Our teaching staff were delighted to welcome all students back on Wednesday morning and there was a buzz of excitement as friends reunited with laughter in the corridors and the sharing of stories of summer adventures.
As part of their Holiday Show IPC topic, 5S have been looking at the problem of plastic straws, and learning about the harm they cause to our marine animals and fish.
#LastPlasticStraw #SayNoToStraws #StrawsSuck #StopPlasticPollution
On June 2nd we welcomed over 70 students from schools across Hanoi to take part in the 2018 Codeathon. The young coders, aged 8 to 12, worked in small teams to demonstrate their coding and collaboration skills by completing a challenge using Scratch.
Many of our students have been developing new computing skills from subject specialists in the primary school and our first cohort of computer scientists have comfortably sat their final IGCSE exams.
Our under 11 FOBISIA squad have arrived in Phuket and are currently resting before 3 days of tough competition against some outstanding schools from across South East Asia.
Year 4 and Year 5 set off this week on their respective residential visits to Ba Vi and Cuc Phuong. With a mixture of trepidation and excitement the children were waved off by parents on Tuesday and Wednesday morning.
Phase 3 invited parents, staff and pupils to their exhibition on the second floor this morning. It was a wonderful showcase of all the learning that has been taking place over the last term. There were Musical performances, presentations, puppet shows, art activities to name but a few. Our knowledge of rivers was put to the test with a ‘Rivers loop game’, meanwhile in 5B some students had gone missing and been replaced by Mr. and Mrs. Twit from the Roald Dahls classic, the Twits.
This week we were very lucky to receive an invite to the Secondary IB Art Exhibition.
This is an exhibition showcasing the final projects and works of Year 12 and 13 children.
With their colourful stalls set up, trading began; the proceeds of this project will be donated to the Tam Dao Bear Project which they will visit next week.
Over the last two weeks in Primary assemblies, 4B and 5S have reinforced the importance of perseverance, not only in school but in life too. Ms Ower’s class told us the story of ‘The Tortoise and the Hare’ and cleverly adapted it to show how we can persevere even when storytelling. Today, 4B gave us some fantastic phrases to help keep us on track: keep going, don’t give up, step forwards, push yourself, everything is possible. In addition to these important messages, assemblies are a wonderful for opportunity for children to practise their speaking and presentation skills and it is wonderful to see our students doing so with such confidence and clarity.
Our Head of Primary reflects on an incredible first term of student achievements and progress at BIS Hanoi and wishes our families a happy holiday and New Year.
We follow the English National Curriculum for Literacy, Maths, Science and use the International Primary Curriculum for our other subjects such as history, geography and art. The curriculum for literacy and maths has key skills and expectations for each year group from Year 1 to 6. The students’ attainment and effort for this term along with comments on their progress and has been issued today in the Primary December Report.