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Green Toy Creative Sparks

Library Drive Juniornior - A.Kyle

- A.Kim
M2 Students will take part in the annual "Green Toy
Library Drive", the week of July 15th. Both classes
will be baking or cooking food products to help raise
money for the project. The students need to raise
25,000 baht to set up a toy library. The second step in the process of setting
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up the toy library, is to give good used toys, games, puzzles, or books, or to ,p , ,
buy new and give to the program.
Along with the responsibility of making food
products and selling them, students will learn For the past past
citizenship perseverance, responsibility, trust- ive years EPTS have
worthiness, fairness and planning skills. Students published an annual anthology of
will be collecting toys till the middle of August. If f student writing entitled Creative
you would like to donate, just drop off toys in the Sparks. This year Aj. Kyle has
box in front of room 313. initiated with his M.1 Creative
Writing students the Creative
EPTS Healthy Body Sparks Club, or Creative Sparks Jr.
for these new students to practice
Healthy Mind and explore expressing their ideas
through writing. The club had their
- A.Paranee irst meeting during lunch time on
July 9th 2014, and they will meet
This is a counselling project for students, teachers, and parents who would subsequently at the same time
like to explore more about themselves in order to make a full development in each week in the Jazz Music Room.
lives in almost every aspects. Our counselling sessions have two professional Activities will include reading, book
experts in children and young adults: Dr Jom, the psychiatrist, and Ms sharing, illustration concepts and
Pisinee, the psychologist who will provide useful advice and support in every skills, creativity and problem solving
session. The program runs on Friday twice a month. Anyone interested in this activities, and (of course) writing!
program, please feel comfortable to make an appointment in advance with
Ajarn Paranee, project coordinator, or you can let the class teacher know for
further appointment.

Amnesty International is the world’s
largest human rights movement,
with over three million supporters
worldwide.Its fundamental mission - A.Brad
is to create awareness of human The EPTS Amnesty
rights issues, to campaign for people
who are suffering from injustice International Club
and to act for people in distress.
The EPTS Amnesty International Club was started three years ago to help promote
student awareness of global human rights issues both in and out of the classroom. It
kicked off its irst meeting of the 2014 school year on Wednesday, July 9. Ms. Nawaphon
Supawitkul, an Amnesty International activism of icer, provided a brief overview of what
Amnesty International is about and then led the students through a fun classi ication-
type game, which helped them connect human rights to their lives. After that, the
students were shown a video clip about the individual- at- risk case of Mr. Chiou Ho
Shun, a Taiwanese man who has been wrongfully imprisoned on murder charges for over
twenty three years and is currently on death row. The students s
were encouraged to participate in a letter writing campaign to try y
and persuade the Taiwanese authorities to allow a fair retrial.
Some M6 students are taking charge of organizing and d
promoting EPTS Amnesty International club campaigns and d
events for the 2014 academic year.For more information, ,
please contact Jub or Namtan in room 6/511. They are e
currently working on setting up a Facebook page that ttttttttttttt
should be up and running sometime in the near future.

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