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BIS is teaming up with Rethink Plastic Vietnam for the November Plastic Awareness Month.

Last weekend I had the great pleasure of visiting Switzerland for the annual Nord Anglia Education SLT Conference.

On Thursday 11th April a wonderful event happened that not only bought all of our parents together from each campus, but also raised money for an important long term BIS community partner.

At the conclusion of Term 1 the Junior BIS Barracudas were invited to express their interest in becoming the Junior BIS Barracuda Swimming Captains.

We speak to Ms Mary McAloon, Deputy Head Teacher at BIS HCMC, Early Years and Infant Campus on her personal experience of teaching abroad.

On Friday 30th November, we had the privilege of welcoming Mike Gatting OBE to BIS HCMC to run coaching sessions for our cricket enthusiasts.

Welcome back to WEEK EIGHT of the BIS Learning Skills Challenge!

Here at the British International School Ho Chi Minh City, we have pledged to remove all single-use plastic from all three of our campuses by 2020. This is an exciting step in ensuring that we teach our students about sustainable living and a crucial part of meeting the Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

An integral part of our performing arts collaboration here at BIS HCMC are visits by Juilliard alumni. These visits are a transformative experience designed to inspire students in the performing arts. This week we were visited by Jason Crimi, the Associate Principal Trombone of the Seoul Philharmonic orchestra.

As part of Nord Anglia Education’s collaboration with UNICEF, selected student ambassadors will visit New York from 6-13 July for the NAE–UNICEF Student Summit regarding the United Nation’s Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

On Saturday 23rd June, 40 members of BIS HCMC's community, including students, parents and teachers from across our 3 campuses, set out to clean up Thao Dien.

This year, with the support from the Secondary PTG, we have been able to pay for 4 elementary scholarships and 3 university scholarships for underprivileged children through the CNCF scholarship programme.

From 2013-2015, Lara Wilkinson was a primary PE teacher here at the British International School, Ho Chi Minh City. Since leaving Vietnam to go back to the UK, Lara has combined her passion for hockey with a charity close to her heart; Help for Heroes. We speak to her about her upcoming challenge Operation Endure where her ladies hockey squad will be completing 8 military challenges and 28 hockey matches in just 8 days.

This month saw the annual IRONMAN 70.3 Vietnam race return to the beautiful coastal city of Da Nang with more than 1,600 people from 56 countries and territories fighting for a podium position. Amongst the thousands who turned up to compete in these races were teachers, students and parents from BIS HCMC, ready to show Da Nang what they’re made of!

Please find enclosed our newly updated Driver’s Code of Conduct intended for all those who drive to our school campuses both at drop off and pick up times. With key information in both English and Vietnamese, our aim is to further educate our drivers to make better choices when they enter the areas around our school campuses and within the Thao Dien area as a whole.

BIS HCMC have had the pleasure of working with Binh Tho School for the past 5 years. Binh Tho children visit us throughout the year and take part in a number of different activities with our students, such as: F3 playdates, Project Impact (Secondary), Friendship club and Busy Hands (Junior).

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).

It’s one of the biggest events in NAE’s calendar - STEAM Week @ MIT kicked off this weekend on 29th April! An interesting fact unknown to many about MIT is its motto, “mind and hand”, or Mens et Manus in Latin. We would like to share a blog post by Mark Orrow-Whiting, Nord Anglia Education’s Director of Curriculum and Student Performance, on why he believes the “mind and hand” philosophy is integral to NAE’s STEAM curriculum, which has been enhanced in a collaboration with the university.

Number 1 IRONMAN 70.3 Vietnam will return to the city of Da Nang for its 4th edition on Sunday 13th May 2018 along with family events SUNRISE SPRINT and IRONKIDS Vietnam on Saturday 12th May 2018. Find out how you can sign up.

A huge congratulations goes out to Year 7 student Raghav Dwivedi who has once again been crowned winner of the FOBISIA Short Story Competition! After winning the primary category in 2017, he has now gone on to win the Secondary category as one of the youngest participants in his group.