Welcome Back BBQ Party

AIS Moon Festival 2019

In Vietnam, the Moon Festival is the most important celebration of children, it is also a great opportunity for the family to spend time together. This year at AIS, we celebrated the event traditionally by carrying lanterns, playing drums, [...]

Year 11 Vietnamese Movie Trip

On 9 September 2016, Year 11 Vietnamese Language and Literature classes made their very first field trip of the academic year to BHD Cinema at Vincom Thao Dien.  The aim of the trip was to compare and contrast the [...]

Swimming

First semester is done and dusted for the AIS Titans Swimming Squad with a couple of local SISAC swimming, carnivals, as well as Hanoi and Cambodia invitational swim meets! These carnivals provided the usual mix of great races, loads [...]

The Animal Rooms at Thu Thiem Campus

The Animal Rooms are up and running for their second year.  During the first week of school, the animals Bonnie the bunny, Mango the royal python and the two corn snakes, returned home from their holidays.  We also have [...]

A magical summer program at AIS

We had our final assembly to mark the end of the Summer Programme today. What a fabulous event it was!  Our students gave brilliant performances. There were several dance routines, singing, music and a well acted game-show. The performances reflected the learnings [...]

Summer Programe Activities at Xi Kindergarten

AIS student, Dao Mai Chi receives World Scholars’ Cup 2016

Congratulations to our Year 8 student, DAO Mai Chi, for winning the Top 5% Individual Challenge, 1st Place Top Challenge Teams, 1st Place Scholar’s Bowl, 1stPlace School Top Scholar and many 1st place in other categories of the World Scholars’ Cup Ho [...]

AIS students achieve top marks in IGCSE examinations

AIS student Van Duy Bao (16) has a dream of studying engineering at one of the top universities in the USA. It is this dream of “aiming high” and a love of learning which has motivated this polite and well-spoken [...]

PYP Parent Workshop

Over 40 primary school parents attended the PYP Workshops this week at our Thu Thiem and Thao Dien campuses. The workshops discussed ‘Teaching for conceptual understanding,’ and challenged the concept used in many schools that teaching and learning is [...]

The Benefits of Music Education

I wrote about the importance of physical activity, including Physical Education and sport at AIS. Another important pillar of the AIS curriculum is the Performing Arts, and in particular music. Most people appreciate that music contributes to students’ development [...]