UNIS Hanoi’s Weekly Community Newsletter Volume 21, Edition 17, Friday 12 December

tintuc@unishanoi.org

Notes from the Head of School and the

Board of Directors (p.2-3)

Notes from the Admissions Office (p.3)

Notes from the Middle High School

Principal (p.4)

The Hour of Code.

Photo Specials (p.4-5)

The Scholarship Fund (p.6-8)

Message from the Library (p.9)

Walk-a-thon Thank You (p.9)

Festive Fundraiser 2014. Photo

Specials. (p.10-11)

Tet Bag Appeal Field Trip (p.12)

PE Winter Wear (p.13)

UNIS Aquathlon 2015. Save the

date!. (p.13)

Real Madrid is coming back. Mark

your calendar. (p.14)

Operation Smile Mission (p.15)

Spring Fair 2015 (p.16)

School Health Centre (p.17)

Job Opportunities (p.18)

NEXT WEEK SATURDAY, 13 DECEMBER - 4 JANUARY

Winter Break. No school for students, offices open

ALL OFFICES ARE CLOSED from 22-26 Dec to 1st Jan

COMING SOON SATURDAY, 20 DECEMBER Alumni Reunion in Hanoi, 18:00-20:00, 6 Degrees - 189

Nghi Tam, Tay Ho

SATURDAY, 3 JANUARY Alumni Reunion in Melbourne, 18:00-20:00, World

Restaurant and Bar (Shop 4, Building 2 Riverside Quay, Southbank, Melbourne

COMING SOON MONDAY, 5 JANUARY Scholarships Fundraising Campaign Starts

THURSDAY, 8 JANUARY Scholarship Champions Orientation, 8:15-9:15,

Community Room Scholarship Champions Orientation (in Vietnamese),

18:00-19:00, Community Room

FRIDAY, 9 JANUARY Withdrawal Notification Deadline for Refund Varsity Boys' Basketball vs VAS @ UNIS, 16:00-17:30

SATURDAY, 10 JANUARY Alumni Reunion in Bangkok, 15:00-17:00, Royal Orchid

Sheraton Hotel, 2 Charoen Krung Road Soi 30, Bang Rak, Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500, Thailand

IN THIS WEEK’S TIN TUC - The Highlights...

It is with great pleasure that I announce the

hiring of our new ES Principal for the 2015

-2016 school year. Megan Brazil has

accepted this position and we believe she

will continue the good work of Carole and

the ES team into the future.

It was extremely to gratifying to receive 57

applications for this position from around the world. 40 of

these applications were from candidates with principal

experience. I would like to thank the ES Principal Search

Advisory Task Force Members for their assistance in this

process. They were Melanie Taylor, Theresa Ulett, Michelle

Mathias, Beth Murray and Ed Gilbreath from the

faculty. Joining us were Paulina Pineda, Iftekar Ahmed and

Lori Fairbairn from the parent community. I would also

like to thank those who attended one or more of the

interview sessions and completed a feedback form. This

input was duly considered and important in the overall

decision making process. Megan's details are beside.

I would like to extend to everyone happy holidays, safe

travels, and I look forward to seeing you in the new

calendar year.

Respectfully,

Dr. Chip Barder, hos@unishanoi.org

Megan is currently a key member of

the Senior Leadership Team at

GEMS World Academy Dubai

UAE, where she has spent the last 7

years in a range of impressively

growing educational leadership roles

- PYP Coordinator, ES Assistant

Principal, ES Principal, and now Assistant Head of School.

She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Postgraduate

certificate in International Education, and a Master in

Education. Megan is also known for her PYP workshop

leader role, being responsible for delivering workshops to

PYP teachers within the Africa, Europe and Middle East

regions. Since the first adventure to England to

experience the life of international educators 12 years ago,

Megan and her family have still been very much passionate

about being global citizens. She brings to us a 19 years of

experience in teaching, school administration, staff

professional development and curriculum management,

built up and enriched from IB world schools in Colombia,

India and UAE.

UNIS-Hanoi is a school she has long held in high regard

due to its commitment to ideals of the United Nations and

the important role of international education in fulfilling

that mission. For her, it is truly an honour and privilege to

serve in a community with such an important undertaking.

Megan is from Australia, and will be accompanied by her

husband Scott and their 2 children, Isabella aged 9 and

Maliah aged 5.

Today we sent home the Annual Report 2013-2014 with

the youngest child of each family, so be sure to remind

them to give you this wonderful record of our School’s

progess and results.

You can also enjoy the Annual Report on our website.

The one-page calendar for the next school year is now

published and available for you on the website or by

clicking on this link.

We hope that this will help with your planning during this

holiday season!

Today, I sent a letter to all parents informing them of the

approval of the budget and tuition for the next school year

(2015-2016). Please click HERE to read the letter.

I would like to wish all members of our UNIS Hanoi

community a happy and restful holiday. To those of you

who are moving on from Hanoi, I wish you good health

and success in the future. I look forward to seeing everyone

else back here in January.

On behalf of the Board, I wish to thank and acknowledge

the many years of volunteer service both Ms. Sarah Garner

and Ms. Lotte Brondum brought to the Board of Directors.

Sarah has resigned after six and one half years of service to

the Board. Since 2010, Sarah served as Board Chair. Joining

the Board as a parent elected member, she served as Vice

Chair from 2008-2010. Sarah also chaired the Committee

on Directors 2010-2011 and the Governance Committee

from 2008-2010, and served on the Strategy Task Force

(2009-10), Advancement Task Force (2009-10), and School

Legal Task Force (2008-2010). The Board is currently in

the process of searching for a new Board appointed

candidate to complete her four year term.

Lotte is resigning after four and one half years of service to

the Board. Lotte was a member of the Committee on

Directors in 2010-2011 and she chaired the same

committee in 2011-2012 and in 2012-2013. Lotte also

provided support to the Executive Committee on matters

of governance. The United Nations Resident Coordinator,

Dr. Pratibha Mehta, is in the process of reviewing a UN

appointment to the Board.

We commend Sarah and Lotte for their talents, dedication,

commitment and constant willingness to learn, and we wish

them all of the best in the future.

Best regards,

Ms Nandini Oomman, Acting Board Chair

If your family intends to leave UNIS Hanoi, please submit an Admissions Withdrawal Form.

The last day of the first semester is Friday 16th January.

Upon confirmation of your departure, we shall guide your family

through the withdrawal process.

All school offices shall be closed for winter break from 22nd-26th December and 1st January, inclusive.

If you require any further assistance, please email admissions@unishanoi.org

or contact Admissions staff on 37581551 extension 8217 / 8220 / 8732.

Dear MSHS Families,

As we head toward Winter Break there is a

heightened sense of excitement on campus.

It is hard to believe the school year is

almost halfway over…..it seems like

opening day was just a few days ago! Time

sure flies in a busy and productive school!

UNIS Hanoi is a vibrant and busy school where we

sometimes get caught up in the whirlwind of academics and

activities, but as we approach a festive Holiday season I do

hope we can all find time to reflect and count our blessings.

Educating the whole child includes a balance between a

rigorous academic program, active involvement in a variety

of activities and building strong relationships with family

and friends.

I would like to thank Mathematics teacher Sam Trebesch

for spearheading our MSHS “Hour of Code” activity.

Paradoxically, over the past decade technology usage has

increased exponentially but the ability to write code

(programme computers) has become somewhat of a lost

art. Ms. Trebesch saw an opportunity for all MSHS

students (and many teachers) to participate in a coding

experience sponsored by Code.org. During the Hour of

Code UNIS Hanoi joined students from around the world

in an experience designed to build basic coding techniques.

Within the curriculum at UNIS Hanoi we do teach aspects

of programming and we do have many “coders” but we

also have students who shy away from this form of

expression. To assist with the activity our student coders

joined faculty members and happily served as facilitators

for less experienced students and teaches. Overall our

Hour of Code was extremely successful! For more

information please visit: Hour of Code

In closing I would like to wish our entire UNIS Hanoi

community a joyful and restful Holiday Season. I would

also like to wish the families who are leaving UNIS Hanoi

the best of luck in the future. Separate MS and HS

assemblies will honor our “leavers” but it is also important

to wish parents and families a fond bon voyage as well!

Cheers and Happy Holidays,

Pete Kennedy, mshsprincipal@unishanoi.org

MSHS Hour of Code (Photo: Tim Barnsley)

Hour of Code (Photo: Tim Barnsley & Thao Nguyen)

"Creating opportunities to transform futures"

The UNIS Hanoi Scholarship Programme was launched to

celebrate the School's 25th Birthday.

Our Scholars describe their experience at UNIS Hanoi as

the turning point in their lives or the shattering of a shell to

release their potential. We want to create more

opportunities to transform more futures.

Our goal is to raise $2.5 Million USD over the next five

years to create three new Scholarships in perpetuity.

Six week campaign – Between Winter Break to Tet

Break

Every family in our community will receive a personal

invitation to make a gift with clear payment options

All faculty and staff will be invited to participate and

make a gift

Every alumni family will be invited to participate and

make a gift

Gifts can be split into multiple payments

Families can pledge their gifts for 1-5 years

More than one gift can be made

Families or individuals may choose to donate

anonymously

NO GIFT IS TOO SMALL! This campaign is about

achieving our goal TOGETHER at all levels of gifts

from $1 to $+10,000.

(Watch the film - click above)

Our Annual Campaign for The Scholarship Fund is about

what we can achieve when we all work together as a

community.

We hope that every family will make a contribution.

We hope that every teacher and staff member will

make a gift.

We hope that all our alumni families will join us and make a

donation.

Our goal is to have 100% of our families, faculty, staff and

alumni make a gift to The Scholarship Fund.

We hope to receive a range of gifts from 1 USD to

+10,000 USD and every gift will help us achieve our goal

together. Each family, each individual member of our

community can make a difference.

We can reach our first annual goal, If EVERY family made

a gift of 105 USD!

Imagine what we can achieve together! The Annual

Campaign is about a community sharing a vision and

everyone making their own contribution, at their own level,

to achieve that goal.

Only you can decide what is the right level gift for you.

We welcome gifts from companies and we will be

developing a special recognition package.

We will be actively seeking investment from companies as

we build our campaign over the next five years.

Please contact our Director of Advancement, Emma

Silva , if you would like to make a connection to The

Scholarship Fund for a corporate donation.

Our primary goal is to mobilize our own direct UNIS

Hanoi community.

However, we also accept gifts from those outside of our

School community who are inspired by the vision of our

Scholarship Programme and who want to contribute as a

Friend of the School.

We celebrate all gifts to The Scholarship Fund as

philanthropic acts of generosity.

Find out more on The Scholarship Fund website:

www.unishanoi.org/scholarshipfund

Chương trình Học bổng UNIS Hanoi ra đời nhân dịp kỉ

niệm 25 năm thành lập trường.

Những học sinh nhận học bổng của chương trình chia sẻ

rằng trải nghiệm của các em tại UNIS Hanoi là bước ngoặt

cuộc đời, hay giống như việc phá bỏ cái vỏ bọc để giải

phóng những tiềm năng của mình.

Chúng tôi muốn tạo thêm nhiều cơ hội thay đổi tương lai.

Mục tiêu của chúng tôi là gây quỹ 2,5 triệu USD trong

vòng 05 năm tới để tạo ra 03 suất học bổng mới vĩnh

viễn.

Chiến dịch gây quỹ trong 06 tuần – sau kì nghỉ đông đến

trước Tết

Mỗi gia đình sẽ nhận được thư mời đích danh về việc

đóng góp kèm lựa chọn phương thức thanh toán

Toàn bộ giáo viên và nhân viên sẽ được mời tham gia và

đóng góp

Các cựu gia đình cũng sẽ được mời tham gia vào chiến dịch

www.unishanoi.org/scholarshipfund

Quà tặng có thể chia thành nhiều lần

Các gia đình có thể làm cam kết đóng góp trong 1 – 5 năm

Mỗi người có thể tặng nhiều hơn một lần quà

Gia đình hoặc các nhân có thể chọn cách đóng góp không

ghi danh

KHÔNG CÓ MÓN QUÀ NÀO LÀ QUÁ NHỎ! Điều

quan trọng của chiến dịch này là nhằm CÙNG NHAU

đạt được mục tiêu bất kể đóng góp là 1 USD hay +10.000

USD

(Nhấp chuột ở trên để xem phim)

AI CÓ THỂ ĐÓNG GÓP? BẤT KÌ AI CŨNG CÓ THỂ ĐÓNG GÓP!

Chiến dịch thường niên của chúng tôi cho The Scholarship

Fund (Quỹ Học bổng) chú trọng việc cả cộng đồng cùng

hợp sức để đạt mục tiêu.

Chúng tôi hi vọng mỗi gia đình đều tham gia đóng góp

Chúng tôi hi vọng mỗi giáo viên và nhân viên sẽ tham

gia đóng góp.

Chúng tôi hi vọng các cựu gia đình sẽ tham gia và đóng

góp.

Mục tiêu của chúng tôi là 100% các gia đình, giáo viên,

nhân viên, cựu thành viên đều tham gia The Scholarship

Fund

KHÔNG MÓN QUÀ NÀO LÀ QUÁ NHỎ!

Chúng tôi hi vọng sẽ nhận được những món quà đóng góp

trong khoảng từ 1 USD đến trên 10.000 USD và mỗi

món quà đóng góp sẽ giúp chúng ta cùng nhau đạt mục

tiêu. Mỗi gia đình, cá nhân trong cộng đồng đều có thể tạo

nên điều khác biệt.

Chúng ta có thể đạt mục tiêu của năm gây quỹ thường niên

đầu tiên nếu tất cả gia đình đều tham gia và MỖI gia đình

đóng góp 105 USD!

Hãy tưởng tượng những gì mà chúng ta có thể cùng

nhau đạt được! Chiến dịch gây quỹ thường niên nhấn

mạnh về việc cả cộng đồng cùng chia sẻ một tầm nhìn

chung và mỗi người đều tham gia vào hành trình đóng góp

theo khả năng của mình, để đạt được mục tiêu chung.

Chỉ có bạn mới tự quyết định được mức đóng góp nào

là phù hợp với mình.

QUÀ ĐÓNG GÓP TỪ DOANH NGHIỆP

Chúng tôi hoan nghênh những món quà đóng góp từ các

công ty và sẽ có gói thông tin vinh danh riêng cho nhóm

này.

Chúng tôi tích cực tìm kiếm các mối quan tâm đầu tư từ

các công ty trong quá trình xây dựng chiến dịch gây quỹ

trong 5 năm tới.

Vui lòng liên hệ Giám đốc Phát triển, Emma Silva

nếu bạn có thể làm cầu nối cho việc đóng góp tài trợ từ

doanh nghiệp với The Scholarship Fund (Quỹ Học bổng)

CÁC MÓN QUÀ ĐÓNG GÓP TỪ NHỮNG CÁ

NHÂN KHÔNG PHẢI LÀ PHỤ HUYNH, HỌC

SINH, CỰU THÀNH VIÊN HAY NHÂN VIÊN

UNIS HANOI THÌ SAO?

Mục tiêu hàng đầu của chúng tôi là khuyến khích và tạo sự

quan tâm từ cộng đồng trực tiếp - UNIS Hanoi.

Tuy nhiên, chúng tôi cũng sẽ hoanh nghênh những món

quà đóng góp từ những tổ chức cá nhân ngoài cộng đồng

trường – những người đồng cảm với tầm nhìn của Chương

trình Học bổng và từ đó muốn được đóng góp với tư cách

là một Người bạn của cộng đồng trường.

Chúng tôi trân trọng tất cả đóng góp cho The Scholarship

Fund (Quỹ Học bổng) như là nghĩa cử từ thiện hào phóng.

CÂU HỎI? Vui lòng xem ở mục The Scholarship Fund trên website:

www.unishanoi.org/scholarshipfund

“Tạo cơ hội để thay đổi tương lai” www.unishanoi.org/scholarshipfund

A gentle reminder to NOT take UNIS Hanoi Library books

with you!

Our precious Library books travel enough going to and from our

UNIS Hanoi families’ homes.... they prefer to remain here in Hanoi .

Happy holidays!

Julie Conroy, ES Librarian eslibrarian@unishanoi.org

We would like to send a big thank you to you all, UNIS

Hanoi students, parents and teachers for your generous

sponsoring of, and donations to, our Blue Dragon Walk-A-

Thon.

On November 6th, 2014, despite the drizzling weather, all

the students and teachers from Discovery to Grade 5 had

so much fun and participated with so much energy in our

Walk-A-Thon. We have raised 13,000 USD in order to

support the Blue Dragon organization in their work to help

Vietnamese street children to go to school.

With many amazing performances from K1- Grade 12 and

opportunities to support our Community Service Learning

programmes, the Festive Fundraiser ‘Stars and Light’ was a

fantastic celebration to start of this winter holiday season.

The change in organization allowed the community

performances to be enjoyed in a variety of locations. The

UMA Jazz band and Dr Barder provided the outside

entertainment as people enjoyed the twinkling lights and

visiting the various festive goods organized by MSHS

students to support their community action projects.

Popcorn, hot chocolate and sausage sizzle stalls satisfied

hungry stomachs. Kindergarten and Grade 1 opened the

evening with songs in the Centre for the Arts Foyer. The

performances continued with the ES, MS and APAC choirs

performing in the theatre followed by more instrumental

performances in the foyer to close the evening.

Your kind donations (VND 24,196,000) and money raised

from the popcorn and hot chocolate sales (VND

8,905,000) are used to purchase instruments to promote

music education in local Vietnamese Kindergarten schools.

Last year the school identified the 20/10 Kindergarten as

being the lucky recipient of the instruments. The ES

Beginner Band and Singers United Choirs visited the

school to interview teachers and conduct research into the

needs of the school. Having identified useful instruments,

these were purchased and delivered by these ES students

who also performed for the school. The Music teacher

from 20/10 has received professional development this year

in music education through spending time with our ECC

music teacher as part of the extended ECERP (Early

Childhood Educational Renovation Programme). Their

students have had fun learning and using these instruments

this year.

Students from the 20/10 Kindergarten attended our Festive

Fundraiser night and performed, "Chú ếch con", a song

loved by Vietnamese children of many generations. They

were proud to be a part of this wonderful night supporting

Vietnamese community.

Thank you to all the performers and people who made this

wonderful event possible and to your support for our

community projects.

Congratulations to the students for their sparkling

performances at this year’s Festive Fundraiser. In Music

lessons leading up to the event, the children were eager and

excited to perform. They worked diligently to learn all of

the songs and corresponding actions. In the performance,

they were confident and they performed beautifully. Thank

you to all of the students, teachers and parents for their

hard work and continued support of our Music programme.

Festive Fundraiser (Photo: Tim Barnsley & Linh Quach)

Festive Fundraiser (Photo: Tim Barnsley & Linh Quach)

On Monday December 8, as part of the ES Service

Learning programme, the ASA ‘Tet Bag Appeal’ group had

a fieldtrip to the Red River Area where the students met

with members of the Red River Community. This gave

them a great chance to enhance their understanding of

Service Learning. It was a very interesting trip for the

students and a good opportunity for the students to initiate

their own Service Learning Action towards the community.

The focus of ‘The Tet Bag Appeal’ is to provide families in

the Red River Community with a greater means to

celebrate Tet. Prior to the field trip, the students worked in

small groups to prepare questions and when they got there,

they interviewed some local people to find out what the

people want for their Tet celebration. The students

employed excellent communication and cooperation skills

when they asked the questions in English with some of the

students then translating these questions into Vietnamese.

Now that we have visited the Red River Community, the

students will start their ‘Tet Bag Appeal’ campaign to call

for the UNIS Hanoi community to donate to their “Tet

Bag Appeal” activity. Stay tuned for more updates and

information on how you can help.

With the weather getting cooler and

everyone dressing warmer we are starting

to see a lot of students coming to PE

lessons in incorrect uniform. As it states in

the elementary handbook, students are

required to wear a UNIS Hanoi-related

shirt and shorts to PE lessons. In winter,

students can also wear a UNIS Hanoi tracksuit top and

bottoms.

We are seeing a lot of jeans and woolen dresses which are

not only inappropriate for activity but also hold sweat and

are therefore unhygienic and can increase chances of being

sick when returning outside. Some students are also

wearing long sleeve tops underneath their PE shirt, which

has the same effect. As our lessons are in the climate-

controlled sports centre, students can wear alternative

warm clothing over the top of their PE uniform and then

remove it when they get to lessons.

Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation.

Mr Mac and the PE team

The UNIS Hanoi Aquathlon

2015 will take place

on Saturday, February

28th and all are invited to

take part in this event! With

more than two months left to get ready, you and your

family have an exciting opportunity to share in some fun

and fitness together!

The Aquathlon preparation season has already started as

part of the ASA 2 winter session, and many of our fine

students have already begun to train for this unique

activity.

The sport of aquathlon consists of a continuous, two-stage

race involving swimming followed by running. Families,

students teams and individual participants are welcome to

take part, and to choose from different race categories –

Individual participants, Students Teams and Family Teams.

We offer a shorter, Junior, version of the race for younger

elementary students and their parents, as well as a more

challenging race for older students and their parents.

Information about the UNIS Hanoi Aquathlon 2015 can be

found HERE. Registration will begin straight after winter

break on January 5th and continue until the 150th

registrant.

This year every participant will receive a bag specially

designed for the event.

Thanks to the SCO's support and funding, new touchpads

for the pool were purchased and tried out last Saturday.

High School Varsity swimmers were the first ones to try

out new touchpads in action during their APAC

team tryouts. Many thanks to the SCO, Aquatics and

Operations teams, as well to parents for your generous

support!

Get a chance to train with the Real Madrid

Coaches from the world famous Real

Madrid Football Club, here at UNIS Hanoi

during our Real Madrid Football Clinic

Hanoi May 2015.

The Real Madrid coaches, who would be

assisted by a team of specially selected

assistant coaches, will be leading and conducting the 5 days

training clinic in Hanoi. The Real Madrid coaches are the

same coaches who work with their own Real Madrid youth

team in Spain. The coaching methods and training regime

will be based on the current programs in Real Madrid

current youth development program.

The clinic’s training is designed around the philosophies of

one of the world’s greatest football teams Real Madrid CF.

The youth training programme uses the same training

techniques that are taught at their famous 'La Fábrica' in

the Ciudad Real Madrid. Clinic participants will have the

unique opportunity of being coached and trained in

methods used by not only players like Cristiano Ronaldo,

Gareth Bale, James Rodriguez and Sergio Ramos, but many

of the world’s top football stars.

These are the very same training methods that Real Madrid

uses in their unsurpassed feat of the La Decima ! 10 times

champions of Europe!

And also as part of our social responsibility and

commitment to giving back to our local community, we will

be working together with UNIS Hanoi and Crowne Plaza

West Hotel to sponsor and offer the same opportunity to a

group of 20 to 30 disadvantaged Vietnamese children.

What: Real Madrid Football Clinic, Hanoi May 2015

Who: Designed for children age 8 to 16 years of age

When: 4th May 2015 to 8th May 2015 (Daily sessions

from Mon to Fri) 1630H to 1800H

Where: UNIS Hanoi Soccer fields

Price: VND 8,400,000 per participant (includes an official

Real Madrid clinic training shirt & shorts)

Please go to www.frmhanoi.com to register. Places are

limited and will be on a first-come-first-served basis.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us

at info.frmvn@gmail.com

Tarique AL-Iesa, Director of Activities da@unishanoi.org

From Sunday the 16th of November to the 19th of

November, 3 students from our Operation Smile Service

Learning group - Tobias, Seung Yoo, and Nozima - went

on a Service trip to help out at the 2014 Operation Smile

International Mission in Vinh City, Nghe An Province,

Vietnam. It was an amazing experience. About 100 people,

from different parts of the world, volunteered to be in Vinh

to support children having surgery on cleft lips and cleft

palates. Having a cleft lip or palate is basically just being

born with a gap in either your lip or your palate, and

sometimes people are born with both a cleft lip and palate.

It was a great experience to get to support this mission, so

that we could see for ourselves what our Service group is

working to improve. It really worked as a motivational

factor to be able to see that the things we are doing actually

help people, and also to get to see how much it meant for

the people who received treatment for their cleft lips and

palates.

Of course, we could not perform any of the operations, but

we got to help out with organizational things such as:

helping the patients around the hospital, organizing their

surgery records, and also playing with the kids before their

operations. It was a lot of fun. We also got to meet a great

group of like-minded students who had also volunteered to

help, so it was easy to connect with them making the trip

even more memorable.

The trip was so much fun, and it is definitely something all

3 of us would recommend other students to participate in.

Seeing the kids who were going through something that

would change their life forever was amazing and we

wouldn't hesitate - given the chance - to do it all again.

Tobias Henaes, Seung Yoo Yang and Nozima

Burkhanova

The UNIS Spring Fair is the largest event organized by the

School Community Organization. It’s about the UNIS

community getting together with our kids and having fun

while sharing our cultures.

The Spring Fair is completely organized by the hard work

of our committed volunteers. We are looking for ALL

countries in the UNIS Community to be represented. The

key ingredients for a successful Spring Fair are a positive

attitude, willingness to get involved, some time and your

passion to make this day inspirational. You will feel proud

to be part of an event that bonds the community together

and creates our special blend of UNIS Culture.

Currently, we are looking for people to help coordinate

in these areas: Commercial stalls, Gates, Ticketing

and Vouchers. If you are interested in helping, please

contact Spring Fair Coordinator - Claudia Marinzi at

springfair@unishanoi.org

Country Table Representatives: Get together with

families from your country/world region and organize a

booth to celebrate the cultural diversity at UNIS. This is the

soul of the event and it would be wonderful to have all

community groups represented. Please contact the Country

Tables Coordinator – Natascha Senftleben at

sco_esvice@unishanoi.org for more information on how to

organize a Country Table.

Commercial Stalls: Do you have a Family-Owned Small

Business? If so, would you be interested in having a

Commercial Stall at the Spring Fair? Commercial stalls are

available for hire to anyone in the UNIS Hanoi Community

(parents, faculty, staff or students). To reserve a space email

Claudia Marinzi at springfair@unishanoi.org

PLEASE ALSO COME TO THE ALL PARENT

MEETING ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 13 from 8.30 –

10.30 in the Community Room

WE NEED YOU ALL to make this another

memorable event for our community!!!

Applications for the UNIS Hanoi Scholarship

programme 2015-2016 are open until 31 December

Full eligibility criteria, the timeline for the selection

process and application documents are available on

UNIS Hanoi website in both ENGLISH and

VIETNAMESE.

A n y f u r t h e r q u e s t i o n s , e m a i l t o

scholarships@unishanoi.org

UNIS Hanoi is inviting applications for a Short-term

ES Music Teacher . The contract is 3 months' teacher

contract with 90% employment percentage. Starting date is

to be confirmed (tentatively during mid-late Jan 2015).

The closing date for application is 7th January 2015, and

interviews are scheduled on 12th-13th January.

To view more information about this opening and

other job opportunities at UNIS Hanoi, and to apply

online, please visit our website

at www.unishanoi.org/jobs

And to start the holiday, please enjoy the first in our new series of films,

created to celebrate our unique community and the values that we all share.

2015 promises to be a wonderful new year and I look forward to seeing all

of you in January!

Dr Chip Barder, Head of School