BRITISH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL - HANOI

NEWSLETTERMARCH 13 2015| ISSUE 23

IN THIS ISSUE

From Mr. Anthony RowlandsFrom Mr. Christopher ShortFrom Mrs. Karen HanrattyFocus of the Week - International WeekInternational FairLunch MenuContacts

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UPCOMING EVENTS

14th Maths Olympiad Secondary Mixed Football Tournament at UNIS 14th -15th Bronze DoEIA Practice16th KS 4 & 5 Boys Football vs Korean International School 16th - 20th Science Week18th KS 3 Boys Volleyball fixture vs BVIS Royal City KS 3 Mixed Volleyball fixture vs Concordia 19th Secondary Mixed Football VS St Paul's 20th Primary School Council to visit SOS Children’s Village Year 11 Full Reports Distributed23rd KS 4 & 5 Mixed Football Fixture vs UNIS 24th F3 visit to Bao Son Paradise27th KS 4/5 Boys football vs KISH 30th KS 3 Mixed Volleyball vs BVIS Royal City (A) KS 4/5 Girls Football Fixture vs HIS31st KS 4/5 Boys football vs Wellspring

MARCH

From Mr Anthony Rowlands - Principal of BIS Hanoi

Don’t our students make us feel proud as a school? Indeed, this week and last week there have been many great examples of our wonderful students operating constructively and collaboratively in the day to day life of the school.

The ECA Community group has been very active throughout the year supporting the school’s various Community and Charity Projects. On Wednesday, I accompanied this group on a visit to the Koto Training Centre to deliver laptops that were kindly donated by the British Department for International Development. These laptops have been reconfigured after a few years’ use and will be a valuable source of technological hardware for the Koto Training Centre. The Centre trains disadvantaged youths in the art of hospitality and helps them to get employment in the industry when they graduate. KOTO stands for “Know One, Teach One.” They believe that knowledge is the key to development and should be shared and passed on. As a social enterprise, KOTO has trained over 400 students at its two training centres in Hanoi and Saigon, with 200 more currently enrolled.

A group of 32 Year 10 students will, this weekend, go to Mai Chau for their Duke of Edinburgh International Award (DoEIA) Bronze Practice walk. They have worked hard during the school year to prepare for this challenging event and I am convinced they will prove themselves to be great ambassadors for the school during these two days. I hope to be able to report in the coming months that a number of BIS Hanoi students have achieved both their Bronze and Silver awards.

Last week, I was privileged to attend a concert given by our Year 11 IGCSE Music students. It was a delightful event and great preparation for our students with regard to performing for their IGCSE Music Examination.

Sports have also figured highly in our recent achievements. Last weekend, I watched our Under 11 Boys participate in the Hanoi Youth Football League’s annual tournament at My Dinh. It is always a tough competitive event as academy teams attend from all over Vietnam and SE Asia. Our students performed extremely well showing great skill and perseverance. They won 2, drew 2 and lost 3 of their games - a great performance by a school team against academy teams. This weekend it is the turn of our older students to play in a tournament which will be held at UNIS and I look forward to cheering them on.

Last, but not least, a group of our students will be participating in the Hanoi “Maths Olympiad” which is a competition between schools based in Hanoi. This will be held at St Paul’s American International School. I shall be there to see how they progress but can’t promise to solve many mathematical problems for them!

Phew - yes our students indeed do make us proud! I do hope that you have a wonderful weekend.

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It has been International Week at BIS. With only 5 weeks until IGCSE and A Level examinations the Secondary section’s activities were all within normal lesson time. As you can imag-ine, there is a lot of international context within our lessons all through the year but the week allowed teachers

to stress this aspect of our curriculum. For example, students in Year 7 Maths have been using numbers in different languages, making codes using different languages and presenting data from around the world. In Science students have been role playing different cultures and societies and one class debated whose lifestyle has the most impact on the environment. In other classes students have been learning key vocabu-lary in a range of languages and greetings all week have been multilingual. We were honoured to be invited to the Primary International Fair and a few of our Key Stage 3 classes enjoyed a brief visit learning about the countries that each class was representing.

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From Mr Christopher Short - Head of Secondary

The Primary International assembly meant we had to move into the theatre where 10I presented their Interna-tional Week assembly to Years 7-10. Year 11 and 12 had their own separate assembly on their exams (which start in 25 school days’ time).

Four of our staff had their own International adventure this week as they travelled to Hong Kong for their Inter-national Baccalaureate training. They had three intense days learning about the IB in their subject areas. They also had the opportunity to visit the Nord Anglia Inter-national School and have started an International Week project with them, more news on this in a future news-letter.

The Bronze Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award expedition group is in Mai Chau this weekend on their practice hike. We wish them well and hope the weather is kind to them. Many thanks to Mr Airdrie and his team for giving up their weekend to take the students away.

YEAR 8 PARENTS’ EVENING

This week has been International Week in school, one of the most colourful and vibrant weeks of the school year. There have been many wonderful events and activities taking place throughout the week, many of which you will read about or see pictures of later in this newsletter. The children

have had some wonderful and memorable experiences which have been thoroughly enjoyed by all.

But International Week is about much more than giving children an exciting week. One of our main school aims, as seen on our Aide Memoire, is to develop our children as Global Citizens, a theme which Mr. Rowlands mentioned in this newsletter last week. He referred to the need for children to understand and value their own country and culture before they can start to recognize and appreciate the culture of another country. International Week is all about giving children opportunities to explore ideas from another country, in some depth, to look at the things that may be the same as in their own country, but more importantly to reflect on the things that are different and to recognize that differences can be appreciated and celebrated, not looked on as something ‘not quite right’, or a cause for prejudice. In this way we work to develop open minded youngsters who value cultural differences in a positive and supportive way.

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From Mrs Karen Hanratty - Head of Primary

This does not take anything away from the value of our own cultural identity. Those of us who see ourselves as global citizens are not abandoning other identities, such as allegiances to our own countries, ethnicities and wider beliefs. These traditional identities give meaning to our lives and will continue to help shape who we are. However, as a result of living in a globalized world, we understand that we have an added layer of responsibility; we are also responsible for being members of a world-wide community of people who share the same global identity that we have.

It has been a very international week for Primary this week! Each year group has been learning about a different country and having spoken with the children I have learnt so much myself! The children used a variety of different sources to find out information about other countries and cultures. They learnt about traditions, food, games, art, to speak different languages and much more. Some classes were able to invite “experts” in to

learn even more about the country they were studying.

International week ended with a spectacular finale on Friday – each year group took to the stage to perform a dance or drama from the country they had been learning about. Some classes had made or borrowed costumes and all of the children performed with such enthusiasm. It was a real pleasure to watch. We also had some representatives from different embassies attend the assembly.

On Friday afternoon the children set up and ran an International Fair, each year group was responsible for decorating and manning a stall which had a variety of different activities for the rest of the school to try. Each year group also made some food or drinks from their chosen country, which was then judged by our special judges. The winning year group will be revealed in next week’s assembly.

Overall International week was a resounding success and I am sure the children have learnt much more about their role as a ‘global citizen.’

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Ms. Kate Fitzpatrick

Year 1 Teacher

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INTERNATIONAL FAIR

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BIS HANOI MENUWeek Beginning 16th March

Monday16th Mar 17th Mar 18th Mar 19th Mar 20th Mar

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

From Year 3 to Year 12 : All meals come with a salad or salad bar choice along and 2 choices of vegetables, rice, Vietnamese soup.

From Year 7 to Year 12: We have introduced our NEW Sandwich bar with assorted cheeses, fresh tuna, egg salad, roast meats and other daily specials on our homemade bread, dark rye, whole wheat, oatmeal, french bread, Vietnamese rolls, raisin bread and other fresh baked bread every day.

Morning snack

Morning snack

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Afternoon snack

EYFS

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Sticky rice with pork cake

American doughnut

Steam bun Rice soup Nutella sandwich

Juice Juice Milk Juice Milk

Fruit Fruit Fruit Fruit Fruit

Pork caramel with egg

Stauteed chicken with mushroom

Grilled chicken leg with pepper

sauce

German sausage with mashed

potatoes

Pork cake with rice

Vanilla cookieChicken sushi

rollYogurt Oatmeal cookie

Pancake with honey

Juice Juice Fruit Soya milk Juice

Sticky rice with pork cake

American doughnut

Steam bun Rice soup Nutella sandwich

Juice Juice Milk Juice Milk

sauceBraised pork and

tofuRoast honey

chickenGrilled BBQ pork

Omellet with pate

Beef noodle soupChinese pork

with riceChicken burger Pork ragu

Wontom noodle soup

Irish beef pie Fish noodle soupGerman sausage

with mashed potatoes

Meat ball burger

(v) Vegetarian shepherds pie

Stauteed chicken with lemon

grass,bell pepper

(v) Roasted vegetable calzone

(v) Fried tofu in sweet and sour

sauce

Pork caramel with egg

Pork OmelletGrilled chicken leg with pepper

sauce

Braised pork with daikon

Pork cake with rice

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Good communication is important to us and we would like to ensure that you have the correct contact information in order for you to call the school:

School Number: 04 3946 0435

Extention number:

Receptionist: 0(For all general enquiries)

Principal’s Office: 208principaloffice@bishanoi.com(If you wish to contact the School Principal)

Business Manager’s Office: 109thaonguyen@bishanoi.com

Primary Office: 220primaryoffice@bishanoi.com(For all enquiries regarding the Primary Section)

Secondary Office: 215secondaryoffice@bishanoi.com(For all enquiries regarding the Secondary Section)

Admission Department: 222/122/555/777/888bishanoi@bishanoi.comdessydelevaux@bishanoi.com (Admission Manager)jinnyjung@bishanoi.com (Korean Liaison Officer)hatruong@bishanoi.comtrambui@bishanoi.com

Marketing Department: 189huyennguyenngoc@bishanoi.com(For all enquiries regarding Marketing)

Finance Department: 202(For all enquiries regarding school fees)

Medical Room: 117/303linhdieu@bishanoi.com (Main school)liennguyen@bishanoi.com (Early Years Building)(For all enquiries regarding Medical Issues)

Uniform Shop: 221tamle@bishanoi.comnhungpham@bishanoi.com(For all enquiries regarding School Uniform)

School Buses: 218nganguyenthithuy@bishanoi.com(For all requiries regarding School Buses)