SUKSASONGKRAW PANOMTUAN

WELFARE SCHOOL KANCHANABURI

Supportive Education School, at Panomthuan, is the first establishment of this kind under the jurisdiction of Special Education Division, General Education Department, Ministry of Education Founded on May 1, 1953 and it focuses on educational administration for the poor and for the children short of educational opportunity.  It aims at enhancing the equality of educational opportunity among the Thai citizens.  It is a boarding school with co-ed students, totally supported by the government, from the elementary to the lower secondary level.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

1. Applicants who are required for enrollment according to the Primary Education Law and Lack education opportunity.
2. Priority goes to the children living in remote areas, in the woods, on the hills, on the islands, in the rugged environments far away from convenient transportation.  It also goes to orphans without a patron and the paupers.

SCHOOL OBJECTIVES:

1. To give assistance to the educationally occasional lacking students who cannot afford normal school, to further their studies until they achieve certain levels of education as offered by the welfare school in which they have registered.

2. To offer courses of study to the students to enhance their vocational knowledge and skills as their vocational foundation.

3. To enhance the conscience and morality of the students as well as the knowledge and understanding of the values of the Thai culture and Thai social customs, nationally and locally and their awareness of the preservation of the culture and the customs.

4. To take good care of the students’ health, their living and to fulfill their potentiality to the used for the development of their hometowns.

SCHOOL SERVICES:

1. Government subsidized accommodations in dormitories and individual houses.

2. Three meals daily.

3. Clothing, a bed and bedclothes, books and learning facilities.

4. Health service with a clinic and full time nurse, annual health inspection, transportation to and from the nearby hospital in case of serious illness and without charge.

5. Social activities, religious ceremonies as deemed proper, all year round.

6. Co-op store and in-school money earning.

7. Monthly recreational activities.

8. Free hair cut.

Library, for studying and for leisure.