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Discover how our experienced PE Department has pivoted it's teaching style for virtual lessons that engage students, with innovative and structured forms of skill development and physical activity.

Each year BIS HCMC joins other students from across NAE schools in the Visual Arts competition. Each school is able to submit one entry for each of four age categories: Under 8s, 8-11, 11-14, and 14+, and these are fiercely contested places.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” Aristotle

The Year of the Buffalo will be welcomed on the 12th February 2021, heralding one of the most significant holiday celebrations in Vietnam; the Vietnamese Lunar New Year!

In assemblies this week our Secondary students were given a brief tour of Global Campus, the online platform that connects our 66,000+ students from NAE schools around the world.

With the recent devastating floods and landslides caused by torrential rain in central Vietnam, the BIS school community mobilised this week to find ways in which to urgently raise much needed financial aid in support of those most affected.

On Tuesday 6th October, a select number of students from British International School and British Vietnamese International School came together to perform and celebrate the FOBISIA Young Musician of the Year 2020.

The BIS Community Service team were thrilled to be able to join the children of Thao Dien Disabled School this week to celebrate Tet Trung Thu, also known as the “Children’s Festival”

Last Saturday, on 19th September, over 130 members of the BIS HCMC school community, including students, parents and teachers from across the 3 campuses, joined volunteers worldwide and in the city to participate in World CleanUp Day.

Reflecting on a hard few weeks, Mr Anthony Rowlands talks about how BIS HCMC core values are impacting our close-knit community.

Top tips on how you and your family can remain resilient during times of adversity.

Vietnamese Lunar New Year, also known as Tet, is one of the most important celebrations of the year in Vietnam honouring the arrival of spring.

When looking for an international school in Ho Chi Minh City how do you ensure your child will be taught by not just high-quality teachers, but outstanding ones? Here are some attributes to look out for.

As the BIS staff and students rocked out Jingle Bells to the children of Thien Phuoc Foster Home, a young boy could contain his excitement no longer and with purposeful glee took to the dance floor!

On Saturday 23rd November, the first ever youth cricket tournament was hosted by the Saigon Cricket Association, where 2 schools, BIS and AIS, participated.

Over the last two weeks, I have had the pleasure of attending two FOBISIA conferences, and we have hosted an inspection team from CIS and WASC.

Through our embedded community service programme our students work with a range of community partners, one of which is the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation (CNCF) who we have worked closely with for the past 5 years.

A summary of the CIS/WASC evaluation process following the team’s visit this week.

Here at the British International School Ho Chi Minh City we are delighted to partner with Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation who have impacted the lives of over 50,000 children and families since being established in 2005.

Last Friday saw the Desford Colliery Band visiting BIS HCMC for the whole day to give a series of fantastic concerts across the whole school.