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Across many cultures there is a common principle that is accepted as a simple way of finding individual and community wellbeing: that is to focus on what we have, not what we don't have.

Last Saturday, on 19th September, over 130 members of the BIS HCMC school community, including students, parents and teachers from across the 3 campuses, joined volunteers worldwide and in the city to participate in World CleanUp Day.

Last week in the library we celebrated the popular author Roald Dahl’s birthday!

Many new children began their full time program in F1 this week. The children have been fantastic and have grown in confidence and independence. This week they have continued to build on their new school experiences by visiting the specialist teachers in their spaces and we are very proud of how well the children have settled.

Read about our Oxbridge Support Session led by Mr Rispin with a special guest speaker, BISHCMC Alumni and Cambridge Graduate Nam Tran.

Student leadership is an integral part of the school life here at BISHCMC and for Year 6 this means an opportunity to be part of the school council executive committee, or to take on the role of House Captain.

Despite the challenge of COVID-19, our Precious Plastics group made it through to the semi-final of the Global Social Leaders 'Global Goals Competition', from 249 entries.

We are incredibly proud of the IB Diploma Programme results awarded to our Year 13 students this year. Once again the knowledge, skills, and aptitudes of our students have been recognised with academic results that place them among the very best globally.

At BIS we hold Health and Safety as a key priority for our whole community. For this reason, I would like to remind you of a few procedures and expectations here on the Junior Campus.

Year 3 had a wonderful first week settling into life at the Junior Campus!

Dear Parents , It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Secondary Campus for the Academic year 2020-21 and to share with you our first update of the year. This week has been a week of welcome, of celebration, and of looking forward to how we will shape the year ahead together- but most importantly it has been a week of appreciation, appreciation of being back together and able to connect with friends and colleagues in our wonderful school. It was a joy to witness the enthusiasm, energy and laughter that filled the Campus on Wednesday on our students’ first day back at school.

This week we welcomed our new students to the BIS Family.

One of the rotational activities taking place during our period 9 slot in the final week has been the Virtual Escape Room.

Find out what’s been happening in the Year 2 classes this week to make all the chairs go on strike!

This term, our Key Stage 3 Art and Design Technology students have been focusing on Lino Cuts and Pewter Casting. Let’s find out a little more about these projects with Ms Williams and Mr Diver.

Dear Parents, The tempo of life on campus has remained high this week with an exciting array of lessons and activities. Of particular note is the IB Group 4 project for Year 12 students which I share more about below.

Congratulations to our Year 10 and Year 12 Biologists who took part in the Intermediate Biology Olympiad, which is organised by the UK Biology Competitions Committee and administered by the Royal Society of Biology.

Thursday June 18th saw the Year 12 IBDP students embark on their Group 4 project.

BIS English Teacher Owen McDevitt publishes children's picture book 'Uncle Simon's Stories'.