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ACCOMODATION AND FACILITIES
Students can be accommodated in either:
(Note* The barrack room environment is seen as an excellent tool for breaking down the numerous social barriers children create for themselves. Breaking down these barriers is an important step in encouraging them to become 'team players').
Field studies areas The topography, natural geography, and demography of the area provide the facility with what must undoubtably be the 'richest' area in the north in terms of 'field studies' locations. We can conduct all of our studies and undertake all of our related outdoor activities, within a 30 minute drive radius of the centre itself.
We have a good basic laboratory equipped with microscopes, a computer, various lab test kits. There are ample work surfaces allowing several students to undertake tasks at any one time.
The students have their own recreation area located on the resort's organic farm:
We place great emphasis on the quality and amount of food provided to students attending our programmes. We feel strongly that given the physical nature of such outdoor programmes, standard school meals will not do. Hence, our budget per meal/per student is close to double that of other institutions offering student field studies programmes in Thailand. Meal options: The student centre has its own 200 seat restaurant / recreation area overlooking the organic farm. The resort's 'Spice Garden' restaurant, and the Sala Tong Tung pool side restaurant, both overlooking the river are also available for use.
The Suan Bua Resort is right next to the American Pacific International School (www.apacinter.com) - the school's considerable combined facilities are available to us. These include a swimming pool, and sports facilities for soccer, tennis, badminton and volleyball and a new gymnasium. Furthermore, we have access to their air-conditioned classrooms, a computer centre networked for intra- and internet, library, science laboratories and art facilities. In addition, the full facilities, including the Olympic sized swimming pool of the nearby World Club Sports Centre and the Grace International School are also available to us. Several golf courses, and the training services of suitably qualified golf professionals are within easy reach of the resort.
There are certain studies and activities that we can undertake in Chiang Mai that we cannot undertake at our Ban Thaton base – and vice versa. Particular to Chiang Mai are: Golf clinics, football clinics, tennis clinics with facilities and competition provided by the International schools by special arrangement.
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