Taking part in sport has so many benefits, from helping our students to keep fit and healthy, to teaching them about sportsmanship, teamwork, and dedication. Sport is also a great way to make friends, have fun, and get involved in the school community.

We offer a host of individual and team activities, which are open to all ages and abilities. There’s something for everyone, from traditional sports like football, basketball, badminton, swimming, and volleyball, to martial arts, yoga, dance, and Zumba.

Students who enjoy the thrill of friendly competition can get involved in regular House challenges, while our BIS Lionhearts compete with pride against local international schools and at FOBISIA tournaments at home and abroad.

The visual and performing arts play an essential role in our students’ education, giving them the tools to think creatively, innovate, and appreciate diverse cultures and backgrounds. Research shows that children studying the arts are more proficient in reading, writing and maths, as well as being happier and more engaged.

Through our world-class performing arts programme with The Juilliard School, aspiring actors and performers learn from specialist instructors in creative suites, before stepping into the spotlight in our theatre and auditorium.

Our creative after-school activities offer a breadth of opportunities, too. Your child can paint with water colours, sculpt, sew, and produce handmade crafts. They can also construct theatrical backdrops at our set design club and enjoy traditional Vietnamese games.

Our thriving music programme promotes cultural literacy, encourages creativity, and develops our students’ transferable skills, including critical thinking and collaboration.

Our primary instrumental programme is open to all, enabling every child to enjoy music lessons. Your child can choose from a range of instruments, including the guitar, piano, violin, and drums, which they’ll learn at weekly 35-minute sessions. Focused music lessons improve our students’ concentration, discipline, and memory skills, too, which they go on to demonstrate across the curriculum.

There’s something for everyone at our after-school clubs, whether that’s singing in a choir, playing in the school orchestra, or joining our brass band.

Inspiring curiosity through challenge and creative problem solving, our science, technology, engineering, arts, and maths (STEAM) programme – in collaboration with MIT – is an exhilarating way to learn. 

Your child will think analytically, work collaboratively, and challenge the norm in our exciting STEAM Maker Space, where they’ll tackle some of the toughest scientific, technological, and engineering challenges facing the world today. 

They’ll enjoy a host of co-curricular activities, too, including our Minecraft, 3D graphics, experimental science, robotics, and computer clubs.

Languages are an important part of the learning experience at BIS Hanoi, helping to prepare your child for success in our globalised world. Learning languages promotes international mindedness, too, by building our students’ understanding of other cultures and perspectives.

We’ll support your child to become a formidable communicator in both English and at least one other language. In 2022, 61% of our IBDP students graduated with a bilingual Diploma.

From Year 1-13, your child can learn Vietnamese, French, Spanish, and German. We offer several co-curricular activities that broaden our students’ horizons, too, including Japanese history club, Vietnamese traditional games, and basic Korean.