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Today, 4th of March, activities of “World Book Day 2021” is happening in UK, Ireland and Wales. At this special occasion, kids in these countries are given discount coupon to buy books, which encourages them to read and share the reading hobby to each other. In Vietnam, reading habit is not very popular in society. According to the statistical data from 2017 to 2019 of Vietnam Department of Publication, on average, each Vietnamese only reads 1 book per year. This figure is not worth good values that books bring to us: According to researchers of University of Sussex, with just 6 minutes reading per day, we can reduce 68% of stress. While reading books, we only focus on useful knowledge. The stressful issues will be temporarily forgotten so that we can replenish positive energy. Researches have shown that reading help brain improve memory. While reading, we need to see through and remember chain of data, plot or important information. It creates remembering habit for readers. The more we read, the better our memory improves. Reading book is a healthy entertainment activity which brings to us many benefits. However, Parents and students shall notice these advices when reading books: – Choose good books which are suitable for students’ ages and thinking skills. – Safe distances for reading books are 30 – 45 cm (adults) and 20 – 25 cm (kids). – Read books at comfortable and good lighting places. Hereunder are meaningful and appropriate books for ages and thinking skills of kids: 1. Sans famille (Without Family) – Hector Malot 2. Coure – Edomondo De Amicis 3. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle 4. Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window – Tetsuko Kuroyanagi 5. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carrol 6. Charlie và the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

  Parents always seem to want their children to get high scores, develop well to become the best they can be at school. But in fact, improving themselves every day is the most necessary thing to help your child have enough experiences to step firmly in the future. Children not only need to be educated with academic knowledge but also need to have skills in self-development and unleashing their potential. From an early age, parents can help their children improve themselves from the following simple things: 1. Let children face up and solve their own problems. Not only adults, but children also face many problems every day, from difficulties in the learning process, pressure on grades, relationships with teachers and friends, physical health and mental health, etc. But not all children have enough skill or confidence to solve their problems. If not guided by parents, children will become timid, thereby choosing to run away instead of facing and solving each problem. This is also the reason why many children have a lot of trouble in school as well as in their life. Children who lack problem-solving skills tend to lack careful thinking in everything and are not oriented to what they should do. Therefore, teaching children to face problems and solve them will help them be more active in life, improve logical and critical thinking. When a specific problem occurs, parents should not help children do it right away. Instead, let your child analyze and define the problem. Parents can still be available to guide children when they need support, but it is still a priority to encourage children to solve their own problems first. If your child is having trouble with giving solutions, parents can sit down with children to discuss what should be done to be effective, so

  New year is coming and it’s time to use table calendars to remind of important milestones of a year ahead. With the 2021 Tet holiday, instead of buying table calendars at bookstores, students of Grade 7 & 8 of UTS could create their own table calendars of the new year. By their creativity, UTS-ers built ideas, divided tasks, drew and painted lovely table calendars in various concepts: the Zodiac, traditional Tet holiday, animation, etc. These table calendars may not be the most gorgeous ones but they marked the eternal creativity of our UTS-ers. The table calendars will be exhibited in a small area of UTS which contributes more colors to the Tet space there. Let’s have a look at lovely table calendars of our students!

Becoming Oxford University educational partner, UTS officially implements the Oxfoxd International Curriculum form School Year 2021-2022. Being educators, our mission is to constantly research and apply suitable curriculum and teaching method for students’ physical, mental, and intellectual development. After a process of studying, discussing and dedicatedly working together, we are proud to inform that UTS now officially becomes the educational partner of Oxford University, United Kingdom. Accordingly, UTS is one of the pioneers to implement the Oxford International Curriculum (OIC) under the training and supervision of experts from Oxford University. OIC is the brainchild of the in-depth research made by a team of experts from Oxford University. This is the program that brings a unique approach to teaching and learning for students from early year to lower secondary: put happiness at the heart of learning, focus on student health and develop global skills across subjects, provide students: Holistic development in all aspects: academics, physical health and mental health; Encouraging the interest in learning and embracing life-long learning spirit; Outstanding English proficiency; Foundation knowledge and skill to be successful in international competency assessments such as iGCSE, AS and A-level; Internationally valid certificate issued by Oxford University Press – Oxford University (UK); To understand more about the OIC at UTS, please visit:

  After a month being apart from each other with the Tet holiday and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, UTS community officially return to school’s campus on the 1st of March morning. To ensure safety, all students, teachers and staffs seriously complete health declarations, wear masks, check body temperature and wash hands before entering the school. Behind masks, we still recognize happiness and excitement of students while meeting teachers and friends again. During the first offline week, students will revise all knowledge which had been taught in online classes. Meanwhile, academic and experience activities will be gradually organized to raise learning spirit and creativity of UTS-ers. Please always remember to raise awareness about safety of yourself and society. There are many interesting activities waiting us ahead. Let’s create wonderful memories with UTS!

The essence of Literature are good values as well as eternal renovation and creativity spirit. Therefore, if Literature is just reading and analyzing the literary works, students will not be eager to acquire its good values and open up their inspiration. Through the lesson of making models of literary works, students of Class 7.2 of UTS could soar with their creative ideas. After learning literary works in the Grade 7 Literature program such as Uncle Ho’s simplicity, Non-interference, Hue folk songs performances on the Huong river, etc, students illustrated them by creating models with their own creativity; then they confidently presented their own products in front of the class. This lesson helped UTS-ers choose out the true – good – beautiful details in literary works and show their creativity through models. Moreover, this was an opportunity for students to express their cooperation and team spirit as well as build up the self-awareness in learning. Creating these models inspired students to learn Literature and enhance their artistic sense.

Question “How to educate children about environment?” is always a great concern. Green trees are important suppliers of oxygen for humans. However, serious environmental pollution and deforestation in recent time reduce the number of green tress significantly. Therefore, educating student about the importance of green trees in life is really necessary at the moment. At US Vietnam Talent International School, students of Grade 1 had learnt a lot of knowledge about the natural world through the cross-curricular project including Social and Natural Sciences, Arts and Music named “Green tres around us”. During 2 weeks of this project, UTS-ers had learnt various things: the structure of trees, advantages of trees and how to plant and take care of trees at home. Especially, they drew and made lovely paintings from the dry leaves. These paintings were given to teachers and staffs of UTS as gifts for the upcoming New Year. Also, a part of UTS’ campus was used to display these paintings which created a lovely green space there. Along with enriching knowledge about subjects, this project helped UTS’ students train their initiative, team-work skills and other necessary skills to research and acquire knowledge. These kids will be ones who have important roles in protecting and developing the environment in the future. Educating them carefully when they are still young will make a great impression on their minds – the precondition to become positive netizens who will contribute to the society later.  

Letters and style of author are tools to express ideas and emotions of literary works. However, with students of US Vietnam Talent International School, their feelings are not just letters and thoughts but more lively through… models! After students of Grade 6 had completed the special subject of “Folk tale”, Ms. I Pha – Literature Teacher gave out an interesting topic: Making models of folk tale to make them more lively! In this project, UTS-ers were free to gather as groups, chose the favorite folk tale as well as details in the folk tale to create their own models. The materials of models were all simple and environmentally-friendly, such as: carton cover, color paper, clay, glue, etc. Creativity of UTS-ers is shown by the final products – models of Thanh Giong, Thach Sanh, Son Tinh Thuy Tinh, Frog in the well, The Six Blind Fortune Tellers and an Elephant, etc. With this project, students were encouraged to prove their self-motivation, read the folk tale carefully and choose the appropriate details to complete models. Their imagination and creativity are gradually developed as well with models bearing the hallmark of themselves. Such practical activities are always focused in UTS in order to raise students’ interest in learning Literature and apply unique ideas to enhance learning efficiency.

  Today (17th of January), UTS sincerely welcomed lots of parents and students from many different schools in Ho Chi Minh city and surrounding provinces to join Math Open Day 2021. This is a wonderful opportunity for parents and students to experience the interesting Mathematics – Science space. Via that, our little children were able to freely explore their passion for Math: contemplate the science mock-ups created by UTS students, interact with 3D technology, robot assembly, STEM products exhibition. The exhibition and interaction spaces were set up as an adventure to the magic world of numbers which stimulated curiosity of students. These students enjoyed the holiday of Math with interest and passion. Within the framework of Math Open Day, the talkshow “What do we learn Mathematics for?” attracted many parents and students. With the participation of Ass. Prof, Ph.D. Do Ba Khang – Visiting Faculty at Asian Institute of Technology and Dr. Hoang Le Minh – The first Vietnamese who won the gold medal at International Mathematics Olympic, Dean of Faculty of Information Technology at Van Lang University, the talkshow brought a wide range of perspectives on the application of Mathematics in school curriculum, as well as in life.