BIS Hanoi student wins the Nord Anglia Global Campus Writing competition

Our students recently had the exciting opportunity to participate in the Global Campus One Third Story Writing Competition, and we are pleased to announce that Duc Minh (Year 9) has become one of the competition's winners.

Duc Minh's story 'The Bear's Siesta' was selected as the winner of the Core Category out of 118 stories submitted from 42 Nord Anglia schools around the world. His story was written in both English and Spanish, and was chosen as the winner in the Core age group (age 8-15) by renowned children's author Serena Patel. One of the judging criteria was for one-third of the story to contain non-English vocabulary and Duc Minh successfully used Spanish in his.

Ms. Georgina Dorr, our Head of Whole-school MFL department, said: 

“We are delighted with all the entries for the Global Campus Writing Competition, with students entering stories written in Spanish, French, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Tagalog, and Japanese. We are especially thrilled that one of our students not only got shortlisted, but also got selected by the author as the winner of his category! Duc Minh has an excellent future ahead of him as he moves into learning Spanish at IGCSE – we are looking forward to seeing what he does next with his excellent languages skills!”

Duc Minh also shared his joy on the achievement: 

"I’m proud of what I have achieved throughout the competition, in spite of the many challenges I have been through, there was support from my friends, family and teachers that had motivated me to persevere whenever I am stuck. At first, I had no idea that when I entered the writing competition, I would be witnessing so many exciting moments such as winning a Global Campus competition. Also, I am proud of the immense, personal growth that I have experienced in such a short period of time."

'The Bear’s Siesta’ will now be given to an illustrator to bring the story to life, and the final e-book will be uploaded to Global Campus on April 14th.

Huge congratulations to Duc Minh once again. We can't wait to see the illustrated book!