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News image SISAC U11 Girls Football City Championships | BIS HCMC - u11b-girls-football-team-crowned-city-champions Blog | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Sports (JC)
U11b Girls Football Team Crowned City Champions
This Wednesday our Year 5 FOBISIA team entered into the SISAC City Championships as preparation for their FOBISIA Games at the end of this month.
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News image Binh Tho Life Skills Lessons | BIS HCMC Community Service Projects - binh-tho-life-skills-lessons Blog | Community (EY&IC) | Community (JC) | Community (SC) | Early Years and Infant Campus | Early Years and Infant PTG | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Junior PTG | Secondary Campus | Secondary PTG | Whole School
Binh Tho Life Skills Lessons
BIS HCMC have had the pleasure of working with Binh Tho School for the past 5 years. Binh Tho children visit us throughout the year and take part in a number of different activities with our students, such as: F3 playdates, Project Impact (Secondary), Friendship club and Busy Hands (Junior).
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News image NAE STEAM Week @ MIT 2018 | British International School Ho Chi Minh City - nae-steam-week-mit-2018 Blog | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Learning (JC) | Learning (SC) | Nord Anglia Education | Secondary Campus | Trips (JC) | Trips (SC) | Whole School
NAE STEAM Week @ MIT 2018
It was the week they had been waiting for! 4 students from BIS HCMC flew all the way to Boston to join 25 other Nord Anglia Education students for STEAM Week @ MIT - a unique, five-day long event packed with STEAM-related challenges, learning and adventure at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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News image The significance of MIT’s “mind and hand” philosophy | BIS HCMC - the-significance-of-mits-mind-and-hand-philosophy Blog | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Learning (JC) | Learning (SC) | Nord Anglia Education | Secondary Campus | Whole School
The significance of MIT’s “mind and hand” philosophy
It’s one of the biggest events in NAE’s calendar - STEAM Week @ MIT kicked off this weekend on 29th April! An interesting fact unknown to many about MIT is its motto, “mind and hand”, or Mens et Manus in Latin. We would like to share a blog post by Mark Orrow-Whiting, Nord Anglia Education’s Director of Curriculum and Student Performance, on why he believes the “mind and hand” philosophy is integral to NAE’s STEAM curriculum, which has been enhanced in a collaboration with the university.
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News image Raghav Dwivedi wins FOBISIA Short Story Competition 2018 - raghav-dwivedi-wins-fobisia-short-story-competition-2018 Blog | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Secondary Campus | Whole School
Raghav Dwivedi wins FOBISIA Short Story Competition 2018
A huge congratulations goes out to Year 7 student Raghav Dwivedi who has once again been crowned winner of the FOBISIA Short Story Competition! After winning the primary category in 2017, he has now gone on to win the Secondary category as one of the youngest participants in his group.
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News image Junior Debate Competition 2018 | BIS HCMC - junior-debate-competition-2018 Blog | Junior Campus
Junior Debate Competition 2018
Children in Year 6 have been honing their debating skills this term, aiming to claim a spot in the Junior Debate Competition final, taking place on 9th May.
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News image Year 6 Maths Masterclasses by Student Maths Leaders at BIS HCMC - year-6-maths-masterclasses-by-student-maths-leaders Blog | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Learning (JC) | Secondary Campus
Year 6 Maths Masterclasses by Student Maths Leaders
The Student Maths Leaders have organised interactive and practical Maths Masterclasses for Year 6 students to foster their passion for problem solving and Maths.
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Year 6 visit Dao Tien – Endangered Asian Species Trust (EAST)
As part of the Year 6 Residential Trip to Cat Tien, Year 6 students had the chance to visit EAST to see first-hand, the amazing work that they do to protect Vietnamese primates.
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News image Super Cycling Man Visits BIS Ho Chi Minh City - super-cycling-man-visits-bis-hcmc Blog | Early Years and Infant Campus | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus
Super Cycling Man Visits BIS HCMC
When the children in Year 1 and 2 were told that a super hero was visiting, they guessed the obvious names such as: Batman, Superman, Mr Simon, Mr Ian…. However, today they were introduced to a new super hero - ‘Super Cycling Man’!
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News image BIS Invitational Gymnastics Competition - bis-hcmc-invitational-gymnastics-competition-2018 Blog | Events (JC) | Events (SC) | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Secondary Campus | Sports (JC) | Sports (SC)
BIS Invitational Gymnastics Competition
On Wednesday 28th March 2018, our student-gymnasts represented BIS HCMC in the annual BIS Invitational Gymnastics competition. There were over 50 competitors from BIS, BVIS and ISHCMC performing in both floor and vault routines, levels ranging from 1-4.
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News image BIS HCMC Crowned FOBISIA Primary Maths Champions 2018 - bis-hcmc-crowned-fobisia-primary-maths-champions-2018 Blog | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Learning (JC)
BIS HCMC Crowned FOBISIA Primary Maths Champions 2018
The instinctive reaction, of a teacher on lunchtime duty in the canteen, upon seeing a Year 6 child skipping, is to remind them of their behavioural responsibilities. However, when that child happens to be a Year 6 girl called Kathy, whose skipping is inspired by the barely containable pride of one who has just achieved a great success on behalf of the school, the correct reaction is to understand and smile.
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News image Language in Focus Celebrates Korean | EAL | BIS HCMC - language-in-focus-celebrates-korean Blog | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Learning (JC)
Language in Focus Celebrates Korean
Wow! It has been a whole year since Language in Focus was launched at BIS Primary. We have already learnt about Polish, German, Malay, Thai and now Korean. It has been so much fun exploring lots of different cultures.
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News image Year 2 - The Day the Chairs Quit! | British International School Ho Chi Minh City - year-2--the-day-the-chairs-quit Blog | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Learning (JC)
Year 2 - The Day the Chairs Quit!
There was confusion in Year 2 this week as the classroom chairs went on strike due to the fact that they didn’t think the children were treating them very well! The children soon realised their mistakes and wrote letters back to the chairs to get them to return to the classrooms so the children could continue to use them! Read more about how this strange situation unfolded...
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News image FOBISIA Primary Music Festival 2018 | BIS HCMC - fobisia-primary-music-festival-2018 Blog | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Music and Drama (JC) | Trips (JC)
FOBISIA Primary Music Festival 2018
After weeks of rehearsing and preparation, 18 very excited BIS HCMC primary children met at the Junior Campus on Thursday ready to travel to Singapore for the 2018 FOBISIA Primary Music Festival hosted by Tanglin Trust School.
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News image Year 3 Sleepover | Residential Trips | BIS HCMC - year-3-sleepover-2018 Blog | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Trips (JC)
Year 3 Sleepover 2018
The past two weeks have seen our primary students at the Junior Campus excited for their residential visits as part of 'Trips Week' 2018. Mr Michael Martin brings us the highlights from the Year 3 adventure which saw the children sleeping over at school!
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News image Year 3 EAL Lessons | BIS HCMC | English as an Additional Language - year-3-eal-lessons Blog | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Learning (JC)
Year 3 EAL Lessons
English as an Additional Language or EAL aims to provide effective teaching that enables children to use English confidently and competently inside and outside the classroom. In this blog, Ms Shaheena updates us on the latest activites from the Year 3 EAL lessons.
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News image Football Fixture Report - BIS HCMC Junior vs ISHCMC - bis-hcmc-junior-vs-ishcmc--football-fixtures Blog | Junior Campus | Sports (JC)
BIS HCMC Junior vs ISHCMC - Football Fixtures
The SISAC football season kicked off this week with our first friendly fixtures in preparation for the City Championships in May.
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News image BYOD Coffee Morning | Digital Safety | BIS HCMC - byod-parent-coffee-morning Blog | Events (JC) | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Junior PTG
BYOD Parent Coffee Morning
As part of our coffee morning programme here on the Junior Campus, we were very happy to welcome 35 parents along to our Bring Your Own Device – Laptop (BYOD) information session.
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News image Year 4 Long Hai Trip | Residential Trips | BIS HCMC - year-4-long-hai-trip Blog | Junior Campus | Trips (JC)
Year 4 Long Hai Trip
On Monday and Wednesday last week, two excitable groups of Year 4 children arrived at school with their suitcases ready for their residential trip to the seaside resort of Long Hai.
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