An Update from our Secondary Student Leadership Team

At the start of each academic year, a new Secondary Leadership Team is elected, whose key responsibility is to represent student voices at BIS Hanoi. The team ensures that our students have an active role in shaping improvements to the school and they work hard to capture ideas, opinions and feedback from across the Secondary student body.

We invite you to read on to hear directly from our secondary student leaders about their experiences and achievements in their first term.

Key Stage 3 (Years 7, 8, 9)

As the KS3 Heads, it was a great opportunity for us to represent students' voices. Our role was to provide a link between the student council and the KS3 tutor reps, including Years 7, 8, and 9.

During our meetings, we successfully connected the tutor reps with the Student Council, delivering and adding to ideas and suggestions from each tutor group. We learned from the experience that students had very powerful voices that were influential in this school, and we became sure that we could achieve something in this academic year.

Hyeon Chan and Seo Bin – Head of KS3

Key Stage 4 (Years 10, 11)

I’m Ngoc Linh Nguyen and it is my absolute honour to become the Head of KS4, representing Year 10. Despite the fact that it's only the beginning of the school year, being a member of the Student Council helps to reinforce my energy and mentality throughout each of our weekly meetings.

As a Year 10 representative, I found myself paying extra attention to people and what was going on in the year group, knowing that I needed to make the best use of my Student Voice. Plus, it provides you with that push and sense of responsibility that constantly encourages you to be supportive and a better person. I really appreciate the trust and opportunity that the Year 10s have offered to me in this academic year. Once again, thank you.

Ngoc Linh – Head of KS4

Sixth Form (Years 12, 13)

After a period of disconnection due to COVID-19, the Sixth Form is eager to fully embrace school life and welcome the new opportunities presented to them.

The student leadership in particular is incredibly active, constantly finding innovative ways to make Sixth Form – and by extension, the whole of Secondary – livelier and more fun. Even though there were some obstacles in the way, such as tests and academic pressures, we all collectively work together to deal with them, discuss them and overall establish good communication around the good and the bad. Next term, the leadership is looking forward to establishing connections; a crucial part of school life that COVID restricted.

Thuc Anh and Ngoc Linh – Sixth Form