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Year 4s are really getting stuck in to their IPC topic ‘The Active Planet’. There have been many highlights including learning about forces of nature through peer presentations, a chance to ask a real live geologist questions via Skype and a disaster relief workshop led by Amelie’s mum.

With all of Year 6 in Malaysia a depleted year 5 only TX football squad travelled to The American International School to compete in the Boys SISAC Football Championships.

Class teachers at An Phu Primary had the first of what we hope will be many future collaborations with the Design Technology team at An Phu Secondary.

On Saturday 13th & 14th May over 440 swimmers took part in the 6th Annual ISHCMC Invitational Swim Meet 2017. There were swimmers from 10 International Schools from Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Cambodia.

Analytical Chemistry competitions have grown in popularity over recent decades and BIS HCMC just staged one for the very first time.

The newly formed FOBISIA Youth Choir of Ho Chi Minh City comprising 60 students from ABC International School, BVIS and BIS have been rehearsing hard for months in preparation for their first ever concert. They are performing with the International Choir and Orchestra of Ho Chi Minh City as well as singing 3 songs on their own. The concert also features the Asian premiere of Zimbe! – a fusion of traditional African songs and jazz.

Sometimes it can be hard to get up on a Monday morning, but all year our swim squad have been doing exactly that. At 7am each Monday, Wednesday and Friday they have been training hard in our pool before school.

Many humans are driven to achieve ‘extremes’ when the right combination of factors come together. You compete in an IRONMAN not because you have to, but because you want to.

On 11th May, BIS HCMC sent a team of four YR8 students to China to the FOBISIA Secondary Mathematics Competition held at the British School of Beijing.

On 7th May 2017 in the beautiful coastal city of Danang, 1398 starters began the IRONMAN 70.3 Vietnam and among them were members of the BIS HCMC community.

Although this has been a much shorter week than usual, it has not stopped the many learning opportunities that have been taking place both within and outside of our classrooms.

The FOBISIA Writing Competition winners from APP, TX and BVIS gathered together on Friday 28th April for a creative writing workshop in the Imaginarium at BVIS.

Lewis Carroll wrote, ‘Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as 6 impossible things before breakfast’. Following extensive hard work and commitment in their extra-curricular club time and recent rehearsals, our Production Club ensured that what once may have seemed impossible, became a reality on Thursday evening.

Last weekend Rising Star Football Academy Vietnam, starring players from BIS HCMC, played their first game against a strong HCMC FC side at RMIT University.

Last Sunday, RMIT Vietnam University hosted a open Basketball Tournament and our Senior Boys went along to test themselves against strong competition.

At TX we love to be challenged so when LiteracyPlanet.com set us the challenge of participating in the Word Mania 2017 word building competition…...of course our children obliged! The school aide memoire featured highly in the children’s efforts, with perseverance, reflection and learning together being important factors of their performance!

On Friday 21 April, we were fortunate enough to be visited by the Juilliard Alumni Violinist Nicole Jeong. We had a fantastic day of music making and her playing was outstanding.

We would like to welcome all of our BIS HCMC Community back to school, following what we hope has been a restful and family orientated holiday.

The famous German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche said, 'All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down'. Following an extensive Year 5 and Year 6 English unit of writing based upon researching famous orators and what language makes great speeches, on Thursday evening, the finalists took to the stage.

We are pleased to offer, once again this year, an opportunity to order books from Baker’s Book Club in the UK.