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Happy World Children’s Day 2020!

The swimming squads have been training each morning from the start of the academic year. Their hard work was showcased on Tuesday afternoon when the team entered the NAE Global Campus Sports Competition: Swimming.

On Tuesday morning this week, Year 8 students participated in a ‘Mindful Morning’ as part of their Life Skills curriculum.

A fortnight of acts of remembrance closed today with a powerful online assembly at BIS Hanoi. Planned by history teachers, Victoria Black and Sophie Peters, and recorded and performed by students, the assembly was extraordinary in its depth and quality.

Our new caterers, Joma bakery, launched an exciting range of products. Their school dining service is based on a commitment to providing a healthy and balanced meal for all students.

Tuesday night was a joyous occasion for our Year 12 students at BIS Hanoi. In the middle of the first term of studying the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, BIS Hanoi students, with their families, paused for breath, posed for a photograph and reflected on their academic achievements over the last two years.

Global Campus (GC) Junior is a dedicated area on Nord Anglia’s Global Campus for children Under 8 years old. There are four different sections in GC Junior for you and your child to explore and complete activities and projects at home. Some of these resources and activities are also used by our teachers in school.

This term, Year 6 have been working on completing their entries for the first of this year’s MIT Challenges. The challenge requires students to design something to help astronauts eat, play sport, or do exercise more easily when they are in space. The lack of gravity in space means that eating a bowl of noodles is almost impossible, the soup and the noodles would be floating all over the space craft.

On Thursday, BIS Hanoi’s IB Options Evening was superbly attended by Year 11 students and their parents. The event was an insightful occasion for us to support students and parents in gathering all the useful information about IB subjects. We hope you found the IB Options evening informative and good luck on the path that you choose.

On Friday 30th October, your child will have the privilege of wearing a Halloween outfit on the day in return for a charitable donation. We have already suggested 30,000 VND as a donation but any further donations are much needed and would be much appreciated by those affected.

At BIS Hanoi, we are very lucky to have a unique collaboration with MIT, the world's leading technology University. This term has seen MIT launched their “Into the Void” challenges, focused around Space exploration. These challenges are a great way to get our students interested in the world of STEAM and see how what they design and make today can influence the world of tomorrow.

Learn about the exit points of International Primary Curriculum (IPC), designed to further children's understanding of their learnings.

Nord Anglia’s Global Campus has experienced a new re-design over the summer holidays and is now bigger and better than ever. This week at BIS Hanoi, we re-launched the Global Campus with our children during our phase assemblies. Children and families from F1 – Y13 can access Global Campus.

This week, Year 3 have enjoyed beginning their ‘Save the World - Rainforest’ topic and Year 2 had an exciting entry point into their new topic 'Treasure Island'.

For the past eight weeks our Year 11 students have been following a bespoke curriculum; the IB Preparation Course. The objective of this programme has been to challenge our students with subject knowledge and skills development beyond that of the IGCSE course.

It has been a week of reflection in the Secondary section at BIS Hanoi.

For Secondary parents, we are inviting them to login to the new BIS Parent Portal, where parents can access to academic reports, study timetable, communications and house points. In the first instance, we are trialing the process with Secondary students.

Students have driven initiatives and addressed the school to promote the importance of health and wellbeing and this strong student voice is underpinned by the student leadership structure that has developed at the school.

Results are in! We are delighted to share with you that out of the 850 Nord Anglia pupils that entered the Young Musician of the Year Competition 3 BIS Hanoi Students are amongst those receiving awards.

Last Saturday (May 30), we celebrated the graduation of our Year 13 students and recognised their achievements throughout their journey at BIS Hanoi.