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.
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.
All activities are related to either fruit or vegetables which will support Thao Dien student’s understanding of food for their new vocational cooking class.
Before their first visit, students spent time learning about Thao Dien and the children there, then they planned various activities related to fruit. During our first visit, our students were a bit nervous and excited at the same time to meet the children. They got along well and started to interact with each other as soon as we arrived and started our activities. They had fun interacting with our students whilst painting, drawing, using clay to make fruits, decorating paper art and learning some of the fruits vocabulary in English via flash cards.
Although it was just two short visits, it was a great opportunity for our students to leave their comfort zone and have a fruitful experience working with different people in our community!
Geok Lan Ker, Head of Mandarin
Year 9 is more than the final chapter of Key Stage 3 (KS3) of the English National Curriculum; it’s a pivotal year of transformation. It’s the point where students begin to personalise their learning to a much greater extent, preparing to enter the academic rigour of the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) programme.
At BIS HCMC, our story is one of connection, continuity, and care — a place where learning begins with curiosity and ends with confident, compassionate graduates ready to shape the world. Earlier this year, we witnessed a moving reminder of this journey, as eighteen members of our Year 13 Class of 2025 returned to the place where it all began: Early Years Foundation Stages.
