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In our Virtual School Experience (VSE), we value the importance of well-being and understand that it is closely related to academic success.

The global pandemic has impacted every inch of society and will forever remain a period that brought about significant challenges for us all.

For many families, the first Nord Anglia school their child joins is only the beginning of their international education journey. In this blog we are interviewing Anne, a parent within the Nord Anglia community, who shares the experience of her family and their relocations around the world.

Each year, towards the end of term, BIS Primary students participate in an assessment week to support the teacher’s judgement of student attainment over the year. This year, it has moved online and for the last two weeks, our teachers and teaching assistants have been extremely busy carrying out individual student assessments, the results of which will be shared with you in the student reports soon.

This is the “Meet the Teacher” series in which BIS Hanoi teachers share about their passion and commitment for teaching. Let’s meet our first teacher of the series: Ms. Holly Carmichael and explore her interesting story at BIS Hanoi as well as get to know her more as a person.

To deliver high quality teaching, we know our teachers have to receive high quality training - not just at the beginning of their careers, but throughout it. For developing best practice, knowledge building and collaborating with colleagues around the world, our teachers have access to their unique professional development hub - Nord Anglia University (NAU). Created and designed by teachers - NAU is packed full of educational resources and courses made exclusively for our 13,000 teachers around the world. We are constantly evolving this platform and this year we’re pleased to launch Nord Anglia University 2.0 worldwide.

At BIS we recruit outstanding practitioners to fulfil our promise to you and to ensure we deliver a world class education. In schools, when we talk about outstanding or excellence, this isn’t something that is achieved once and ticked off. Excellence is about consistently high standards and a drive to improve sustained by a desire for life-long learning, something shared between all of our dedicated teachers.

Prior to the students returning to school, the teachers worked in year group teams to review and update the unit themes, ensuring they are relevant and exciting for our students at BIS Hanoi.

At BIS Hanoi, this year in the Secondary school we have introduced a new programme called Accelerated Reader, to encourage our students to read more books in English and thus improve their English language learning.

At BIS Hanoi, we get our young learners actively involved in the classroom. For instance, Year 3 students had the opportunity to learn about the typical breakfast in Spain and also the one in France.

At BIS Hanoi we aim to make sure that every History classroom is one that is built with both high ceilings of challenges and solid floors of support.

The Early Years Foundation stage curriculum provides children with the skills and knowledge they need to become happy and independent learners.

Educators are leaving traditional practices behind in favour of a tailored, more personalised approach for each student that gives them greater control over their own learning.

The value of TOK is therefore not just holistic in developing students’ open-mindedness and communication skills, but also could mean the difference between a student getting their 1st choice university placement, or their backup choice.

This time of year is very important for our Year 13 students. The pressure of final examinations is starting to build and now they have to think about preparing for the next stage of their lives – university.

Partnering with world-leading educators shows the importance of passion in work at its finest, says Ethan Hildreth, Superintendent of the Nord Anglia American International School, adding that students who develop and pursue their passions easily achieve and succeed.

At BIS Hanoi, we are proud of having a unique ethos and approach when dealing with languages inside our school.

Communication is really important to us at BIS and future weekly emails will not just contain links to blog entries from Mr. Webb, Mrs. Carroll and I but also links and snapshots of other articles you may be interested in.