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The Community Project for Year 8 involves visiting Thao Dien School for Disabled Children during their ILS lesson. This year, each year 8 class will be visiting Thao Dien twice to do the different activities that they have prepared.

This is a wonderful whole school community event connecting students from Year 5, 6 & 7 and our community partner students who we work closely with throughout the year.

Please join us in showing that we REMEMBER on the 11th of November by purchasing a Poppy or Poppy stationery from any of the BIS HCMC campuses.

Community service projects play an integral part of life at BIS HCMC. With training each year, staff get a chance to experience exactly what it is like to take part in a community activity. Our Community Inset Mornings aim to offer fun and engaging activities and resources to our community partners which may not normally be accessible to them.

Monday 5th June was World Environment Day, a day organised by the United Nations to raise awareness of the need to protect our environment. To support this global event, the community team together with the GreenR club organised several environmentally themed activities.

As this year comes to an end, we look back at what a fantastic year it has been for Community Service at APS.

Alois Luong (Year 10) and Jeremie Luong (Year 12) in conjunction with our Community Services department organised a toothpaste collection last month, and they asked the BIS Community for help. This was the result!

All Things Animals club is a student-led club where we learn to understand and raise awareness for the current animal welfare issues in a fun and engaging way, here is a little update from the club leaders.

Last term, two teams of students made weekly visits to the local Huynh Van Ngoi school (HVN) to help the Vietnamese children stage a production.

Our long term community partner, Thien Phuoc Disabled Home, received therapy equipment this week through money from kind donations given at all three campuses.

On 15th April the Year 10’s hosted a party for one of our community partners, Mai Tam orphanage. Our Year 10 Students devised a number of fun activities for the children from Mai Tam House of Hope.