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Sathitpathum Demonstration School

Pathum Thani, Thailand · est. 1980 · Private

Illustration · Pathum Thani

Sathitpathum Demonstration School stands in Mueang district of Pathum Thani province, on highway 345 in the Bang Khu Wat subdistrict, and it is a long-lived school of one family. The school counts its history from 1980, when its founder, Associate Professor Prachumporn Suwannattara, left the post of deputy professor and principal of the demonstration school of Khon Kaen University and opened the Pranuntanit kindergarten, also called Bantonmai; the work of the kindergarten is dated 1982, the second site, Nimitmai, opened in 1998, the Montessori stage appeared in 2002, the international stage in 2005, and the school took its present name in 2008, as it expanded. From 2008 to 2010 the school worked together with the faculty of education of Chulalongkorn University, and since 2021 it has run its international stage together with Invictus International School of Singapore. Today it is a kindergarten and six years of schooling: a nursery from 18 months, a mixed-age Montessori kindergarten from 3 to 6 years and years of schooling from the first to the sixth. The programme the school builds on the standards of New South Wales and of Cambridge, and there is a separate line of advanced language. The day begins at 8:15 with the raising of the flag and the anthem and ends at 14:15 with a general review, and work with the calendar goes in Thai, Chinese and English at once. The classes of the pre-school stage are taught by qualified Montessori teachers, the school belongs to three Montessori associations and calls itself a member of the Association of International Schools of Thailand. The school does not list its rooms, offering a virtual walk instead of a description, and tuition fees it does not publish on the site at all: they can be found out only by telephone or at an open day.