We have started a collection of videos, music and sound bytes taken from around the school. We are the first school in Thailand to do video blogs. You can see an example at our affiliated site www.thailandvideoblogs.com. We will also be starting School Video Blogs very soon.

VIDEO (Windows Media):

Motorcycle (125 KB)
This short 3 second clip shows a student arriving at school on his father's motorcycle. Notice that as the student gets off the motorcycle, he turns around to wai his father which is the Thai way of saying "thank you and goodbye".

Samlor (307 KB)
This 9 second clip shows 2 students arriving at school with their mother in a samlor. A samlor is a three-wheeled local taxi which is very cheap to use. The lady on the left is a teacher on duty who helps the children off the samlor. Notice the girl does a wai for her mother and the teacher. This is a polite way to say both "hello" and "goodbye"!

Going Home (370 KB)
This 12 second clip shows the students lining up to go home at the end of the school day. The lady on the right is the duty teacher for the front gate. As the students pass her, they should wai her, which is a polite way to say goodbye. However, notice one student doesn't do that and she calls him back. On the loudspeaker, you can hear another teacher calling the names of students. This is telling them that there is someone here to pick them up.

Chanting during Assembly (497 KB)
This 16 second clip shows the students chanting during morning assembly. About 95% of Thai people are Buddhists and at our school that percentage is much higher. During assembly, the students chant Buddhist prayers. You can hear one student reading a line first before it is repeated by the rest of the school.

School Song (1243 KB)
This 42 second clip shows the students singing the school song during morning asembly. The video is shot from high up so that you can see the entire school. The camera zooms in on the school band and then pans across the different grades. The younger students are at the front. The students who are in blue are wearing their P.E. clothes.

Thai Poem (934 KB)
This 32 second clip shows the students reciting a kind of poem that they have to memorize. This helps them remember a complicated spelling rule.

Thai Reader (2,838 KB)
This 1 minute 40 second clip shows kindergarten students learning to read Thai. They are reading from Lesson 1 of their First Thai Reader. They are reading aloud Thai letters. If you want to have a go at reading this lesson, then visit our Learning Thai Language site.

Kindergarten Computer Room (656 KB)
This 22 second clip shows kindergarten students learning in the Computer Room. The younger students use Macintosh computers which is easier for them to handle. In this room, we have 50 computers.

Primary School Computer Room (433 KB)
This 14 second clip shows primary students learning in the Computer Room. We have two rooms for the older students and there are 50 PC computers in each room.

School Kitchen (278 KB)
This 8 second clip shows the cooks at work in the kitchen. With over 1700 students to feed, the cooks have to make an early start.

Brushing Teeth (459 KB)
This 15 second clip shows some students brushing their teeth after eating lunch. You can just see that the boy on the right is wearing an amulet around his neck. This is usually of a Buddha image or famous monk. The boy wears it as protection against evil spirits and to keep him safe.

After Assembly (883 KB)
This 30 second clip shows the students leaving the playground after assembly. Notice in the first shot how the students bow their heads as they pass the teacher. Then, in the second shot, they take off their shoes and carry them as they walk up the stairs to their classroom.

Snackshop (304 KB)
This 9 second clip shows you the students buying snack during breaktime. There is a variety of food on sale and the majority is made in the school kitchens or in the snackshop itself.

Spirit House and Brahman Shrine (462 KB)
This 15 second clip shows you the Spirit House (on the left) and the Brahman Shrine. The Spirit House is for the guardian spirits of the land where the school is built. We have to appease them with a beautiful house of their own and daily offerings of food and drink. If we don't, they might cause mischief in the school. The Brahman Shrine, the Hindu diety with four faces, is a common sight in Thailand. It is nothing to do with Buddhism, but students and teachers might make a wish at the shrine for good luck.

Eating Lunch (531 KB)
This 17 second clip shows kindergarten students lining up for lunch. Today is egg noodle soup. Notice how the students wai and bow before receiving the noodles. This is the Thai way of saying thank you.

Lunchtime Grace (1141 KB)
This 39 second clip shows kindergarten students saying grace before they start lunch. Today they will eat egg noodle soup.

I am a Little Teapot (834 KB)
This 28 second clip shows kindergarten students singing "I am a Little Teapot" during their English lesson. The students enjoy practising their English with our foreign teachers every day.

Wai Khru 1 (459 KB)
This 15 second clip shows students presenting their teachers with a flower presentation. This is done during the annual Wai Khru Ceremony where the whole school presents their teachers with flowers. For more information about this evenr, please click here.

Wai Khru 2 (790 KB)
This 26 second clip shows students presenting their teachers with a flower presentation. This is done during the annual Wai Khru Ceremony where the whole school presents their teachers with flowers. For more information about this evenr, please click here.

SOUND (Flash):

The following music and sound clips make use of Flash technology. Most new browsers already have this installed. If you don't have it yet, you can download it here. It takes less than a minute. With Flash we can bring you the music with audio streaming. The advantage with this is that you can start listening to music only after a few seconds wait. Nothing is downloaded onto your computer.

MUSIC (Flash): School Song (2 min 31 sec) - START National Anthem (41 sec) - START King's Anthem (1 min 19 sec) - START King's Song (4 min 17 sec) - START Thai Traditional music - Khim (4 min 26 sec) - START Thai Pop Music - China Dolls - START Thai Pop Music - Basoo - START

SOUND CLIPS (Flash): Morning Prayers School Creed School motto Student Vows One to Twenty in Thai

We have more than two hundred Thai songs that you can listen to on our ethaimusic.com web site. Many of them have been translated into English!