The document is a newsletter from the British International School - Ho Chi Minh City containing information about upcoming events at the school. It announces that the last day of the term is April 17th and school will finish at 11:30am that day. It also provides details about the annual Green Day event on April 16th aimed at raising environmental awareness. It includes summaries of the school's successes in recent competitions including winning business and football competitions. It also previews upcoming university information sessions from Yonsei University and Korea University. Finally, it acknowledges the parent volunteer support for prior PTG events and invites parents to the upcoming PTG Annual General Meeting on April 15th.

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BRITISH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL - HO CHI MINH CITY| SECONDARY CAMPUS
APRIL 10 | ISSUE 29
IN THIS ISSUE
From the Head Teacher 02
University Guidance 04
Green Day 06
Sport News 09
School Produc on 11
PTG 12
Summer Camp 2015 ‐ College Champi et Switzerland 15
From The BIStro & Underground 16
April
14th—16th School Produc on—Chi y Chi y Bang Bang, 7pm
14th Korean University Informa on Evening, 6pm
15th PTG AGM, 8.15am
15th Y7‐Y13 Inter house swimming gala
16th Green Day
17th Final Assembly
School closed, 11.30am
20th April ‐ 3rd May Holiday
UPCOMING EVENTS

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From The Head Teacher
End of term – Friday 17th April 2015
School finishes next week at 11.30 am on Friday 17th
April. Term 3 starts on Monday 4th
May.
Green Day – Thursday 16th April 2015
Our annual Green Day is an event that is run by our student‐parent‐teacher Eco‐Commi ee in
conjunc on with GreenR, our student environmental concerns group. On this day, we bring awareness of
our over‐reliance on energy and plas cs to the AP2 campus. On this day, we will:
 Encourage students to walk, cycle and car share on the way to and from school;
 Focus a en on on using re‐usable water bo les;
 Reduce our use of laptop computers;
 Switch off air condi oners and lights;
 Run a ba ery recycling compe on;
 Wear green and blue clothes to symbolise our planet.
A email outlining the events, par cularly the “walk to school”, will be sent to parents through CHQ.
From The Head Teacher

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Saigon Enterprise Challenge – business success!
BIS students had a very successful evening on Thursday compe ng in the Saigon Enterprise Challenge.
We won 3 out of the 4 prizes on the evening:
Best Overall Company
Best Trade Stand
Won by Cre‐8
Katherine Nguyen
Nikita Dane
Su En Chan
Khanh Thai
Mai Linh Dao
Carola Di Bella
Best Report
Won by Somnio
Jun Hyun Lee
WenXin Teh
Nathalie Sim
Tuna Nguyen
Susie Choi
David Kim
Under 19 (A) Boys SISAC City Football Championships – BIS Champions!
Congratula ons to our U19 Boys Football Team on a convincing victory on Thursday.
1st Place – 10 points – BIS HCMC
2nd
Place – 7 points – ISHCMC
3rd
Place – 6 points – ABC
4th
Place – 4 points – SSIS
5th
Place – 1 point ‐ AIS
Pool B results
1st
‐ Amis
2nd
‐ TAS
3rd
‐ TIS
4th
‐ CIS
Richard Dyer
Head Teacher, Secondary

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University Guidance
Last Friday we were delighted to host the visit of Yonsei University. Ms Jee‐Eun Park and Mr Jong Won
Hwang delivered a detailed presenta on about the applica on process and entry requirements for the
university degree programmes. The community support was fantas c and I es mated approximately
150 people supported this event.
I was able to meet with Ms Park and Mr Hwang before and a er the presenta on and we discussed in
detail the applica on procedures, candidate profiles and number of applicants admi ed in the 2014‐15
cycle. A startling 68 applicants were admi ed from the 3 – Year applicant pool. Whilst amazed at this
level of selec vity I was also extremely proud of our two students who were admi ed last year. It
certainly gives us a clearer indica on of the calibre of student Yonsei seeks to admit.
We will be hos ng the Korean University Informa on Evening on Tuesday 14th
April sta ng at 6.00 pm
in the Study Room. An invita on has been sent to all students and families from Years 10‐13. Whilst the
focus will be on helping students in Year 13 to be er understand the applica on process and the
support we provide we hope the wider community will also be interested in the informa on we will be
sharing.
Do please email me at aidancrowley@bisvietnam.com to let us know if you plan to a end the event.

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Lastly, I am delighted to announce we will be hos ng the visit of Korea University on Tuesday 5th
May.
Mrs Be y Chong has been instrumental in communica ng with Korea’s most pres gious universi es
and this has led to them choosing to a end our school when visi ng the city. We will no fy our
community of the me and venue when this is confirmed.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Since hos ng the UK University Fair for Interna onal Schools on the 30th
of March more of the
universi es have wri en to express their enthusiasm for our school and students.
Aidan Crowley
College & University Guidance Counsellor
Dear Aidan,
Just a brief note of thanks for your hospitality and welcome; I
thoroughly enjoyed my visit to the School. I was particularly
taken by the enthusiasm and interest of your students in
studying at the University of Manchester, and in the UK more
generally. It was a delight to meet such polite and engaging
young people, to learn more about their education and career
aspirations and to share how we can support them in
achieving their best performance in their professional and
personal lives. Please convey my thanks to your students for
attending the fair - I really enjoyed meeting them.
Dr Sophie Hargreaves, University of Manchester
Dear Aidan,
We really enjoyed visiting BIS Ho Chi Minh City and meeting
students and some parents there to talk about their future
plans. The students seemed very happy with education they
are receiving at BIS and they are clearly achieving good
results. I also met one student whose brother is currently
studying at Essex and apparently having a great time, which
is always excellent for us to hear.
Dan Entwistle, University of Essex

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Green Day
Dear Parent
Green Day Walk to School and Non Uniform Day
An Phu Secondary, BIS will be celebra ng Green Day on Thursday 16th
April in order to mark the occa‐
sion of World Earth Day. There will be a schedule of events taking place during the school day as a way
of crea ng awareness on environmental issues within our school community. One of the events will be
a walk to school.
The three assembly points where parents, students and teachers can meet before walking to school are
detailed below:
Date: Thursday 16th
April 2015
Time: 07:20 am
Meet Points: 1. An Phu Supermarket, 43 Thao Dien Street, D2.
2. River Garden, 170 Nguyen Van Huong Street, D2.
3. Joymax, 218 Nguyen Van Huong Street, D2.
Parents will receive a further three e‐mails asking for their parental consent.
If you and/or your child wish to a end this event, please select the e‐mail of your preferred mee ng
point and simply follow the instruc ons.
Students should wear Green and/or Blue coloured clothes as part of the AP2 non‐uniform day.
The group will walk together to school as a message and reminder to others to choose more environ‐
mentally friendly ways to travel. We shall have teacher and adult supervision during the walk.
Please indicate your a endance by Tuesday 14th
April.
Community Service Projects

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Meeting points on Green Day 2015
An Phu Supermarket, 43 Thao Dien Street, D2.
River Garden, 170 Nguyen Van Huong Street, D2.
Joymax, 218 Nguyen Van Huong Street, D2.

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Sport News
U19 SISAC Table Tennis City Championships
Congratula ons to all the students below who par cipated in the U19 SISAC Table Tennis City
Championships. Students competed in singles and double compe ons and our squad finished the day in
2nd
posi on overall.
Noah Kruimer
Ryan Fernando
Charlie McCracken
Lee Le
Dzung Pham
JK Kazzi
Phil Drake
Director of Sport/Ac vi es & Trips Coordinator

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Invitational Swim Meet
It was great to see over 120 swimmers taking part in the SISS Invita onal Swim Meet 2015 on Saturday 4th
April. There were swimmers from 5 Interna onal Schools from within the City. All students from BIS AP1
& AP2 contributed to the success of the event and also achieved many personal bests.
The overall boys, girls and team champion trophies were awarded to BIS along with several Individual
Team trophies. Please see results below. I have also updated personal bests for children in AP1 & AP2.
1. Harry Park ‐Champion BOYS 8&Under
2. Sophia Villamil ‐ Champion GIRLS 9‐10
3. Ryo Sarashina ‐ Champion BOYS 9‐10
4. Cielo Miguel ‐ Champion GIRLS 11‐12
5. Alois Luong ‐ Champion BOYS 11‐12
6. Lim Zhuo Jun ‐ Champion GIRLS 13‐14
7. Jeremie Luong ‐ Champion BOYS 13‐14
8. Lim Zhuo Rui ‐ Champion GIRLS 15&Over
Congratula ons to all swimmers involved.
Vinh Nguyen
Swimming Coach

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School Production

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PTG

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Please join us!
Parent Teacher Group (PTG)
An Phu Primary and An Phu Secondary
For The Annual General Meeting:
Wednesday 15th
April, 2015
AP1 Multi-Purpose Room
AGENDA:
 Welcome
 AP2 Head Teacher’s Perspective
 AP2 Report
 AP1 Head Teacher’s Perspective
 AP1 Report
 Introduction of New Executive Committee
 Coffee and Cake

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A Big Thank You from PTG
2014/2015 was a very successful year with many PTG events that
required BIS Parent involvement. The PTG Commi ee sincerely thanks
all of the parents that volunteered at events such as Interna onal Day,
the Christmas BISzaar and Quiz Nights for your enthusiasm and
con nued support. It was great mee ng so many parents at each of
the PTG social events over the past year such as Wine & Cheese nights,
brunches, lunches and coffee mornings. We look forward to
con nuing these social events in the coming months and building on a
great sense of school spirit amongst the BIS Parent Community.
Cindy, Eunice, Reshmi and Maria
BIS PTG AP2

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From the Underground & BIStro
Menu 2 (13 April)
From the Underground & BIStro
DAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
MAIN
COURSE
CHOOSE 1
Beef Lasagne
OR
Seafood Fried Rice
Cheese Pizza
OR
Pork with Onion, Rice
Honey Baked
Chicken,
Sautéed Potato/
Rice
OR
Pork Noodle Soup
(Nam Vang)
Ham Burger
OR
Szechuan Chicken,
Rice
VEGETA-
BLES
Morning Glory &
Carrot
Salad
Chinese Cabbage &
Carrot
Salad
Long Beans & Carrot
Salad
Choy sum & Carrot
Salad
SOUP
Spinach & Melon
Soup
Mixed Vegetable Soup
Spinach Watercress
DESSERT Mixed Fruit Mixed Fruit Mixed Fruit Mixed Fruit
VEGETARIAN
Vegetarian Lasagne
Chickepeas Salad
Mixed Fruit
Cheese Pizza
Mixed Vegetable Soup
Mixed Fruit
Tofu Noodle Soup
Long Beans & Carrot
Mixed Fruitit
Aloo Tikki Burger
Mixed Beans Salad
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
Ham & Cheese Croquet
Monsieur &
Roast Potato
OR
Chicken Rice
Bean Sprouts & Carrot
Salad
Tomato & Tofu Soup
Mixed Fruit
Oriental Fried Rice
Tomato & Tofu Soup
Mixed Fru
Donut
Cream Puff
Fruit Cup