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It's the summer holidays!
Year 4 students are at the beginning stages of their exciting new International Primary Curriculum (IPC) topic ‘Explorers and Adventurers’.
The topic began with an opportunity for them to explore their school grounds as part of a treasure hunt. Teams had to follow clues to collect items that they deemed useful for an expedition to a given location (Mount Kilimanjaro; Phuong Nga Cave; The Amazon Rainforest; The Sahara Desert). Students had to discuss and decide on only five items that they would bring on their given trip and justify their choices.
The students had further opportunities to develop their reasoning skills while working on a group activity investigating the development of world maps. They had to examine a series of historic maps and order them. This required the students to compare and contrast the maps and then agree on an order; not an easy task!
A third activity that students in Year 4 have been involved in is an art activity inspired by the mythological creatures featured on the Carta Marina, a map of Nordic countries published in 1539. Students analysed the illustrations and created their own mythological creatures that would have warned seafaring explorers and adventurers that dangers were ahead!
Ms Jude Handscombe, Year 4 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.
Junior Campus: +84 (0) 28 3744 4551
Secondary Campus: +84 (0) 28 3744 2335
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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