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Towards the end of the term, our students still remained enthusiastic about engaging in different learning activities. Huge congratulations to our Secondary learning stars from last week. The award recognized your outstanding performance in a variety of subjects. Well done!

On Tuesday (June 1st), our KS3 students competed in their first Virtual House Competition, called "The Lockdown Games." Their Heads of Year assigned them four fascinating assignments in which they could earn points for their house. Towards the end of the game, the House with the most winning points was crowned champion.

Last week was another exciting and busy week at BIS Hanoi. Huge congratulation to each of our Secondary Learning Stars this week.

This week was Performing Arts Week in Primary, and every student took part in a day of live workshops and challenges developing their singing, rhythm, dance and creative thinking skills.

Many Virtual Learning activities performed by students, as well as the attitude they have shown about their jobs, have left us in awe. We have listed the following names as ‘Virtual Learning Stars,' either for their wonderful individual piece of work or for their strong commitment and always moving beyond and above what has been expected of students.

What a fun and crazy week it's been! Our students in Years 7, 8, and 9 have been catapulted into all areas of creativity and physical exertion when the practical subjects on Project Week took over. They had a wonderful week learning different ways to use their brains.

The final term of Year 6 is very busy and thrilling, but it is also a very emotional time for our students when they begin to bid farewell to their Primary lives and look forward to the start of their Secondary journey. Here at BIS, the Year 6 and 7 teams collaborate to ensure that the transition process helps our students be well prepared for this step up, and that they feel confident, ready and a lot less nervous!

Last week students from Years 1 to 6 participated in the Virtual STEAM Challenge. For three days, one per phase group, a prerecorded video launched the challenge. Each student was required to research, and then perform a scientific experiment whilst filming and presenting a ‘TV show’. They were encouraged to watch an episode of Emily’s Wonder Lab on Netflix for inspiration.

Last Friday (May 7) five of our Secondary student leaders had an opportunity to hear from expert speakers and exchange ideas with other international students at the FOBISIA Student Leadership Summit hosted by Nexus International School Malaysia. The virtual summit was a memorable event that gave our students many valuable lessons to further improve their leadership skills.

It has been such an exciting first week back for BIS students – IPC learning has gotten off to a super start with a series of thrilling entry points!

I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that time is just flying by at the moment. It feels that we start each week on Monday morning with lots of time ahead of us, and suddenly it is Friday again! I suppose that is just a sign of a busy life and a purposeful school.

Across the Primary School, we have been focusing on the importance of sleep and well being on children’s physical and emotional well-being. We have been working closely with Family Medical Practice and during the month of April they delivered three parent sessions on the importance of sleep in children. The sessions were delivered by Dr. Maria Santos.

On Wednesday night, BIS Hanoi hosted its inaugural Basketball Showcase, raising money for the Blue Dragon Foundation. The event, organised spectacularly by a quartet of Sixth Form students, Tuong Vy, Tuan Kiet, Hoang Nam, Thanh Tri, was a huge success! Involving a group of young, bidding entrepreneurs selling snacks, drinks and raffle tickets for some amazing prizes, a half time shooting competition and entertaining match commentary.

On Thursday we hosted our Gala Showcase event, combining both musical talents from a variety of students but with a focus on our Year 11 IGCSE and Year 13 IBDP students, alongside our IBDP Visual Art exhibition for our Year 13 students.

This week eight of our students from KS3 took part in the NAE SEA STEAM Festival. Despite it taking place virtually due to COVID restrictions, our students still enjoyed the full benefits of the festival, collaborating and sharing ideas with students from other countries in addition to applying their coding skills.

As part of our IPC Topic Express Yourself, Year 6 students have been looking at the importance of personal and collective responsibility within our local community.

We are extremely lucky to enjoy the benefits of Nord Anglia’s collaboration with The Juilliard School across the age range at BIS, with access to curriculum resources, staff develop opportunities, global projects and world-class professionals in theatre, dance and music.

What an amazing outcome for our students in Y5 to Y9 in the FOBISIA LANGUAGE Championship last week, which was run by Education Perfect.

The school was awash with every colour as books were brought to life by an abundance of incredible costumes. Characters from all genres descended upon the school and there was an energetic buzz around the building.

I had a great start to my day on Wednesday morning, when I met three of our impressive Year 10 students. Bao Chau, Ngoc Anh and Thanh Mai shared with me their amazing story of competing in the World Scholar’s Cup at the Dewey School, last weekend. Along with 1000s of other students from Vietnam they embraced four challenging rounds (Collaborative Writing; The Scholar Bowl; The Scholar Challenge and the Scholar Debate).