Case study · Shrewsbury International School

“Play doesn't need translation.

Bangkok. 1,400 students. Sixty-plus nationalities. One FunShop that changed how the staff felt about coming to work on a Monday.

Bangkok, ThailandInternational schoolWhole school
Bangkok
At a glance

Three days. Four stakeholder groups.

Workshops and keynotes for all staff, all students, parents and school leadership, a whole-community play event unlike anything we had delivered before.

3
Days of sessions
4
Stakeholder groups
1,700+
People reached
100%
Custom designed
In the room

What it looked like on the ground.

Educators gathered in a school gym after a School of Play staff workshop in Bangkok
Staff workshop · Bangkok
Dale Sidebottom delivering a keynote to a full auditorium in Bangkok
Keynote · Bangkok
The story

One city. Sixty nationalities.

Shrewsbury Bangkok came to us for a staff wellbeing day. What we found was a team that needed permission to laugh. By the end of the day they had it.

Brief

Staff culture reset

Sixty-plus staff from twenty-plus countries. The brief: one day that bridges the divides and gives everyone a shared language for connection.

Day one

The FunShop

A full-day FunShop with games, framework and a custom debrief designed around the multicultural context. Translated into three languages on the spot.

Follow-up

Student workshops

Three student workshops across year levels. Students ran the final session independently. The head of school watched from the door.

Today

Part of the culture

The PEGG framework is now embedded in Shrewsbury Bangkok's wellbeing curriculum. The staff run their own version of the FunShop for new starters.

Play doesn't need translation. That's the point.

Head of Wellbeing, Shrewsbury International School Bangkok

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