St. Andrews International School, Green Valley
March 7th, 2014
Spotlight on Primary
Primary Newsletter
Tournament of the Minds
Last week end Students from St. Andrews
International School travelled up to Bangkok to take
part in the prestigious “Tournament of the Minds”
competition. A group of 7 primary students from
years 5 and 6 and two teams of secondary students
from years 7-9 competed against 27 other teams of
students from other top international schools in the
country. The Primary team worked on a Language
Literature challenge and the 2 secondary teams
worked on a Maths Engineering challenge.
The Tournament of the minds competition involves
teams working collaboratively on a six week problem
solving exercise. The students then have to develop a
creative and original way to present this to the judges
on the day of the Tournament.
On the day of the competition students were also faced
with a ”spontaneous challenge. This challenge requires
rapid interchange of ideas, the ability to think
creatively and well-developed group cooperation
skills.
At the end of an exciting day of presentations and
challenge, St. Andrews students performed superbly
with one of our secondary teams gaining second prize
overall. Congratulations everyone!
Tel: 038-030-701/3 ▪ 038-893-716/8
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www.standrews-schools.com
Our Primary Team: Kaia, Arnon, Kim,
Samantha, Jennisa, Jake and Sebastian.
And a big thanks to Mrs Bradshaw!
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