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Thirty students, four teachers and a team of supporting family members all started their journey to Thanyapura resort in Phuket, for the U13 FOBISIA games, early on Thursday 28th February.

On the 23rd February, 30 of our Duke of Edinburgh Bronze students headed to Pu Luong to complete their assessed adventurous journeys.

Two students in Year 8 have had their mathematical ideas published by the website NRICH. NRICH is a website run by the University of Cambridge and is designed to provide opportunities to help students develop rich mathematical thinking.

This year BVIS annual Sports Day took place at a new venue with some new and exciting sports on offer. In addition to many traditional track and field events students participated in house football and house basketball competitions.

On January 18, BVIS Secondary students and two representatives of SCUBA, Harrie Kerley and Duncan Kenning, had an inspiring discussion about the problem of plastic waste.

"Ours can be the first generation to end poverty – and the last generation to address climate change before it is too late" - Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations

Our annual school musical was the Broadway classic “Little Shop of Horrors”, which proved a huge, ‘monster’ hit on the BVIS stage!

With the support from BVIS Hanoi, the "Le Chauffage Concert" (Sưởi Ấm) will be hosted on 5th January 2019 at The National Music Academy. You will be travelled away with music, joy, happiness and hope.

"After 6 hours of walking through the Sapa countryside, the groups started to arrive at the campsite and began to put up their tents. Some students were also brave enough to go for a little dip in the river to cool down from the day’s trek". This wonderful experience in beautiful nature of Nam Cang, Sapa was just a part of the amazing story about the Bronze Duke Edinburgh trip (DofE) told by Jason Lincoln, the Humanities and EAL Teacher of BVIS Hanoi.

Hanoi, November 20 - The BVIS Hanoi’s IGCSE Certificate Presentation Evening taking place in the UK Embassy in Hanoi was an event of honour to celebrate the success of BVIS students after the IGCSE examination. The IGCSE certificate is not only a reliable recognition for student academic results, but also a high-profile guarantee to world-leading universities.

On 14th November, we were privileged to welcome Prof. Paul Jensen, Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne, to deliver a masterclass in ‘Innovation and Public Policy’. Our students witnessed first-hand the format and atmosphere of a university lecture, helping them appreciate what to expect when they enrol in their course at university.

A 55Km riding challenge in heavy rain and hearts full of love from BVIS staff

Check out the topic for this year's creative writing competition!!

Our students have work hard for such an impressive result.

I hope that you all had a wonderful summer. The holiday ended on another high this year with the release of the IGCSE and A Level exam results.

This term sees an exciting partnership formed between BVIS and the Nhan Chinh School for Deaf Children. Our Secondary students meet up once a week during ECA time to brainstorm ways in which they can be of service to deaf children at Nhan Chinh, and at the same time learn how to communicate with others who do not have the same ease of communication as themselves.

On Thursday last week we went on a trip to Bangkok to attend the 2017 FOBISIA drama festival. There we did a lot of workshops where we focused on the work of five famous theatre practitioners; Stanislavski, Berkoff, Frantic Assembly, Brecht and Artaud.

As part of our Love Enrichment Day on February 14th , a group of Secondary pupils visited the Marriott hotel for a masterclass in Korean cooking.