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[Hanoi], 12 July 2018 – In collaboration with UNICEF, secondary school students from Nord Anglia Education, the world’s leading premium schools organisation, have converged in New York City for seminars, debates and speaking opportunities, including presentations at the High Level Political Forum at the Headquarters of United Nations.

As part of Nord Anglia Education’s collaboration with UNICEF, selected student ambassadors will visit New York from 6-13 July for the NAE–UNICEF Student Summit regarding the United Nation’s Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

As we prepare for the end of year we look at ways of supporting your children in their transitions to a new year group by visiting the other classrooms and by meeting their new teachers. Moving to a new classroom is not an easy thing for a child and that is why we do everything we can at BVIS to make the transition as smooth as possible.

Any reading of this week’s articles for section leaders shows the breadth of school life and how vibrant schools are as places of learning and nurture. So much goes on within them from keeping the youngest safe at one end to seeing them safely on their way to their destination universities at the other.

On Thursday, this week we invited all the Early Years’ parents to join us for some mathematical activities. The teachers set up activities around their classrooms. Some of these activities involved sorting shapes, making patterns, completing puzzles, estimate objects in the jars, mark-making numbers and tally charts when counting, problem solving in the home corner, measuring feet in the shoe shop, adding groups of objects together and making clocks.

This term, I am sure you have heard lots of Superhero talk in the F2 classes. Their final iEYC topic of the year is called ‘To The Rescue’. The children have been learning to become superheroes that use their power for good and not bad things.

The safety of children in school is of paramount importance. It is one of the hallmarks of a good school and provides an environment in which children can study more effectively. Recent figures from the Nord Anglia Education Annual Parents’ Satisfaction Survey stated that 95% felt their child was happy and 97% declared them to feel safe. We are very pleased with those headline figures, but we are never complacent.

This term in F3, we changed our topic to meet the needs and interests of the children in both our classes.

Here at BVIS Primary, we are always exploring new ways to be innovative in our teaching and learning. One such way is incorporating the use of learning technologies into our teaching and learning.  This will provide an environment where your children’s academic potential is realised through an enhanced learning experience, harnessing technology to support enquiry, reflection and perseverance.

This week, we are starting Splash Pool and swimming lessons for all of the Early Years’ students. Swimming is really popular in the Early Years and has huge benefits not only for your children’s health, physical development and mental well-being but for their confidence as well. Swimming is a life skill and we are so privileged to be able to offer this opportunity to the children. Recent research highlights how swimming can also be seen as a way to relax the mind and uplift the spirit, providing children with a positive outlook on life and dispelling any sadder feelings.

This week, we were overwhelmed with the amount of parent support in the Early Years. All the children brought in outfits to wear for the International performance. In F3V, Anna’s Mum designed and even made her dress which was fantastic - well done mum! The performance went smoothly and although some of the children were extremely nervous and shy, they all managed to ooze confidence for the finale song at the end ‘Hello to all the Children of the World.’

On Thursday we welcomed our Year 6 students into the Secondary school as part of our ongoing transition programme to help the Primary students get used to working in the next phase of their educational journey. Like last year we had the Year 6 and 7 students working together on a global challenge day focusing on the UN Sustainable Development Goal of gender equality.

Early Years decided to start their International Week a week early as there was so much that the children wanted to learn about. I saw activities from Japan, Hawaii, Korea, India, England and Mexico as I walked around the Early Years. This area of learning teaches the children to recognise that everyone is different around the world and that other children may have different experiences when they grow up. It helps the children to respect each other and to recognise the things that make them special and unique.