Dear Parents and Swimmers

Keep up to date with all BISAC information via the BISAC swimming website:

https://sites.google.com/site/bisacswimmingchampionship/welcome-1

If you would like to book a place on the bus for either day please contact myself directly via victoria.g2@shrewsbury.ac.th the bus will depart SHB at 6.15am promptly on each day.

If you are planning on travelling directly to the competition, please arrive no later than 7am. I would like all children to recieve a full meet briefing before begining their warm up.

Due to the nature of the pool at Harrow, all swimmers who are part of a junior relay team must be confident in diving into shallow water. If you are not confident diving into shallow water, swimmers are permitted (and it is recommended) to start in the water. There will be a specific relay training session held for all junior relay swimmers on Tuesday evening 4-5pm.

If you have any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact me.

Best Wishes

Mrs Gill

Dear Parents and Swimmers

Entries for the Senior and Junior BISAC Swimming Championships are displayed on the swimming notice board, entries have also been distributed via the parent portal.

For this year two relay teams are permitted for each age group, only the fastest team will score valuable double points towards the team trophy. To check which relay team you are in, please visit the swimming notice board.

Final meet details will be distributed to all swimmers via the parent portal and will also here on the blog early next week.

Team Kit Reminder

Please may I take this opportunity to issue a polite reminder that ONLY the Shrewsbury Green and Gold team swim kit together with the white hat, (dark green Shrewsbury) is to be worn when representing Shrewsbury in any swim competitions.

If you need new kit – the swim hat is available to purchase in the school shop, Khun Monz will be available in School on Tuesday  24th March from 2.40pm should you need to purchase any new team swimming kit, goggles or other swimming equipment.

Best Wishes

Mrs Gill

Dear Swimmers and Parents

From today a session will begin at 3pm for all Senior swimmers and Junior swimmers in Level 4&5. Sessions will begin at 3pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, & Thursdays and at 3.30pm on Fridays. Monday sessions will continue as normal from 4pm onwards.

Swimmers will require the following at every session:

• Clothes for gym training (shorts, t-shirts and trainers)
• Snorkel
• Water bottle
• Swim Wear

Swimmers may also join the regular session at 4pm, if they are completing another You Time Activity prior to swimming.

Many Thanks

Mrs Gill

Congratulations to all swimmers who competed on Thursday in the U13 FOBISIA games hosted by Garden International School in Malaysia. After a long hot morning in the athletics stadium the swimmers moved to the Shal Alam Aquatics Centre where they dominated the Boys competition, convincingly winning both relay teams in the 50m pool.

Performing against the top 6 FOBISIA schools in Asia, Shrewsbury narrowly missed out on 2nd place by just 3 points and were only 23 points behind 1st place. This is an amazing performance from all swimmers coming of the back of a demanding training schedule of 4 sports and sets the senior team up well for the BISAC swimming championships on Sunday March 29th. Well done everyone you should be extremely proud.

Final Results:

Girls

1st Place Garden International School 189 points

2nd Place Alice Smith 180 points

3rd Place Bangkok Patana 148 points

4th Place SHREWSBURY 139 points

5th Place Tanglin 119 points

6th Place Dulwich 106 points

Boys

1st Place SHREWSBURY 170 points

2nd Place Bangkok Patana 147 points

3rd Place Garden International School 143 points

4th Place Dulwich 139 points

5th Place Alice Smith 132 points

6th Place Tanglin 123 points

Overall

1st Place Garden International School 332 points

2nd Place Alice Smith 312 points

3rd Place SHREWSBURY 309 points

4th Place Bangkok Patana 295 points

5th Place Dulwich 245 points

6th Place Tanglin 242 points

From hundreds of entries, the following three bookmarks were chosen as this year’s winners of the Fully Booked bookmark competition. Their designs will be turned into bookmarks for use by students, parents, and staff in the library next year. Congratulations to our winners, and many thanks to all who entered.

Pam in 2DV was selected as the winner from Pre-Prep for this entry:

Pearl in 6BH was selected as the winner for Prep for this entry:

Lucy in 8YM was selected as the winner in Senior for this entry:

We have 65 different magazines in the library , because these are a really important way to support students’ learning and other interests.  Here are some of the highlights from the magazines in February 2015.

Private Lessons

Simple-to-follow instruction tips designed to suit your game, whether you’re a straight hitter, powerplayer, beginner or senior.

Golf Monthly. February 2015 p.69

Lady Bankes Defends Corfe Castle

Patrick Little debunks the romantic accounts of Lady Mary Bankes’ brave resolve against parliamentarian siege during the Civil Wars.

History Today. February 2015 p.10

Distance Learning

Extend your skills through distance learning has come a long way since the days of the old-fashioned correspondence course. John Kelleher looks at some of the options for music education professionals.

Music Teacher. February 2015 p.16

What’s the Beef ?

The truth about meat and your health. It’s linked to cancer, heart disease and obesity. So will quitting meat save our bacon ?

New Scientist. January 2015 p.30

One Way to Mars

This year, both NASA and Mars One begin preparations for a mission to the Red Planet, but huge obstacles stand in their way.

BBC Focus. February 2015 p.38

48 Swimmers competed at ISB Splash over the weekend. Saturday saw the swimmers battle for the short course (25m pool) Team and Individual Age Group Trophies, while on Sunday the swimmers competed in the long course (50m Pool). Competing against 14 international teams, Shrewsbury were the only Bangkok school lucky enough to receive an invitation. The team competed in a total of 218 races of which 25 were first time swims in a long course pool.

Over the weekend a total of 139 personal best times (of a possible 193) were achieved this is a staggering 72% of all swimmers recording a personal best time.

27 Individual medals were won (7 Gold, 6 silver, 14 Bronze) and 6 Relay medals were won (1 gold – boys u8 100FS, 3 Silver,  2 Bronze)

Shrewsbury placed an amazing 4th overall in the total points competition:

and 8th in the average points competition (number of points / number of swimmers):

In the Individual points trophy awards:

Amelia achieved 2nd place in the U8 Category

Chad achieved 2nd place in the U8 Category

In the tough 11-12 category Rena achieved a well earned 3rd place.

Congratulations to all swimmers, the results from this weekend look extremely positive for BISAC at the end of the month.

FULL Meet Results ISB Splash Saturday

FULL Meet Results ISB Splash Sunday

SHB Saturday Results

SHB Sunday Results

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On Wednesday, 4th March, more than 30 Prep school students gathered in the Year 2 playground to display their Reading Fair entries. A special panel of judges evaluated the entries, with a special focus on the content, artistry, and effort. The top three prizes went to:

• 1st: Claudia in 4CD for “The Butterfly Lion” by Michael Morpurgo
• 2nd: Kate in 5AW for “The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell” by Chris Colfer
• 3rd: Amber in 6BH for “My Sister the Vampire” by Sienna Mercer

Congratulations all around to all of the students who entered, and many thanks to Ms Dennison, Ms Weston, and Ms Derry for serving on the judging panel. Special thanks to Ms Otter, co-organizer of the event.

The entries will be on display in the library through the end of next week.

Dear Swimmers and Parents

Please find below the link to the program for this weekend. All swimmers will receive a printed version of this program on Saturday morning.

Splash Meet Program Saturday 2015

Splash Meet Program Sunday 2015

Best Wishes

Mrs Gill

Dear Swimmers

For those swimmers who were selected into the BISAC Squad please remember to continue attending your weekly swimming commitments; we are carefully monitoring the attendance registers (Level 0 – 3: 2 sessions per week, Level 4 – 6: 3 sessions per week) to ensure only those swimmers fulfilling their training requirements are selected.

FREE FLOW HOUSE TICKETS

Until the end of term we will be offering Free 1 hour Flow House Ride Tickets as spot prizes during training. Flow House were are a major sponsor of the FOBISIA Swimming Championships and have provided the swim team with a small number of free tickets.  Over the next five weeks we will rewarding outstanding training / commitment with one of these spot prizes. These tickets may be issued for the following reasons:

• The first person from a squad on poolside ready to train
• Bringing the correct equipment to poolside – water bottle, shoes, kickboard, pull buoy etc
• Streamlining off every wall
• No breathing inside the flags – every time during the session
• Keeping the head down on every wall touch
• No breathing the first stroke off the wall – every time during the session
• Tumble turning every freestyle or backstroke set
• Two hand touch every breaststroke or butterfly set
• Being particularly helpful
• Working extra hard throughout the session
• The winning relay team in a training practice

Good luck swimmers.

Best Wishes

Mrs Gill