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This week, our parents and teachers came together and celebrated the many successes of our PTG over the last 12 months. For me, the PTG epitomises the spirit of community within BIS HCMC. It helps to bring together our children, parents, teachers and community as a whole to celebrate what is special about our school.

On Monday, Year 6 children visited Minh Long Pottery company in Binh Duong province as a part of their Vietnamese culture lessons. Before the visit, the children have been learning all about pottery and designed the patterns to decorate their own pottery products.

On Tuesday we travelled to SSIS to take on the best teams from around Saigon in the annual SISAC City Championships. With 5 schools to take on, the boys had to be on top form.

Playing in an U11 Football City Championship is not a walk in the park, especially if the players in the team are all U10. Yes, BIS HCMC football team for SISAC Pool B were all Year 5 students! Despite the differences in their age and size, our team gave a scare to much tougher teams, with sheer determination and perseverance throughout the tournament.

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.

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).

BIS HCMC Junior Production Club presents to you The Jungle Book by Disney Kids!

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).

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.

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.

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.

The Student Maths Leaders have organised interactive and practical Maths Masterclasses for Year 6 students to foster their passion for problem solving and Maths.

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.

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’!

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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!