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The women of Canadian International School of Thailand wish everyone a Happy International Women’s Day!  March 8 is a global opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women, and acknowledge the need for continual progress for women’s rights.  This year, the theme is gender equality, and emphasizes the need to contin...

Learning covers many aspects of our lives and at CIST we want our students to understand this and how they can contribute to their community and society in general. With this in mind our secondary students spent the morning in a one-day CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and AED (automated external defibrillator) trai...

Pre-K 3 had an exciting few weeks learning about where we are in place and time. We explore our school environment and took a tour around our school. The children learned about occupations. We invited parents to come in and discuss what their occupations were. To wrap up our unit of inquiry to had occupations dress up...

CIST has held two IB training sessions with workshop leaders from India and Australia over the past two weeks. PYP teachers spent a two-day weekend learning more about student choice (agency) in the classroom while MYP teachers had a one-day workshop about implementing MYP in the school. All teachers felt the experienc...

Students and staff turned out in beautiful traditional outfits for the annual Lok Krathong ceremony on Monday. Cultural learning activities took place through the day with students participating in fun and games before making kratongs out of all-natural materials. Some students floated their kratongs at school while ot...

Students from CIST and TCBS enjoyed the performance of two plays by the White Horse Theatre Company last week. The company is based in Germany and was touring Thailand for the first time. We were very happy to have them come to our schools - a first theatre experience for most of the students.
Grade2-6 watched “The Gre...

Halloween came a day early for CIST students this year! Amazing costumes and makeup were viewed by everyone in the parade around the playground in the morning and activities continued in the classrooms. High school students created a Halloween themed room for Elementary students to experience some surprises and fun and...

Excitement and wonder, as Doctors Fonthip and Kesanee (class mothers) came to our class to share some of their experience and expertise. Our students are studying Body Systems and they really enjoyed this session. It was a wonderful example of community involvement that provides enriching learning experiences for our c...

Annual Terry Fox Run All our CIST students ran today and raised money for the Prostheses Foundation of HRH the Princess Mother. The Early Years and Kindergarten students ran at school, either in the gym or the playground track but only after some warm up stretches. Elementary and high school students and their teachers...

CIST filled with superheroes and supervillians, but mostly superheroes today. So many great costumes and discussions about heroes and villans in the classrooms! Thank you students, parents and teachers for your school spirit!