Children's Day

Universal Children's Day was introduced by the United Nations back in 1954. Thailand celebrated this day last Saturday and in the build up, Mr John's school had a number of activities organised for pupils.

There was an open day last Thursday and so I decided to pop along and check out the activities. Man, the noise level. There were educational games going on all around the hall along with various acts on stage.




Mr John and his co-Grade 6 teacher Yas set up a pop quiz. Coloured balloons represented topics and by throwing a dart at a balloon, you got a question on that topic. If you got the question right, you got a lolly / sweet / candy. Apparently there were some near misses with the darts early on but Mr John commandeered a couple of the more sensible students and trained them in Health & Safety! Thankfully, no child was harmed in the staging of this quiz.

Yas is a creative genius so Mr John considers himself the brains of the outfit not sure that's true!

We were treated to some traditional Thai dancing and one of Mr John's students was the Monkey King. It was very well done and amusing. I don't know who produced the costumes but they deserve a medal.

Yas had also got involved in producing the Year 7 play Cinderella. It was very funny with two boys playing Ugly Sisters. There's definitely a future for them on the stage!