ap2 news 10th april

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BRITISH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL - HO CHI MINH CITY| SECONDARY CAMPUS

APRIL 10 | ISSUE 29

IN THIS ISSUE

From the Head Teacher 02

University Guidance 04

Green Day 06

Sport News 09

School Produc on 11

PTG 12

Summer Camp 2015 ‐ College Champi et Switzerland 15

From The BIStro & Underground 16

April

14th—16th School Produc on—Chi y Chi y Bang Bang, 7pm

14th Korean University Informa on Evening, 6pm

15th PTG AGM, 8.15am

15th Y7‐Y13 Inter house swimming gala

16th Green Day

17th Final Assembly

School closed, 11.30am

20th April ‐ 3rd May Holiday

UPCOMING EVENTS


From The Head Teacher

Endofterm–Friday17thApril2015

School finishes next week at 11.30 am on Friday 17th April. Term 3 starts on Monday 4th May.

GreenDay–Thursday16thApril2015

Our annual Green Day is an event that is run by our student‐parent‐teacher Eco‐Commi ee in

conjunc on with GreenR, our student environmental concerns group. On this day, we bring awareness of

our over‐reliance on energy and plas cs to the AP2 campus. On this day, we will:

Encourage students to walk, cycle and car share on the way to and from school;

Focus a en on on using re‐usable water bo les;

Reduce our use of laptop computers;

Switch off air condi oners and lights;

Run a ba ery recycling compe on;

Wear green and blue clothes to symbolise our planet.

A email outlining the events, par cularly the “walk to school”, will be sent to parents through CHQ.

From The Head Teacher


SaigonEnterpriseChallenge–businesssuccess!BIS students had a very successful evening on Thursday compe ng in the Saigon Enterprise Challenge. We won 3 out of the 4 prizes on the evening: Best Overall Company Best Trade Stand

Won by Cre‐8 Katherine Nguyen Nikita Dane Su En Chan Khanh Thai Mai Linh Dao Carola Di Bella Best Report Won by Somnio Jun Hyun Lee WenXin Teh Nathalie Sim Tuna Nguyen Susie Choi David Kim

Under19(A)BoysSISACCityFootballChampionships–BISChampions!

Congratula ons to our U19 Boys Football Team on a convincing victory on Thursday.

1st Place – 10 points – BIS HCMC 2nd Place – 7 points – ISHCMC 3rd Place – 6 points – ABC 4th Place – 4 points – SSIS 5th Place – 1 point ‐ AIS

Pool B results 1st ‐ Amis 2nd ‐ TAS 3rd ‐ TIS 4th ‐ CIS

Richard Dyer Head Teacher, Secondary


University Guidance

Last Friday we were delighted to host the visit of Yonsei University. Ms Jee‐Eun Park and Mr Jong Won

Hwang delivered a detailed presenta on about the applica on process and entry requirements for the

university degree programmes. The community support was fantas c and I es mated approximately

150 people supported this event.

I was able to meet with Ms Park and Mr Hwang before and a er the presenta on and we discussed in

detail the applica on procedures, candidate profiles and number of applicants admi ed in the 2014‐15

cycle. A startling 68 applicants were admi ed from the 3 – Year applicant pool. Whilst amazed at this

level of selec vity I was also extremely proud of our two students who were admi ed last year. It

certainly gives us a clearer indica on of the calibre of student Yonsei seeks to admit.

We will be hos ng the Korean University Informa on Evening on Tuesday 14th April sta ng at 6.00 pm

in the Study Room. An invita on has been sent to all students and families from Years 10‐13. Whilst the

focus will be on helping students in Year 13 to be er understand the applica on process and the

support we provide we hope the wider community will also be interested in the informa on we will be

sharing.

Do please email me at [email protected] to let us know if you plan to a end the event.


Lastly, I am delighted to announce we will be hos ng the visit of Korea University on Tuesday 5th May.

Mrs Be y Chong has been instrumental in communica ng with Korea’s most pres gious universi es

and this has led to them choosing to a end our school when visi ng the city. We will no fy our

community of the me and venue when this is confirmed.

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Since hos ng the UK University Fair for Interna onal Schools on the 30th of March more of the

universi es have wri en to express their enthusiasm for our school and students.

Aidan Crowley College & University Guidance Counsellor

Dear Aidan, Just a brief note of thanks for your hospitality and welcome; I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to the School. I was particularly taken by the enthusiasm and interest of your students in studying at the University of Manchester, and in the UK more generally. It was a delight to meet such polite and engaging young people, to learn more about their education and career aspirations and to share how we can support them in achieving their best performance in their professional and personal lives. Please convey my thanks to your students for attending the fair - I really enjoyed meeting them.

Dr Sophie Hargreaves, University of Manchester

Dear Aidan, We really enjoyed visiting BIS Ho Chi Minh City and meeting students and some parents there to talk about their future plans. The students seemed very happy with education they are receiving at BIS and they are clearly achieving good results. I also met one student whose brother is currently studying at Essex and apparently having a great time, which is always excellent for us to hear.

Dan Entwistle, University of Essex


Green Day

Dear Parent

Green Day Walk to School and Non Uniform Day An Phu Secondary, BIS will be celebra ng Green Day on Thursday 16th April in order to mark the occa‐sion of World Earth Day. There will be a schedule of events taking place during the school day as a way of crea ng awareness on environmental issues within our school community. One of the events will be a walk to school. The three assembly points where parents, students and teachers can meet before walking to school are detailed below:

Date: Thursday 16th April 2015 Time: 07:20 am Meet Points: 1. An Phu Supermarket, 43 Thao Dien Street, D2.

2. River Garden, 170 Nguyen Van Huong Street, D2. 3. Joymax, 218 Nguyen Van Huong Street, D2.

Parents will receive a further three e‐mails asking for their parental consent. If you and/or your child wish to a end this event, please select the e‐mail of your preferred mee ng point and simply follow the instruc ons. Students should wear Green and/or Blue coloured clothes as part of the AP2 non‐uniform day. The group will walk together to school as a message and reminder to others to choose more environ‐mentally friendly ways to travel. We shall have teacher and adult supervision during the walk. Please indicate your a endance by Tuesday 14th April.

Community Service Projects


MeetingpointsonGreenDay2015

An Phu Supermarket, 43 Thao Dien Street, D2.

River Garden, 170 Nguyen Van Huong Street, D2.

Joymax, 218 Nguyen Van Huong Street, D2.


Sport News U19SISACTableTennisCityChampionships

Congratula ons to all the students below who par cipated in the U19 SISAC Table Tennis City Championships. Students competed in singles and double compe ons and our squad finished the day in 2nd posi on overall. Noah Kruimer Ryan Fernando Charlie McCracken Lee Le Dzung Pham JK Kazzi Phil Drake Director of Sport/Ac vi es & Trips Coordinator


InvitationalSwimMeet It was great to see over 120 swimmers taking part in the SISS Invita onal Swim Meet 2015 on Saturday 4th April. There were swimmers from 5 Interna onal Schools from within the City. All students from BIS AP1 & AP2 contributed to the success of the event and also achieved many personal bests. The overall boys, girls and team champion trophies were awarded to BIS along with several Individual Team trophies. Please see results below. I have also updated personal bests for children in AP1 & AP2. 1. Harry Park ‐Champion BOYS 8&Under 2. Sophia Villamil ‐ Champion GIRLS 9‐10 3. Ryo Sarashina ‐ Champion BOYS 9‐10 4. Cielo Miguel ‐ Champion GIRLS 11‐12 5. Alois Luong ‐ Champion BOYS 11‐12 6. Lim Zhuo Jun ‐ Champion GIRLS 13‐14 7. Jeremie Luong ‐ Champion BOYS 13‐14 8. Lim Zhuo Rui ‐ Champion GIRLS 15&Over Congratula ons to all swimmers involved.

Vinh Nguyen Swimming Coach


School Production


PTG


Please join us!

Parent Teacher Group (PTG) An Phu Primary and An Phu Secondary

For The Annual General Meeting:

Wednesday 15th April, 2015

AP1 Multi-Purpose Room

AGENDA:

Welcome AP2 Head Teacher’s Perspective AP2 Report AP1 Head Teacher’s Perspective AP1 Report Introduction of New Executive Committee Coffee and Cake


A Big Thank You from PTG

2014/2015 was a very successful year with many PTG events that required BIS Parent involvement. The PTG Commi ee sincerely thanks all of the parents that volunteered at events such as Interna onal Day, the Christmas BISzaar and Quiz Nights for your enthusiasm and con nued support. It was great mee ng so many parents at each of the PTG social events over the past year such as Wine & Cheese nights, brunches, lunches and coffee mornings. We look forward to con nuing these social events in the coming months and building on a great sense of school spirit amongst the BIS Parent Community.

Cindy, Eunice, Reshmi and Maria

BIS PTG AP2


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From the Underground & BIStro

Menu 2 (13 April)

From the Underground & BIStro

DAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

MAIN COURSE

CHOOSE 1

Beef Lasagne OR

Seafood Fried Rice

Cheese Pizza OR

Pork with Onion, Rice

Honey Baked Chicken,

Sautéed Potato/Rice OR

Pork Noodle Soup (Nam Vang)

Ham Burger OR

Szechuan Chicken, Rice

VEGETA-BLES

Morning Glory & Carrot Salad

Chinese Cabbage & Carrot Salad

Long Beans & Carrot Salad

Choy sum & Carrot Salad

SOUP Spinach & Melon

Soup Mixed Vegetable Soup

Spinach Watercress

DESSERT Mixed Fruit Mixed Fruit Mixed Fruit Mixed Fruit

VEGETARIAN Vegetarian Lasagne Chickepeas Salad

Mixed Fruit

Cheese Pizza Mixed Vegetable Soup

Mixed Fruit

Tofu Noodle Soup Long Beans & Carrot

Mixed Fruitit

Aloo Tikki Burger Mixed Beans Salad

Mixed Fruit

DELI BAR OPTION

Baguette & Wrap Fill it with a variety of choices including ham, chicken, cheese, tuna mayonnaise, beef, baked bean, mixed

bean, bolognese sauce

SNACK MENU Curry Puff

Samosa Fruit Cup

Chocolate Mud Cake Swiss Roll Fruit Cup

Curry Puff Samosa

Fruit Cup

Banana/Carrot Muffin

Sponge Cake Fruit Cup

FRIDAY

Ham & Cheese Croquet Monsieur &

Roast Potato OR

Chicken Rice

Bean Sprouts & Carrot Salad

Tomato & Tofu Soup

Mixed Fruit

Oriental Fried Rice Tomato & Tofu Soup

Mixed Fru

Donut Cream Puff Fruit Cup

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