Each school that signs up gets their own subsite and help with online exercises, tailored to meet the needs of their students at the time. There is also access to the Moodle learning center section of Thai Schools English which has more courses, lessons, videos and quizzes for the children to use in order to get more practise.

If you live in Northern Thailand and know of a school that may be interested in signing up to Thai Schools English, please contact us here at The Stratton ABC Foundation.

If you or anyone you know is interested in acting as a volunteer teacher at a rural school in Northern Thailand as part of this iniative, please contact us here at The Stratton ABC Foundation.

Unfortunately it meant no Bai Tio this weekend.

We had a bit of a break on Saturday morning with no rain so everyone pitched in to try and get on top of the rapidly growing jungle in the garden.

But Sunday was very nearly an all dayer so it was indoors all day.

Still we had a good English seesion learning, this, that, those and these, which was lots of fun.

I’m bracing myself for getting behind on website and some admin this week as I have allotted this week for major out and about work looking for sponsors and more sites for our collection boxes. another reason for hoping the rains stops.

Sorry for the further delay with the ‘Where to go and Find ‘ Directory , but should be live very soon.

This problem has now been resolved and i would like to ask you to get in touch again through the contact page at which point I will be able to respond properly.

I am sure that we can find you a position with us during your time in Thailand and would like to discuss in more detail as soon as possible.

Hope you see this

Our little river in Mae Salab is now a raging torrent and the waters at Huay Tung Tao have risen much since last week.
With the rain comes increasing levels of mosquitos so daily spraying with deterrent is a high priority.

Spending much time in doors has brought more art work to our walls, which is always nice.

In order to try and combat the numbers of mosquitos we have been doing our best to control the fast growing garden vegetation and this weekend all the older children took turns with the strimmer.

They all did a great job and this will be a regular task whenever we have a dry period and some spare time.

Sundays trip to Huay Tung Tao was fun as usual, though cut short by more rain.

Tai was missing as he spent the day at school attending a Energy Conservation Seminar.

On the way to Huay Tung Tao we stopped off at two new locations for our collection boxes, Photobug in Chang Puek Rd and El Diablos Burreto restaurant in Moon Maung Rd. Full details will soon appear in our “Where To Go and Fing..” Directory which I hope to make live by the end of the week.

Luckily the rain held off on Tuesday morning enabling me to go for my 3rd teaching session at Huay Sai School. We spent the lesson showing the children how to use the Thai Schools English website and its Moodle section.

With help from my friend Ally I have been learning to use the Moodle learning Centre software in order to set up courses for local children to follow via the internet.

These courses will include multi-choice questions, speaking practice, using videos of both myself and the children themselves, speaking English and much much more.

Just this weekend we managed to get some very good videos of the Stratton House children practising basic introductory conversation.

Some of the videos will soon appear on Thai Schools English as a practise aid for other children in the community.