WWW aims to provide students with academic, CAS/co-curricular, experiential and service learning opportunities through student and teacher-led workshops, life skills and hands-on activities, sports, and service learning. Underlying these opportunities is the empowerment of our students and teachers as change-agents and leaders as they explore and showcase their various passions, skills, and talents, through collaboration and teamwork.

Field Trips

The students and teachers engaged in various activities and workshops within the school walls, and trips outside of school in local communities.The field trips our students went on this week included:

Greenhawks field trip to our new Wells Chonburi campus & Villa Forest farm

Dreamworld

Bang Krachao biking excursion

IB Visual Arts Field Trip to River City Bangkok art exhibitions

Reading Field Trip

SerWIS Club visit to HDF Mercy Centre

Sea Life Bangkok Ocean World

Themed Workshops

In school, both teachers and students shared their passions and had fun engaging in learning, teamwork, and bonding. On Monday, the theme was International Day and thus, we had an international tea party in AP World History to learn about the origins of teas around the world, a Japanese club-hosted origami workshop, Italian cooking, henna art, and learning about world conflicts with Mr. Greg. 

Tuesday’s theme was Competition Day, so there was a Flags of the World quiz with Mr. Eamonn, treasure hunt, UNO competition, solving crime mysteries, and board game cafe.

On Wednesday, students learned life skills and showcased their various high school clubs to the middle school. Students in Computer Science learned how to make healthy drinks and sold them to fundraise for Operation Smile. Others learned about basic media production, beginner crochet, flameless vegetarian cooking, basic ASL, comic book art and writing, how to use a graphing calculator, baking and cupcake decorating.

On our Well-Being and Service-centered Thursday, students learned how to make soap and music, and learned how to sleep better and longer. There were opportunities to engage in painting and fine arts, break dance and yoga. And finally, on Friday, we had community celebrations, a futsal tournament, school clean-up and a Harkness table on the meaning of life.  

A big thank you goes out to all of the students, teachers, alumni and community members who worked hard and contributed to making this last week of the 2022 school year a meaningful and engaging one!

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After a few weeks of exams and final assessments, our high school students and teachers ended the semester with a Virtual Wells Without Walls (WWW) week, an initiative to empower students to take more control of their learning and explore new experiences, skills, and service learning opportunities. 

Typically, Wells Without Walls is a week dedicated to learning in various shapes and forms, inside and outside the school walls. Students and teachers play a large role in organizing the event and tailoring it to the needs and vision of the high school student body. WWW aims to provide students with academic, CAS/co-curricular, experiential and service learning opportunities through student and teacher-led workshops, IB sessions, life skills and hands-on activities, action planning, sports, and service learning. Underlying these opportunities is the empowerment of our students and teachers as change-agents and leaders as they explore and showcase their various passions, skills, and talents, through collaboration and teamwork.

Virtual Wells Without Walls

Due to pandemic restrictions, this year’s event was hosted virtually through Google Meet by our Community Engagement & Spirit & Events committees. Students and teachers engaged in various activities and workshops, interacting with each other and various guest speakers throughout the last week of school. 

We kicked off the week with our Class of 2022 IBDP TOK Exhibition, in which Grade 11 students showcased their final TOK exhibitions and completed their first IBDP internal assessment. 

New and Returning Guest Speakers 

Throughout the week, we hosted some new and returning guest speakers. A few of our Wells alumni, Akhil Shanishetti, Prim Pupornchai (Class of 2015), and Natnisha Ahuja (Class of 2018) joined us for an alumni panel discussion, in which they addressed questions from our high school students about college entrance exams, university life, finding a major, career planning, etc. Our recent alumni, Hrithi Bhattacharya, Gia Karamchandani, and Riddhi Tandon (Class of 2021) shared about their learning and growth through CAS in ‘How to be a CAS Superstar’. 

joined us to give some inspiration to our middle and high school students in regards to the potential of a CAS project. In their case, their high school CAS project turned into a globally established social enterprise.

Mr. Sandeep from the Art of Living Foundation here in Bangkok joined us virtually for a session to share brain hacks for high school students. This was a nice, interactive session which invited students and teachers to try some breathing and meditation techniques. Mr. Arch also shared about his own 30-day challenge and challenged our high school students to take on a 30-day challenge this summer.

Second Annual AP Symposium 

Ms. Katherine and Mr. Arch hosted the second annual AP Symposium, which offered students the opportunity to present their research presentations and share different perspectives. Students presented on various topics, ranging from psychology (AP Research) to science (AP Biology, G9 Chemistry, Environmental Science) and interdisciplinary work (AP Seminar, G11 TOK).

Ms. Amrita, one of our former Wells teachers, was very enthusiastic to join the Symposium and share an inspirational talk titled ‘You Matter’, along with our TED-Ed club members, who shared their learning about forming positive habits.

Grade 10 Introduction to Business Shark Tank

To end off the week, Ms. Lee and her Grade 10 Introduction to Business students hosted Shark Tank: Season 4, in which students pitched their entrepreneurial ideas to a panel of ‘sharks’. They demonstrated excellent teamwork, innovation and creativity in their ideas. Overall, it was a great showcase of their knowledge gained in the course and the potential they have to innovate and problem-solve.

Performing Arts Showcase

Finally, our Visual & Performing Arts department joined our Community Engagement group to showcase some student music and dance performances. The was also premiered, which was a showcase of recorded radio shows based on theater students’ transcribing of famous short stories from the 19th and 20th centuries into radio scripts.

A big thank you goes out to all of the students, teachers, parents, guests and community members who contributed to making this last week of this very unpredictable 2020-21 school year a meaningful and engaging one!

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