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Did you know 23 January 2012 – 9 February 2013 is the Year of The Dragon in the Chinese zodiac?

Does this mean it will be our year to win the House Competition?  We’ve made a great start so far!

“Dragons are magnanimous, stately, vigorous, strong, self-assured, proud, noble, direct, dignified, eccentric, intellectual, fiery, passionate, decisive, pioneering, artistic, generous, loyal, wise, humble, imperious, foresighted, demanding, intolerant, peaceful, impetuous, understanding, and blunt”  Can you spot any of these qualities in yourself?

You guys rock!

Samui 1^st place = 850 house points!

Lanta 2^nd place = 710 house points

Phuket 3^rd place = 700 house points

Chang 4^th place = 660 house points

A fantastic term’s work of which we can all be justifiably proud.  

Personal highlights for me have been that:

·      We’ve gone from a dismal 4^th place in the recycling last year to a superb 1^st – we even beat Phuket!

·      Special thanks for this must surely go to 7P and 7T as they truly have been the Kings and Queens of recycling this term – thank you to Y7 Dragons for their efforts!

·      The two tutor groups who handed in the most credits from Y8 were 8M and 8G – both Samui groups; well done and thank you!

·      The two tutor groups who handed in the most credits from Y9 were 9S and 9P – both Samui groups; well done and thank you!

Well done to all of you and thank you for your efforts this term.  See you back and refreshed in term 2 – let’s see if we can hold on to our title of winners of House Athletics for a second year!

J Merry Christmas! J

Merry Christmas, Dragons!

House writing competition - Tita's winning entry

1^st place for Tita and if you read it I’m sure you’ll see why…

Tita Kanjanapas 10W Samui           KS4/Senior Studies Winner

You there. Yes you! What do you think you’re doing here? Really, imagine being in school at this ungodly hour. Forgot your bag say? Well go and get it then! Kids these day I really shou –whats that? What am I doing here? How rude, I am the janitor of course. You’ve never seen me before. Well. You’re just unobservant then aren’t you? Honestly, Patana kids are a snobbish lot nowadays aren’t they. Not at all like they were in the past, ah yes, those were the days; the days when the glory of the Samet house rained down upon the school hallways and –eh? Yes there is. There has always been a Samet house. No there are five...well, were five. Old minds like mine don’t forget things like that…That is a very good question. What didn’t happen when Samet house was around? Bless, they were magnificent. They wore their wonderful purple shirts to scho –yes there was. They had their own special shirt made just for them. Don’t interrupt me child. Now, where was I. Ah yes, did you know houses used to be selective? There was a hat see. A hat that –no it didn’t talk silly. Hats don’t talk. Harry who? Don’t be silly now. The hat measured the size of your head. The largest heads were always the smartest, therefore were always contested over by Phuket and Samui house. The narrowest heads were the athletes…why? Aerodynamics child! Doesn’t school teach you anything? Then the flat ones were artistic ones. These were always sought by Chang house. However it was Samet house that always picked first. They say Billigan, the head of Samet house had a deal with the principle, Norwin. They had a calculation for the perfect head shape that procured them legends, year after year. After a while the other houses got jealous. How could they not? Samets got the best grades, they dominated the sports teams, they wrote symphonies. Bless, they were a polite lot too, always picking up trash and recycling. What happened next could only be described as criminal. The heads of the other house decided to poison the Samet’s water! And yes, they had their own water. They only drank mineral water imported from France. Kill them? Good god no! Don’t you think a couple hundred dead bodies would be hard to hide? What the poison did was make them old, just old enough so that they couldn’t go to school. Each child had a massive growth spurt, until the school had to kick them out. The board feared government intervention and banned people from talking about it. They punished houses by preventing them from choosing their students. Billigan was devastated by the loss of his legends and swore to remain at the school, hidden, until the time was right for Samet house to rise again. Now child, you must go. Your mother must be waiting. My name? Well…since you listened so well. You may call me Bill.

House Athletics - records from previous years

Boys&girlsrecords.xlsx Download this file

House Athletics is on Wednesday 8^th February 2012.

Have a look at the spread sheet to see what the current record from previous years for each event is.  There are no records for 300m and up because we’ve just found out that the track’s a bit too short – this problem will be fixed for this year’s events.

Think you can beat any of those records?  Great!  Look out for more details about how you sign up for an event and bring glory to Samui after the Christmas break.  5 bonus points to everyone who breaks a record!

6.8 Field around current carrying conductor simulation

We're in the lead!

Thanks to a great effort by Y8 this morning, SAMUI are now NUMBER ONE!

Y8 Inter-house Basketball

Well done to Y8 Dragons for some great work on the court this morning!

1^ST Chang

2^ND Samui

3^RD Phuket

4^TH Lanta

Valuable points over Lanta – will that be enough to put us into first place overall?!

There's just 5 points in it now!

Come on Samui – we can close that gap!

Let’s have a really big push on recycling next week

And good luck to Y8 for Inter-house BB next Thursday – whatever you do, just beat Lanta!

Results from the House writing competition

KS3 writing competition

·        Samui 2^nd place = Benjada Korprasertsri (Nucky)

KS4/5 writing competition

·        Samui 1^st  place = Smita Kanjanapas (Tita)

Well done to Tita and Nucky for their fantastic entries!

We had already won the participation part of the competition with the most entries for the KS4/5 competition and the second most entries for the KS3 competition.  Now that we’ve got a first and second in the writing part of the competition that puts us firmly in first place overall!  Well done and thank you to everyone who took part – a fantastic effort!