Weekly Highlights 07/11/2025

Weekly Highlights is a weekly newsletter sent by the BVIS Leadership Team to parents, providing updates on notable news and activities at the school. The newsletter consists of three main sections: updates from the Principal, Head of Primary, and Head of Secondary.

Dear Parents,

What a joy it was to see so many of you at our 15-Year Anniversary launch yesterday! Thank you to everyone that joined us and to the parents and alumni that shared their stories with us. 



BVIS is truly a school that cares and hearing from our alumni about how they are flourishing due to the support, encouragement and sense of community that BVIS offers makes us very proud and excited for what the next 15 years will bring.

Yesterday was just the beginning of our 15-year anniversary celebrations. In the spring we will be inviting our BVS community to even more events and we hope that many of you will join us.

Next week our school photographs for all students will be taken. Individual and class / form tutor groups photographs will also be taken. An e-mail was sent to you about this last week.  Please ensure but your children are wearing the correct uniform and looking smart for their photos. We are using a new company this year, Picture Perfect and they promise to deliver excellent photographs at a reasonable cost. They have worked with many international schools both here and in Hanoi and we are confident they will do a great job for our BVIS community.



Sincere thanks to all of our BVIS community for supporting with our typhoon appeal. Your generosity has been incredible, and we were able to send over 90 million VND to BVIS Hanoi who will use the money to support the relief funds in the north.  We will share more with you about how the money was spent in the coming weeks.



This week our Parent Satisfaction Survey was sent to all to all of you. Thank you for taking the time to fill it in and sharing with us your thoughts and perspectives on our school. Your feedback helps us to grow, it helps us to be a better school, and we sincerely ask that all parents take the opportunity to engage with the survey and have your voice and helping to shape our school for the future.

As always it has been a busy week here at BVS and despite the rain we were able to continue with all of our activities and events. Please keep reading across the primary and secondary highlights to find out what your children have been up to this week.



Wishing you all a lovely weekend ahead.

Contact Us

Should you wish to contact your child’s Class Teacher(s) or Form Tutor directly, we encourage communication to be written in the language you most feel confident to use. 

Parents may also find it useful to contact their child’s class teacher(s) or form tutor directly for all individual queries about their academic work/social and emotional wellbeing in school. Individual contact details can be found in the Parents’ Handbooks or via our Primary/Secondary Receptionists. 

We had an exciting week that truly showcased our students’ enthusiasm for learning and the strength of our community. Monday saw a lovely class assembly from 2B that showed what the children have been learning in their transport topic. On Tuesday we had our final Project Curiosity sessions with Year 4 taking the lead on sharing their projects with parents, teachers and fellow students. There were wonderful projects ranging from a focus on opera and magnetics to bikes and rice painting; our students discovering new passions! At the same time, our workshop for EYFS parents on Healthy Eating and Dental Hygiene was a great success with information I wish I had received when my son was young.

Towards the end of the week, we launched our 15th Anniversary celebrations - a significant milestone for the school. Thank you to all parents who came along to share the story of the school and hear from our alumni. 

We ended this great week with an assembly from Year 6 followed by the formal opening and naming of our playground climbing zone... the ‘Rope Rừng!’ Our Student Council led on this; they had name suggestions from students and then everyone voted. Well done to our Student Council.

Community Spirit in Action!

Last week, our incredible Community students showcased their creativity and teamwork by planning and organising a fundraising game during the Halloween event to support our community partner schools. Thanks to their efforts, we successfully raised 11,500,000 VND!
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With the funds, we were able to donate to two wonderful schools: Rang Dong School (Center for Inclusive Development, Binh Chanh) and Hope School (School for Deaf and Children with Disabilities). The donations included:

• 11 sets of Chân Trời Sáng Tạo books for Year 3, 4, and 5 students
• 20 boxes of crackers for Hope School
• 12 boxes of milk for Rang Dong School
• 12 boxes of noodles

On Friday, with Friends of BVIS parents, we visited both schools to personally deliver the donations. We highly appreciate all the parents and students who got involved in the game. Your support made this initiative truly meaningful for the children in our partner schools.

Thank you for helping us make a difference!

Project Curiosity Showcase – Year 4

What a wonderful Tuesday morning we had celebrating Year 4 Project Curiosity presentations! Following the success of last month’s guided team presentation, this time each child took the lead individually. We are so proud of how confidently they shared their passions, explored their own interests, and celebrated their learning. 

This project is designed to nurture life-long learners and researchers, giving children the chance to build independence, curiosity, and pride in their achievements. A huge thank you to all parents for your continued support at home—it truly makes a difference in helping our children grow and shine!

Upcoming Events:

Harnessing AI at BVIS – Supporting, not replacing, great teaching

Artificial intelligence has become one of those topics that everyone wants to talk about, and with good reason. It’s already influencing how we work, think, and learn. In our school, it brings exciting possibilities, but also important responsibilities.

AI can help us save time on routine tasks, give students more personalised feedback, and allow creative ways to explore new ideas. Used wisely, it can strengthen what teachers already do so well, helping each child reach their potential.

But it’s equally important to remember what AI can’t do. It can’t notice when a student looks unsure, share a smile of encouragement, or spark curiosity through a great question. Those moments of connection are uniquely human, and they remain at the heart of learning.

Our role as educators at BVIS is to harness AI carefully, to use it as a tool that supports great teaching rather than replaces it. We want our students to understand this balance too: technology is powerful, but it’s their empathy, imagination, and integrity that will help them create their future.

6th Form Update
Sixth Form Challenge: Turning Trash into High Fashion

Over the past week, our Year 12 and 13 students took on a creative and collaborative challenge that transformed our Sixth Form common area into a runway of innovation. Working together in their form groups, students were set a unique task: design and construct a high-fashion outfit using only two bin (trash) bags.

These fun and imaginative challenges are designed not only to encourage teamwork and creativity, but also to help relieve some of the pressures of examination stress, giving students a chance to reset and recharge in a positive, low-stakes environment.

With just a limited set of materials and an unlimited supply of imagination, each form pulled together to brainstorm, design, and produce striking garments that showcased their artistic flair, teamwork, and problem-solving skills. The results were nothing short of spectacular. From classic couture silhouettes to avant-garde statement pieces, the “trash bags” were reborn as runway-ready fashion.

The challenge culminated in a lively fashion show, with student models taking to the catwalk to show off their group’s creations. Judges were impressed not just by the creativity and polish of the final outfits, but also by the energy, cooperation, and humour that each form brought to the activity.

This inspiring project reminded us all that collaboration can turn even the simplest materials into something extraordinary – and that with teamwork, even a bin bag can become a masterpiece. 

November Live Lunch

Sign-up is now open for the November Live Lunch. Students should sign-up now to reserve a spot! 

KS3 Art & Design Update

This term, KS3 students have been busy creating vibrant lino prints. Year 7 explored Pop Art, designing bold logo-inspired prints. Year 8 took inspiration from Kente cloth patterns to produce colourful, patterned designs, while Year 9 developed their own creative wallpaper prints. Each year group has shown originality and creativity through their lino carving and printing work.

Sparx Maths Champions

The Sparx Maths Weekly Champion is the student who is the top XP earner in each year group.  
 
Students earn XP by completing tasks in their Sparx Homework 
  
Compulsory Tasks earn 60-80XP 
XP Boost Tasks earn 120-150XP 
Target Tasks earn 120-150XP 
Independent Learning Tasks earn 100XP 
  
Students reach a new Sparx Level every 10000XP 

Top XP earners this week are: 

Bedrock Champions

This week’s bedrock champions are:  

Year 12  Ngo Khanh Ngoc (Sarah)  
Year 7 Nguyen Tue Bao
Year 8 Do Thanh Ngoc 
Year 9 Le Hong Minh Quang (Mraz)
Year 11  Tran Nhu Bao Thi (Belle)  
Year 10 Vo Tan Minh (Michael)

Congratulations to all the above students who came up on top in their respective year groups. A special well done to Sarah who achieved the highest Bedrock points total across the whole of the secondary school this week! 

Champion of the week!

This week’s champion is... 

Congratulations and well-done to Emilie!

Champion Tutor Group of the week!

This week’s Champion tutor group is 

Congratulations to 789v/hanoi3. Well done!

Housepoint Totals

 

Congratulations to Hanoi house, who try effort to back on top!

Upcoming Events

10–14/11: School photography
17/11: Year 8 and 9 Pastoral Parent’s Evening
18/11: Global Campus Young Musician of the Year Showcase
27/11: Parent Partnership Workshop – Study Skills
03/12: Year 11 Parents’ Evening
05/12: Club Season 1B Break Starts
06/12: BVIS Christmas Bazaar
08/12: Y11 IGCSE Awards event 2025 (current Y12 students)

Safeguarding and Child Protection

The health, safety and wellbeing of our students remains the number one priority at BVIS HCMC.

Should you have a concern for the welfare of any child in our school, please refer to our Safeguarding poster below: