Spotlight on Secondary Newsletter May 9, 2014 | Page 4

St. Andrews International School, Green Valley

May 9, 2014

St Andrews Continuing Support of Habitat For Humanity
As part of the IB, CAS plays an integral role in involving our St Andrews students in community based
projects. The CAS students have been working hard raising funds to support many worthy causes
during the past 10 months. We have donated 60,000baht to Habitat for Humanities ‘Rebuild the
Philippines’ Appeal following cyclone Haiyan and 120,000baht to Operation Smile, Thailand. We
endeavor, when we can, to have a hands-on role in helping others and encourage students to get
involved such as the Habitat builds or Operation Smile Medical Missions.
One of our ongoing partnerships has been with Habitat for Humanity, Thailand. Last year we built a
new home for one of our local residents who was struggling to maintain a home, suitable for her family.
This year we had a really exciting request from Habitat to assist in establishing a Community Learning
Centre in Ban Chang.
The build will took place on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th April in a small village, near St Andrews. The
students toiled in the searing heat for two days to dig an enormous pit that measured approximately
5m long by 2m wide and 2m deep – that’s a whopping 20m3 of dirt that was dug! After two days of
digging, mixing cement, bricklaying, building sewerage tanks and lots and lots of sweat, we were
finished and the Sumnakthorn Community Center finally has a building where they can teach the
invaluable agricultural skills that have been neglected for so long.

Upcoming Secondary Events
May
Thur 8 IGCSE Exams begin
Mon 12 Music Rock Concert at 6pm
Tues 13 Visaka Bucha Day Public Holiday
(except students who have IB and
IGCSE exams)
Thur 15 Secondary School Swimming Carnival
Sat 17 St Andrews Golf Tournament
Thur 22 Last day of IB exams
Fri 23 Year 13 Graduation Ceremony
Thur 29 Annual Poetry Slam
June
2 – 6 Exam Week for Year 7 – 10 & 12
8 – 13 Year 12 Biology, ESS and Geography
trip to Chiang Mai
9 – 13 Year 10 Work Experience
Mon 16 Rock School Exams (3.30pm)
Wed 18 Year 10 Drama Production (evening)
18 – 20 Year 7 trip to Ayuthaya
Fri 20 Year 10 Trip to Ford
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