British International School - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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News/Current Events

Tu Xuong Choir at the Consular Bazaar

Last Saturday the Tu Xuong choir gave an excellent performance at the Consular Club’s annual charity bazaar. After attending many extra rehearsals in preparation, the 27 enthusiastic members sang their hearts out for half an hour to a packed audience at the Legend Hotel. They all did a great job and received rave reviews from all who attended. Well done!


FOBISSEA Music 2008

Last week the Music Department took the creme de la creme of the BIS musicians to take part in the most fabulous of FOBISSEA Music Festivals hosted by the Tanglin Trust School, Singapore. The students worked extremely hard rehearsing the most challenging of repertoires ever attempted by a FOBISSEA orchestra and choir in the short space of three days including Wagner's Siegfied Idyll, the first movement of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony and Zadoc the Priest. Read more...


Year 5 & 6 Inter-school Basketball Competition

On Friday 7th of November SSIS hosted the Interschool Primary Basketball competition. Six Schools took part in total. The 5 + 6 TX girls came 1st, winning all 3 of their games against; ISHCMC, AMIS and ABC. The 5 + 6 TX boys came 2nd, beating ISHCMC and AIS, but losing to SSIS in the finals. Everyone played brilliantly and had a great afternoon of basketball. Well done to all who took part!


Year 5 ICT TX: 3-D Modelling using Google Sketchup and Google Earth

Architects of the future. Year 5 at the Tu Xuong campus seached the map for underdeveloped areas of Ho Chi Minh City (yes they do exist). They then designed their own 3D buildings in Google Sketchup a 3D software tool that combines a tool-set with an intelligent drawing system. They were then able to place models using real-world coordinates. Enjoy.


International Week at An Phu Primary Campus

Pupils at An Phu Primary have just completed their country tours around the campus as part of International Week. Students had their passports stamped after visiting some of the 20 countries which were represented in the classrooms. Pupils experienced a very wide range of learning activities where they had opportunities to celebrate the independent and interdependent aspects of different countries. We thank all the parents for their hard work and enthusiasm in setting up the classrooms. Parents, pupils and teachers have learnt a lot over the past two days.