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In August 2018 we officially launched the Juilliard-Nord Anglia Education Drama curriculum. As part of this collaboration this week we welcomed Juilliard Drama Curriculum Specialist Stephanie Cunningham to our Secondary Campus for her first visit since our official launch.

We have developed the DREAMS Labs at both the Early Years and Infant Campus and the Junior Campus as places that will develop student curiosity in technology and design while building the skills, such as problem solving, computational thinking, logic and reasoning and trial and error, that will be needed for the world that our students will graduate into.

Last weekend a group of BIS students studying IB Vietnamese Literature stepped outside their comfort zone and dared to discover more as they went on their literature expedition to Quy Nhon.

Year 12 IB Language and Literature students visited Mai Tam House of Hope in Thu Duc district, a home which supports adults and children living with HIV.

The results of the much-anticipated 2018 F1 in Schools World Finals are in! We are excited to announce that Nam Phong Racing, consisting of 5 BIS HCMC students have returned home as the most successful team to have ever represented Vietnam in the world's largest educational STEAM initiative.

On Saturday over 200 members of the BIS HCMC school community, including students, parents and teachers from across the 3 campuses, joined over 13 million worldwide volunteers to participate in World CleanUp Day.

The rollout of Seesaw as a parent teacher communication device.

This week saw the FOBISIA 2018 Girls and Boys Football Teams reunite for the first football game of the year against ISHCMC.

The time has come for the fourth cohort of BIS HCMC sixth form students to represent Vietnam at the 2018 F1 in Schools World Finals in Singapore!

These first few weeks have been really exciting and busy times in the Curve: our new library and learning space at BIS HCMC, Secondary Campus. We have been welcoming students and teachers en masse since the first day of term all keen to discover and experiment with the Curve’s new areas and facilities.

Welcome back to WEEK EIGHT of the BIS Learning Skills Challenge!

It is my very great pleasure to put pen to paper for my first weekly update as Head Teacher of the Junior Campus. I am delighted to lead an excellent group of teachers, teaching assistants and support staff in providing the best quality education for your children.

We are very proud of the achievements of all our students this year and it was a pleasure this week to welcome parents to our annual Prize Giving ceremony.

Here at the British International School Ho Chi Minh City, we have pledged to remove all single-use plastic from all three of our campuses by 2020. This is an exciting step in ensuring that we teach our students about sustainable living and a crucial part of meeting the Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

An integral part of our performing arts collaboration here at BIS HCMC are visits by Juilliard alumni. These visits are a transformative experience designed to inspire students in the performing arts. This week we were visited by Jason Crimi, the Associate Principal Trombone of the Seoul Philharmonic orchestra.

Have you got an eye for design? Want to get more involved in the school community? Keen to support our incredible sports teams? Then the PTG t-shirt design competition may be for you.

As part of Nord Anglia Education’s collaboration with UNICEF, selected student ambassadors will visit New York from 6-13 July for the NAE–UNICEF Student Summit regarding the United Nation’s Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

On Saturday 23rd June, 40 members of BIS HCMC's community, including students, parents and teachers from across our 3 campuses, set out to clean up Thao Dien.

Children are endlessly full of interest, curiosity and questions and all these were charmingly evident this week as F3 rounded off our International Week learning to visit the various waterways at Binh Quoi Tourist Village.

On Friday 15th June BIS HCMC Secondary hosted its first Sports Awards Ceremony. This was a night of celebration and joyful reflection, highlighting the success of the students, coaches and teams that represented BIS at home and abroad this academic year.