The document provides information about upcoming events at the British International School - Ho Chi Minh City's Tu Xuong Primary campus, including: 1) A list of important dates in February such as an EYFS activity day, Year 5 trip, EYFS Tet celebration, Science day, and Year 3 sleepover. 2) Summaries of the recent TX Sports Day where Dalat house came first, and activities for Healthy Living Week. 3) Details on community services collections for Tet and an orphanage, the winner of the Green Certificate, and visits from EAST and ARC. 4) A reminder of dates for the February-April holiday programme and the end of Term 2

1. 5/2 EYFS Activity Day
9/2– 12/2 Year 5 Trip
12/2 EYFS Tet Celebration
13/2 Tet Assembly
16-24/1 Tet Holiday
26/2 Science Day
26/2 Year 3 Sleepover
BRITISH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL - HO CHI MINH CITY
30 JANUARY 2015 | ISSUE 19
Dates for your diary
IN THIS ISSUE
From the Head of Campus 2
TX Sports Day 3 & 4
Healthy Living Week 5
Community Services 6
BIS Buzz 7
EAST Visits TX & Language in Focus 8
ARC Visits TX & Holiday Programme 9
Finer Diners & Dates of Term 2 10
EYFS Parent - Child Activity Day 11
Lunar New Year Celebration 12 &13
February
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
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2. From the Head Teacher - Ms. Sue Hill
Dear Parents,
I hope you’ve all had a healthy week. At TX, we have been learning how to live a
healthy lifestyle. On Tuesday morning, Ms Charlie held a coffee morning for parents
and Year 6 children. The presentation contained lots of useful information about
being healthy: socially, physically and psychologically. Reminders were given about
having enough sleep so that your body can recuperate; always eating breakfast;
making good choices of carbohydrates (brown rice and whole wheat pasta rather
than cakes and crisps) and eating lots of fruit and vegetables. Having aerobic
exercise and taking up fun sports are also important to keep us feeling ready to face
the day ahead and optimise learning.
On Wednesday, all children from F3 to Year 6 travelled to AP1 for our annual TX Sports Day. Lots of fun
was had as the children took part in activities such as javelin, various track events and long jump. Well
done to everyone for taking part with such good sportsmanship and a positive attitude. I saw a great deal
of perseverance as children really tried their best to win points for their team. Congratulations to Ms
Charlie and Mr Chau for organising such a wonderful, action-packed day!
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TX Sports Day
All students from F3 to Year 6 took part in the annual TX Sports on Wednesday 28th
January. Students
participated in a range of Athletic based events that involved running, jumping and throwing. The students
performed well, striving for personal bests and points for their houses, and also enjoyed the day
immensely.
The results of the Year 3-6 sports day are as follows:
Positions achieved:
Well done to all the TX students, you all contributed greatly to the overall position of your house!
Groups Saigon Dalat Hue Hanoi
Circuit 1 125 127 117 147
Circuit 2 249 286 245 212
Circuit 3 124 174 152 127
Relays 2 4 6 8
T.O.W 8 4 2 6
Total 508 595 522 500
House Position
Dalat 1st
Hue 2nd
Saigon 3rd
Hanoi 4th

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All at the TX campus have taken part in Healthy Living Week this week. The students had the opportunity to
take part in a range of activities, ranging from breakfast club to aerobics. Students also participated in class
activities that have helped them to understand the importance of health, exercise and a balanced diet.
Ms Charlotte
Healthy living week
In Science, Year 3 children have been learning about the importance of having
a healthy, well balanced diet. We have researched all of the food groups and
found out what our bodies need each type of food for. Some of us were
shocked to find out that even fats and sugars are good for us in small
amounts. Did you know that fats are needed by the body for making new cells,
keeping our internal organs safe and storing energy?
The children have been set the challenge of keeping a food
diary at home. Once the diaries are complete, we are going
to take a closer look at them, considering whether each of our diets has the right amount of
carbohydrates, proteins, fruits and vegetables, dairy products and fats and sugars. We’ll then
be thinking about how our diets can be improved, so keep a look out for a much stronger,
healthier Year 3 over the next few months!
Ms Jess

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Toothbrush Collection
Tet Collection
A great big thank you to everybody who has contributed
to the Tet collection. This will be distributed next week to
some of the community partners who participate in the
TX clubs or year group projects: TX Centre, PdV, Ky
Quang pagoda and Binh An.
The toothbrush collection continues for one more week, so you still have time to donate to that collection.
These will then be delivered to Kom Tum orphanages on 7th
February.
Ms Heather
Green Certificate, January 2015
The Eco-Warriors monitored all classrooms several times,
even though it was a short month after the holidays. They
found that 1X had best remembered how to be green,
having scrap paper in the printer and using their recycling
bin properly.
Well done 1X.
Who will be awarded the prestigious Green Certificate next
month?
Reduce, reuse, recycle too,
The Eco-Teams are watching YOU!
Community Services

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BIS Buzz

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Ms Clover from “EAST” came in and did a presentation for our Year 5 children here at TX to help them
discover and develop an understanding of Animal related issues as part of their community project.
The Endangered Asian Species Trust is a partner charity with Monkey World in the UK. They are based
on Dau Tien Island in Cat Tien National Park approximately 4 hours drive north of HCMC.
Ms Clover gave an enlightening presentation to the children, talking about the illegal pet trade and the
plight of the monkeys and apes here in southern Vietnam. Explaining how numbers of wild primates are
getting fewer and fewer and how EAST are focused on the rescue, rehabilitation and release of
endangered species back into the wild. Also advising how important it is to educate everyone to teach
them that these wonderful intelligent creatures are wild animals that are happy swinging in the trees and
not domesticated pets to be kept in cages.
An interesting fact that Ms Clover told the children was how to tell the difference between a Monkey and
an Ape, would you know the difference?
The easiest and quickest way to tell them apart is that Apes don’t have tails.
Mr Kevin Halpin
Community Service Officer
EAST visits TX
Hello! 안녕하세요!
It’s been really busy week with Healthy Living and Sports Day, but we’ve all
been busy learning some Korean words. In assembly this Friday the House
Captains and some teachers had the opportunity to show their knowledge of
Korean words and, as it was Healthy Living Week, they also had to perform
some physical challenges. The winners were Hanoi!
We would also like to say a big thank you to our Korean
students, who took the lead in introducing their language to us.
Don’t forget that Korean is our Language in Focus for the
whole term, so keep practising!
Mr James hoola-hooping his way to victory for Hanoi!
THE EAL DEPARTMENT
Language in Focus

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On Tuesday we had special guests come to visit some of our EYFS children. We had a
small presentation telling us all about “Ricky” the dog we have adopted, he couldn’t visit
himself as he’s still very nervous after being rescued. For the children that wanted to
meet the other dogs, they were showed how to let the dogs sniff them before gently
stroking the dogs. I don’t know who behaved best, the children or the dogs? I think
everyone was awesome.
A cheque was then presented and everyone at “ARC” wanted to say a big thank you to
all the parents involved in the bake sale that raised the funds for our community partner.
All proceeds will go towards adopting “Ricky” who was rescued from an animal hoarder who had 40 dogs, 30
cats and 2 caged monkeys all kept in terrible conditions, he will now be well looked after until someone can
be found to give him his forever home.
Future dates have been set for “ARC” volunteers, a Veterinarian and of course more of our canine friends to
visit all of the TX EYFS classes to teach them compassion towards animals and help create a better future
for the progress of animal welfare.
Mr Kevin Halpin
Community Service Officer
Date Sport Time
Head
Coach
Minimum
No. Of
Students Age
Prices (all in
VND) Location
20/4-24/4 Football
8 am- 11
am
SSA Min 8
Year 3
upwards
2,200,000 Big field
20/4-24/4 Basketball 1pm-4pm SSA Min 8
Year 3
upwards
2,200,000
AP2 Sports
hall
20/4-24/4 Swimming
8.45am -
1.45pm
Mr Vinh Min 8 F2 upwards
Various prices
(see letter)
AP1 Swim-
ming Pool
20/4-24/4
T-ball/
Softball
4pm -
5.30pm
Mr Richard Min 8
Year 3
upwards
660,000 VND Big Field
20/4-24/4 Multisports
8.15am -
9.15am
Mr Richard Min 8 F3 - Y2 440,000 VND
AP1 Sports
Hall
20/4-24/4 Multisports
9.45am -
10.45am
Mr Richard Min 8 F1 - F2 440,000 VND
AP1 Sports
Hall
27/4-1/5 Football
8 am- 11
am
SSA Min 8
Year 3
upwards
2,200,000 Big field
27/4-1/5 Basketball 1pm-4pm SSA Min 8
Year 3
upwards
2,200,000
AP2 Sports
hall
ARC Visits TX
Holiday Programmes

10. Dates of Term 2
Date Year Group/s Event
5/2 EYFS Activity Day
9/2—12/2 Y5 Residential Trip to Hoi An
12/2 EYFS Tet Celebration
13/2 Y1—Y6 Tet Assembly
16/2—24/2 All Tet Holiday
26/2 All Science Day
26/2 Y3 Sleepover
9/3—11/3 Y4 Residential Trip to Long Hai
19/3 All Parents’ Evening
1/4 Y3-6 Spring Concert (evening)
5/4 All Term 2 Clubs Finish
8/4 MP2 Speech Competition
14/4 MP3 Production—’Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ (evening)
17/4 All Term 2 finishes @ 11.30am
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Finer Diners
Congratulations to Kevin, Abinav, Aryavardhan, Minh Anh and Mina for becoming this week’s finer diners!
Ms Emma and Ms Guv were the special guests this week.

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EYFS Parent-Child Activity Day

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Lunar New Year Celebration

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Lunar New Year Celebration