Bangkok Patana School

Infobox School2
name = Bangkok Patana School
motto = "The British International School in Thailand"
mission statement =
"To ensure that students of different nationalities grow to their full potential as independent learners in a caring British international community."

type = Private, Mixed Day "British International School"
head_name = Head of School
head = Matt Mills
founder = Rozamund Stuetzel
established = 1957
city = Bangkok
country = Thailand
mascot = Tigers
school_colours = Black and Orange
enrollment = 2600
accreditation =
CIS and NEASC

website = http://www.patana.ac.th

Bangkok Patana School or "BPS" is a British International School located in Bangkok, Thailand. Established in 1957, BPS offers education in the British tradition to over 2600 pupils including children and young adults from 53 nations.

Located in the heart of Southeast Asia at the southeastern corner of Bangkok, Bangkok Patana School is situated on Sukhumvit 105 road, which is also known as "Soi Lasalle". Occupying approximately 35 acres in the outskirts the city, the BPS campus has many recreation facilities, including three basketball courts, three swimming pools, nine football fields, one indoor gymnasiums and a newly established sports hall opened during 50th Anniversary of the school. The sports hall includes three basketball courts which can also be used as three volleyball or badminton courts. The school also has an additional three volleyball courts. On the upper level of the new sports hall there are two dance floors and a fully equipped exersis room. It is one of the best and most recognised schools in Thailand.

Fees

260,400 THB (nursery) to 430,200 THB (senior students) per annum.

Education

Bangkok Patana School is the British International School of Bangkok. It uses the British schooling system up to and including year 11, which ends with the IGCSE examinations. At Keystage 5 it offers the IB Diploma instead of the A Levels.

The school is divided into two sections, the Elementary school (Kindergarten-Year 6) and the Secondary school (Year 7-Year 13).

Bangkok Patana School is affiliated to the Council of International Schools and has just been re-accredited. BPS is one of Bangkok’s most popular international schools and has a long waiting list for admission of Thai citizens. This is because international schools are only allowed to have a small percentage (approx. 19%) of local students Fact|date=May 2007.

ubjects

Bangkok Patana School has a lot of subjects taught. These include the core subjects of English, Mathematics and Science. The school also includes the subjects of geography, history, physical education, modern foreign languages, offering Spanish, Mandarin, French, German, Japanese, Thai and Hebrew (as of 2008). The secondary section at Patana also offers students peripetetic music lessons.

Uniform

For Secondary, the uniform consists of black trousers or skirt (and "skorts"), and a choice of either a white, maroon or a navy blue polo shirt. In Primary (Elementary), girls wear trousers or skirt with a similar top. The colours are blue, red or pink. The boys have to wear a white t-shirt with blue shorts. All students must wear white or black socks and black leather shoes. Year 12 and 13 do not wear a specified uniform but conform to a strict dress code.The house T-shirts consists of four different colours which are blue,red,yellow and green.

Clubs

* Habitat for Humanity
* Community Club
* Interact Club
* The Patana Green Team
* G.A.F.O
*H.O.P.E
* G.I.G
* Debate Team
* Youh Club
* M.U.N

Events

Spirit Day, International Day, Loy Kratong, Christmas, Songkran. Patana has events like busking day, bring and buy sale, bake sale etc. They happen during school days.

House System

The House system is currently in use at the school. Students are assigned to 4 houses which are named after famous islands of Thailand. The houses compete for points which determine the winning house at the end of each academic year. These points can come in the form of individual academic achievements, inter-house sporting competitions, talent shows, quizzes and also a Swimming Gala. Students vote in new house representatives each year, including representatives (one male and one female student) for each year group and also representatives for the entire house.

The houses are as follows:
* Lanta. House colour: Yellow
* "'Samui. House colour: Red
* Chang. House colour: Green
* Phuket. House colour: Blue

ports

The sports teams in the school compete under the name and mascot: Tigers. Each sports teams use variations of the Tiger name, such as the tiger sharks for the swim team. Teams compete at high levels, including tournaments like BISAC, SEASAC and FOBISSEA even at the Varsity level in sports like Basketball, Football, Volleyball, Softball, Swimming, Badminton and Athletics. Patana just opened their new sports hall to comembrate their 50th anniversary, which was opened by HRH the Princess of Thailand. Patana has achieved a lot of awards with one of the greatest sports teams in Bangkok. The sport team is highly known as a great competitor against some other really good challenging schools. Bangkok Patana School along with other schools from around South-East Asia competete in the FOBISSEA tournament every year. They have a range of, U9, U11, U13, U15, Junior Varsity and Varsity. Every year Bangkok Patana also has a Primary vs. Secondary teachers football match.

port Rivals

* New International School of Thailand
* Ruamrudee International School
* International School Bangkok
* KIS International School
* Harrow International School
* Tanglin Trust Singapore School

New Developments

Bangkok Patana School is currently constructing a new Visual and Performing Arts building since mid-June.A section from the weekly Patana newsletter states:

"The new building will have a floor space of just under 10,000 sq metres over three levels and will include a 550 seat tiered auditorium, 300 seat black box auditorium, drama rooms, recording studio, music teaching rooms and individual practice rooms, art rooms and photography darkroom"

Demolition of old buildings have commenced in July to clear space for the new building. Construction will start during the 3rd quarter of 2008, and the estimated time will take less than two years to complete.

Notable alumni

* Joni Anwar - Scottish-Indonesian singer and actor
* Ananda Everingham - Lao-Australian actor
* Rowena Kennett - Thai-English VJ for MTV Thailand
* Somtow Sucharitkul - Composer, conductor and author of "Vampire Junction"
* Michele Waagaard - Thai-Norwegian model, JAMP singer and VJ for MTV Thailand
* Tata Young - Thai-American singer, actor and model.

References

External links

* [http://www.patana.ac.th Bangkok Patana School Official Website]
* [http://www.patana.ac.th/Standards/AcadStandards2005.pdf BPS Academic Standards 2005]
* Internationalised Curriculum