CENTRAL WORLD – żŰżŰ´«Ă˝ students continued their winning ways at the 3^rd annual Asia Books Readers’ Theatre competition. This year, due to the floods, the final round was postponed two months. However, the chosen date was quite appropriate as it coincided with Thailand’s celebration of Children’s Day. And, despite only having a short week after Christmas Break to polish up their performances, our young Seahawks captured 1^st Place in Division 4 (International Schools, ages 14 & up) and 2^nd Place in Division 3 (International Schools, ages 13 & below). With more than 15 teams in each division, two Wells teams passed the preliminary round to make it to the final round held on Sunday, January 15.

In the older division, the Wells team comprised three returning members from last year’s championship team as well as two newcomers. Veterans Sonya Chawla (Gr. 10), Natalya Silva (Gr. 9), and Akhil Shanishetti (Gr. 9) were joined by Peter Choi (Gr. 8) and Andy Shin (Gr. 8) to form this year’s team, performing their rendition of The Talent Show by Jo Hodgkinson. Despite significant improvements in the competition, experience and strong theatrical training proved to be the game changer as Wells once again ended up at the top. An older, but less experienced team from RAIS came in 2^nd.

In the younger division, the team of Cindy Shin (Gr. 6), Pavi Tak (Gr. 6) , Darshan Giri Naganathan (Gr. 6), and Asen Liu (Gr. 7) presented their theatrical rendition of the children’s picture book What the Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson. As defending champions from last year’s competition, the young Wells team faced tough competition with familiar foes hailing from Bangkok Patana. When the dust settled, Bangkok Patana, which placed 3^rd last year, came up on top, with Wells placing 2^nd. A team from Satit Kaset Bilingual School ended up in 3^rd.

This is the third year that Wells has participated in the Asia Books competition, and the level of performances from all competitors continues to improve dramatically. Mr. Rhys Griffith, the head of Wells’ Fine Arts Department, and master of the theatrical arts, has taken charge of this event since Wells first entered the competition over two years ago.

Congratulations to all participants! More photos of the event can be seen on our official .

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Once again the musical talent of Wells students was on public display at the Siam Paragon Christmas Carol Competition on November 21^st.  This year’s competition was for students in primary and middle schools, and Wells students from both Thong Lor and On Nut campuses competed.

This was a very special experience for many of our Primary students, as it was the first time that they had the experience to sing in a choir and participate in a choir competition.

The On Nut Choir was on form, singing two very different songs – the last one of which had students singing while working on an assembly line, packing toys into boxes and wishing the crowd a Merry Christmas at the end of the performance.  While choirs from the On Nut campus have performed publicly before, this was the first time that students from their Primary School were involved.  It was also a “milestone” performance for students from the Thong Lor Campus, as it was the first public performance by their choir!  Students were involved in every aspect of their performance – from singing to accompanying to even conducting the choir itself! They all did a great job and should be proud of themselves!

Both choirs did extremely well and while we didn’t come in first, everyone was happy and excited to have had the opportunity to perform for the crowds at Siam Paragon.

Be sure to catch future musical performances by Wells students, including on Thursday Dec. 3 at the Emporium and Sunday, January 9^th at Central World.

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