Weekly Updates on 24/11/2023

• IGCSE Certificate Presentation Ceremony 2023

  Last night I had the pleasure of attending the IGCSE certificate presentation evening. A wonderful event celebrating the best ever results for our GCSE students from last year.

  
  
  
  More photos will be shared on the school official fanpage and website shortly next week.

• Vietnamese Teacher’s Day & World Children’s Day

  On Monday we had a fantastic day celebrating Vietnam Teacher’s Day and World Children’s Day. The school had such an amazing atmosphere and it was a delight to see.

  *See more photos here:

  Vietnamese Teacher’s Day

  World Children’s Day

  

  
• 10 Years Anniversary Celebration

I am looking forward to our 10 Year celebration event tomorrow. It promises to be a great event.

Please see below for the event agenda.

In keeping with our 10 year anniversary, each week we will be sharing 10 good reasons why our school is great. Today I am sharing Top 10 universities BVIS HN students attend, read here:

Top 10 universities BVIS students attend

We still have lots of activities and events left for the last few weeks of term and promises to be a really great end to the first term.

Recently we sent each family a small token of our appreciation for your continued support for the school it is greatly appreciated.

BVIS Global Perspectives

The Early Years children come to school every day knowing it’s a happy place to play and explore. As parents, you know that your children are learning and developing skills for life. Our Dojo Monsters help the children to not only understand their emotions, feelings and behaviours but also how to support the BVIS Global Perspectives. This week, Caring Cary, was a celebrated Dojo Monster for the children and the parents too. Thank you parents for celebrating Teacher’s Day and Children’s Day with us, by showing kindness, love and care. Parent collaboration is so important between school and BVIS families. Thank you to Dr Uyen for sharing your time, knowledge and medical skills with the F2 children this week.

How to be a good friend

Over the past week the children in Year 1 joined the rest of the school in focusing on Anti-Bullying. During the week, the children learnt about what bullying is and how to be a good friend. Through many activities, Year 1 focused on social and physical bullying ensuing they used kind words, safe hands and included everyone during play.

Working with different ages

It was wonderful to see Year 2 and Year 5 classes linking up and working so well together. The Year 5 students were incredibly nurturing and the Year 2 students confident and inquisitive.

Story telling

Year 2 continue to go from strength to strength in learning English through story telling. They particularly enjoy retelling stories from memory – with their eyes closed! (The ‘Eyes closed story challenge!’)

Building relationships

Year 3 and Year 6 students meet to discuss making good friends, they have a chance to build relationships. By sharing experiences, listening, and collaborating, they develop social skills, empathy, and create a supportive community.

School Values: Caring and Cooperation – Being a good friend and developing teamwork

Years 4 and Year 1 had a fantastic time working together. They discussed what it means to be a good friend and designed Anti-Bullying posters. Year 4 also developed their teamwork skills through a various activities. They discussed some situations on how to help if someone is being bullied and role played them. 

Collective artwork

Year 5 ended Friendship Week by contributing their thumbprints to a lovely collective artwork – every student in the school helped to make these beautiful heart canvases really unique.

World Children’s Day

Year 6 began celebrating World Children’s Day with more partnered activities. The students were really happy to return to Y3 and read some books together. The older students helped the younger ones, and everyone had a good time enjoying the library. They finished the reading together, and then the pairs designed posters about the books they had been reading, or on the theme of friendship. Some really nice artwork was made!

School value CARING and RESPECT

Our events committee organised such a super tribute to celebrate Teachers’ Day, whilst also exercising their entrepreneurial skills to make some money! The teachers had a fabulous day, a massive thank you to all the students and parents for their kind wishes and flowers

School value GLOBAL CITIZEN and ENQUIRY

Some of our students in Year 10 signed up to take part in the Cambridge Upper Secondary Science Competition. After a lot of hard work and many lunch time sessions throughout term one, they have finally completed their write ups. The competition challenged to devise a unique investigation that they would test and write up independently. Once they submitted their write up, each group had to prepare a presentation showcasing their experiment, results and challenges. They both did fantastically (writing over five thousand words each), a testament to their spirit of inquiry and scholarly commitment. 

Team 1: Ha Khanh Chi, Hiep Huyen Trang, Minh Uyen, Thi Luu Ha.

Team 2: Minh Van, Quang Anh, WonHyung, Do Vu Bang, Nguyen Nam Khanh

School value GLOBAL CITIZEN and ENQUIRY

Students from BVIS bravely entered the Model United Nations den held at BIS Hanoi to engage, debate and sometimes provoke their fellow peers to successfully write new policies that would affect our world. MUN is an academic simulation of the United Nations where students play the role of delegates from different countries and attempt to solve real world issues with the policies and perspectives of their assigned country.

We had a vast array of differing countries from North Korea to United States of America, China to Rwanda being represented by our students and they argued and defended themselves to these country's identities, beliefs and policies. Students were challenged to come to a consensus with other countries to write new policies on topics such as Nuclear Disarmament, Capital Punishment and the Protection of Women's Rights in the Israel-Palestine conflict. BVIS students matched their counterparts who had travelled from all over Asia and held their own in debates and showed themselves to be very component diplomats. BVIS also had two notable successes in the Ta Huu Quang won Outstanding Delegate in his Conference and Le Tran Khanh Dan winning Best Delegate (this is the highest award at a MUN event).

We are very proud of all students who participated and would love to see more MUN enthusiasts in the future at BVIS so why not come and speak to us and get involved in future conferences.

EYFS/ Primary

Secondary

We wish you all a very relaxing weekend.

Senior Leadership Team from BVIS Hanoi