lunch club.

Namon from Year 5 represented Thailand at the SINGHA-THAILAND Junior World Golf Championships 2022 at Royal Golf Course in Hua Hin on October 27-30, 2022. Congratulations to Namon for coming 3rd in her category.

Taisiya competed with 200 other gymnasts in the 5th PK Gymnastics Competition 2022 in Bangkok. Congratulations to Taisiya who won the following medals:

🏆 Gold Medal for the Body Skills 🏆 Gold medal for Ribbon skills 🥈Silver medal for Ball Exercise (according to international rules) 🎬 Watch her fantastic performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8PyoDq069A

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