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This week students from Year 6, teachers and parents visited Hy Vong (Hope) School for disabled children.

Our community partner Hy Vong School have been continuing their regular weekly visits with Year 6. Both sets of students have enjoyed working together on science projects, making crazy putty and rainbow water jars.

The week beginning, November 25, saw Ms Catherine and Ms Jasmine lead a session called ‘Funky Phonics’ for the parents of children in the EYC. The aim of the workshop was to make parents more aware of the learning that goes on in our phonics lessons at BIS.

On Thursday, November 08, BIS Hanoi held an assembly to commemorate Remembrance Day.

On Wednesday, Ms Naomi Skinner, a Primary teacher from our sister BIS school in Ho Chi Minh City, did a presentation to the Primary students about her 2,200km charity run from Hanoi all the way to Ho Chi Minh City. All the funds raised from the run will go directly to charities that support vulnerable Vietnamese children.

The Friends of BIS parents’ group enjoyed a visit to the Tam Dao Bear Sanctuary on Monday this week. The parents gained a better knowledge and understanding of the sanctuary’s facilities, the Community service programmes that are open to BIS students and, most importantly, the issues surrounding bear bile farming and what Tam Dao are doing to try and stop it.

Our Primary students are celebrating many achievements in Phuket this week at the Under 11s FOBISIA tournament. Competing against 7 other schools from China, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Malaysia and Ho Chi Minh is providing super challenges for our students.

Cho Won Ho (Jack) from Year 8 and Nguyen Duc Tuan from Year 11 won the Wild Rhino Competition 2018/2019 in the Junior and Senior Categories respectively.

This week, as we head towards the most important holiday in the Vietnamese culture – the Lunar New Year (or Tết), students of BIS Hanoi had a fantastic opportunity to nurture a respectful and caring sense of social responsibility and build friendships with students from Hy Vong School and Xa Dan School.

It was my pleasure to award Nguyen Hoa Thuy Tien (Tina) and Le Hien Chuc An with prizes for co-designing the new BIS Hanoi Lionhearts logo. It was a stunning collaborative effort, which captured the spirit of our school, perfectly.

Educating students about our role in creating a more sustainable future through making simple actions become habits has been our goal - together, our simple actions can make a big difference! Students thought about promises they could make to themselves in order to help protect the environment and recorded these on recyclable leaves.

The British International School Hanoi garden is a wonderful environmental education tool, helping our students to reconnect with the natural world and understand the true source of food, highlighting healthy eating and improving nutrition.

After 6 weeks of visits, which has seen both sets of children playing fun activities together at British International School Hanoi, we finished with a party so all the children could meet up one last time before the holidays and say goodbye.

REFLECTION is another one of the characteristics we look to aspire to in our Aide Memoire; this week we have reflected on the message that both the British actor Paul Blackthorne and Vietnamese comedian Xuan Bac passed on to our staff and students, here are some of the comments.