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Over the past month swimmers have undergone trials for the first ever stand alone FOBISIA Swimming Championships. Previously FOBISIA swim meets have only been available as part of a three day multi sport competition. Shrewsbury are honored to be hosting the first FOBISIA Swimming Age Group Championships.

The Championships will be held over three days in January 2015. The first two days – Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th January will take the form of preliminary heats with the finals held on Sunday 25th January 2015.

Similar to the BISAC Swimming Championships only 4 swimmers per age group event may compete for each event title, the age groups (Age on January 26th) are as follows:

9 Years

10 Years

11 Years

12 Years

13-14 Years

15 Years +

The fastest four swimmers in each event have been invited to join the FOBISIA Squad (please kindly note this is NOT the Primary FOBISIA Games Team – selection for this team will take place in term 2 – more details to follow later).

If you have been unsuccessful in obtaining a place in the FOBISIA Age Group Championship squad, please continue training hard. Early in 2015 trials will be held for the BISAC squad. The BISAC Swimming Championships will take place 27th – 29th March 2015.

Congratulations to the following swimmers who have been selected to represent Shrewbury at the FOBISIA Invitational Age Group Swimming Championships:

Girls

9 Years 10 years 11 years 12 Years 13-14 Years

15 Years +

Angie

Naomi

Genis

Amelia

Kate

Prim P

Purse

Rin

Sarah C

Gam

Prim J

Thane

Beam

Tiana

Alex W

Prim B

Praew

Proud

Gaby

Meiji

Pam

Jam

Barbie

Celina

Rena

Benny

Tara

Nat

Shaya

Emy

Proud L

Nana

Olivia

Proud C

Faye

Boys

9 Years 10 years 11 years 12 Years 13-14 Years

15 Years +

Loogcluin

Pind

Guy

Anuv

Chad

Gunn

Dan

Game

Euro

Pon

Jia

Uno

Bobby

Matthew P

Pump

Win

Po

Matthew W

Adit

Peem

Pun

Guss

Alex T

K-Tung

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 November 2014.

 

SAR oct 14

 

Cat (Slave) Phenomenon

Meet the famous cats in social media ‘Kingdom of tigers’ and others. With beautiful stories between the cats and their owner, it will make you love them even more !

Sarakadee Magazine. October 2014 p.78

 

 

NEW INT 477 14

Ending the Oil Age

Change is coming. The dominance of the ‘oil majors’ is being assailed from all sides. Jess Worth examines whether growing pressure for divestment, disruption and alternatives can knock Big Oil off its perch.

New Internationalist. November 2014 p. 12

 

 

crafts nov 14

 

Christmas Gift Guide

Christmas is coming ! Have any idea for the gifts yet? These articles might help you come up with something special for your special someone !

Crafts. November 2014 p.68

 

 

BBC FOC nov 14

How to Travel Faster Than Light

This month, the movie ”Interstellar” depicts humans exploring deep space. Stuart Clark investigates the possibility of rapidly traversing the Universe using worm holes, warp drives and a mysterious substance called negative energy.

BBC Focus. November 2014 p. 37

 

NEW SCI 1nov 14

 

Thinking Out Loud

The voice inside your head may soon find its way out, thanks to a technique that can decode the words you are thinking !

New Scientist. November 2014 p. 8

Congratulations to all swimmers who attended the ISB SwimFest at the weekend, it was a very long and very hot swim meet, all swimmers should be exceptionally proud of their performances.

Shrewsbury achieved amazing results winning the Average Points Trophy and placing 4th overall with 936 points (last year 6th place 562 points). A special mention goes out the following swimmers:

 

Loogcluin – Winner of the Under 8 Boys (Winner 25m Backstroke, Winner 25m Freestyle, 2nd Place 25m Butterfly, 3rd Place 25m Breaststroke)

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Prim P – Winner of the Under 8 Girls  (Winner 100IM, Winner 25m Butterfly, Winner 25m Freestyle, 2nd Place 50m Freestyle)

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Win – Winner of the 11-12 years Boys (Winner 200m IM, Winner 100m Freestyle, Winner 50m Butterfly, 2nd Place 50m Freestyle)

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Boys Under 8 Winners of the Medley Relay and Freestyle Relay

 

Girls Under 8 2nd Place Medley Relay and Freestyle Relay

 

Boys 11-12 Years Winners of the Freestyle Relay

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Girls 11-12 Years 2nd Place Medley Relay and 3rd Place Freestyle Relay

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Gunn 2nd Place  Boys Under 8 25m Backstroke

 

Olivia 3rd Place Girls 15+ 100m Breaststroke

 

Rena 3rd Place Girls 11-12 years 50m Butterfly

 

Win also recorded the largest personal best improvement of 11.85s in his 200 IM

 

Congratulations to the following swimmers who set new SC school records:

Prim P: U8 25m Freestyle, U8 50m Freestyle, U8 100m IM

Genis: 9 Years 50m Backstroke, 50m Butterfly,

Rin: 10 Years 100m Freestyle, 50m Breaststroke

Rena 11-12 Years 100m Freestyle, 200m IM,

Loogcliun U8 25m Freestyle, 25m Butterfly

Pump: 10 years 50m Backstroke

Win 11-12 years: 100m Freestyle, 50m Butterfly, 200 IM

Olivia 15 Year +: 100Breaststroke, 50m Fly, 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle

 

To view the current school records please follow the link below, (also available from the front page)

Short Course (25m) Records November 2014

 

146 races were swum of these 108 were personal best times, this is a staggering rate of 74%.

Full results can be found below:

ISB SwimFest Results 2014

 

Congratulations to every swimmer, your outstanding hard work and dedication to your training at school is clearly showing.

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“H.A.C.K เจาะระบบ ไขรหัสมรณะ”  by EniGma

Review by Ms MaMeaw

Genre – Fiction (Action-Adventure Fiction, Science Fiction)

Rating – 9.5/10

H.A.C.K เจาะระบบไขรหัสมรณะ เรื่องราวของเด็กชายวัย 13 ปี ผู้มีร่างกายผอมบาง ดูขี้โรค ไม่เป็นที่น่าจดจำของสังคม แต่ใครจะรู้ว่า พันธรัตน์ รัตนพันธ์เด็กท่าทางขี้โรคคนนั้นจะเป็นแฮกเกอร์มือฉมังไปเสียได้

ด้วยความสามารถที่ไม่มีใครรู้ เป็นเหตุให้พันธรัตน์ถูกเลือกให้เข้าไปพัวพันกับองค์กรลับใต้ดินที่เต็มไปด้วยความน่าทึ่ง อัศจรรย์ และน่าประหลาด ผู้คนมากหน้าหลายตาในองค์กรที่ไม่ระบุชื่อจริงแต่กลับมีชื่อแฝงที่ทำให้พันธรัตน์สุดจะงงงวย ทั้งหมายเลขเก้า Mr. R Mr. O Mr. E จะมีกี่หมายเลข และกี่ Mr. กันเชียว นอกจากสิ่งแปลกใหม่ที่ได้เจอ พันธรัตน์เด็กชายจอมขี้เกียจผู้มีแต่สมองในการคิดวิเคราะห์ ต้องออกแรงต่อสู้กับฝ่ายตรงข้ามที่เขาเองก็ไม่รู้เช่นกันว่าคือใคร และเป็นตัวอะไร! ยิ่งกว่าเรื่องราวอันน่าพิศวงได้เกิดขึ้นกับเขาทุกเมื่อที่มีโอกาส อีกหนึ่งสิ่งที่ทำให้พันธรัตน์ยิ่งประหลาดใจยิ่งขึ้นไปอีกคือคนในองค์กรประหลาดนี้รู้จัก “พ่อ” ของเขา พ่อที่แม่ไม่เคยแม้แต้จะเอ่ยถึงให้เขาได้ยินเสียด้วยซ้ำ

คำถามผุดขึ้นในสมองราวกับดอกเห็ด ทุกขณะที่เขาก้าวย่างถลำลึกลงไปในเรื่องราวอันน่าประหลาดกับองค์กรณ์ลับ ทางเดียวที่จะรู้คำตอบเหล่านั้นคือเขาต้องก้าวเดินไปข้างหน้าเท่านั้น พันธรัตน์จะเป็นอย่างไรเมื่อเขาเลือกที่จะเดินทางสายนี้ ติดตามอ่านได้ใน H.A.C.K เจาะระบบไขรหัสมรณะ เล่มที่ 1 วรรณกรรมเยาวชนการันตีคุณภาพจากการพิมพ์ครั้งที่ 7 และเสียงตอบรับมากมายจากผู้อ่านบนอินเตอร์เน็ต

เพียงแค่ได้หยิบขึ้นมาอ่านเท่านั้น คุณจะวางหนังสือเล่มนี้ไม่ลง!

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Please follow the link below for the meet program for this afternoon. Warm up will begin at 2.40 with the first race at 3pm. The meet will also run on Meet Mobile.

Some swimmers are swimming up in to the next age group, this is to allow them to swim either the 200IM or 50m event for the FOBISIA swimming trials. If you find your name has been mistakenly missed from the program, please do not worry we can add you on poolside.

SHB v SAS Friendly Meet Program

***This meet is only for current members of the swimming program, trials for new swimmers to join the program will be held in January 2015***

Dear Parents and Swimmers

A polite reminder that on Tuesday November 18th Shrewsbury International School will be hosting St Andrews Samakee International School in a friendly swim meet.

If Tuesday is not your normal training session and you would like to be included within this swim meet, please contact Mrs Gill before Lunch Time on Tuesday.

This friendly meet will start at 3.15pm and will conclude by 4.45pm (if Tuesday is your usual you time session, you will be collected in the normal manner at 2.40pm). If you do another You-Time on Tuesdays please ensure you have excused yourself from this activity with either Khun Lynn or Khum Tum in the Activities Office.

If you wish to trial for the FOBISIA SWIMMING Age Group Championships in January this will be your final opportunity to improve your 50m times before the team is selected on November 28th. The FOBISIA Swimming Age Group Championships are open to swimmers who will be 9 years and older on January 26th. Swimmers who will still be 8 years old on January 26th are welcome to trial for the team, with the fastest 4 swimmers per event being selected.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have questions or queries regarding the swim meet.

Many Thanks

Vicki

The True Stories Behind Classic Fairy Tales

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Valerie Ogden Headshot

Fairy tales, gripping, magical and inspiring, are master narratives. Children subconsciously recall their messages as they grow older, and are forced to cope with real injustices and contradictions in their lives. Some fairy tales are based on legends that incorporated a spiritual belief of the culture in which they originated, and were meant to emulate truth.Numerous fairy tales, and the legends behind them, are actually watered-down versions of uncomfortable historical events. These darker stories might be too terrifying for today’s little lambkins, as well as some adults! Their horrific origins, which often involve rape, incest, torture, cannibalism and other hideous occurrences, are brimming with sophisticated and brutal morality. Their images cannot be dispelled easily and their lessons are more powerful than the present-day, innocuous fables they resemble.In the early 1800’s Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected stories that depicted the unpredictable and often unforgiving life experienced by central Europeans. These brothers, determined to preserve the Germanic oral story telling that was vanishing, poured over the folklore of the region. Their first collection of stories was based on actual, gruesome events. However, they had to provide lighter interpretations of these factual incidents in order to sell books. Consequently they paid attention to previously printed fairytales, particularly those of Charles Perrault. As early as the 17th century, this Frenchman who is thought to be the father of fairy tales, created some of the most imaginative and delightful stories ever told. His confabulations of a pumpkin carriage and Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, for example, are magnificently enchanting. His original Cinderella, based on a true story, contains violent elements as well, since the wicked stepsisters butcher their own feet while trying to get into the slipper that the Prince had found.

Perrault’s tales, albeit charming, were unsentimental; for they were intended for adults, because no children’s literature existed at the time. His suspense story, BLUEBEARD, reads like a crime thriller, with the bloody knives and curious dead wives, his moral, that women should be less nosy, apparent. Perrault based his fairy tale on two accounts of dark depravity in Brittany, France. The earlier of the two accounts dealt with a savage, 6th century ruler. The second detailed the acts of a nobleman, named Gilles de Rais, who tortured, mutilated, raped and murdered hundreds of innocent children. My book explores the life and crimes of this tragic, historic figure.

The almost barbaric episodes that follow are just a smattering of fairy tales, as we know them today, derived from spoken legends which were based on facts. The morals these stories convey are far more important than the events themselves, the circumstances of which are often forgotten. These cautionary tales, where good conquers evil, the wicked get punished, the righteous live happily ever after, offer hope that one can do something positive about changing oneself and the world.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The fairy tale is based on the tragic life of Margarete von Waldeck, a 16th century Bavarian noblewoman. Margarete grew up in Bad Wildungen, where her brother used small children to work his copper mine. Severely deformed because of the physical labor mining required, they were despairingly referred to as dwarfs. The poison apple is also rooted in fact; an old man would offer tainted fruits to the workers, and other children he believed stole from him.

Margarete’s stepmother, despising her, sent the beauty, to the Brussels court to get rid of her. There Prince Philip II of Spain became her steamy lover. His father, the king of Spain, opposing the romance, dispatched Spanish agents to murder Margarete. They surreptitiously poisoned her.

rapunzel

Rapunzel
Rapunzel draws upon an early Christian story. In the third century A.D. a prosperous pagan merchant, living in Asia Minor, so adored his beautiful daughter he forbade her to have suitors. Accordingly he locked her in a tower when he traveled. There is no mention how hair became important, but she converted to Christianity, praying so loudly when the merchant left, her devotions reverberated throughout town. The merchant, informed of her actions, dragged her before the Roman pro-consul who insisted the father behead her or forfeit his fortune if she should refuse to give up her newfound religion. The father decapitated her but was killed by a lightning strike soon after. She became the martyr, Saint Barbara, revered by the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Bluebeard
Perrault wove his story around Conomor the Cursed, the Breton chief who had been forewarned he would be slain by his own son. As soon as one of his wives became pregnant, he murdered her. But Perrault was more fascinated by Gilles de Rais, a wealthy 15th century nobleman, a hero of the Hundred Years’ War, Joan of Arc’s protector on the battlefield. After he left the military he became a notorious serial killer of children. He was given the nickname, Bluebeard, because his horse’s sleek fur looked blue in the daylight. At his shocking trial, he described in detail how he had preyed upon and tortured innocent children. Perrault drew upon these facts to conjure up his own nightmarish character.

hansel

Hansel and Gretel
The tale of Hansel and Gretel could have been told to keep children from wandering off. But during the great famine of 1315-1317 A. D. that crushed most of continental Europe and England, disease, mass death, infanticide and cannibalism increased exponentially. Seeking relief, some desperate parents deserted their children and slaughtered their draft animals.

Or Hansel and Gretel might have stumbled upon the home of the successful baker, Katharina Schraderin. In the 1600s, she concocted such a scrumptious ginger bread cookie that a jealous male baker accused her of being a witch. After being driven from town, a posse of angry neighbors hunted her down, brought her back to her home, and burned her to death in her own oven.

Little Jack Horner
This story matches events in the life of Bishop Richard Whiting of Glastonbury and his steward, who was perhaps named Jack Horner. When King Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic Church and dissolved its Monasteries in England, Glastonbury remained the sole religious home in Somerset. Whiting, trying to keep the abbey, bribed the King by offering him twelve Catholic manorial estates. To thwart potential thieves, he hid the deeds to the estates in a pie crust. But the seventy-nine-year-old Bishop, convicted of treason for serving Rome, was drawn, quartered and hung at Glastonbury Tor overlooking the town. His “good” steward absconded with the plum deed to the Manor of Mells, and Horner’s descendants lived there until the 20th century.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin
In 1264, a pied piper had offered to get rid of the numerous rats in the Germanic village of Hamelin, as long as the town elders gave him a considerable amount of money upon the completion of this task. After he disposed of the rats, the elders reneged on their promise. Furious, the piper enticed the children of the village to follow him. They never returned.

Some believe the Piper led the innocents to the Mediterranean to join the Children’s Crusade leaving for the Holy Land. Presumably children would peacefully convert Moslems to Christianity after the Mediterranean rolled back, allowing their safe passage to Jerusalem. The Sea did not oblige, and many children starved to death waiting for the miracle to occur.

cinderella

Cinderella
That blond, fair-complexioned, but mistreated beauty in Perrault’s tale loosely relates to the history of Rhodopis, a Greek woman, whose name means “rosy-cheeked.” When she was a young girl, she was captured in Thrace, sold into slavery around 500 BC, and taken to Egypt.

Her unusual looks made her a treasured commodity, and her master showered her with gifts, including a pair of golden shoes. These shoes and Rhodopis were noticed by the Pharaoh, Ahmose II. He insisted she become one of his wives. While not his principal, revered partner, born of royal blood, she would still perform ceremonial functions and…mainly be readily available to gratify Ahmose sexually. Did her new found status offer her perpetual happiness? Probably not.

Valerie Ogden is the author of Bluebeard: Brave Warrior. Brutal Psychopath.

With the competition season about to begin, if you believe that missing 1 session will not make any difference, think again…

 

Aerobic endurance is lost 3 x faster than you gain it!

 

Miss 1 session and you have actually missed 3,

 

Miss 2 sessions and you have actually missed 6,

 

Miss 3 sessions and you have actually missed 9, – that’s 9 additional sessions then needed to make up your lost endurance

 

Train Hard and it WILL be worth it!

 

See you all at training this week 🙂 🙂

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 October 2014.

 

art ill oct14

 

Time for Reflections

Try to paint on glass and you can often get caught up in complex details. Royal Institute of Oil Painters member Lucy McKie shows a quick, subtle and more painterly way to work.

Artists Illustrators. October 2014 p. 49

 

 

wired oct14

 

Videogames Boost Literacy

Minecraft is the hot new videogame among teachers and parents. Not only gives you the reasoning , math and logic skill. It also teaches something else!

Wired. October 2014 p.48

 

 

music teacher oct14

 

The Power of Group Teaching

Many children and adults prefer to learn with others. There is something about being ‘ in this together ’. The reason for this is most likely emotional and the desire to enjoy the learning process collectively. Find out more about group teaching’s benefits !

Music Teacher. October 2014 p.46

 

comarts oct14

 Don’t be scared of Failure

Everyone, at any level of their career, should have an interest in education. As designers, we should never lose the enthusiasm to learn, or the willingness to make mistakes , said Craig Oldham.

Computer Arts. October 2014 p.28

 

 

 

economist 4-10oct14

 

Japan’s Bullet Trains

Interesting facts about Japanese bullet trains or Shinkansen. They have been rolling for 50 years without a fatal accident.

The Economist. October 2014 p. 28

 

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