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By Ben L, on May 4th, 2012
Garden’s super-talented musicians impressed a packed audience with their Spring Concert.
The GIS Spring Concert and Ceilidh was held on April 3 in the main hall. 
The evening began with the school choir singing HM’s the King’s Anthem, followed by a performance by the Yr 10 IGCSE Music group of ‘Soul Limbo’ (better known as the BBC’s cricket theme). After the orchestra performed a Basse Dance and Gopak, the flute group staged an intricate jazz medley.
Several Yr 7s then played ‘Water Come To Me Eye’, and then the school’s jazz band made their debut with ‘Town With an Ocean View’.
The popular ukulele band played an impressive three-chord megamix of songs from different decades, and then the Yr 8 group reminded everyone of the school’s sell-out musical Mama Mia, with their version of Super Trouper, which was sung by Praw.
The first half ended with the choir returning to the stage for two more songs – Lullaby and Cee Lo Green’s hit Forget You.
 After the break, the hall was transformed into a dance room. The Ceilidh Band then led several traditional dances, with senior students stepping in with several performances to give dancers a well-earned rest.
Well done to the Music Department, the performers and everyone who helped make the evening such a success.
By Ben L, on May 4th, 2012
A recent Science Fair allowed GIS students to demonstrate their scientific skills.
The fair was held at nearby St Andrews International School, Green Valley. While the students’ projects were being judged, some fun activities were held and a Science Show was staged by the St. Andrews’ science teachers. Our first challenge was to put together a square of jigsaw pieces. This wasn’t as easy as it sounds but, as GIS is great, we managed to solve it!
The next challenge was to measure out exactly 4L of water using a 5L bottle and a 3L bottle. We managed to solve this as well. We were doing well until the next challenge where we had to use a tennis ball, some paper, a bottle and masking tape to hold it together. We designed the rocket and added some water in the bottle. When we launched it using the provided launcher, our rocket simply blew apart. This was probably because of the masking tape not holding it together or too much pressure.
Despite this, the science show was fascinating and we all really enjoyed it. The Science Fair was a great event. All students worked very hard, with great results. There were 21 prizes, thanks to the generous sponsors.
Only 7 people participated in this event. Next year we are hoping to host this event. We enjoyed it and If you would’ve participated you’d have enjoyed as well.
Arjit.V and Abhi (Year 
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Celebrating Songkran
GIS students celebrated the Songkran new year festival with a special assembly. The Thai department put on several traditional Thai activities, including a demonstration of Muay Thai and some children’s games, including ‘pid taa tee moh’. Students then poured water over their teachers’ hands as a sign of respect.
By Ben L, on March 20th, 2012
 Students, parents and teachers enjoyed an activity-filled International Day at GIS on Friday, February 3.
GIS has students and teachers from an amazing 38 countries. The day began with HM the King’s anthem, followed by the flags of each nation being paraded in a special ceremony.
Students then came to the stage to stand for their respective national anthems.
The morning continued with a quiz in the main hall for Years 6-10 and various ‘international’ activities, including Thai cookery, ‘World Cup’ football and British pub games.
Foundation held their own activities to celebrate different nationalities and cultures, while primary undertook a ‘passport’ activity.
In the evening (pictured below), a range of international dishes was offered as parents, students and teachers joined to celebrate the day.
   
A special show was held in the main hall which featured performances from all over the world, from Spanish dancing to Russian singing. The hall was packed with parents, students and teachers who enjoyed another amazing show from the talented students at GIS.
By Ben L, on March 28th, 2010
 Budding authors enjoying their work... submitted by James Watkins
Our Year 5 Literacy group have recently finished writing their first book! Having been inspired by the Greek myths they have come across in both Topic and Literacy lessons, each of the children in the group has drafted, edited, written and published their own Greek myth, complete with heroes, fantasy creatures, and many of the inhabitants of Mount Olympus too. The book – titled “Great Greek Myths,” which contains all fourteen stories, has proved very popular around the school. Copies have been given to Mr Grisdale, Miss Horwell’s Literacy group, Miss Kirstie (whose Year 3 class are studying Greek myths) and the Library here at the school. It is brilliant to read what other children in the class have been writing, and the children have had lots of fun seeing what happens in each other’s stories.
This is the first book that Year 5 have produced, but judging by the quality of the writing, it should not be the last!
 A taste of the stories in the Year 5 book....
By Ben L, on March 17th, 2010
submitted by Emma Jones/ Written by Vishal (7S)
The Year 7 students here at Garden International School have been learning about Thailand and the different types of industries in the country. They have produced a sustainable tourism development plan for Phala Beach here in Rayong, Thailand. Here is one of the better submissions we received:
I am writing to discuss with you my ideas for sustainable development of tourism at Phala beach. I along with Kenny and Hui Eun have thought of some ideas that will make a development at Phala beach sustainable.
First of all, let me tell you about jobs. They will be given to poor people. They will get jobs like washing clothes, making food, guides, security guards, teachers and we will offer training. This will result in poverty reduction and the poor will be educated. The people will get a handsome amount of salary, free food and respect generated by the tourists that visit the hotel. We will give them training for speaking English and for the jobs they are going to be assigned.
The accommodation will be a Thai style lodge/hotel that will look good with Thai history teachers, Thai food 90% and foreign food like pizzas, burgers will be only available for a higher rate, this will result in saving money, and there will be only one or two foreign chefs and people will know more about Thai culture and food.
Our energy resources are green and we are going to use solar panels, wind turbines, tidal energy and normal electricity for emergency but there are problems and challenges we may face are viability and investors for the projects, correct technology, safety and environmental issues. To overcome these issues we need government and local people’s support and after we install them, we may have pollution because of the tidal energy.
We are going to be eco friendly and have recycling bins in many places, we are going to plant trees to make the air fresh, and the recycled products are going to be used again within the hotel. Oh, I forgot about the water purifying system so we do not dump bad things in the sea.
We are going to have a culture exchange event every night in which we have Thai dances and everyone telling about their country’s cultures that results in people know about other countries cultures.
We are also following a no smoking policy in the hotel, however, if you smoke you could be fined 2000THB.
Fun activities would be some Thai activities for example people learning how to make things out of sand and other activities like beach ball, swimming, and paragliding. That will result in people knowing Thai games and having their own fun activities.
Cultural activities: In this you will learn Thai language, see Thai dances (taking part is optional) and you go to Buddha temples that will take you one step ahead to learn Thai culture.
Transport-We will use tuk-tuk’s as they are local forms of transport and Thai Baht bus that can seat lots of people and will result in saving fuel.
Thank you for taking time to read this proposal!
By Ben L, on February 23rd, 2010
 Year 3 kids preparing the veggies Written by Kirstie Davies
As part of our Science topic on ‘Teeth and Eating,’ the children in year three had great fun designing and making their own healthy sandwiches in class. So when deciding what to put in their sandwiches, they chose ingredients from the five main food groups to show their understanding of the importance in having a varied and balanced diet. Naturally, the students decided in the end though the best part was, of course, eating their creations.
 Are the eyes bigger than the stomach?
By Sage Ball, on February 3rd, 2010
Last term’s Lone Wolf winner was Boat from 7S. Big congratulations to Boat for obtaining the most merits in Lower Secondary during the first term. The Form Merit Cup for the form group with the most merits in term one was won by 7S. Both the 7S and Boat (along with two friends) enjoyed their victory meal (fantastic reward for all that hard work) and their photos can be found in the library next to the cups. The winners from previous years can be viewed in their place of glory and are cemented in history on the library wall.
 All smiles, the victorious form group.  The Lone Wolf
By Ben L, on February 1st, 2010
 Hands up for Haiti from the GIS Primary!
Written by Sally Shiells
On Friday the 21st of January, the staff and students at GIS were allowed to wear any clothes they liked to school. We call this a mufti day, as students wear a school uniform on a daily basis. Therefore, we decided this could be a good way to raise money for the people of Haiti. Each person, students and teachers alike, who came to school dressed in casual clothes had to pay a minimum donation of 50 Baht, with a large number of participants deciding to donate even more!
In total we all managed to raise a staggering 45,332.75B!! Truly a huge amount of money, which has been sent to Oxfam. Oxfam is a group who are already on site in Port au Prince doing essential work to help the people of Haiti back on their feet.
Thank you again for all your donations and if you wish to contribute further please do so by following the link below:
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/
By Ben L, on January 20th, 2010
We spent 2 days and a night on a barge which moved along the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok. The barge took us to four different sites, where we tested the water quality. We found that the overall water quality improved as we moved away from Bangkok. Apart from the educational activities, we had great fun dressing up for role plays, swimming, canoeing, cooking, navigating and playing charades. Fun aside, we felt inspired to make simple changes to our daily lives to help reduce water pollution. Please take the time to come and look at our display and find out how you can help too.
 Searching for invertebrates. By IB1
By Jonathan Berry, on January 11th, 2010
 Year 10 IGCSE ESL students. Students recently, using The Times newspaper imported from England, used their skimming and scanning skills in our ESL (English as a Second Language) classes . This serves to further enhance their skills, which are tested in the IGCSE exam in Year 11.
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After the break, the hall was transformed into a dance room. The Ceilidh Band then led several traditional dances, with senior students stepping in with several performances to give dancers a well-earned rest.
