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St. Andrew’s: Campus Tour at PRC St. Andrew’s Junior School from Sin-gapore visited PRC on May 28, 2012. About 18 students with 6 teachers toured our cam-pus and did activities with M2 FEP students. Having arrived at PRC, the St. An-drew’s Junior School students and teachers had a warm welcome from PRC administra-tors at Grace Hall. Th e campus tour started from Harris House and then went to Har-ris Institute, the astronomy learning center. Learning about astronomy and watching the planetarium, the visitors from St. Andrew’s were guided by PRC Upper Mathayom stu-dents. Aft er that they did activities with PRC students.

St. Andrew’s teachers and students ar-ranged activities for M.2 FEP students in the FEP room. Th ey showed their performances and created games for M.2 students. “Th ey sang songs to us,” said Naluttaphan Rojchana-saree, Pom, an M.2 FEP student. “Th e teacher was playing the guitar while other students sang songs,” she added. Th ey also gave the M.2 students prizes such as T-shirts and bags if they could answer their question correctly. When asking Pom what impressed her the most, she said, “I really like their performance because they sang sweetly.”

St.Andrew’s students visit PRC

Getting to Know Our New Director On May 1, 2012, Dr. Sirinan Sriwereskul became the 9th Director of Th e Prince Royal’s Collage since the school’s founding in 1887. Dr. Sirinan fi rst joined the staff at PRC in 1976 as a teacher. Over the years, Dr. Sirinan has served the school in many diff erent positions. When she fi rst came to PRC, Aj. Sirinan was an Eng-lish teacher. In 1992, she became an assistant to the Head of Secondary Level until 2000. From 2001 to 2007 she was in the position of Vice Director for School Business. Her posi-

tion was changed in 2008 to be Vice Director for Policy and Planning. And now, in 2012 Dr. Sirinan Sriwereskul becomes the 9th Director of Th e Prince Royal’s College in the school’s 125-year history. Her educational background includes degrees from three diff er-ent institutes: Doctorate Degree Ph.D. (Educational Administration) Chulalongkorn University Master Degree M.Ed. (Educational Administration) Chiang Mai University Bachelor Degree B.Ed. Honors (Teaching English) Chiang Mai Teacher College

Dr. Sirinan Sriwereskul was born in 1956 and grew up in Chiang Mai. She is married to Mr. Surapol Sriweraskul and has two sons. One is Mr. Tawit who now works at Bangkok Bank Limited, Main Offi ce, Bangkok. Th e other is Mr. Saran who is a 3rd year student of Interna-tional BBA Program at Th ammasat University. Dr. Sirinan replaces Dr. Sirilak Fuangkarn who served as Direc-tor of Th e Prince Royal’s College from May 2005 to May 2012 before her retirement from the school. Dr. Sirilak is currently serving Th e Church of Christ in Th ailand’s Education Offi ce as an educational advisor. On behalf of all of us at the Prince Royal’s College we wish Dr. Sirinan great success as our new Director.

We should be proud of our school because of our good rep-utation for more than one hundred years. Our immortal philoso-phy which is “ Th e Ultimate Aim of Education is Th e Development of Character ” is proved to be true in our life. Let us carry on this philosophy with our character and our intelligence in this com-petitive world today and forever.

A Message from Dr.Sirinan to P.R.C Students

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Premika Machareonsap M.6

PRC teachers preparing for English

Pichchapa Tajuang M.6

Because PRC‘s administrators believe that English is the key to unlock doors, they created the field trip to Singapore for PRC stu-dents. During March 7-11, 2012, Aj. Saowanee and Aj.Wendy Shelton together with 27 FEP students traveled and studied in Singapore. After they arrived, they did group ac-tivities to develop unity. For example, they had to create a tower out of newspaper and present-ed it to their friends and teachers. They stayed at St. Andrew’s college. They also studied in class with St.Andrew’s students for 2 days. Jir-ayu Jiaranaipreda told about his impression in

Singapore, “In Singapore, they use English to communicate. I think it is very good because English is an important language that is very essential for our future life.” Then Warissara added,”I made friends with many students there. They are very friendly and kind.” Fur-thermore, there were the activities between PRC students and St.Andrew’s students. They went bowling and took part in the school’s sports day. Not only did PRC students studied but they also went to many tourist attractions in Singapore. They went to Little India and China

town to learn about Chinese and Indian tradi-tions that reflex the Singapore life. In addition, they had fun at Universal studio, Southeast Asia’s first movie theme park and Sensota, the fin park island. Being asked about the experience that she got from this field trip, Sopistha Phun-phuech replied, “I learnt many things from this trip especially English. Singapore students are very good at English. I loved Singapore and people there very much. In my future, I will certainly consider Singapore as my education choice.”

credit: Francisco Coronard Warissara and her Singapore buddy

Pimpisuth Chimjan M.6

“Fantastic,” “Amazing,” “Uplifting,” “Joyful,” “Exciting,” and “Harmonious” were just a few comments from people who attended the concert. The PRC Orchestra Concert III, “A Siamese Serenade” was held at The Harris In-stitute on May 26, 2012. It was a great honor for the school to have had Rev. Dr. William Joseph Yoder name the concert. This concert was conducted by Mr. Thanabodee Ketsuwan. The origins of the

songs were from ancient Thailand. Every song was rearranged especially for the orchestra. The songs became more powerful to play as they were rewritten for string instruments rather than the original instruments. This concert also had several guest musicians - Mr. Anusorn Panyafoo and Ms. Naprang Manator. Mr. Anusorn works at the Acoustic near Dara Academy. Ms. Naprang is a Payap University student in the College of Music. Both of them are friends of the conductor. The PRC Orchestra held its first con-cert in the Payap Chapel at Payap University in 2009. The second concert was held at The Harris Institute on May 29, 2010 with the ti-tle “PRC Music Series: PRC Orchestra Concert II.” This year was the third concert. Mr. Thana-bodee Ketsuwan, the conductor, said proudly that the PRC Orchestra will also have a concert next year.This year was the 4th year of The PRC Orches-tra. The members include students from Lower

Mathayom to Upper Mathayom. “I think about training the members to improve their skills to international standard,” Mr.Thanabodee said. “I plan to have more string members as they will be balanced with other instruments.” He also talked about his feelings at the concert, “I felt happy and proud of them. I can see that they have improved their skills in the past year.” “I had fun that night,” Chomsiri Toy-ingtrakoon, a Yupparaj student, attended the concert said. “I impressed the moment that the musicians played their instruments together as a team.” She continued, “I hope that the next concert will be more magnificent so it can at-tract people with their charms.” According to Mr. Artsapong Machare-onsap, a guest at the concert, “It was the first time I had been at the orchestra concert,” he answered with excitement. “Everything was fantastic and amazing!” He added, “If I have a chance, I will absolutely not miss next year’s concert.”

“A Siamese Serenade” Provides a Great Night.

English Training for PRC Teachers

The Prince Royal’s College con-ducted a workshop to prepare for teach-ers to teach in English in our classrooms. The workshop organized by Science and Technology Service Center, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University was held on June 2-4, 2012 at Tarin Hotel, Chiang Mai. According to The ASEAN Commu-nity in 2015, the liberalization of trade

in educational service in Thailand will be increased rapidly. Career in the fu-ture will require the graduates to have good English language skills in ASEAN. There were 73 teachers participating in the workshop. They represented subject areas in: mathematics, science and tech-nology.

Exchange, Play, and Learn in Singapore!

PRC Orchestra is playing “Pamar Khuae.”

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Inspiration

Mr. Jack C. Neale

Welcome to a new school year! Some of my June inspiration articles in past years have dealt with “A New School Year” and

“New Begin-nings.” Th us the themes about making this year better--improving on the past. Th e other day as I was thinking about the new school year, with all the many changes at PRC this year, this Bible verse came to me, “Th e Lord shall preserve your going out and your com-ing in from this time forth, and even forev-ermore.” (Psalms 121:8)

Th e word “preserve” caught my attention. I thought about what this word meant in this context. Th e dictionary defi nes preserve as, “to maintain something in the original state.” So if God preserves me, God is keep-ing me in my original state.

So what is my original state? We can fi nd our history in Th e Bible in the book of Genesis (1:26-31), “...So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;

male and femare created he them. And God blessed them...And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold it was very good.” My God created state is in the image and likeness of God. Because God is spiritual, I am spiritual. Th erefore, God will keep me in my spiritual state and He will protect all my activities.

Another verse from Th e Bible that supports this thought is, “...the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” (Joshua 1:9) Th erefore, no matter where I go God is with me and keeping me in my original (spiritual) state. I can never be less then spiritual and perfect because God can never be less then God, Spirit.

As I am writing this inspiration article, I just listened to a story of a person who in college performed in a play. I think this story will help to illustrate what I am talking about.

Th is person’s character in the play required him to look quite diff erent than he looked in real life. His character was very fat and yet he was very skinny. To create the char-acter the costume department covered him in layers of padding to create the fat person he was on stage. One evening aft er the play, some parents of another cast member came back stage as he was undressing and remov-

ing all the layers of padding. One of the parents shouted, “He is really skinny, not like that person we saw on stage!”

At some point in each of our lives we fi nd ourself taken-in by that created character. We fi nd the world looking at us in ways that are not “preserving” the real man God created. Any thought that would enter our think-ing that we are not good enough--we are not smart enough, we are not handsome/pretty, we are not talented, we are slow, we do not fi t in, we lack ability, we are lazy, we are stupid--is padding that is being placed on us to create a false image as to who we really are. We are all created in God’s image and likesnes, spir-itually good. An image possesses everything from the original and lacks nothing.

So the next time someone would present an idea/image to you that you lack in some way, go to your original, God. In the words of the Psalmist, “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out to thy law.” (Psalms 119:18) You have the right to shine forth in your true God-given identity and not be wrapped in extra padding. God will pre-serve and sustain those who trust in Him.

Let’s all have a good and productive school year; preserved in our original (spiritual) self, the man that God created!

Th e Original Preserved

Hello readers! It’s nice to talk to you again. How are you doing? I hope you all were happy with the recent summer. I wish you happiness in this new school year also. According to the ASEAN Economic Com-munity (AEC) in 2015, I think there will be great changes in our school. Walking around the school during this couple of weeks, I have heard some of the students talk about learning other languages, such as, Myan-mar and Lao. Th is shows that our students are also interested in the great change which will have an eff ect on them in the year 2015. Th e other change in our school is that we have a new director, Dr.Sirinan Sriveerasakul. PRC News staff congratulates her on her new position. I am sure that being the director of PRC is not an easy work, so we all students need to encourage her to do her best. Also, I want to en-courage my M.6 friends to do their best in preparing for their entrance exams.

Back into the White & Blue Fence

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Phudit Sombutsirinun & Patchara Pongcharoenkul M.6

Andaman Mayakarn,Sataporn Purasao M.6 Kamolchanok Amtade & Chunapa Vorrawan M.6

PRC rugby team, representative of Thailand, going to Malaysia

How to read learning books clearly Reading is an important activity for our life. We know a lot of things from reading books. Reading is very useful. It can entertain you, but most of all it can en-rich you with knowledge, and experiences. Before you read, you must know your reading purpose in order that you can focus on what you want to know. If you know your reading purpose perhaps by looking at the question you must answer after reading first and then you can choose the best choice easily. You should choose the appropri-ate reading speed. Many students some- times take a long time to read their books because they read everything slowly and carefully. Speed reading method is the best choice. Many textbooks are well-organized. They also have pictures with captions. You should look at the pictures with cap-tions first before you begin reading books. Then you read a topic sentence in each paragraph because topic sentence contains the main idea the main idea of each para-graph. If you concentrate on understand-ing the topic sentence, this may help you to understand what comes next. You should increase your vocabular-ies. If you know a lot of vocabularies, it can

help you to understand the details easily. By the way you read a book; it can help you increase your vocabularies. Each paragraph has an important word that organizes text. When you read texts in your books, you will see that most writes organize their writing with transi-tion words. (Transition words: also, there-fore, except, unless, however, instead, in conclusion) If you can understand the im-portant transition words, you will find it easier to understand the text. If you want to understand the text-book, you should choose suitable place to read. You can’t understand your text, if you sit where a lot of people annoy you. You also can’t expect to read a textbook and lis-ten to music at the sometimes. You should try to find a quite and comfortable place with good light. You should choose the right time to read. When you have a different text to read, it’s probably best to read this first. If you leave it until last minute when you are tired, you will find it more difficult. If you do this method but you still cannot understand a text. It is better to ask someone to help you such as your parent, teachers and friends. It doesn’t make sense if you work alone without any help.

Pride of PRC Rugby Team

The 28th Thailand National Youth Sports “Phuket Games” were held in Phuket during May 26 – June 5. Phuket is located in the southern part of Thailand. Many tourists are attracted by its beautiful beaches and shop-ping centres. The symbol of Phuket Games is the four color line twisting to the vortex circle. Each color refers to each part of Thailand, Cen-tre, northeast, north and south. The dragon in the middle of the picture is a symbol of Phuket. “Hai leng” pronounced following Hock guan language means the sea dragon. Rugby, Fut-sal, Swimming, Tennis, and Go these kinds of sports are the sports that PRC students were participated In. Natdanai Nanta and Patsakorn Sun-tornwaree from M.6/6 are Chiangmai Futsol players. They met a dramatic situation in the first round because there were 4 teams that were tied. Therefore, all of them had to draw lots to pass to the semi-final round. Luckily, Chiang-mai team passed to the next round and their opponent was Nakhonratchasima (Korat). Ko-rat gained an advantage with a score 5-2. “We had to defense all time in the first half,” said Patsakorn,”so at the second half we decided to at-tack severely.” Chiangmai team fought back and

s c o r e d 2 goals, u n f o r -tunately, the final w h i s -tle was b l o w n . Chiang-mai Fut-sal team finished

this event with the bronze medals. Next sport is Tennis and Apiwat Deesi-nrux, M6/1 student was part of Chiangmai tennis team. His team won easily in the first round because their opponent gave up, they passed to the second round and met Chon-buri. His teammate lost in men#2 single, which gave Chonburi the lead 1-0. Then Apiwat made the match tied 1-1 by winning against his op-ponent in men#1 single. The new match was the men’s doubles and it was Chiangmai’s play-ers who won that game, allowing Chiangmai to pass through to the semi-final round. They had a really hard match at that round because their opponent was Bangkok, the capital city

of Thailand. Although the Chiangmai players played hard, they couldn’t beat with strength of Bangkok’s team and they lost 2-0, taking home the bronze medals. Swimming was another sport that PRC students participated in. Yanakorn Kumkaew from M5/6 raced in 4*100 freestyle relay, 4*200 freestyle relay, and 4*100 medley relay. With his effort Chiangmai swimming team passed through the final round in each event and re-ceived 2 bronze medals. “I ran out of energy swimming in those events,” said Yanakorn, “In 4*200 freestyle relay I almost died.” The last sport was Go game. There were two M6 students who participated in these. Su-panat Jumta joined the pair go competition and Patchara Pongcharoenku was in team tourna-ment. The PRC Go team did not receive any medals. “I and my partner didn’t practice well enough” said Supanat. He and his partner lost to Phichit team. Patchara said”unfortunately, it supposed to have 3 players in the team but we have only two; one of his players went to America and couldn’t come to join the game. “I always know that it is very difficult to win with two people. However, I had a very good trip in Phuket”

Phuket Games

The Prince Royal’s College is well known in sports, especially for rugby. This year, our school was chosen to be the representative of Thailand to partici-pate in ASEAN Competition. The Rugby Competition will be held in Malaysia on June 22, 2012. Mr. Pattarapat Ganjanaget, captain of PRC rugby team, led his team to the competition. The team had a tough practice. They trained every evening for two month. “This is an important competition so we had to work hard. Seeing that our aim is passing to division one,” said Mr.Pattarapat. According to Mr.Chairat Thothet, a member of PRC rugby team, “Every member seems excited, so am I. Furthermore, I am so proud to participate on behalf of Thailand,” he said. “In this competition, the rugby trainer chose only the competent athletes to take part in the competition; however, the team is not careless,” said the captain. The top opponent is the Japanese team, “No matter how good other teams are, we will do our best for Thailand,” said Mr.Pattarapat.

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Open the door to New ZealandThanakan Kanthawanna,Tanakrit Uten M.6

Th ere was the golden chance for every-body who wants to take up a short course of study aboard. “Th e Prince Royal’s College Lan-guage Immersion Program New Zealand (PRC LIP New Zealand)” can help you to study in New Zealand. Th is project was made for PRC students who want to develop their English skills and fi nd new experiences. Th ere are 7 schools in Southland, New Zealand (Waihopai School, St. Peter’s College, Fiordland College, Central Southland College, James Hargest Col-lege, Southland Boy’s High School and South-land Girl’s High School) that you can go to study.

Last Summer (16th March- 16th May 2011), there were 32 PRC students went to study in New Zealand for 2 months. We interviewed 3 FEP students from Matthayom 2/2 and one from Prathom 6. Th ey went to study in James Hargest College. Th is course costs 180,000 bahts. Th e following are some experiences the students would like to share with our readers: “I got a great deal of experience there. I love my host family. Th ey are very kind to me,” said Ploy ( Ploypilin Vessayaprroon). “We oft en went shopping in Queenstown. I enjoyed shop-ping there with my host family,” she added. Pang ( Chaya Khamkhanoon) enjoyed studying there very much because it is easier than her daily lessons at PRC. “Math is very easy. It is similar to Prathom 4 lessons. But Sci-ence is very hard especially in lab. Th ey use scientifi c names a lot there,” she said. “I have learned not only English but also Japanese, Lat-in, French, Maury, Romanian and Spanish,” she added. “2 months in New Zealand was won-derful. I spent most of my free time shopping.” said Th ird (Chanaphorn Karnchanaphitak). She traveled many places in New Zealand, for example Glow Warm Cave (Te Anau), Gon-

dola Luge (Queenstown), Walter Peak Farm (Queenstown), Puzzling World (Wanaka) and Cadbury’s World (Dunedin). “I impressed Queenstown the most because of the beauty of Wakatipu Lake.” she said. She had some prob-lem about the cost of living in New Zealand too but she still went shopping. “Even though the high price, I liked to go shopping with my friends.” she added. Huggy (Chawit Lohajoti), a Prathom 6 stu-dent who went to New Zealand last summer thinks LIP project is very good for Th ai student. “Th ai people can develop their English from this trip. Th is project is good for everyone who wants to learn new experiences.” he said. When he studied in Waihopai School, he became friends with everybody in the class. “My Eng-lish accent is quite well, so I made friends with everybody. It was a really good time to study with my new New Zealander friends, they are very lovely people.” he added. He learned well in the Math class too “Math class is very easy, easier than Th ai school very much.” And he’s really happy to join this trip. “I’ve learned new experiences in New Zealand, and I want to go back there again in near future.” he said hap-pily.

PRC student visit Government House at Invercar-gill, New Zealand

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