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As promised in last weeks’ article, I am pleased to write that the students attending the HAC Basketball event at UNIS last Thursday, enjoyed their chance to test their skills against opposing teams from other Hanoi based schools.

Thirty students, four teachers and a team of supporting family members all started their journey to Thanyapura resort in Phuket, for the U13 FOBISIA games, early on Thursday 28th February.

On the 23rd February, 30 of our Duke of Edinburgh Bronze students headed to Pu Luong to complete their assessed adventurous journeys.

Four more universities in Việt Nam have been recognised with a Cambridge International A Level qualification, proving the increasing reliability of the qualification in Viet Nam.

The Secondary Film Competition is open to any student who has an idea for a short film up to seven minutes long. Students can work as part of a larger production team, or as an individual and there is no limit to the number of films they can submit.

The Grand Final: Thursday 21st March 3 - 4.30pm. Auditions: Thursday 7th March 3-4.10pm

To celebrate Tet this year, all Early Years and Primary students in the British Vietnamese International School, Hanoi have had a special Tet show. All the songs and dances that were performed demonstrated the cultural diversity of Vietnam with the aim of loving, widely promoting and honouring the traditional culture of Vietnamese people.

Two students in Year 8 have had their mathematical ideas published by the website NRICH. NRICH is a website run by the University of Cambridge and is designed to provide opportunities to help students develop rich mathematical thinking.

This year BVIS annual Sports Day took place at a new venue with some new and exciting sports on offer. In addition to many traditional track and field events students participated in house football and house basketball competitions.

Today BVIS Primary students had their great time with parents making traditional Chung cake at school.

On January 18, BVIS Secondary students and two representatives of SCUBA, Harrie Kerley and Duncan Kenning, had an inspiring discussion about the problem of plastic waste.

"Ours can be the first generation to end poverty – and the last generation to address climate change before it is too late" - Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations

The 800 seats in the Concert Hall of the Vietnam National Academy of Music were almost filled to capacity on Saturday evening January 5th, contrary to the organisers’ initial expectation of only 400 attendees.

Our annual school musical was the Broadway classic “Little Shop of Horrors”, which proved a huge, ‘monster’ hit on the BVIS stage!

With the support from BVIS Hanoi, the "Le Chauffage Concert" (Sưởi Ấm) will be hosted on 5th January 2019 at The National Music Academy. You will be travelled away with music, joy, happiness and hope.

"After 6 hours of walking through the Sapa countryside, the groups started to arrive at the campsite and began to put up their tents. Some students were also brave enough to go for a little dip in the river to cool down from the day’s trek". This wonderful experience in beautiful nature of Nam Cang, Sapa was just a part of the amazing story about the Bronze Duke Edinburgh trip (DofE) told by Jason Lincoln, the Humanities and EAL Teacher of BVIS Hanoi.

We are pleased to announce that the 2018-19 Parent Satisfaction Survey is now live and will remain open until 20 January.

Over the last few weeks, students in our Primary school have been taking part in ‘Hack The Tube’, an activity designed by our partners at MIT.

Cooking and learning about food and why we need it is very important to young children. In F2, the children have explored a topic called ‘Shopping’ linked to their interests. They have been role-playing in the shop, buying and selling items.

I would like to take the opportunity to thank parents and students that were able to attend the Year 11 and Year 9 options evenings over the past week at BVIS. I hope that you found the information you received useful in helping you make informed choices.