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This year we celebrate 30 years of UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - the most ratified UN Treaty and has played a central role to improve the lives of children around the world.

Our students have work hard for such an impressive result.

I hope that you all feel rested, having enjoyed your National Day and long weekend break. Another week has flown past, with the children busy both inside and outside of the classroom.

Creative art activities can help children in all areas of development. Here at the British Vietnamese International School, Hanoi, children learn through a thematic approach and have the luxury of specialist art lessons each week. The creative activities planned consider the child’s overall development. They also contain many cross-curricular links with topics the children cover with their class teacher. Here, I outline some ways that art activities can support young children's development and why art is such an important part of a child’s cognitive development.

This week the year 6 children were given a fantastic opportunity to have a full day with Secondary. Their challenge was to find ways to achieve zero hunger around the world. They worked alongside Year 7 and 8

In January 2017, I was so lucky to join Nord Anglia’s Middle Leaders’ Programme. The first of two residential aspects was held in Cambodia with other teachers from different Nord Anglia schools. All the teachers were incredibly professional, creative, enthusiastic and happy to learn from each other. I’m sure that we all were inspired by the great course leader John Nicholls.

‘Bug Club’ is a reading resource that allows children to practice their phonics skills and reading skills at home using any device.

I promised in my last article to give you more information about the music competition that happened just before the short break we enjoyed last week.

This week saw the first of our ‘Creative writing workshops’ for students in Years 5 and 6.

The children in Year 2 had a wonderful camping day last week as the Exit Point for the IPC topic, 'Hooray, let’s go on Holiday'.

Here at BVIS Hanoi, the student council has a very important role; they are the voice of all of the students in our care and ambassadors for our school.

Last Friday, we had a very different visitor in the Primary School, one we had never experienced anything before.

This week has seen the completion of the FOBISIA visit to our school.

This article highlights the poem, Children Learn What They Live, by Dorothy Law Nolte, and its Vietnamese translation.

With the recent death of the boxing legend, Muhammad Ali, anyone familiar with this colourful character and exciting sportsman will have his well-known phrases circulating in their memories.