This newsletter from the British International School - Hanoi provides information about upcoming events and recent activities at the school. It discusses the conclusion of Green Week, which focused on environmental sustainability. The newsletter reports on various student activities related to reducing waste and promoting recycling. It also announces staff departures at the end of the school term and thanks teachers who are leaving. In addition, it provides the school lunch menu and contact information for school departments.

1. JUNE
16th
&18th
17th
18th
19th
22nd
-26th
22nd
23rd
24th
25th
26th
27th
Jun-25th
Aug
26th
Aug
Primary Parent Teacher Consultations
Transition Day—Primary Class Swaps
Primary Maths Day
Sprint Maths
Year 7/9/10 and 12 Full Reports Distributed
Year 8 Interim Reports Distributed
Primary Summer Music Concert
School Prom
Keep Healthy, Stay Safe Week
Year 3 to visit Tam Dao Bear Sanctuary
Year 2 - Exhibition of children’s work
Year 4 to visit Museum of Ethnology
Year 7 Parents Evening
Primary Talent Show
Keep Healthy, Stay Safety activity day
Secondary Performance
Whole School End of Year Assembly
Term 3 Ends - All students finish school and
depart at 12.25pm
Summer holiday
All students back to school.
UPCOMING EVENTS
From Mr. Anthony Rowlands 02
From Mr. Christopher Short 03
Green Week in Secondary 03
From Mrs. Karen Hanratty 04
Special Focus: Green Week in Primary 05
Secondary SoundBites 06
Year 11’s Trip - Son Tinh Camp 07
Year 5 visit to the War Museum 08
Lunch Menu 09
Contacts 10
IN THIS ISSUE
June 12 2015 ISSUE 34
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BRITISH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL - HANOI
NEWSLETTER

2. From Mr Anthony Rowlands - Principal of BIS Hanoi
The end of the school year, which is fast
approaching us, is often a time of great
celebration with regards to our fantastic
achievements throughout the year.
However, it is also a time tinged with
sadness as we say goodbye to some key
staff members.
This year, we are saying farewell to a small, but very
valued, number of staff and I would like to take this
opportunity to pay tribute to their great dedication to the
school.
Mrs. Karen Hanratty
Mrs. Hanratty joined us as Head of Primary in August 2012
when the school opened. She has led the Primary School
with passion and expertise. I worked with Mrs. Hanratty
whilst we were together at Harrow International School,
Bangkok and knew she would be a great leader for our
Primary school - I certainly have not been disappointed.
Mrs. Hanratty is returning to live in Italy for the foreseeable
future with her husband Peter.
Mr. Nick Bury
Mr. Bury also joined us in August 2012 when the school
opened and has been a very valued member of staff. He
spent the first two years teaching in Year 3 where he
proved to be very popular with the students. This year, he
has been teaching ICT throughout the Primary School and
has really relished this opportunity to teach each year
group. This was the first time that Mr. Bury has taught
children in Year 1 and Year 2 and he has enjoyed this new
challenge throughout the year! He will be returning to live
in the UK with his girlfriend, Liz.
Ms Katrina Marsden
Ms Marsden joined us in August 2013 and BIS Hanoi was
her first experience of teaching overseas. She has done a
wonderful job teaching English for us. In addition, she has
also contributed greatly to developing our support for
Community and Charity projects, both in Hanoi and in
more outlying districts. Ms Marsden is returning to the UK
with her fiancé, Peter, and she has already secured a
teaching position there.
Ms Carol Hawkins
Ms Hawkins joined us in January 2015 on a short-term
contract until we appointed a new Music teacher for
2015/16. Ms Hawkins has done a marvellous job in a very
short period of time and has added so much to the
development of the Music Department. We are very
grateful for the contribution made by Ms Hawkins and she
definitely leaves the Music department on a stronger
footing. Ms Hawkins will be returning to live in the UK
and France.
On behalf of the school community I would like convey
our best wishes to all our departing staff and good luck for
the future.
I do hope that you all have a most enjoyable weekend.
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Mrs. Karen Hanratty Mr. Nick Bury Ms Katrina Marsden Ms Carol Hawkins

3. I don’t think there is ever a lull in a high
achieving international school but we have
had some more ‘ordinary’ activities over
the last few weeks as we have finished
IGCSE and A Level examinations and the
internal assessments. We have made up for
this in the last three weeks with a variety of
activities supplementing the great learning taking place in the
classroom.
Year 11 had a short expedition in and around Hanoi to
celebrate the finishing of their public examinations and
had a very enjoyable time on a number of activities. This
week is also Green Week and Secondary have joined
From Mr Christopher Short - Head of Secondary
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Primary in a number of events to promote sustainable
living. It is important that all our focus weeks are not seen
as one week of action and then back to our old behaviour.
Sustainable living like Road Safety and the other foci
through the year is something we must live every day to
make a difference. Thank you to Ms Phillips for
organising the activities to fit in with our existing lessons
in Secondary.
Year 12 also finished their examinations this week so they
re-join us for the last two weeks of term to start their Year
13 studies and continue their university application
process. As mentioned last week, they sit their IELTS tests
on Saturday; we wish them well with this.
Over the past week the secondary students have
been learning about significant issues that affect
our planet. Green Week is an important
opportunity to evaluate our impact on the
environment and how we can improve our
habits. The students have participated in a range
of activities, for example KS3 life skills was focused on plastic
pollution and the effects that this has on the environment, Science
club students made paper and within KS3 Science lessons the
students were finding creative solutions to reducing waste. In
addition the students of the Community and Charity ECA were
visited by a fair trade ambassador who informed and inspired the
students about fair trade and its benefits to local communities in
Vietnam. Secondary Green Week concluded with an assembly
presented by a range of secondary subject ambassadors and the
students and staff were treated to some inspirational speeches from
Year 9 English literature students. Remember to Reduce, Reuse and
Recycle!
Ms Kate Phillips
Science Teacher
GREEN WEEK IN SECONDARY

4. This week has been a very important week
in school. We have been busy with ‘Green
Week’, considering issues around the
environment and sustainability that are of
global importance. We have talked a great
deal about the 3 R’s – ‘Reduce, Reuse and
Recycle’. There has been a particular
focus in Primary on the use of paper, but children have talked
about and considered wider issues as well. You will read
more about the events of the week later in this newsletter. It
is interesting talking to the children, they already have a good
understanding of some of the issues and what we should do
– use both sides of a piece of paper, turn off lights and A/C
when leaving a room, turn off the tap while brushing your
teeth, etc. However, the challenge for them and for all of us –
and I include myself here – is to consistently put these things
into action. It is one thing to know what we should do,
another to make sure we do it!
Today parents of children in Primary will receive their
child/ren’s end of year report. These are detailed reports
which cover all aspects of the curriculum as well as a child’s
personal and social development. A lot of thought and work
goes into producing the reports and we hope you find them
helpful and insightful. Written reports can only ever give
parents a part of the picture, however. The teachers know
your child very well indeed, and could write a book about
each one and the progress they have made in their learning.
This of course, is not feasible! In order for you to get the
fullest picture possible of your child’s progress this year I
would urge you to take the opportunity to attend the parent
teacher consultations that are taking place next week. When
sitting talking face to face with your child’s teachers you will
From Ms Karen Hanratty - Head of Primary
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find that the colour is added to the black and white picture
that the reports paint. Please contact the Primary office to
make an appointment if you have not already done so.
Please also make a note in your diary for the Primary
Summer Music Concert taking place next Friday, 19th
June,
at 11.30 am. I shall look forward to meeting you all next
week.

5. This is an apt saying for this article. Just one week out of an incredibly busy school
year, BIS holds Green Week – a chance to study and explore environmental issues,
and a chance to put into practice what we have learned.
This year our theme was ‘The 3 R’s – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle’. The Primary
School Council discussed this theme and chose a different focus for each year group
to study. Year 6 looked at, ‘How the 3 R’s can save the Earth’, Year 5 ‘Paper and
Pollution’, Year 4 ‘Creative Reusing’, Year 3, ‘The problems with plastic’, Year 2
‘Why trees are so important’, Year 1, ‘Why and how we should save trees’, with F1,
2 & 3 being led by their teacher to understand a bit more about what reduce, reuse
and recycle means. We also had a challenge to reduce the amount of paper we use in
school. There was a wealth of knowledge and understanding being developed, as
well as a lot of practice through the Primary School this past week.
But only for one week? Our hope is that the children in BIS will take on board these lessons, remember the things they
see and hear, think carefully about their actions every week of the year, and in time they will be the ones who cause
positive headlines about climate change to be in the news. Theirs could be the generation who turn environmental
concerns into environmental success stories. And in BIS it started with just one week out of the year – GREEN WEEK.
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Ms Sally Tong
Year 5 Teacher
Ms Caroline Elliott
Year 4 Teacher
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow….

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YEAR 11’S TRIP - SON TINH CAMP

8. Year 5 visit to Vietnam Military History Museum
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BIS HANOI MENU
Week Beginning 15th
June
Monday
15th
June
Tuesday
16th
June
Wednesday
17th
June
Thursday
18th
June
Friday
19th
June
Rice soup
Sticky rice with dry
pork
Steam bun
American
doughnut
Nutella sandwich
Juice Juice Milk Juice Milk
Fruit Fruit Fruit Fruit Fruit
Roast chicken with
oyster sauce
Roast pork with
BBQ sauce
Stauteed chicken
with mushroom
Fried crispy fish Pork Omellete
Pan cake with
honey
Sausage sushi roll Yogurt Rasin cookie Caramel flan
Juice Juice Fruit Soya milk Fruit
Rice soup
Sticky rice with dry
pork
Steam bun
American
doughnut
Nutella sandwich
Juice Juice Milk Juice Milk
Roast chicken with
oyster sauce
Meat ball noodle
soup
Pan seared pork
Hue beef noodle
soup
Grilled chicken
with pepper sauce
Pork caramel
Roast pork with
BBQ sauce
Stauteed chicken
with mushroom
Fried crispy fish Pork Omellete
Roast chicken with
oyster sauce
Meat ball noodle
soup
Pan seared pork
Hue beef noodle
soup
(v)Fried rice with
vegetables
(v) Vegetarian
shepherds pie
Korean beef stew
(v) Vegetarian
Enchiladas
Sauteed pork with
rice
Grilled chicken leg
with pepper sauce
Pork caramel
Roast pork with
BBQ sauce
Stauteed chicken
with mushroom
Fried crispy fish Pork Omellete
 From Year 3 to Year 12 : All meals come with a salad or salad bar choice along and 2 choices of vegetables, rice,
Vietnamese soup.
 From Year 7 to Year 12: We have introduced our NEW Sandwich bar with assorted cheeses, fresh tuna, egg salad,
roast meats and other daily specials on our homemade bread, dark rye, whole wheat, oatmeal, french bread,
Vietnamese rolls, raisin bread and other fresh baked bread every day

10. Good communication is important to us and we would like to ensure that you have the correct contact
information in order for you to call the school:
School Number: 04 3946 0435
Extension number:
Receptionist: 0
(For all general enquiries)
Principal’s Office: 208
principaloffice@bishanoi.com
(If you wish to contact the School Principal)
Business Manager’s Office: 109
thaonguyen@bishanoi.com
Primary Office: 220
primaryoffice@bishanoi.com
(For all enquiries regarding the Primary Section)
Secondary Office: 215
secondaryoffice@bishanoi.com
(For all enquiries regarding the Secondary Section)
Admission Department: 222/122/555/777/888
bishanoi@bishanoi.com
dessydelevaux@bishanoi.com (Admission Manager)
jinnyjung@bishanoi.com (Korean Liaison Officer)
hatruong@bishanoi.com
trambui@bishanoi.com
Marketing Department: 666
gampham@bishanoi.com
(For all enquiries regarding Marketing)
Finance Department: 202
(For all enquiries regarding school fees)
Medical Room: 117/303
dungnguyen@bishanoi.com (Main school)
liennguyen@bishanoi.com (Early Years Building)
(For all enquiries regarding Medical Issues)
Uniform Shop: 221
tamle@bishanoi.com
nhungpham@bishanoi.com
(For all enquiries regarding School Uniform)
School Buses: 218
nganguyenthithuy@bishanoi.com
(For all enquiries regarding School Buses)
CONTACT US
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