BRITISH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL - HANOI

NEWSLETTERNOVEMBER 21 2014| ISSUE 12

IN THIS ISSUE

From Mr. Anthony RowlandsFrom Mr. Christopher ShortThe Apprentice - Secondary Challenge DayFrom Mrs. Karen HanrattyEYC Show PreparationsPrimary Anti-Bullying WeekAdvance NoticeLunch MenuContacts

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UPCOMING EVENTS

24th Ben Heason – Rock Climber visits School KS4/5 Boys Basketball vs Wellspring25th Open Day26th KS3 Boys & Girls Football vs BVIS Y2 visit to Alfresco restaurant, Vincom Centre Science Competition27th ECAs finish27th - 29th Silver DoEIA Qualifying Expedition28th Primary Reports Distributed

2nd KS3 Boys Football vs KISH Primary Parents Evening3rd Y3B to visit Ho Chi Minh Museum Y12 Parents Evening4th Primary Parents Evening KS3 Boys and Girls Football vs UNIS KS4/5 Girls Basketball vs Concordia5th Y3I to visit Ho Chi Minh Museum Y10 Interhouse Science Competition

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

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From Mr Anthony Rowlands - Principal of BIS Hanoi

There is a busy time ahead for BIS Hanoi as, this coming Sunday, we will be involved with the HIWC Annual Bazaar. This is a big Charity event which we are pleased to be sponsoring. Some of our children will be performing on stage and we will have two stalls operated by students

and staff. If you are going to the Bazaar please come and support our students and stalls. In school the following day, we have the visit of Mr. Ben Heason, a well-known UK rock climber. This is a visit our students and teachers are particularly looking forward to. Ben will be speaking to various Year Groups throughout the day about his accomplishments, giving all our students the opportunity to listen to him. Over the past couple of weeks, Ben has been leading a climbing expedition in Ha Long Bay and I am sure that he will have much to share with us all about his exploits there and in other parts of the world. In particular, I am sure that our Year 4 students will be very interested, as they are studying 'Adventurers' as their IPC topic. Additionally, our Year 11 and Year 12 students, who are undertaking the Silver DoE International Award Practice walk at the end of next week, will learn a lot from Ben about one of our key attributes - Perseverance.

It is, of course, wonderful to see our oldest students participating in the Silver level of the DoE IA after the success of our Year 10 students in the Bronze Award last year. I would like to wish them the best of luck as they embark on their tough journey towards achieving

the Silver Level of the Award. Equally, a large group of our current Year 10’s are already preparing for the Bronze level. I am grateful to all these students for their commitment in seeking different challenges and ways of improving their life skills. None of this could be done, of course, without the same commitment from all the teachers involved and, in particular, Mr. Robert Airdrie who coordinates the whole IA programme.

Next Tuesday, we will be holding an Open Day: Parents and Students Learning Together. This gives our parents the opportunity see how the school operates on a typical day, to observe lessons and share learning experiences with their children. It promises to be a wonderful day and I look forward to welcoming many parents to the school.

Thursday of this week was Teacher’s Day in Vietnam and in BIS Hanoi. I am grateful to the number of parents and students who expressed their gratitude to our teachers. Teachers are, indeed, special and I am particularly proud of our teachers who work so hard to ensure quality learning in so many ways for our students.

Also on Thursday we experienced the Secondary Section’s second challenge day of the year – “The Apprentice”. What a wonderful day this turned out to be and that you will be able to read more about ‘’The Apprentice’’ later in this Newsletter.

Have a wonderful weekend!

We’ve been looking forward to Week 12 since half term. Every week is busy at BIS Secondary but this week has seen a number of interesting events.

It has been Anti-bullying week all week. Even in a school such as ours

where we don’t have a bullying issue it is important not to be complacent and make sure every student knows that we won’t tolerate bullying between members of our school community and what to do if they feel they are bullied. Miss Stevenson has coordinated a number of activities through the week, one of which was a survey to gauge students’ opinions of bullying and anti-social behaviour.

School, form and individual photos were also taken this week. This might sound a little mundane to celebrate as an event but I think these form a marvellous record of a child’s development and offer a chance for reflection. My parents are moving house at the moment and in sorting things out found a stash of my old school photos. They have commented that they have really enjoyed looking again at these and it brought back such memories of the conversations we used to have about what I was learning at school at each stage the photos were taken.

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From Mr Christopher Short - Head of Secondary

We had our first full parents' meeting of the year this week as Year 10 students and parents met with their teachers to discuss their initial progress on their IGCSE courses. It was great to have so many parents in school for this important event.

Yesterday saw our ICT, Geography, English and Business Studies departments run their Challenge Day. They chose to do an activity inspired by the UK and US TV show, The Apprentice. It was a busy day for staff and students and they applied their knowledge to create the best presentation they could. Congratulations to the following teams for making the final four: Dalat 8, Hue 7, Hanoi 9. Saigon 4 and Dalat for being the eventual winner. Many thanks to our special guest judge: Ms Van Huong

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CHALLENGE DAY

Rehearsals are now well underway for this year’s Early Years Centre Winter Show. Last year’s production, ‘All I want for Christmas’ was a great success with the children achieving amazing standards of acting, singing and dancing.

This year’s show, entitled ‘To the Crystal Caves’ has again been written by Ms. Kaye Meakin. It is a tale of good versus bad, right against wrong as goodies race against baddies in a hunt through different story lands for the magic box that contains the magic potion that can save the holiday. Will they be able to do it in time?

The children in EYC are involved in all aspects of the production. From singing and dancing, to learning lines and acting, making props and scenery and designing and making their own costumes, this will be an entirely

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From Mrs Karen Hanratty - Head of Primary

FINE DINING

child-led show. Events like this are a wonderful experience for children, teaching them a range of skills and developing self-confidence in a way that normal lessons do not. It is wonderful to watch, as rehearsals progress, how children are growing into their roles and things that at the beginning seemed beyond them suddenly become attainable.

The show will take place on Friday 12th December at 1.30 pm in the Auditorium. We shall look forward to welcoming all parents to what promises to be a magical afternoon.

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EYC SHOW PREPARATIONS

This week has been Anti-Bullying week and the Primary School Councillors did a fantastic job in introducing it to their classes on Monday. Children within Primary have been made aware of the differences between ‘falling out’ and ‘bullying’. Even though we are fortunate enough not to have many

cases of bullying within our school, we aim to tackle it by trying to prevent it happening in the first place, and by tackling it consistently, fairy and effectively when it does. The activities that children have been doing through the week are part of this preventative work and have helped all children understand what bullying is, how it feels and what to do if it happens to them or they see it happening to someone else.

Children have been taught that bullying is repeated unkind behaviour. It can happen anywhere and includes physically hurting and leaving people out as well as damaging one another’s things and making fun of each other.

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Ms Maria HussainEAL Teacher

One of the key focuses during this week was thinking about similarities and differences which are often used as a reason for bullying. Children have engaged in discussions and debates about how this can be tackled. They have also watched short video clips showing different ‘bullying’ scenarios and talked about appropriate ways to handle similar situations.

Primary School Council members ran an exciting ‘Anti-Bullying’ poster competition. Well done to the following children for creating the most appealing posters:

Dai Duong and Phu Lam 1BKatherine 2BBinh Minh 3BPhuong Anh 4BMinh Quang Y5Nhu Y 6B The most creative poem winner is: Tung Lam 5I Well done!

Anti-Bullying weekPrimary

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ANTI-BULLYING WEEK

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BIS Hanoi is pleased to announce that Mr Ben Heason will visit the school on Monday 24th November 2014.

Ben is one of the UK’s leading climbers and has been climbing full-time for over 15 years. He is world-renowned for his bold climbing on routes at the cutting edge of the sport, including his impressive exploits on big wall expeditions around the globe. In 2005 Ben was part of an International Expedition to climb the world’s highest waterfall, deep in the heart of the Venezuelan jungle. �e team's successful expedition, with climbing at the highest level in an incredibly remote region of the planet, has been praised as 'one of the �nest achievements by British rock climbers on foreign soil'.

Ben is in Hanoi with a team who are on a climbing expedition in Ha Long Bay. Ben will speak to students during the day from Early Years through to Year 12. It will be a great experience for our students to listen and learn from a person who achieved so much and shown so much perseverance.

You can learn more about Ben at: www.benheason.com

ADVANCE NOTICE

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BIS HANOI MENUWeek Beginning 24th November

Monday24th Nov 25th Nov 26th Nov 27th Nov 28thS Nov

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.

Yogurt Banana crepeCaramel

Morning snack

Morning snack

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Afternoon snack

EYFS

PRIM

ARY

SEC

ON

DA

RY

Americandoughnut

Roast chickenwith honey

Fish hamburger

Roast chickenwith honey

Fish hamburgerGrilled chicken

with pepper sauceChicken

hamburgerFried fish cakewith pineapple

Chiken noodle

Sauteed porkwith rice

Grilled chickenleg with

pepper sauce

Fried fish cakewith pineapple

Maccaroniwith meat sauce

Roast pork withgreen onion

Chiken noodleSausage calzone

Chickenhamburger

Roast pork withgreen onion

Ground beef in tomato sauce

Fried crispychicken

Chiken noodle

Tuna sandwich

Fried fish cakewith pineapple

Ground beef in tomato sauce

Grilled BBQ pork

Grilled BBQ pork

Grilled BBQ pork

Roast chickenwith honey

Fried ricewith egg

and vegetables

Ground beefin tomato sauce

Fried crispychicken

Braised fishwith rice

Sticky ricewith dry pork

Steam roll withpork cake

Soya milk Milk

Fruit

Juice Juice

Fruit Fruit Fruit Fruit

FruitFruit Fruit

Juice JuiceJuice

Soya milk MilkJuice JuiceJuice

Sausage rollRice soup

Americandoughnut

Sticky ricewith dry pork

Steam roll withpork cake

Sausage rollRice soup

Fresh tofu

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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.comduyennguyenthi@bishanoi.comnhungpham@bishanoi.com(For all enquiries regarding School Uniform)

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