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June 4, 2018
Sometimes getting too much knowledge makes some students feel stress. In math
class, students are stress because they need to remember a lot of equations and know how
to solve problem. In many subjects, some students are having stress because of study.
Maybe some students having stress from studying because of assignment and exam. The
school should provide extra activities for students to manage their stress. Sport Event is
one of the activities that can help to manage students stress. In Thailand, they provide
different activities to make students relax. Club is the activity that can make students
relax because they can choose what they want to learn. At Mahidol University
International Demonstration School, they provide several activities to reduce stress such
as clubs, sport events, battle of the band, student market and science fair. Those activities
can help students manage stress because students can have fun from joining those
activities. The purpose of this research report is to find out what school activities do Grade
University International Demonstration School. The author uses eight academic articles
from different sources and a survey to gather data. Sport events and clubs are school
Demonstration School.
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School Activities
activity that reduces student stress, make them relax and they have a chance to choose
what activities they want to join. There are two main types of school activities. First types
of activities would base on academics and another one would be based on students
talents. (Valentine, Cooper, Bettencourt, Dubois, 2002). There are a lot of school
activities that are base on student talent. This kind of school activities helps students in
terms of self-confidence because they can show their talent such as performing a talent
show or set sports exhibition. The work of Simpkins, Sandra D. indicates that school
activities that are based on academics help student improving in terms of grades and help
student improving friendship. For example, students that have been joining science fairs,
they will get to know more information about science. They can take that information
and use in class. Some school activities help student make more friends such as sports
club. Students can be improving their friendship and make themselves relax by playing
sports. Some school activities also help students in terms of synergy such as student
markets, sports day or international day. In Sports days, every student needs to participate
and they need to help each other to make their team win. So it helps students to improve
their teamwork and makes them know each other more. In international day, Students
will have a chance to study about the country that they have been assigns. This activity
help students to learn about new country, respect other more in terms of belief and
religion.
At MUIDS, there are many activities that are provided to students. Sports day is
one of the activity that school provided for students. In sports day, students will be split
in four groups. Every student will be participate in different activities, some students will
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be athlete and some will be cheering for their teams. In sports day, there are many trophies
to win. For example, trophy for the best in cheerleading or trophy for the best in sports
so students can choose what they wants to participate. This activity makes students know
each other more and give students a chance to show their talents. For example, Week
Without Wall is another activity that school provided for students. This activities are
mainly about school will bring students to camp. The purpose of this activity is to make
students relax by give their a chance to go out of school and study new things for five
days. This activity helps students learning new things that they never learn such as
students will have a chance to catch insects. And student will have a chance to know other
students more. Battle of the Bands is one of the highlights activity at MUIDS. This
activity is a music competition. Students who love music will join this activity. The work
of Wilkinson, Irene G. indicates that some music can help students reduce stress, develop
their mood and help them about learning. College fair and Career day are an activities
that school provide for students to recommend what they want to learn in the future. In
college fair, there will be different university that come to introduce their course so this
activity help students find what they want to learn in the future. On Career Day, there
will be people who are experts in different jobs come to introduce their jobs. This activity
help students to decide their future what they want to learn and know what they need to
There are many effective ways to improve school activities such as providing a
variety of school activities and increasing the duration. Some activities doesn’t provide
enough time for students to participate such as Pi day. On Pi day, every student will come
group up at the hall and there will be pie and pizza for every student to eat to celebrate Pi
day. Pi day is a day to celebrate the number of pie so there should be activities about math
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such as solving math problem game. It will make this activities more interesting. School
provided about one and a half hours for this activity so it would be better if school give
more time for this activity. School can improve school activities such as clubs by adding
more interesting clubs such as French language club or make more sport clubs like
separate badminton and table tennis so students can choose what sport they really want
to play. School can also let students make their own clubs so they can have a opportunity
to show what they like and what they are interest in. According to Bloom and Marley,
they discuss that having homework clubs help students to learn and make them finish
their homework. This club helps student to finish homework at school and make them
have less homework to do at home. Vichakarn day is one of the activity that school has a
problem with it. Some activities make students boring so it will be better to add more fun
activities instead of providing boring activities. This will make Vichakarn Day more
The purpose of this survey is to find out what types of school activities do Grade
31 of grade 10 students took survey. The survey lasted for one week.
The first question asked about school activities that Grade 10 students wanted to
join at MUIDS. This chart demonstrates that students join Week without wall, Clubs,
Career day, Sports day, International day, Spirit week, College fair, Vichakarn day,
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Piday, Science fairs, Battle of the band, study hall and Vanguards.
Question number two asked respondents to rate the varieties of school activities
at MUIDS. The results show that 51.6% of students rate to 8 which mean the
respondents think that MUIDS has an exemplary school activities. On the other hand,
there are 3.2% of respondents rate school activities 1 which means that they think that
The third question asked students to rate school activities in terms of students
interest. The result demonstrates that 58.1% of students rate 4 which mean more than
half of students interest in school activities in MUIDS. About 32.3% of students rate 3
that mean there still have something to improve with school activities. Maybe school
can provide more activities for students or let students vote what activities they would
prefer.
The fourth question asked what types of school activities that students prefer joining
in MUIDS. The result show that Week without wall is school activities that students
want to join the most in MUIDS and follow by clubs, spirit weeks, student market, sport
days, international day, battle of the band, study hall, college fair, science fair, pi day ,
vichakarn day. This chart also show that 3.2% of respondents want more school
Question number five asked about how much time do students want to spend on
school activities per week. This chart demonstrates that 29% of respondents want to
spend 3 hours for school activities and 12.9% of respondents want to spend more than 5
Question number six asked about how school activities can be improve. The
answer are variety. The most popular answer is add more school activities that are
interesting. Some students answer that school should manage time well. There are
students say that school should provide exhibition about clubs and school activities at
the beginning of the year so students and teacher will know what activities will coming
in that year.
Conclusion
This research report aimed to find out what types of school activities do Grade 10
research concludes that Week Without Wall is the activity that Grade 10 students prefer
at MUIDS. But there are students who want MUIDS to improve school activities by
adding more interesting activities such as French language, different kinds of instrument
and manage school activities better in terms of time. School can manage school activities
by using the whole day for school activities so school wouldn’t rush the activities. This
research report recommends further studies on how school activities affect students lives.
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