Parents and visitors may have noticed that most of the male staff members at Hanova have stopped shaving since the beginning of November. This is not because they all lost their razors! The goal of Movember is for staff members to be voted as having the best or worst facial hair. We started this fundraising […]

Philippine Disaster fund. Currently, Hanova Student Council is planning fundraising projects to assist victims of the typhoon disaster in the Philippines: Movember. Parents and visitors may have noticed that most of the male staff members at Hanova have stopped shaving since the beginning of November. This is not because they all lost their razors! The […]

English Learning Programme Information session. The school presented to 30 interested Korean and Chinese speaking parents this last Tuesday on the English Learning Programme at Hanova.  We know the teaching of English is the key purpose of our school for many of our students.   The session started with Mr Quigley (MYP and EAL coordinator) laying […]

USA Embassy visitor. We were delighted to receive a visit from Erik Black, the Education Officer for the USA Embassy in Beijing. He toured around the school and spoke to many of the classes.  Erik Black gave his full endorsement to the IB curriculum, which he thought was ideal for developing global citizens. The main reason […]

Halloween. Great fun was had by many in our Halloween event.  All the primary students toured the school in a parade to show off their style and how frightening they were.  Never have so many, witches, ghouls, monsters, pirates, princesses and many other characters been seen in the corridors of Hanova. It was good to […]

Year 7-9 Education Outside the Classroom (EOTC). Our Geography and Economics students went on an excursion to see two multi-national companies in action on Monday, 21st October. Led by Ms Ranger and Mr Donkin, students were taken first to listen to a presentation by our very own Mr Fu. There, they learned some of the […]

Lunches. We are very pleased to announce that the Shangri-la will be supplying our lunches at school.  As with all suppliers, we have discussed with them the details of ensuring the supply of high quality products and keeping the food in good condition during transportation and serving.  All of these processes are being overseen by […]

International Day. We had a fantastic day on the Thursday before the holiday.  Our International Day started with a parade of students and teachers in costumes from each of the 22 countries represented in our school.  The children spent most of the day going round to “visit” various countries and doing activities such as Irish […]

School Calendar. As last year we are putting on a number of events for parents and the community.  As you read this we should have just had our International Day on Thursday.  We hope this was a successful and enjoyable day.  There are other events planned throughout the year and we have now put these […]