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News image Building for the Future - HMS Spey - Building for the Future - HMS Spey News | Life in Ho Chi Minh City | Learning (JC) | Trips (JC)
Building for the Future - A Special Invite to His Majesty’s Ship (HMS) Spey
Following a special invite from the British Consul General, eighteen Year 6 STEM students took a tour around HMS Spey, a royal navy patrol ship.
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News image Holistic Learning That Makes an Impact - Holistic Learning That Makes an Impact Blog | Community (JC) | Community Service | Learning (JC) | Junior Campus
Holistic Learning That Makes an Impact - How a Maths Project Enriched Our Community
A look at Enterprise Day, a Maths event that brings together entrepreneurial spirit and community collaborations. Read about how Junior students helped to raise money for Thien Phuoc Foster Home and Free the Bears. 
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News image Image_BISHCMC_Ho Chi Minh City_2022_058 Blog | Learning (JC) | Learning (EY&IC) | primary
The IPC at BIS - Capturing Curiosity and Celebrating Learning
When you reflect on your own childhood and school experiences, what memories come to mind? Memories of fondness, pride or celebration? Or do you cast your mind back to moments of dread and embarrassment? Hopefully, it’s the former over the latter but whatever your personal experience back then, you understand the significance of positive school experiences for your learners now. 
 
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News image Year 6 CREST Science Award 2018 | British International School, HCMC - year-6-crest-science-award-2018 Blog | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Learning (JC) | Learning (SC) | Secondary Campus
Year 6 CREST Science Award 2018
The Science team and students at BIS HCMC Secondary Campus are looking forward to welcoming the new Year 7 students in August 2018.  Our teachers  are constantly striving to ensure the Year 6 students from the Junior Campus have a smooth transition into Year 7. To this end, they have created a unique transition programme within Science.
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News image Year 2 - "The Magic Finger " Talk for Writing Topic | BIS HCMC - year-2--the-magic-finger-talk-for-writing-topic Blog | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Learning (JC)
Year 2 - "The Magic Finger" Talk for Writing Topic
"The Magic Finger" by Roald Dahl is a humorous, engaging story that Year 2 classes have loved sharing together. Using the 3 stages of the Talk for Writing process; imitation, innovation and invention find out how the book has been used as a stimulus for creative writing though this post by Mr Matthew Dudley.
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News image Year 6 visit Minh Long Pottery | British International School HCMC - year-6-visit-minh-long-pottery Blog | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Learning (JC) | Trips (JC)
Year 6 visit Minh Long Pottery
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.
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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 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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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 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 Year 2 Trip - Bao Tang Ao Dai Museum | BIS HCMC - year-2-trip-to-the-bao-tang-ao-dai-museum Blog | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Learning (JC) | Trips (JC)
Year 2 Trip to the Bao Tang Ao Dai Museum
Year 2 have been enjoying a new IPC topic, ‘All Dressed Up’. After learning about the weather and climate around the world, and how this impacts on the clothes we wear, we moved on to learning about clothes throughout history. This culminated in a trip to the Bao Tang Ao Dai museum.
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News image Keep in the Loop with our New Year Group Blogs | BIS HCMC Junior Campus - stay-updated-with-our-new-year-group-blogs Blog | Junior Campus | Learning (JC)
Stay Updated with our New Year Group Blogs
To reflect that we are now one primary school over two campuses, we have removed any reference in the name of the year group blogs regarding Tu Xuong or An Phu Campuses. All blogs now have the acronym BISHCMC at the beginning of the web address.
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News image Our New BIS Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Procedures | BIS HCMC - our-new-primary-curriculum-assessment-and-reporting-procedures Blog | Early Years and Infant Campus | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Learning (EY&IC) | Learning (JC) | Whole School
Our New Primary Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Procedures
Over the last 18 months the BIS HCMC Primary Curriculum has undergone a complete review.  We have created a bespoke Curriculum, beginning with Early Years in Foundation 1, moving into Year 1 straight through the primary years to the end of Year 9.
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News image The Importance of First Language - the-importance-of-first-language Blog | Early Years and Infant Campus | Featured on Home page | Junior Campus | Learning (EY&IC) | Learning (JC) | Whole School
The Importance of First Language
First language, mother tongue or home language is the language spoken by parents at home before a child starts schooling. Research increasingly shows it is important for parents to continue developing their child’s first language because...
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