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It's the summer holidays!
This week in F2 the children have all been submerged into their new Talk for Writing text, Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Introducing all of their key texts through Talk for Writing has been a great success across F2 since the beginning of Term 1. Ms Jo Powell, F2 Year Leader explains more.
As an avid reader myself, I absolutely love to read stories to children. When I tell a story, I love to see all the children in front of me, watching their reactions and being able to interact with them instantly. With my hands‚ I can use gesture and body movements to convey many more feelings. Eye contact, facial expressions and tone of voice come more to the fore when children are looking at you and not pictures, giving everyone a completely different experience.
Stories have so much to offer: they develop listening and communication skills, improve concentration and memory, bring experiences alive, create a sense of wonder and help sequence events. They can also provide information, widen vocabulary and make important links between the spoken and written word, as well as stimulating an interest and enjoyment of books. This way of learning stories enables children to imitate orally the key language they need for a particular topic before they try reading it. Engaging activities help children first rehearse the tune of the language they need, and then analyse its ingredients. This is followed by Shared Writing to show them how to craft their own stories.
As we introduce a story in F2, we make sure we provide as many stimuli as possible, to help embed the story into the children’s everyday play. Story tuff trays filled with the characters and the main setting are set up in our ELC area, as well as providing story spoons, key vocabulary inside our classrooms in our reading corners. Character masks and as much real life resources as possible are added to role play areas, so children can really become the characters and bring their storytelling alive. We learn actions and create songs to help us remember key phrases before innovating our own stories, changing the characters and scenes. We live and breathe these stories over the weeks we are exploring them, watching the children’s confidence grow and their language develop is an amazing experience to be a part of.
Watch out in years to come, we definitely have some budding storytellers coming your way!
Ms Jo Powell, F2 Year Leader
Last month we were proud to have three student ambassadors attend this year’s NAE-UNICEF Student Summit, hosted for the first time ever in Houston, Texas from 12 to 19 June 2024. The event was hosted at Nord Anglia’s two schools in the city: The Village School and the British International School of Houston. Houston was chosen as the ideal location for the Summit thanks to being the first officially recognised “Child-Friendly City” in the United States of America.
At BIS HCMC we deliver in school a comprehensive wellbeing curriculum to provide our students with the tools, resources and support to balance their social, physical, emotional and mental health. As part of this, we also look at preventative measures to ensure the safety of our students beyond BIS and equip them with knowledge and skills for both today and their future success in the wider world.
This term we were extremely fortunate to welcome back into school experts from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City’s Regional Security Office (RSO) to discuss more on the topic of drugs and substance abuse with some of our students and parents.
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101 Thao Dien Street,
Thao Dien Ward, Thu Duc City,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Junior Campus
225 Nguyen Van Huong Street,
Thao Dien Ward, Thu Duc City,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Secondary Campus
246 Nguyen Van Huong Street,
Thao Dien Ward, Thu Duc City,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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