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This January, secondary students from the British International School Ho Chi Minh City took part in expeditions across Vietnam and Asia as part of our expansive enrichment programme — including trekking, diving, skiing and meaningful service learning. Discover these experiences through our students’ own voices.

A team of BIS HCMC students has made history at the prestigious Conrad Challenge, held recently at the Space Center in Houston, Texas. Competing against over 4,700 teams from more than 50 countries, the BIS team won first place in both of the categories they entered – Best Power Pitch and the Glinsky Expo Award – an unprecedented achievement in the challenge's history.

On the morning of Thursday the 17th of May, Ms Husband, Mr Alexander and 10 of our Key Stage 3 musicians left school at 6.30am to make their way to the airport for their flight to Jakarta, Indonesia to attend the FOBISIA Music Intermediate Festival 2018. Ms Husband provides the highlights of the much-anticipated trip.

It was the week they had been waiting for! 4 students from BIS HCMC flew all the way to Boston to join 25 other Nord Anglia Education students for STEAM Week @ MIT - a unique, five-day long event packed with STEAM-related challenges, learning and adventure at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Once again NAE students have been given the unique opportunity to travel to the United Nations Headquarters in New York to attend the High Level Political Forum and engage in a Global MUN debate with 3 ambitious students representing the British International School, Ho Chi Minh City.

Earlier this month our BIS HCMC sports stars travelled to the world class sporting facility that is Thanyapura Sports Resort in Phuket, Thailand, for the U13 Green Group FOBISIA Games 2018.

On the 8th and 9th March, 8 of our excited mathematicians from Years 7 and 8 jumped on a plane heading for Shanghai to represent BIS HCMC at the FOBISIA Secondary Mathematics Competition 2018. Aarush Yendamuri brings us the highlights from the 2 day trip...

At the beginning of March, twelve BIS students travelled from Ho Chi Minh City to Manila, Philippines to compete in the 2018 South East Asian Mathematics Competition (SEAMC). This competition embodies the spirit of communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking and cultural competence through the attendance of a diverse range of schools from various countries. YoonYoung Choi brings us all the highlights from the event…

This term, Ms Archer, Ms Kerr and myself had the pleasure of taking the Year 12 IB geographers on a fieldwork collection adventure deep into the Dalat countryside. On this adventure the students were able to collect huge amounts of river data for their Internal Assessment and also experience a ‘Geomystery tour’ which offered a different perspective into the impacts of flood plain modification around Dalat. This aims to develop the way in which the students think critically and reflect upon the interrelationships between people and their environment.

United Nations International School Model United Nations (UNISMUN) is a 3 day, annual conference hosted by UNIS Hanoi. With 18 different international schools from all over South-East Asia participating, there were over 300 international students at the event, including 18 students representing BIS HCMC.

In order for our students to benefit from experiential learning, we carefully plan annual trips to provide a range of age-appropriate yet challenging opportunities to develop personal qualities such as leadership, independence, perseverance and a respect for different cultures through community service programmes and of course physical endeavour.

This year saw the British International School, Phuket host their 16th year of the Soccer 7’s Tournament. The biggest one to date, welcomed 1650 competitors playing for 165 teams from 39 international schools, based in 10 different countries – making this tournament a truly remarkable meeting place for Asia's top young footballers, and the international school community.

On 25th November, 12 BIS HCMC students embarked on their Community trip to Ky Quang 2 Pagoda Orphanage in the outskirts of Go Vap district, Ho Chi Minh City.

This year the FOBISIA Games took place in Phuket, Thailand and covered a range of sports including Football, Basketball, Swimming and Athletics. Each and every one of our students used their skills of perseverance, determination and ambition to bring home an unbelievable total of 5 trophies, 47 gold medals, 27 silver medals and 33 bronze medals as well as a host of memories and experiences that will last a lifetime. Here’s all the action straight from the Games…

The 20th annual SEOMUN (Seoul Model United Nations) conference took place between the 9th and the 12th of November 2017. Twenty seven students from BIS HCMC travelled to Seoul for 3 days of competitive debate and discussion on some of the world’s most pressing issues ranging from global warming to religious extremism.

The Geography Department firmly believe that learning outside of the classroom plays a fundamental role in allowing our students to build a deeper understanding and a stronger connection with the world around them, along with appreciating the challenges and possibilities that may impact their lives and communities in the future.

We catch up with Team Photon and their Design Technology Teacher Mr Diver about their experience at this highly regarded international STEAM event and the lessons learned along the way...

Following in the footsteps of Team Helios and Doppler Racing, Photon Racing are the third cohort of students from BIS HCMC attending the F1 in Schools World Finals 2017 and the only school to be representing Vietnam.

The beginning of March saw six dedicated students travel from Ho Chi Minh City to Jakarta, Indonesia to compete in the 2017 SEAMC competition.

Our Geography department is widely recognised for designing and delivering unique learning experiences for our students; our recent trip to Dalat was no exception!