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Birthday treats and plastic packaging
Patana students love celebrating each other’s birthdays, but are often dismayed by the plastic packaging when treats are brought into school. Our students are currently thinking about reducing plastic waste – and this is a change that we could all make.
When bringing treats into school, please choose items that are not individually wrapped in plastic.
We provide a paper napkin from a roll – so individually wrapped napkins are not needed.
The children eat with their hands – so no need for individually wrapped forks or spoons.
Little changes can make a big difference.
A message from the swim team.
Recycling of ATK tests
Following our visit from Precious Plastics to school this week, we would like to highlight another one of their projects and would like Year 2 parents to join in from the comfort of their own homes.
ATKs are now a necessary part of our everyday lives. Based on rough estimates for the number of students across Bangkok’s 100 or more international schools doing weekly tests this could equal 26,000 kgs of ATK plastic waste across 1 school year! This isn’t counting tests being done by teachers. This plastic is being used once and sent straight to landfills.
Up until now, concerns about COVID transmission have stopped recyclers from accepting these tests. However, the latest science shows that COVID surface transmission is incredibly unlikely. We want to fix this by collecting ATK tests alongside our regular plastic collections.
Please join our campaign to reduce the amount of single-use ATK plastic waste in our city.
We have a set of easy to follow steps to safely recycle ATK test kits;
Step 1. Make sure ATK tests come back negative, we cannot accept positive results!
Step 2. Lightly bend the test until it separates, get rid of the small test strip inside.
Step 3. Rinse the 2 plastic parts.
Step 4. When you have a collection, send the 2 plastic parts to our address at FREC, 77 Nakhon Sawan Rd, Wat Sommanat, Pom Prap Sattru Phai, Bangkok 10100
We will take this plastic to make a special line of products. We will both disinfect the plastic and then melt the plastic to 180 degrees celsius so there is no chance of COVID surviving by the time it has been processed!
Thank you for your support!
#earthday2022 #preciousplastic #beatplasticpollution #plasticpollution #earthday
Performance Week and Solo Festival
We are excited to have two musical performance opportunities happening soon. Performance week is happening in regular class music lessons during, 9-13th May and Solo Festival is happening online between 12th-18th May. These are opportunities for any child who is learning a musical instrument to perform in front of a small audience or online with a recorded performance.
Performance Week happens during their regular timetabled music lessons and children can sign up to perform during their music lessons. It is an internal event with no spectators.
Please encourage your child to perform if they take lessons on an instrument and please help them to bring their music/instrument on the right day:
Monday 9th May 2B
Tuesday 10th May 2P and 2T
Wednesday 11th May 2E
Thursday 12th May 2L and 2S
Friday 13th May 2J
Solo Festival involves students recording their performance at home and uploading it to secure Flipgrid. All performers receive feedback on their performances. Register here if you would like further details as they become available.
| Date |
|---|
| Swimming gala Y2 - 18th May |
| HM Queen Suthida's Birthday - school closed - 3rd June |
| Dance Extravaganza - 6th June |
| Busking Day - fundraiser - 10th June |
| Last Day of Term 3 - 24th June |
Birthday celebrations
If you would like to send in some birthday treats for your child to share with their class, please arrange a day with your child's class teacher. We will only be able to manage individual items like brownies, doughnuts or cupcakes. Please remember we are a nut free Primary School. Your child's class teacher will try to get a photo to share with you.
Please can we remind you, to not bring in gifts for the class, either for birthdays, or on other special celebration days.
Here are our birthdays for next week. Have a super day!
10th May ; Harper 2T and Charn 2J
12th May ; Eason 2P
13th May ; Kiri 2C
| Department | Contact Number | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Office | 02 785 2258 | primary@patana.ac.th |
| Transport | 02 785 2470 | transport@patana.ac.th |
| Primary Nurse | 02 785 2478 02 785 5460 | nurse@patana.ac.th |
| ECAs | 02 785 2231 | eca@patana.ac.th |
| PTG | Year 2 Rep ptgy2@patana.ac.th | |
| Year Group Leaders | Tracey Williams trwi@patana.ac.th Liam Bowden libw@patana.ac.th |
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