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Staff and students alike are involved in pursuits across the five elements of the learning programme. Our community supports and challenges students, whether their interests lie in intellectual, artistic, athletic, service or leadership endeavours.

FOOD SUSTAINABILITY WITH GRADE 6

Jun 19, 2020 | Celebrations

During our online learning lessons, Grade 6 has been exploring Food and Sustainability. The food we eat has many environmental impacts. Making the way we produce and consume our food sustainable is vital in order to feed an ever-growing world population, whilst...

5 WAYS TO BALANCE ONLINE LEARNING

May 25, 2020 | Celebrations

Online learning is challenging, not only for students but for their parents and teachers too. With many schools and families now learning online, it may feel difficult if not impossible to ensure that students maintain a good balance of activities and learning without...

CLASS OF 2020 UNIVERSITY APPLICATION UPDATE

May 8, 2020 | Celebrations

While we are engaged once again in online learning, whilst navigating the many challenges that COVID has thrown us, from our UWC status to the school purchase, the Grade 12 students and a few students from the Class of 2019 spent a good part of this school year...

KILOMBU: AN ARTIST’S UTOPIAN ISLAND

Mar 31, 2020 | Celebrations, Community, Culture

Kilombu functions as a world that can imagine an ecological and cultural utopia in the tropics while also answering ‘What could multiculturalism look like outside the urban cosmopolitan setting?’”.

VOLUNTEERING AT PHUKET ELEPHANT SANCTUARY

Mar 26, 2020 | Celebrations, Community, Service, Sustainability

During the school break, from the 17th to the 21st of February three G11 UWCT students, Kechen (China), Tenzing (Tibet) and Rosalia (Namibia) had an astonishing opportunity to volunteer at the Phuket Elephant Sanctuary. Tenzing explains that for him waking up at...

A GARDEN FOR THE GIBBONS

Mar 20, 2020 | Celebrations, Service, Sustainability

Last December, Grade 4 went on a field trip to visit a local charity- the Gibbon Rehabilitation Centre, where we learned about the gibbons' diet and the daily costs the centre had to pay to feed the gibbons which tally's up to 2000 Baht per day. In January, Grade 4...