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BRITISH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL - HO CHI MINH CITY| SECONDARY CAMPUS

JUNE 12 | ISSUE 36

IN THIS ISSUE

June 15th Year 12 Group 4 Project 15th - 16th KS3 Show 10th - 29th ABRSM Practical Exams 16th PTG Parent Year 6&7 Lunch, 12.30pm 17th PTG Lost Property, 12.30pm 18th PTG Parent Year 8 , 9 & 10 Lunch, 12.30pm 19th PTG Dodge Ball, 3pm 19th PTG Parent Year 11, 12&13 Lunch, 12.30pm 19th Activities finish

UPCOMING EVENTS

From the Head Teacher 02

Drama 03

Year 8 Design Competition 04

Community Service 05

Sport News 07

PTG 09

From The BIStro & Underground 12

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From The Head Teacher From The Head Teacher

Nepal Having planned to draw the Nepal fundraising campaign to a close last week, we have now decided to continue to one more week. The simple reason is that funds continue to roll in. Generous donations were received during the PTG Flea Market last Sunday and Year 8 students are planning a final campaign next week. Currently we have VND 42,715,700 to send to contribute to the British School of Kathmandu’s support for rebuilding the disadvantaged communities of Nepal. Let’s see if we can make that a nice round VND 45,000,000. Alumni news Rafael Torres visited BIS this week. Raffy, a former Year 10 student of BIS HCMC, moved to the Philippines last year and went straight to University. He has just finished his freshman year, not yet aged 16, taking up his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology (Honors Program) at Ateneo de Manila University, a top university in the Philippines. He made it to the Dean's List with a QPI (Quality Point Index, akin to a GPA) of 3.68. As a Biology student, he has been to medical missions for underprivileged children.

Richard Dyer Head Teacher, Secondary

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Drama

LAMDA exams This week at AP2 our students have been sitting their LAMDA exams in acting and reading for perfor-mance. We were lucky enough for our LAMDA examiner this year to be the British actress Vivien Heilbron, and all of our students have commented on how nice she was to perform for. In all, over 50 students from AP2 and TX have sat a range of performance examinations. We will get the results over the summer break and look forward to celebrating the students’ successes with them in August. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivien_Heilbron

Alice In Wonderland Next Monday and Tuesday our KS3 drama students will be performing in the annual KS3 show, and this year it is Alice in Wonderland. The students have been working hard over the last term to put this piece together and it is an unusual piece indeed. The performance will be performed in the style of promenade, so it really will be a magical journey into Alice’s Wonderland world, and very different to previous performances that we have staged. We would love to share this experience with as many students, parents and teachers as we can so please do join us. This performance is not ticket-ed and the first performance sets off at 6pm from the auditorium and the last one at 7pm, so please arrive at any point between 6 and 7. Catherine Sargent Head of Drama

Tenniel, 1865

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Year 8 Design Competition

Year 8 Design Competition in association with Mekong + Final thoughts from the winning student

In February, designers from Mekong Quilts, part of an NGO that provides employment to women in com-munities in the Mekong Delta and Bin Thuan province, visited our school and we were given a design pro-ject. The designers told us about the industrial techniques and processes that they used in making their products. From that art lesson Year 8 started planning and designing the bags for the project, which was to design a bag or a cushion for the ‘Year of Goat.’ We worked to a very tight timeline from our first ideas to our fin-ished designs. After the full design process, we gave in our works and waited for the judgment. After a few weeks, we finally got our results. I was very excited when Mr. Hall told me that I got to the top 3! After that, I was invited to the presentation event, where I found out that I had won the 1st place. It was fascinating. After the presentation I was invited to be the part of the design team and the production process. I chose different coloured fabrics and different sewing techniques for my bag. I am very happy to know that the bag is to be sold in shops now, and my design has provided employment. I am a real designer. Jungyoon Nam Year 8

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Community Service

Year 12 – COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECTS – Review – Part 5 and 6 of 10 Over the course of this year we Year 12s have been divided into committees and tasked with the chal-lenge to manage a community service project from start to finish. The fourth and fifth in our series of re-ports belongs to Project Aware Committees 1 and 2 who worked with Project Aware - Project Aware Committee 1: Promoting Shark Conservation within school through the Sharks in Peril campaign was an amazing experience for all of us. All group members put an amazing amount of time and effort to make our campaign day possible and we all learnt much about sharks. We especially put effort into advo-cating the importance of sharks to marine ecosystems and their economic value to local communities as part of eco-tourism.

On campaign day, which was held on the 25th of November, we sold shark shaped cookies as well as Project Aware keychains and also organised ac-tivities such as sponging a teacher, a quiz about sharks and a pin the fin on the shark game. We organised these activities to not only raise funds for Project Aware, but to also raise awareness about the need for Shark con-servation.

Our campaign was a tremendous success as we raised a grand total of 16.82 million VND to donate to Project Aware. We would like to note the PTG for their generous donation towards our project and all the people who made our project possible. Shark finning remains a grave issue all over the world and shark populations are declining rapidly. We can all contribute towards shark conservation by not eating shark based products and not eating at restau-rants that serve shark recipes. We have made a video about to shed light on the reality of shark finning.

Please take the time to watch this video as even though our campaign has ended, our desire to save sharks remains forever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8smzMajfXqI Hikaru Hotta

Project Aware Committee 2: Our community partner was Project Aware, a global non-for-profit organisation. Another of their main challenges other than Sharks in Peril is the issue of Marine Debris. For this element of their work they campaign towards ridding the oceans of litter. Through the support of funding, they organise divers to run rubbish collecting dives to collect as much litter form the ocean floor as possible. They also organise beach clean-ups, prevention projects to stop the littering, and raising awareness of the issue of mam-made litter polluting the ocean. We were challenged to create an awareness campaign and raise funds to support Marine Debris.

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We planned to raise awareness about Project Aware using posters before our campaign day and to raise at least 8 million VND. We pro-posed our ideas to the PTG and they kindly contributed 2 million VND to support our campaign. Thank you PTG! Our Project Awareness Campaign Activities included a baking stall, donation boxes which we walked around at lunch and break with ed-ucating people on the issues of marine debris; a guess the number of lollies in the jar; and we designed posters which give information on the date and place of our community project. What we did well – the posters were successful in attracting attention to our stall; fundraising - we were able to make a lot of food, which was aesthetically appealing therefore we raised a lot more than we were aiming to and our creative ideas such as the sweet jar and smores, we were really successful.

What we could have done better – whilst we were able to raise a lot of money, we could have done better in terms of raising awareness about the marine debris issue. The other Project Aware group did a really good job of teaching about sharks, and spreading awareness. Our organisation - whilst we were all sorted and ready for the bake sale day, we were a bit rushed and last-minute for the PTG presentation and assembly, so we could have been a bit more organised through communication and setting ourselves goals to get things done. At some stages, there was a lack of com-munication between group members, which, at times created confusion. We learnt a great deal about ourselves, about how to organising ourselves, working as a team and team dynamics. Naomi Arnaud

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Sport News

BIS Aquathlon On Saturday 6th June BIS hosted it’s 8th BIS Aquathlon. Congratulations to all students, staff and parents. Thanks also to all staff that assisted at the event. Official results can be seen below:

Phil Drake Director of Sport

Age 10 -13 Swim Time Overall Time Rank

Male

Floris Swinckels 00:04:48 00:13:09 1

Female

Lim Zhuo Jun 00:04:52 00:11:41 1

Josephine Swinckels 00:06:48 00:19:26 2

Ho Thi Cat Tien 00:00:00 00:15:46 3

Age 10 - 13 Teams Swim Time Overal Time Rank

Cedric Chua & Matthew McKelvie 00:03:48 00:09:59 1

Damien Kattan & Siena Kruimer 00:04:36 00:11:00 2

Daniel Schmitt & Nathan Ng 00:04:42 00:11:00 2

Gus Stevenson & Oliver Stevenson 00:06:24 00:13:58 4

Angelina Yeh & Emily Kim 00:05:55 00:15:45 5

Individual Adults (Males) Swim Time Overal Time Rank

Sean Neo (12/13D) 00:06:22 00:25:58 1

Phil Drake 00:08:26 00:28:09 2

Damien Soh 00:07:24 00:30:33 3

Chris La Grange 00:08:04 00:31:39 4

Jerry Chew 00:08:41 00:37:21 5

Richard Dyer 00:08:03 00:39:07 6

Individual Adults (Females) Swim Time Overal Time Rank

Lim Zhuo Rui 00:06:11 00:30:03 1

Emma Morris 00:07:45 00:31:01 2

Jo Tang 00:10:54 00:41:33 3

Adults Teams Swim Time Overal Time Rank

Bion Neo / Ching Eng Neo 00:05:33 00:24:41 1

Simon Lim & Nicolas Luong 00:06:28 00:26:03 2

Huynh Van Hung & To Minh Chi 00:09:32 00:43:22 3

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PTG

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If you have lost your belongings in this school premises, please come along and have a look, there are lots of

unclaimed items.

All lost property will be displayed outside the auditorium during lunch

time on Wednesday 17th June

Looking for Lost Property?

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From the Underground & BIStro

Menu 3 (15 June)

From the Underground & BIStro

DAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

MAIN COURSE

CHOOSE 1

Chicken Carbonara OR

Roast Pork, Rice

Pasta Bolognese-Pork OR

Sweet & Sour Fish, Rice

Battered Fish & Chips OR

Nasi Lemak (Chicken & Egg)

Chili Con Carne - Beef, Rice

OR Won Ton Noodle

Soup

VEGETA-BLES

Bok Choy & Carrot Salad

Long Bean, Carrot Salad

Morning Glory, Carrot Salad

Choy sum & Carrot Salad

SOUP Choy sum Spinach & Melon Tomato & Tofu Soup Mixed Vegetable

DESSERT Mixed Fruit Mixed Fruit Mixed Fruit Mixed Fruit

VEGETARIAN

Braised Tofu & Beans, Rice

Choy sum Soup Mixed Fruit

Veggie Pasta Chickpeas Salad

Mixed Fruit

Vegetarian Chili Con Carne, Rice Tomato & Tofu

Soup Mixed Fruit

Tofu Noodle Soup

Choy sum & Carrot

Mixed Fruit

DELI BAR OPTION

Baguette & Wrap Fill it with a variety of choices including ham, chicken, cheese, tuna mayonnaise, beef, baked

bean, mixed bean, bolognese sauce

SNACK MENU

Curry Puff Samosa

Fruit Cup

Chocolate Mud Cake Swiss Roll Fruit Cup

Curry Puff Samosa

Fruit Cup

Banana/Carrot Muffin

Sponge Cake Fruit Cup

FRIDAY

Honey Lime Chicken, Sautéed Potato

OR Beef Rendang, Rice

Broccoli & Carrot Salad

Watercress

Mixed Fruit

Dhal Broccoli & Carrot

Mixed Fruit

Donut Cream Puff Fruit Cup