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Weekly Highlights is a weekly newsletter sent by the BVIS Leadership Team to parents, providing updates on notable news and activities at the school. The newsletter consists of three main sections: updates from the Principal, Head of Primary, and Head of Secondary.
Dear Parents,
I want to begin by saying thank you. Not for one particular thing but for a multitude. Over the last few weeks, the support, engagement, and understanding of our parent community has been incredible.
Thank you for your understanding about having to postpone or cancel ECAs and other events after school last week as a result of the directive from DOET due to the weather/typhoon.
Thank you for completing our Parent Satisfaction Survey, offering us your valuable insights into our school to help us improve what we do for our students and BVIS Community. The survey closes today, so if you have not done it yet, there is still time! Thank you again for your feedback. It really does help.
Thank you to everyone for coming to our various events including the launch of our 15th Anniversary Celebrations and student events at every phase.
This week we have been hosting senior leaders from across the Nord Anglia Group of schools. On our tour of the school with them, they were extremely impressed with the students, teachers, and facilities. We are always delighted to share our school with visitors and in particular, other educators. It helps us appreciate what a special place BVIS really is.
I am delighted to share that we have been shortlisted for the TES Student Mental Health Initiative of the year award. The international awards bring together international schools from around the world to celebrate excellence across the sector in one inclusive global event. The awards are for international schools outside of the UK that teach the British or international curricula around the world. To be shortlisted for this award is a wonderful achievement.
This award is a wonderful testament to the great work going on across the school to support our students’ health and wellbeing. The winners will be announced on December 10th."
My sincere thanks to all the staff that go above and beyond to ensure our students feel safe, supported, and always know they have the support of the adults and other students here at school.
Our school photographs were taken this week. Picture Perfect did a wonderful job of capturing your children, their personalities and characters. We will be sharing more details with you in the coming weeks about when the photos will be available to view and purchase online.
We were delighted to welcome representatives of the Binh Hung People’s Committee to the school today to celebrate the Upcoming Teacher’s Day. It is wonderful to have their support and interest in all that we do here at BVIS for our students and staff.
Wishing you all a great weekend ahead.
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It has been a lovely week in school with intense activity around the sport halls where we have had photographers busily capturing lovely images of our young learners as they move through the years here at BVIS. At the same time, we have had our U11 and U9, boys and girls’ footballers, competing in the City Championships. It has been wonderful to see these young sports stars developing their skills, team spirit and resilience as they face the highs and lows of taking part in these highly competitive championship matches. We are super proud of them all as we continue to achieve and progress in sport at BVIS. A huge thank you to our coaches for their support.
This week we celebrated the fantastic mathematical skills and critical thinking of our students. Back in late September, many of our Primary students took part in the FOBISIA online codebreaking challenge and we are pleased to report that the results are now in and we have had fantastic success. We have risen in the ranks of competing schools from 28th place to 22nd place out of 110 school across all of Asia.
At the individual level, we have had:
• 25 students achieve Level 1A certificates
• 11 students achieve the Level 1B certificates
• 6 students achieve Level 2A
• 12 students achieve Level 2B!
Well done to all. This was a really challenging competition that really showed the progress and strength of our learners here at BVIS in critical thinking and problem solving.
This week our EYFS performed their World Nursery Rhymes. Parents were invited in for a Stay and Play All Together (SPLAT) and to watch the children perform. It was lovely to see the students showcasing their knowledge, language and performance skills. These are key areas of focus for building the foundations of early literacy.
The Nord Anglia Young Musician of the Year is an annual online competition for students that allows our students to submit video performances across various musical categories. We had some wonderful performances highlighting the talent at BVIS.
The children who got a certificate for participation were:
An 3S - Art Music: Piano
Minh An 4I - Art Music: Voice
Misu 5B - Popular Music: Instrumental - Guitar
Lukas 5S - Art Music: Piano
Truong An 6B - Art Music: Piano
Gia Bao 6B - Art Music: Piano
Zoey 6V - Popular Music: Voice Solo
Ivy 4V - Art Music: Piano
Xuka 4I - Popular Music: Piano
Harper 6B - Popular Music: Piano
Trung Anh 3B - Popular Music: Piano
Minh An 4I - Art Music: Piano
Emmi 4V - Popular Music: Voice Solo
Thea 5B - Art Music: Piano
The children who were winners in their sections and age categories were:
Art Music: Age Group 1 - Julie 2S - Piano
Art Music: Age Group 2 - Joy 4S - Piano
Popular Music: Age Group 2 - Amaiya 3S - Voice
Popular Music: Age Group 2 - Tesla 3V - Drums
Popular Music: Age Group 2 - Yedam 5S - Piano
BVIS winners will now be entered into the international competition and compete against other NAE schools globally. These entries will be judged by musicians and performers from The Juilliard School and from Nord Anglia Educators across the world.
Thank you to our community leaders in Secondary for sharing this competition in our Primary assemblies, highlighting the need for conservation and to preserve endangered animals. This links beautifully with our Rainforest topic in Year 3 and our values of Globa Citizenship. Our Primary students can take part in designing a T-shirt to raise money for Endangered Asian Species Trust (EAST) and to sponsor endangered animals.
• 17/11 – Positive Parenting Workshop
• 18/11 – Year 6 and Year 7 Exploration Day
• 18/11 – Global Campus Young Musician of the Year Showcase
• 25/11 – 2nd in our EYFS Healthy Habits Workshop Series
• 01/12 – 2nd in our Positive Parenting Workshops Series
• 05/12 – Year 2 Production
. 08/12 – Ready for Christmas & F3 Singing
Tuesday of this week I was fortunate enough to be invited as a keynote speaker to the BritCham event in Hanoi. Vietnam Education Forum 2025
Students learned that:
• Talking about mental health shows strength, not weakness, and checking in on friends can make a real difference.
• Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men, and early detection saves lives.
• Testicular cancer mainly affects young men aged 15–35 but is highly treatable when caught early.
To reinforce these messages, students completed a fun Movember crossword puzzle filled with health facts and positive wellbeing reminders.
Together, we’re encouraging students to look after themselves and support the men in their lives through real, meaningful conversations this Movember
The Sparx Maths Weekly Champion is the student who is the top XP earner in each year group.
Students earn XP by completing tasks in their Sparx Homework
Compulsory Tasks earn 60-80XP
XP Boost Tasks earn 120-150XP
Target Tasks earn 120-150XP
Independent Learning Tasks earn 100XP
Students reach a new Sparx Level every 10000XP
Top XP earners this week are:
Year Group | Name | Class |
7 | Ha Trang Tran | 7V |
8 | Gia Bao Dinh | 8zMat3 |
9 | Alex Truong | 9zMat2y |
10 | Jenny Pham | 10zMat2x |
11 | keely Tse | 11zMat1 |
This week’s bedrock champions are:
Year 7 – Nguyen Minh Phong
Year 8 – Do Thanh Ngoc
Year 9 – Kuo Chun Tsan
Year 10 – Tran Vo Tri Bao
Year 11 – Tran Nhu Bao Thi (Belle)
Year 12 – Ngo Khanh Ngoc (Sarah)
Congratulations to all the above students who came up on top in their respective year groups. A special well done to Minh Phong who achieved the highest Bedrock points total across the whole of the secondary school this week!
This week’s champion is...
Congratulations and well-done to Vu!
This week’s Champion tutor group is
Congratulations to 789v/hanoi1. Well done!
Congratulation to Saigon house, who have returned to the top of the leaderboard!
17/11 – Year 8 and 9 Pastoral Parent’s Evening
18/11 – Global Campus Young Musician of the Year Showcase
27/11 – Parent Partnership Workshop – Study Skills
03/12 – Year 11 Parents’ Evening
05/12 – Club Season 1B Break Starts
06/12 – BVIS Christmas Bazaar
08/12 – Y11 IGCSE Awards Event 2025 (current Y12 students)
09/12 – Secondary Sports Day
10–12/12 – School Production – Matilda
The health, safety and wellbeing of our students remains the number one priority at BVIS HCMC.
Should you have a concern for the welfare of any child in our school, please refer to our Safeguarding poster below:
