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News | MIT | Primary School News
Primary STEAM and the MIT Challenge
This term, Year 6 have been working on completing their entries for the first of this year’s MIT Challenges. The challenge requires students to design something to help astronauts eat, play sport, or do exercise more easily when they are in space. The lack of gravity in space means that eating a bowl of noodles is almost impossible, the soup and the noodles would be floating all over the space craft.
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Blog | usefulwebsites | Educational Insights
Striving for excellence at BIS Hanoi
At BIS we recruit outstanding practitioners to fulfil our promise to you and to ensure we deliver a world class education. In schools, when we talk about outstanding or excellence, this isn’t something that is achieved once and ticked off. Excellence is about consistently high standards and a drive to improve sustained by a desire for life-long learning, something shared between all of our dedicated teachers.
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Blog | 001 | Weekly School Updates
A fabulous start to the new term
After weeks of preparation, planning and, I must add, considerable frustration with the delays, I am delighted to finally be in school. Leading the school remotely was a somewhat strange experience, and whilst not an ineffective strategy, no amount of technology can replace face to face contact; people together in the same space at the same time.
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News | MIT
Unique collaboration with MIT: “Into the Void” STEAM Challenge
At BIS Hanoi, we are very lucky to have a unique collaboration with MIT, the world's leading technology University. This term has seen MIT launched their “Into the Void” challenges, focused around Space exploration. These challenges are a great way to get our students interested in the world of STEAM and see how what they design and make today can influence the world of tomorrow.
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Blog | 001 | Weekly School Updates
Assessment in Primary
At BIS Hanoi, on-going formative assessment of our children’s learning happens every day and in every lesson. Through this daily assessment, our teachers are able to plan and pitch their lessons to all of the children’s different abilities and stages of learning. By assessing this way, the teachers understand what the children know already and what their next steps in learning should be.
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Blog | year2 | Secondary School Learning
BIS Hanoi launches its students towards the future
If there is something that we have all learnt from 2020 so far, it is that there is a need as individuals to be able to respond and adapt to a rapidly changing context. We in fact know, that this isn’t exclusive to periods of global pandemics, but that world-wide we are in a period of time where technological development is moving forward at a rapid pace. Known as the Information Age. Throughout this period of significant change, we rely on skills such as inquiry across a growing number of sources, reflection on our own personal journey and ultimately, care for both ourselves, others in our community and our planet.
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Blog | parents | Parent Advice
Vietnam’s magical Moon Festival
Mid-Autumn festival is one of the biggest celebrations in Vietnam and is called ‘Tet Trung thu’. Children love this colourful time with bright decorations and fun activities. At BIS Hanoi, we celebrate Moon festival as a way of honoring our host country; students and teachers eagerly await exciting performances and wear Ao Dai to school. So, let’s find out more about this wonderful event.
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