25- 29/5 Year 6 Trip

29/5 MP1 Production

10/6 Summer Concert

11/6 EYFS Summer Concert

14/6 Term 3 Clubs Finish

BRITISH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL - HO CHI MINH CITY

22 MAY 2015 | ISSUE 32

Dates for your diary

IN THIS ISSUE

May + June

TU XUONG PRIMARY

Newsletter

Contact information

43-45 Tu Xuong St, District 3, HCMC

Tel: (848) 3932 0210

Fax: (848) 3932 0770

E-mail:

suehill@bisvietnam.com

Newsletter Issue 32|1

From the Head Teacher 2

TX Swimming Gala 3

Support for Nepal 4

Year 4’s Community Project 5

U11 Boys Football Tournament + Holiday Programmes 6

Dates of Term 3 + Flea Market 7

Newsletter Issue 32|2

Dear Parents, Our focus this term is on developing the characteristics of integrity and reflection. In the MP3 assembly, Mr Rob and Mr James presented scenarios for the children to discuss in their house teams. House Captains then had to feedback a group decision of how they would react in those situations and were subsequently judged on the level of integrity shown. The children showed that they are already aware of the appropriate way to act. We will all now be looking for children to show integrity on a day-to-day basis and will be rewarding children through the award of weekly certificates and the Masters of Learning for Integrity which will be awarded on June 5th.

Swimming galas always provide a chance to celebrate achievement and to show case the excellent levels our children reach in all four strokes. This year’s galas were no exception. After watching our younger members of the primary swim on Thursday, the progress was clearly visible. Well done to all our TX swimmers! Congratulations to Mr Chau and Ms Charlie for organising another very successful event and thank you to all teaching and teaching assistants for their hard work on Thursday and Friday. Our TX community were very busy this week making cards, baking cakes, swapping favourite books and taking part in Bollywood dance sessions. The connection for all these activities is one common cause, raising money to support the Nepal Earthquake fund. Thank you to everyone for helping out – this was a true community effort!

I am very much looking forward to the MP1 Production, Pirates Versus Mermaids, next week. All

children in Year 1 and 2 will be performing in the sports hall on Friday 29th May at 8:15. All parents are

very welcome to attend.

From the Head Teacher– Ms Sue Hill

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TX Swimming Gala

On Thursday and Friday the annual TX Swimming Gala took place. Students in Years 1-6 took part. The students swam a range of strokes over several distances and enjoyed the event immensely.

Mrs. Charlotte Pemble

PE Leader - TX Campus

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Support for Nepal

This week we have all be very busy with lots of activities to raise money for the victims of the Nepal earthquake. Almost every child from MP1, 2 and 3, (along with some teachers and some of our community partners) made a beautiful origami style greetings card, which they were then able to buy back on Thursday or Friday… unless somebody else bought it first! EYFS children swapped books with a friend, making a donation to the Nepal Fund at the same time, and lots of children had fun in the Bollywood dance classes.

MP2 and 3 children have been participating in the Charity Splash, with their friends and family sponsoring them and helping them raise more money. At the end of the week, children brought baked goodies into the school to donate to the Bake Sale... eating cakes and cookies for a good cause! A big thank you to all the parents who led the card making and Bollywood dance sessions, to those who

helped at the bake sale, and of course thank you everybody who made a donation to the fund. We will let

you know how much we raised in next week’s newsletter.

Ms. Heather Robinson EAL Teacher and Community Services Campus Leader

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Following last year’s successful project, where we acted out and made short films about English traditional tales, such as The Three Little Pigs, we decided this year to retell Vietnamese traditional tales for our Community Project with PdV. First, the PdV and Year 4 children found out about traditional tales and then designed scenery and puppets to illustrate their stories. After that, they worked together to retell the stories in Vietnamese and film themselves using the iPads. The children worked very well together. On Tuesday 26th May, we will have a special film premiere where the Year 4 and PdV children and staff can enjoy sharing their films as well as snacking on popcorn. Ms. Emma Spencer Year 4 Teacher and MP2 Leader

Year 4’s Community Project

Newsletter Issue 32|6

U11 Boys Football Tournament

Holiday Programmes

Please see the following Holiday Sports Programmes which will take place during the summer break at BIS HCMC. Registration can be made at each of the school campuses. End of year Camp

Start of year Camp

If you require further information please contact PhilipDrake@bisvietnam.com

Date

Sport Time Head Coach

Age Prices (all in

VND) Location

29/6-3/7 Swimming 8.45am - 1.45pm

Mr Vinh F2 upwards Various prices

(see letter) AP1 Swimming

Pool

29/6-3/7 Skills factory - mini soccer

8.15am - 9.45am

SSA Age 3 - 5

years 1,600,000 AP1 small field

29/6-3/7 Football 8 am- 11 am SSA Year 3

upwards 2,200,000 Big field

29/6-3/7 Basketball 1pm-4pm SSA Year 3

upwards 2,200,000

AP2 Sports hall

Date Sport Time Head Coach

Age Prices (all in

VND) Location

21/8-25/8 Swimming 8 am- 1:45

pm Mr Vinh F2 upwards

Various (see letters)

AP1 pool

21/8-25/8 Skills factory -

mini soccer 8.15am - 9.45am

SSA Age 3 - 5

years 1,600,000

AP1 small field

21/8-25/8 Football 8 am- 11

am SSA

Year 3 up-wards

2,200,000 Big field

21/8-25/8 Basketball 1pm-4pm SSA Year 3 up-

wards 2,200,000

AP2 Sportshall

21/8-25/8 T-ball/Softball 4pm -

5.30pm Mr Richard

Year 3 up-wards

660,000 Big Field

The U11 Boys football tournament took place on Wednesday 20th May at SSIS. The team consisted of: Chi Nhan Phan, Pana Duong, Gia Vinh Le Nguyen, Tyler Nguyen, Anh Khoi Ngo Pham, Bao Tran, Vi Tri Khuu, Anh Vu Dang and Khoa Tran. The TX team were in a difficult pool competing with teams they had not played before. The team worked hard throughout the tournament improving their spatial awareness and positional play. The scores of the matches were as follows: Game 1: AIS (3) - TX (0) Game 2: CIS (2) - TX (1) Game 3: BVIS (3) - TX (4) 7th and 8th Play off - TAS (1) - TX (4) Overall position - 7th Two players of the tournament were nominated. Gia Vinh due to his consistent effort and movement on and off the ball, and Khoa as he was the most improved player; he was a rock in defence running for every ball.

Newsletter Issue 32|7

Dates of Term 3

Date Year Group/s Event

25-29/5 Y6 Residential trip to Malaysia

29/5 MP1 MP1 Production

10/6 Y1-Y6 Summer Concert

11/6 EYFS EYFS Summer Concert

14/6 All Term 3 Clubs Finish

16/6 MP3 MP3 Speech Contest (Eve)

25/6 All Leavers Assembly

26/6 All School Finishes @11.30

Flea Market