Firstly, I would like to congratulate everyone who was involved with the Vietnam/Britain celebration event at the weekend. It was a great occasion and thank you to all those who came along to support.
We continue with the important information events for parents and this week I personally led two important information events on Year 9 and Year 11 options processes.
As you know, we take the health and safety of your children very seriously. Since the start of term you will be pleased to know that we have been further enhancing the level of safety at our swimming pool that includes:
These are well and above normal expectations, but as you know, I continue to strive for the best for your children and this will make our pool even safer than it was before.
I am delighted to announce that we have launched our Little Dragons program for 12-36 month children. Please details below that you can share with friends and family.
For more information, click HERE.
I am delighted to announce that on Monday morning 18th, we will be hosting the morning part of one of the largest University Fairs in Hanoi. There will be representatives from approx. 150 top universities worldwide including universities in the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan and many more. They are keen to come and meet our students.
The University Fair is a great chance for students from our school and other schools in Hanoi to approach, get to know many universities and consider their suitable future destinations. Students will meet the university representatives to learn about the admissions requirements and application process. This event is complimentary and exclusive to students from BVIS and four others schools only including our sister school BIS. Students across KS4 and KS5 will be organised at specific times to attend the event.
Next week I shall have the pleasure of attending the NAE annual Senior Leadership Conference in Switzerland. This is an annual event that brings together 83 Principals from across the world together with the NAE leadership team to meet and discuss the latest innovations in education. It is an opportunity to share further good practice to bring back to our schools. I will report back on my return from the conference.
I would like to remind that today is the deadline to register to join the CCA hosted by BIS Hanoi. Please see attached link HERE further details. Kindly note that the CCA is applied for students from F3 and will be held in BIS campus.
Finally, another reminder about the Britcham charity fun run that is taking place in November. Please see the details below.
To participate in the event, all members of the BVIS community purchase a Running package “T-shirt and Ticket Combo” with a price contribution of 330,000VND. These funds will be distributed directly to the charitable activities of BritCham Fun Run. This combined price of 330,000VND is reserved for BVIS community members only.
Please kindly click HERE to register and order your shirt size.
* Deadline for registration: 5pm on Sunday, 1st October 2023.
As the children in Early Years are now more settled, the teachers are focusing on children’s development of communication skills. Communication skills are vitally important in the children’s mother tongue, but children are also able to absorb languages quicker than most adults. This is done through songs, rhymes, stories, repetition and talking. Children’s speech develops from babble, to words, to simple sentences through hundreds of hours of interactions with adults. Studies show that once babies begin to understand words, their vocabulary increases quickly:
Receptive language is usually developed first followed by expressive language. As speaking and listening develops, children build foundations for literacy, for making sense of visual and verbal signs and ultimately for reading and writing. It has been wonderful to watch the children across the Early Years use their home language to communicate but also to listen to them trying new words by repeating sounds, looking at signs and copying speech.
The children of Year 1 have been learning about daily routines and hobbies. They enjoyed looking through pictures of themselves at the weekend and sorting activities into likes and dislikes.
We are so proud that Year 2 children are getting more confident to do any teamwork this week. They worked well in pairs during Maths lessons to practice counting in 2s, 5s, 10s and 3s or working well in their team to explore new holiday vocabulary in English and Vietnamese.
Year 3 learnt Maths through games and practiced with visual objects (counter, hundred, ten and one blocks).
Year 4 have been learning about Vikings. In STEAM, they have been learning how to use paper mache to create their own Viking helmets.
During IPC, Year 5 learnt about how to classify livings things, food chains and biodiversity.
In IPC, the Year 6 students have been busy researching, preparing, collaborating, and sharing their knowledge about their chosen ‘person responsible for change’. We are looking forward to their presentations. They have also been getting to know their model text well and are testing each other's knowledge by playing Hot Seat Questions.
Year 10 IGCSE art class practicing water colour techniques using only primary colours: red, blue and yellow!
Year 11 researched for information and prepared for their group presentations about Greek mythology and Ramayana - The Indian epic.
Year 12 A Level art students have been working on using oil paints over the last few lessons, their work is now looking awesome, the power of perseverance!
Year 10 have been developing their skills of dribbling facilitated through the game of handball. This is building of their skill of decision making in the last lesson.
Year 7 have been learning the new topic of negative numbers, it is not an easy concept, but they are doing fantastically well, keep it up year 7!
Year 7 have been exploring our newest subject at Key Stage 3, Digital Society.
8. School value RESPECTThe Year 7s were really excited to listen to Ms Ba’s library induction today in English. They were extremely polite and appreciative during the session!
Primary
| Date | Time | Location | Event |
| Sep 19 | 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Primary Library | Y1, Y2, Y3 Reading workshop for parents |
| Sep 21 | All day | Yen So park | Y2 trip to the Yen So park |
| Sep 21 | 8:45 am - 9:45 am | Primary Library | Coffee Morning for Korean family |
Secondary
| Date | Time | Location | Event |
| Sep 18 | 9:00 am - 12:30 am | Primary building | University Fair 2023 (KS4 & KS5) |
| Sep 19 | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Sixth Form Center |
Year 9 Options Evening Please register your attendance by clicking THIS LINK |
| Sep 20 | 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Secondary Library | Tanzania trip Information Evening Y9, Y10, Y12 |
| Sep 21 | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Secondary Library | Parent Information Evening - Bronze DoE for parents and students |
| Sep 22 | 8:45 am - 9:45 am | Sixth Form Center | Y10, Y11 Parent Coffee Morning |
We wish you all a very relaxing weekend ahead.
BVIS Hanoi's Senior Leadership Team
On August 29, all BVIS Hanoi students and teachers from Year 1 to Year 13 will join the Community Run at Royal City Square (Hanoi, Vietnam)
Weekly news from BVIS Hanoi's Senior Leadership Team (21/8 to 25/8/2023)
