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After almost 3 months of rehearsals and preparation we are approaching the performance of this year’s KS3 production; Antigone.

Along with Health and Safety, Child Protection and Safeguarding is the number one priority for our community here at The British International School, Ho Chi Minh City. Ensuring the health and well-being of students, staff and parents is key to a happy and successful school.

The 20th annual SEOMUN (Seoul Model United Nations) conference took place between the 9th and the 12th of November 2017. Twenty seven students from BIS HCMC travelled to Seoul for 3 days of competitive debate and discussion on some of the world’s most pressing issues ranging from global warming to religious extremism.

As part of our community commitment, Year 5 have invited the students from Phan Huy Ich School (run by Poussières de Vie) to An Phu Primary to provide for them the opportunity to play the games we created in Maths.

This week our Year 9 students took part in the first stage of the FOBISIA online international Design and Technology competition, where our students have been asked to design and create a promotional gift for visitors to the school.

The SISAC U11 Basketball season drew to a close this week, with both boys and girls taking on the rest of the city.

The aim of EAL is to build English confidence, fluency and accuracy so that our students can fully and independently access their learning, both in and out of the classroom.

We’ve been learning phonics sounds for about 6 weeks now in F3, in which we have covered many sounds in the alphabet. We’re using a programme called Read Write Inc. and through a variety of activities and games to make it as active, hands on and meaningful as possible for our little learners we are already seeing great progress and enthusiasm.

The Community Project for Year 8 involves visiting Thao Dien School for Disabled Children during their ILS lesson. This year, each year 8 class will be visiting Thao Dien twice to do the different activities that they have prepared.

Our Weekly Wellbeing focus on Monday established the theme of this week as Attitude for Gratitude which we swiftly followed up on Tuesday with a thought provoking performance of 100 causing us all to consider our most important lifetime memories. On Wednesday we shared our gratitude with Country Representatives in a coffee morning as a thank you for their tremendous efforts on International Day. Today the atmosphere was deeply reflective in our Remembrance Day assembly as we were caused to consider the human impact of conflict and how we can best build a better and more peaceful world. I hope you enjoy reading this week’s newsletter and can get an understanding of how this week’s events have reminded us of the importance of our emotional connections, how much we can benefit from them and how they enrich our lives.

What is Phonics? This week the F3 and MP1 parents joined together to learn more about how phonics is used to teach their children to read and write.

Our EAL team update us on the energetic activities our Year 1 and 2 children have been getting up to in this term's EAL lessons. From bossy verbs, adjectives and time connectives, the children have been learning an awful lot since the start of term including how to make slime!

On Sunday the 5th of November, 6 international schools in Ho Chi Minh City, including 70 musicians from BIS HCMC came together to perform at the annual charity fundraising event; Saimuse.

We are excited to announce that on Thursday 23rd November our students will be visited by Juilliard Alumni Guitar and Cello Duo Dr. Kimberley Patterson and Dr. Patrick Sutton! The duo will be performing for both our Primary and Secondary school students before holding a live question and answer session.

15 students from BIS HCMC have received an Outstanding Cambridge Learner Award to celebrate their exceptional achievement in the 2017 Summer IGCSE series, with 2 students achieving the highest standard mark in the world for Mathematics.

We are delighted to welcome our new Business and Economics Teacher and Head of Year 10, Mr Robbie Alexander to BIS HCMC.

This is a wonderful whole school community event connecting students from Year 5, 6 & 7 and our community partner students who we work closely with throughout the year.

This month staff received training from Educational Psychologist Angie Wigford on how to help children develop Emotional Resilience. She shared with us the importance of looking after the mental health of our children and giving them strategies to cope with issues that arise in everyday life.

The Geography Department held their annual photography competition earlier than usual this year in order to link up with the Nord Anglia Education Young Photographer of the Year contest.

Over the last 18 months the BIS HCMC Primary Curriculum has undergone a complete review.  We have created a bespoke Curriculum, beginning with Early Years in Foundation 1, moving into Year 1 straight through the primary years to the end of Year 9.