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We catch up with Ms Liz Eaton; Year 6 Teacher at An Phu Primary Campus, BIS HCMC.

Nord Anglia Education is pleased to announce the establishment of its Education Advisory Board, chaired by world-renowned film producer and educator, Lord David Puttnam. Find out how Lord Puttnam and Nord Anglia will work together to define the education of the future.

Music teachers from BIS HCMC recently attended the 2017 FOBISIA Music Teachers’ Conference as part of their ongoing professional development.

Our children across all four houses (Saigon Dragons, Hue Cheetahs, Dalat Dragons and Hanoi Rhinos) have been busy working and playing together this week in order to create even more learning opportunities.

As we approach the half term break, many classes are coming to the end of their IPC (International Primary Curriculum) topic. Two of the key elements of the IPC is that the topic begins with a motivating and inspirational ‘entry point’, and concludes with an ‘exit point’. The exit point may be an event that the learning has been building towards, or an exhibition, display, performance or activity that incorporates learning from the unit.

We are delighted to welcome our new Assistant Head Teacher, Lee Falconer to BIS HCMC. Before making his way to Ho Chi Minh City Lee taught in the UK, Canada and Hong Kong with specific focus on raising standards of Teaching and Learning in Senior Schools.

We catch up with Ms Hazel Allen; Learning Support Teacher at An Phu Primary Campus, BIS HCMC.

This week we invited parents into school to learn a little bit more about how children are taught at BIS HCMC. We focused on a new initiative that BIS Primary are taking on – Talk for Writing! Don’t worry if you missed the workshop – you can access the presentations through this post!

This week, our spotlight on learning article focuses on the Let’s Think in English accelerated learning programme as we were lucky to be visited by its lead trainer Mr Michael Walsh from Kings College London.

We catch up with Team Photon and their Design Technology Teacher Mr Diver about their experience at this highly regarded international STEAM event and the lessons learned along the way...

Dan Champion reflects on the U19a Boys Volleyball team's performance in their recent match against AIS.

Last Saturday it was fantastic to see over 78 swimmers from BIS HCMC (37 Secondary swimmers and 41 Primary swimmers) participating in the SSIS Relay Swim Meet at Saigon South International School, District 7.

Details of the best ways of setting up parental controls, lists of software and links for where to find more information.

Hanako Kawasaki reflects on the U19 Girls Volleyball Match against AmIS...

Find out more about the team of ‘Tarzan teachers’ at An Phu Secondary – constantly striving to be their best by learning from one another.

As we mentioned earlier in the week, students and teachers at BIS HCMC have been taking part in the World’s Largest Lesson to raise awareness of, and continue our work towards, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

This week we were able to celebrate the perseverance and the commitment of all of our LAMDA and ABRSM students in assembly.

Following in the footsteps of Team Helios and Doppler Racing, Photon Racing are the third cohort of students from BIS HCMC attending the F1 in Schools World Finals 2017 and the only school to be representing Vietnam.

In this post we speak to Ms Elaine Gillan who is now a Learning Support Teacher at An Phu Primary Campus to find out her first impressions of Vietnam.

In this post we speak to Mr Mike Sullivan who is one of our new Year 5 Teachers over at An Phu Primary Campus to see how he is settling into life in Ho Chi Minh City.