Spotlight on Secondary Newsletter 28 February 2014 | Page 2

St. Andrews International School, Green Valley

February 28, 2014

Fantastic Four Storm into Finals of Young
Journalist of the Year Competition
Thailand’s Young Journalist Awards
We are delighted to announce that four of our
talented students have got through to the finals
of the Young Journalist awards. This is a fantastic
achievement as students throughout Thailand
enter this competition and there are only 12
finalists for each age group. These students are
now invited to spend a day presenting,
debating and hopefully picking up prestigious
awards in Bangkok on March 14th. Well done
and all the best in the finals!

Pictured above: Connor and Isabela from Year 10 are finalists in the Key Stage 4 (Years 10 – 11)
section and Jade Year 8 and Kamola Year 9 are finalists in the Key Stage 3 (Years 7 – 9) section.
Kamola was also a finalist in last years competition.

FOBISIA Drama Festival Update
A lucky group of 13 Students (and their very proud
drama teacher) from
St Andrews International
School Green Valley, recently attended the Drama
Fobisia Festival at BIS in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.
The festival took place from 5th – 8th February and
included an exciting range of workshops covering
Musical Theatre, Using Silence, Improvisation and
Devising. We also got to visit the Golden Dragon
Water Puppet Show where we saw puppets
magically performing on… yes you guessed it, water!
It was amazing and none of us could work out how
the puppets were controlled. The festival culminated
on Saturday 8th when the groups showed their
devised pieces to a large audience. Considering the
limited amount of time the groups had to create,
rehearse and stage each devised piece, the
standard was truly excellent. We are all looking
forward to the next Drama Fobisia in… Manila!

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FOBISIA Drama students relaxing before
their next workshop.