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Stress is part of everyday life, but how do you know if your child is overwhelmed? Here are some signs to consider if you think that your child might be stressed and what you can do as a parent to help them cope.

Creative art activities can help children in all areas of development. Here at the British Vietnamese International School, Hanoi, children learn through a thematic approach and have the luxury of specialist art lessons each week. The creative activities planned consider the child’s overall development. They also contain many cross-curricular links with topics the children cover with their class teacher. Here, I outline some ways that art activities can support young children's development and why art is such an important part of a child’s cognitive development.

This week the year 6 children were given a fantastic opportunity to have a full day with Secondary. Their challenge was to find ways to achieve zero hunger around the world. They worked alongside Year 7 and 8

In January 2017, I was so lucky to join Nord Anglia’s Middle Leaders’ Programme. The first of two residential aspects was held in Cambodia with other teachers from different Nord Anglia schools. All the teachers were incredibly professional, creative, enthusiastic and happy to learn from each other. I’m sure that we all were inspired by the great course leader John Nicholls.

We are looking forward to sharing these with you very soon.  The headline figures will be placed on the 'What People Say...' section of the website  and elsewhere on Facebook as well as through a personalised letter from me

The competition was attended by over 25 international schools from a huge range of countries including Japan, China, Korea, India and Bangladesh. We were the only team from Vietnam and so tactically we were hoping that all of the questions were going to be in Vietnamese!

On Thursday last week we went on a trip to Bangkok to attend the 2017 FOBISIA drama festival. There we did a lot of workshops where we focused on the work of five famous theatre practitioners; Stanislavski, Berkoff, Frantic Assembly, Brecht and Artaud.

Time: 08:30 - 12:00pm  - 18/03/2017 Venues: Melia Hotel Hanoi

As part of our Love Enrichment Day on February 14th , a group of Secondary pupils visited the Marriott hotel for a masterclass in Korean cooking.

The ukulele club in KS2 has been a wonderful opportunity for the BVIS children to try out a fun, new instrument. A ukulele is similar to a guitar

One-term in, we are delighted to highlight the excellent practice happening in two of our schools in Vietnam.  These two schools are extremely different in their intake, curriculum and music department faculty but have both shown fantastic progress in their implementation of the Programme to date.

Our year 10 and 11 IGCSE drama students performed their examination pieces - as part of their ongoing coursework - to a live audience. The students performed brilliantly

It was wonderful to have experienced my first ever Vietnamese Teachers’ Day last week. This is not a celebration or event in the UK. Most teachers go into the profession for the love of the job and teachers can often feel quite bashful when being recognized.