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    An endearing house, one filled with the history and charm of old Bangkok, is the home to our beloved purple elephant created by one of our students – Per Jonsson from Sweden – in the eighties, the school exudes an ambiance of comfort and learning.
    Our children, aged eighteen months to three years, spend their time in a playground within an environment created especially for them. From here, they can make a comfortable transition to our Soi 49 campus, and their teachers often recommend placement in The Early Learning Centre to ensure that the children can stay with their special friends. Every August, the staff from The Purple Elephant comes to The Early Learning Centre to welcome the children back into our family of schools.
    We continually refine the quality of our relationships through the practice of documentation. Documentation affirms the children and makes visible our image of the child as a competent, creative, and articulate member of the school community. Our positive image of the child motivates us to make this competence visible to others. We document the children’s work using transcripts, photographs, and video to create a community of learners. Children revisit these documents to reflect on their assumptions, strategies, and goals. Teachers study these documents to improve their conversations with children. Parents review these documents to gather an intellectual understanding of their child’s work and to become an educational partner of the school. Through such records, the general public learns the good work of the school and advocates for its support. By degrees, our image of the child as strong and intelligent becomes known to all, including the children themselves.
    We understand that high-quality learning requires high-quality space. We constantly record, and study the relationship between space and learning, from the calming peace of a quiet space to the relationship between space and learning, from the calming peace of a quiet space to the positive energy of play space. We believe that the environment can be designed to communicate a message of welcome, support, and belonging. Each item in the classroom from furnishings to photographs is placed there to support this image of the environment as a teacher that engenders a disposition for the child to slow down, to reflect, and to enjoy.
    As a set of international schools, we value and support meaningful relationships among the diverse cultures of our families. We understand that diversity creates a reason to reflect, question, and grow in skills, awareness, and humanity. We value the relationship between listening and acting, between aesthetics and utility, and between parents and programs. Particularly in the context of this diversity, we maintain our image that each child is strong and competent, an image that also applies to the teacher, parent, community, and environment, each part creating and supporting the other.

    The Purple Elephant 55
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    Genders Accepted: Mixed (Co-education)
    Address: The Purple Elephant 55, 79 Soi Thong Lo 8 Khlong Tan Nuea, Watthana , Bangkok, 10110, Thailand



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