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Miss Thanh Nhan, Mother of Tue Minh – student of Class 1.5 has shared about the changes and growth of her daughter after a year learning at US Vietnam Talent International School: “Tue Minh is quite a shy girl while interacting with adults. She is very confident to make acquaintances with peers but somehow shy to communicate with her teachers. However, after a year UTS, she already has some positive changes. When Tue Minh acknowledges that she will be taught by other teachers in Grade 2, she expresses: ‘I will miss my old teachers so much, but no one can teach me forever in my life!’ Her thinking satisfies me since she knows that anyone should be independent, she needs to change to learn from more people. In long term, I hope that she can understand that the world will always change and we all need to adapt to it. Tue Minh understands that ‘we go to school to learn what we don’t know yet’. Therefore, while studying at UTS, she can freely give answers for questions without feeling ashamed. ‘Mr. Casey will never criticize me with the wrong answer, I just need to raise hands and express my ideas!’, said Tue Minh. I am really happy when she tells me that other teachers also apply the same teaching methods. I believe that she will more confident and be ready for new things without failure disappointment. Regarding the progress in knowledge, besides the standards of reading, writing and doing simple Math exercises like other Grade 1 students, she usually tells me about other knowledge from school that beyond my expectation. While enrolling at UTS, she has never studied at any language center. But now, she confidently teaches me how to add and subtract numbers, explain the stories she draws, and

  June 5 is designated by the United Nations as World Environment Day. This is an opportunity for us to raise awareness for the community and take active actions to protect our environment. Environmental protection is a long journey which cannot be done within one or two days. It requires us to have responsibility, patience and especially understanding so that we can act properly to the surrounding environment. How can parents help children understand more about environmental protection and encourage them to take good actions towards sustainability? Let’s have a look at following suggestions from the US Environmental organization (Environment America). 1. LEARN ABOUT PLANTS – Explore interesting information about the Earth, plants and animals and their current status through books, television and Youtube videos; – The whole family can create beautìul pictures with dried leaves and flowers; – Take advantage of the balcony (for high-rise buildings and apartments) and the open space (for ordinary houses) to plant a small garden of lovely flowers and trees; – Play games to learn the origin of the foods we eat every day and how they are cultivated and harvested. 2. LEARN ABOUT WATERWAYS, PARKS AND CONSERVATION The water, air and land environments are factors that need to be nurtured and preserved. Parents and childredn can research on many issues such as: – Learn about the system of rivers, lakes, canals and canals in the neighborhood; – Learn about water pollution and some ways to reduce it; – Explore the role of parks, forests and tree planting in reducing air pollution and flooding; – Learn about the role of natural reservation; – Learn about types of soil in nature and their current condition. 3. LEARN ABOUT WAYS TO REDUCE WASTE Waste is one of the most urgent problems that need to be solved

Beauties of women are not just about their appearance or costumes. Their beauties also come from good personality and contribution to family and society. And of course, they are deserved to receive love and respect from everyone. On the coming International Women’s Day, UTS would like to give our honest thank to UTS’ women for their dedication in the nurturing and growing journey of future talents. Wish mothers, women teachers and staffs happiness and lots of memories with UTS    

  3R stands for Reduce – Reuse – Recycle. Applying the 3R method in everyday life will help reduce the big amount of waste discharged into the environment, especially persistent waste. It can help to limit pollution as well as reduce overconsumption. The students in grade 5.1 practice the 3R method through the project “Recycling” in English subject. Using used items, UTS-ers took advantage of and created interesting models such as UTS bus, pen box, hat,… They also show their fluent English and presentation skills to introduce the group’s products. Although this activity is not too new, it is extremely necessary for children to early create awareness of environmental protection, saving resources, and contributing good values to society.

  Nowadays, with the development of technology, we are familiar with convenient applications on smart phones. However, is the idea generation and development of such applications possible for our students? Let’s join the English lesson of Class 6.3 to see how they generated innovative ideas! By actively researching, thinking, UTS-ers suggested many modern as well as familiar ideas for applications such as homework solving app, fashion consulting and direct purchasing app, or lego assembling instruction app, etc. These rough ideas were just express on the paper, but students showed their dedication in planning detailed operation way, interface design or distribution on online app platform. Moreover, all contents in these applications were built in English, aiming to develop them on a global scale. Hope that UTS-ers will always maintain the creative energy and make these interesting ideas become real in the near future!

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

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!