Sarasas Ektra School

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Sarasas Ektra school
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Location
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Bangkok

Thailand
Information
TypePrivate school
MottoAge quod agis
(Always do your best)
Established1995
Head of schoolPisut Yongkamol
GradesNC–G12 (K–3)
Number of studentsApproximately 2,900 (2009)
CampusUrban
Campus sizeLarge
Color(s)Blue-Yellow
AffiliationThe Association of Private Schools for English Program (APEP)
Websitewww.ektra.ac.th

Sarasas Ektra School (Thai: โรงเรียนสารสาสน์เอกตรา) is a Catholic bilingual co-educational school in central Bangkok. As of 2009, the school had approximately 2,900 students, and conducts a fully bilingual program in Thai and English from kindergarten 1 (3-year-olds) to matayom 6 (17-year-olds). The school occupies three campuses in the Bang Phongphang Sub-district of Yan Nawa District. A nursery class for two-year-old children was introduced in May 2009.

Sarasas Ektra is one of 24 Sarasas-affiliated schools, 15 of which have bilingual programmes.

Further reading

  • Developing Literacy in Second Language Learners, Report of the National Literacy Panel or Language Minorities and Youth, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington DC, 2006, p. 397
  • Swain, M. and Lapkin, S. Evaluating Bilingual Education, 1982, cited in Lin, A.M.Y. and Man, E.Y.F., Bilingual Education: Southeast Asian Perspectives, University of Hong Kong Press, 2009, p. 20

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