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What is it like to transition your children between Nord Anglia schools?
For many families, the first Nord Anglia school their child joins is only the beginning of their international education journey. In this blog we are interviewing Anne, a parent within the Nord Anglia community, who shares the experience of her family and their relocations around the world.
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Primary Assessment Week at BIS Hanoi
Each year, towards the end of term, BIS Primary students participate in an assessment week to support the teacher’s judgement of student attainment over the year. This year, it has moved online and for the last two weeks, our teachers and teaching assistants have been extremely busy carrying out individual student assessments, the results of which will be shared with you in the student reports soon.
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Tips to support your child at home with reading and writing
Even when the students are learning at home due to the pandemic, they need to maintain practising reading and writing, as these skills are essential to every child. This week, we would like to offer a few practical tips and advice for assisting your children’s literacy learning at home.
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Tips to help your child with Mathematics at home
This weekend the news broke that students across Hanoi would once again be learning from home to help prevent and control a new COVID–19 wave. As a community, we have adapted seamlessly back to online learning and our students have continued to show great perseverance and a fabulous attitude towards their studies. As Maths Curriculum Leaders, we wanted to take this opportunity to share some tips and advice for helping your children with Mathematics at home.
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Why is BIS Hanoi Sixth Form the right pathway before university abroad?
Most of our students have ambitions for moving abroad following Sixth Form to study at university. Every year these graduates follow in the footsteps of our alumni who have attended some of the world’s best universities and whose success stories are inspiring proof of the exciting pathways which await them. We have prepared hundreds of past students for the transition from school to university, and have long perfected the recipe for ensuring them the best future international pathway. So, what’s key to setting them up for success?
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Meet the Teacher #1: Holly Carmichael shares her pure joy in teaching
This is the “Meet the Teacher” series in which BIS Hanoi teachers share about their passion and commitment for teaching. Let’s meet our first teacher of the series: Ms. Holly Carmichael and explore her interesting story at BIS Hanoi as well as get to know her more as a person.
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Lifelong learning: professional development at Nord Anglia Education
To deliver high quality teaching, we know our teachers have to receive high quality training - not just at the beginning of their careers, but throughout it. For developing best practice, knowledge building and collaborating with colleagues around the world, our teachers have access to their unique professional development hub - Nord Anglia University (NAU). Created and designed by teachers - NAU is packed full of educational resources and courses made exclusively for our 13,000 teachers around the world. We are constantly evolving this platform and this year we’re pleased to launch Nord Anglia University 2.0 worldwide.
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Striving for excellence at BIS Hanoi
At BIS we recruit outstanding practitioners to fulfil our promise to you and to ensure we deliver a world class education. In schools, when we talk about outstanding or excellence, this isn’t something that is achieved once and ticked off. Excellence is about consistently high standards and a drive to improve sustained by a desire for life-long learning, something shared between all of our dedicated teachers.
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International Primary Curriculum (IPC) is updated with new and exciting learning content
Prior to the students returning to school, the teachers worked in year group teams to review and update the unit themes, ensuring they are relevant and exciting for our students at BIS Hanoi.
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New Programme further develops reading culture within BIS Hanoi
At BIS Hanoi, this year in the Secondary school we have introduced a new programme called Accelerated Reader, to encourage our students to read more books in English and thus improve their English language learning.
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Learning Modern Foreign Languages at BIS Hanoi
At BIS Hanoi, we get our young learners actively involved in the classroom. For instance, Year 3 students had the opportunity to learn about the typical breakfast in Spain and also the one in France.
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History as an ongoing process of discovery and interpretation at BIS Hanoi
At BIS Hanoi we aim to make sure that every History classroom is one that is built with both high ceilings of challenges and solid floors of support.
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The Importance of High Quality Foundation Education
The Early Years Foundation stage curriculum provides children with the skills and knowledge they need to become happy and independent learners.
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Making it personal
Educators are leaving traditional practices behind in favour of a tailored, more personalised approach for each student that gives them greater control over their own learning.
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The value of Theory of Knowledge
The value of TOK is therefore not just holistic in developing students’ open-mindedness and communication skills, but also could mean the difference between a student getting their 1st choice university placement, or their backup choice.
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Assessment in Focus: Grades for University
This time of year is very important for our Year 13 students. The pressure of final examinations is starting to build and now they have to think about preparing for the next stage of their lives – university.
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How partnerships with world-leading organisations transform learning
Partnering with world-leading educators shows the importance of passion in work at its finest, says Ethan Hildreth, Superintendent of the Nord Anglia American International School, adding that students who develop and pursue their passions easily achieve and succeed.
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Speaking English at BIS Hanoi
At BIS Hanoi, we are proud of having a unique ethos and approach when dealing with languages inside our school.
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A New Way of Communication at BIS Hanoi
Communication is really important to us at BIS and future weekly emails will not just contain links to blog entries from Mr. Webb, Mrs. Carroll and I but also links and snapshots of other articles you may be interested in.
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