EMASI Van Phuc Bilingual International School 4 September 2020 Overview

Even though this was a shortened week due to the National Holiday on Wednesday, it was a very full week at EMASI Van Phuc. Monday we commenced our extra-curricular activities for all students. We also, began preparation for our upcoming Opening Ceremony which will take place at the start of this coming week.

Extra curricular activities have begun this week with the aim of developing personal excellence in addition to the academic excellence taught in classroom learning. Parents are asked to remind and support students to bring their appropriate clothes for the different activities.

Students develop their football skills under the guidance of Mr. James.

Rock climbing is currently offered daily and is a great way for students to develop confidence and courage in a safe and controlled environment.

Students stretching before dance class.

Elementary Students

In Nature and Society, grade 1 students now have been able to talk about their house through a picture that their parents took and sent to the teacher. They discussed in groups, roleplayed as journalists to find out about their classmates’ interests. Grade 2 students explored about the human body through a video called “Muscles for Kids – A fun intro to the muscular system for kids”. Grade 3 students utilized their lesson of Reading clocks to make their own schedule for a day at school. At the same time, they made a poster to tell stories, making use of their ability to draw clocks chronologically for the activities within a day. Students in grades 4 and 5 developed a habit of reading and taking notes of their thoughts into their reading diary.

Talented students from 3A play a tune collaboratively under the guidance of Ms. Zoe.

Our younger elementary students continue to learn and follow classroom and school routines extremely well. Grade 1 students continue to practice writing in English and teachers report seeing a massive improvement. Students have also participated in a range of activities in other subjects, such as playing drums in music class, playing bench ball in PE class, and learning how to navigate and type their name using a keyboard in ICT class.

Meanwhile, older elementary students have broadened their horizons by studying other countries and they are beginning to recognize and celebrate their differences and similarities. The students also used their Mathematics, art, and English skills to design posters representing Vietnam's biggest cities in their Mathematics class.

Middle School

This week, our secondary students have remembered to bring their student cards to school and to be punctual to classes. Also, when participating the ECAs, they have been briefed about certain regulations of each activity. We really hope that all students will have their best preparation for the next week to have even more exciting experience during the ECAs

Middle School students are now using their own devices to research topics in English while seventh grade students writing biographies in English class, and research extreme environments in science class. The students are focusing on using Excel in ICT, and also playing basketball in PE class. In music class, the students are studying the use of music in all media including television, and are preparing to soon learn how to record audio.



Grades 9 to 11 EAL students have completed their first week with the Perspectives books, becoming familiar with the style of content and how they will balance their weekly workload between theoretical and practical tasks. They created accounts in their online study apps, and finalized the early stages of building a class web site. Each “department” in the class is responsible for different aspects of our first major project that involves research, critical thinking, speaking, writing and use of multimedia in a professional manner, and these departments are already working well together.

Physical Education Guidance

Question: Why do we want kids to learn swimming? Why is it important? And why do they need to wear googles?

Swimming is a LIFE SKILL that we teach at EMASI. Learning to swim is helpful to kids to gain water confidence and water safety. Swimming is important not only to reduce the risk of drowning for children, but it also provides health benefits such as keeping the heart and lungs healthy and improving the child's body strength and increasing the stamina.

Wearing goggles during swimming will help kids feel comfortable and increase their confidence as they learn to put their face in the water and will lessen the chance of getting sore eyes. Goggles also help students to open their eyes under the water allowing them to see around them.

Until Next Time!