Term 1 Magazine December 2014

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SECONDARY

Student Delegates

Student Leadership in the Secondary School Helen Thew

Secondary Assistant Principal Student Welfare

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n keeping with Bangkok Patana School’s philosophy of providing a well-round education, the emphasis is on encouraging students to develop their talents to the fullest extent. In the Secondary School we support and encourage our students to do their best, to meet challenges and develop independence by taking on leadership roles within the student body.

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Senior Student Representative Council (SSRC) by Phuriphat (Mark) Younguen, President (13W), Metinee Ding VicePresident (13H) and Jidapha (Pim) Vongluekiat (13S) The SSRC is a student-lead committee, comprised of students ranging from Year 10 to 13, encouraging the student body to have a voice in school life. Our leadership roles mean that we chair weekly meetings with fellow students as well as attend monthly meetings with other leadership groups. At our meetings, topics can range from what do students think in terms of how we can improve the quality of learning for each student, to what should our new report cards look like, to food prices at the snack bar or issues about school uniform. As a group we try our best to solve these issues or address them in a manner so that the students can understand not only what is being done about their concerns but also why certain concerns are unable to be addressed or resolved. As leaders of the SSRC, we have developed skills that are tremendously helpful, not only in school life, but also in our daily lives. From the SSRC we learnt about leadership and the ability to captivate listeners, skills that will prove useful not only during meetings, but also in our future as young adults in a world full of other aspiring leaders.


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Term 1 Magazine December 2014 by Bangkok Patana School - Issuu