News from the Principal – “Our Learning Community” – Written by Mr Robert Muntzer, Principal. In recent years, the term ‘learning community’ has largely replaced the word ‘school’. This is for good reason for it better reflects all the stakeholders in the education of our students – governance and management, teaching and support staff, parents, […]
A trip around the world in one day!!!
Hanova’s annual International Day 2022 – Written by Mr Aristipo Rodriguez, Head of Secondary. On Friday April 15th, at Hanova we celebrated one of our favourite annual traditions: International Day. Diversity, Open mindedness and Intercultural understanding play an important role in our community, and International Day give our students the chance to learn about other […]
Early Years PYP Sports Day
The morning of Friday, 22nd April saw the Early Years Sports Day take place in the sports building. The children were split into 3 groups and within those groups competed in their house teams as the sports building was awash with red, green, blue and yellow. There were many smiles throughout the morning as the […]
Hanova’s new sports mascot revealed!
PYP “Mix-a-thon” House Competition – by Mr Jacob Charles and Mr Jonathan Rice. On Friday, 1st April, our PYP students came dressed in their pajamas to school! No, they didn’t oversleep and forget their school uniforms. They came dressed and ready for Hanova’s first ever PYP “Mix-a-thon” – a House Competition event that was created, […]
Primary boys and girls basketball games
Saturday, 16th April was a very special day in the history of Hanova. It saw our school host an interschool sports event for the first time since the opening of our new campus and sports building. Our visitors were XLIS who brought both a boy’s and girl’s team to compete in PYP Basketball. There was […]
PYP ‘Mix-a-thon’ House Competition
On Friday, 1st April, our PYP students came dressed in their pajamas to school! No, they didn’t oversleep and forget their school uniforms. They came dressed and ready for Hanova’s first ever PYP “Mix-a-thon” – a House Competition event that was created, advertised, coordinated and hosted by some of Year 4A and 4B’s reading groups. […]
International Day 2022
On Friday April 15th, at Hanova we celebrated one of our favourite annual traditions: International Day. Diversity, Open mindedness and Intercultural understanding play an important role in our community, and International Day give our students the chance to learn about other cultures, their traditions, dresses, music, among other things. At the beginning of the day, […]
Early Years playground sand play
The developmental benefits of Early Years Sand Play – written by Ms Emma Tidmarsh, Early Years Coordinator. Sand play is not only fun, but also quite valuable as well. Sand play provides countless developmental benefits to children. Regardless if it’s at the playground, in a sandbox, at a sand table, or at the beach, playing […]
Year 5’s “How the world works – state of matter” Ice Cream Experiment
For this unit of inquiry, students in year 5 have been working with the different states of matter in a hands-on way. When we think about gases, liquids, and solids, Year 5 has done more than just memorize vocabulary and write sentences. Working with a range of different experiments the students have learned how the […]
Spring and Summer of Sport on the horizon
We hope that all of our community have had a safe and secure Chinese New Year so far and that our children are enjoying their learning experiences this semester – albeit with the ongoing COVID situation. Year 11 Students present Personal Project Exhibition – by Ms Amy Hou, MYP Coordinator. Congratulations to Hanova’s Year 11 […]