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Ms Shaheena Pall discusses how talking can stimulate your child's cognitive development.

Having returned from the Christmas holiday, Year 6 are already busy doing a huge variety of different activities.

This year BVIS HCMC welcomed 10 international schools from across South East Asia to compete in the annual Primary Nord Anglia Games 2019.

In November, a team of 17 and 18-year-old students from the British International School, Ho Chi Minh City, also known as Nam Phong Racing set off on their #RaceToAbuDhabi for the 2019 F1 in Schools World Finals.

For the second consecutive year, the British International School Ho Chi Minh City entered the UK Bebras Computing Challenge.

The BIS Barracudas travelled to Bangkok to compete in the Bangkok Feeding Frenzy on Friday 6 December to Monday 9 December.

All the action from the largest inter-house competition of the academic year!

As the BIS staff and students rocked out Jingle Bells to the children of Thien Phuoc Foster Home, a young boy could contain his excitement no longer and with purposeful glee took to the dance floor!

Last week saw three triumphant performances of the Key Stage 3 production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle (by Bertolt Brecht).

On 30th November 2019, three teams each consisting of three incredibly talented young mathematicians participated in the Junior Saigon Mathematics Competition 2019.

From 13th – 17th January 2020, the Primary PE Department will be holding trials for the FOBISIA Games Team.

Last Thursday saw one of the biggest academic events in the calendar for the Upper Juniors, The Year 5 and Year 6 Speech and Debate Finals.

On Saturday 23rd November, the first ever youth cricket tournament was hosted by the Saigon Cricket Association, where 2 schools, BIS and AIS, participated.

Kumasta! BIS encourages us to be global citizens learning together, and we love finding out about the rich variety of cultures in our world.

Over the last two weeks, I have had the pleasure of attending two FOBISIA conferences, and we have hosted an inspection team from CIS and WASC.

Last week our Year 4 classes were treated to an inspirational workshop run by our parent group ‘One More Reused’.

In the World Children’s Day assembly this week our 2019 Ambassadors to the United Nations Nina Pham and Eugene Chang launched the search for the 2020 ambassadors.

Through our embedded community service programme our students work with a range of community partners, one of which is the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation (CNCF) who we have worked closely with for the past 5 years.

A summary of the CIS/WASC evaluation process following the team’s visit this week.

October marked the third annual TEDx event at the British International School Ho Chi Minh City (BIS HCMC) and as always it was an experience to be remembered.