This week, we have been lucky enough to welcome two visiting authors to the school – Nawal Kalra and Edward Lee Fodi. Nawal has delighted our younger children from K1-Y2 with her animal stories, including ‘Not the Only Bear’, ‘The Dragon Went Hummmmmmm’, and ‘The Very Grumpy Sloth.’ Nawal inspired us to think about how we can create our own characters and stories and, in particular, invited us to engage in discussions about our emotions through her animal characters. Author and illustrator, Lee has written several middle-grade fantasy fiction books and is also co-founder of the Creative Writing for Children Society, a not-for-profit programme that helps children write their own books. For our Y3-6 children at our ºÚÁÏÍø primary school in Bangkok, Lee has been guiding us through the writing process as a journey, not just a final product, of sketching, brainstorming, and world-building, which has ignited the author in us all!

Our mission is to foster a lifelong love of reading, and our annual festival always sparks creativity and joy and allows us to go on wondrous adventures. In the words of one of our Y2 children, “My favourite thing about reading is it lets you go on vacation in your mind.�

#literacylove #creativeeducation

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We have a range of options through which your child can explore new activities and extend their interests. We offer Brazilian soccer, Chess, Yoga, Basketball, Lego, and Dance, and language classes are available for both native and non-native speakers in Dutch, French, Mandarin, Spanish, Swedish, and Thai.

We look forward to seeing the children discover new skills and passions and build on their friendships.

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The child
is made of one hundred.
The child has
a hundred languages
a hundred hands
a hundred thoughts
a hundred ways to thinking
of playing, of speaking.
A hundred always, a hundred
ways of listening,
of marveling, of loving
a hundred joys
for singing and understanding,
a hundred worlds
to invent
a hundred worlds
to dream.

The child has
a hundred languages
(and a hundred hundred hundred more)
but they steal ninety-nine.
The school and the culture
separate the head from the body.
They tell the child:
to think without hands
to do without  head
to listen and not to speak,
to understand without joy
to love and to marvel
only at Easter and Christmas.

They tell the child:
to discover the world already there
and of the hundred
they steal ninety-nine.
They tell the child:
that work and play
reality and fantasy
science and imagination
sky and earth
reason  and dream
are things
that do not belong together.
And thus they tell the child
that the hundred is not there.
But, the child says:
No way. The hundred is there.

–Loris Malaguzzi

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