Spring Carnival. We would like to sincerely thank everyone in the Community for helping us to make Saturday, May 11th an historic day for Hanova School. The 1st Annual Spring Carnival would not have been a great success without all of you!  This celebration of fun, food, and entertainment started with games and activities planned […]

Research at Hanova - Y11 Personal Project, Y13 Extended Essay and Y6 Exhibition. There is a common theme throughout our school of encouraging students to think for themselves and to investigate and research into aspects that may be of interest to them. This theme is one of the central ideas in being an International Baccalaureate […]

Sports Day. The students of Hanova worked hard for many weeks in their PE programme to prepare for the first ever annual Sports Day.  They took part and enjoyed several athletic events including relay races for all, a decathlon of many events for the younger students.  The older students took part in 100m, 200m, 400m […]

Additional classes and staffing. We have been busy since January finalising our staffing plan for the next school year.  It has had to be updated recently as we have revised significantly upwards our forecasts of student enrolments. This is very encouraging for our school but brings with it new challenges. The Board has backed further […]

Xianease article. One of our Y11 students has written an article which was published in the Xianese in this April edition.  It was about life in an international school, comparing it to other education systems and was written by May Lee.  She experienced the stresses of having to hit deadlines and receiving changing requests concerning […]

Trip to Thailand. Maekok River Village Resort in Chiangrai, Thailand Parents and students might have noticed that quite a few students and a few teachers were not at school last week. This is because 20 of our MYP and Senior students were on an educational trip in Thailand. They were away from Xi’an for a […]

Growth of the school. Following an Admissions Panel meeting approval has been given for 6 more students to join us in the next 3 or 4 weeks, bringing numbers into the 80s. We have had a number of parents visit our school as well as companies looking to recommend appropriate schools for their expatriate employees.  […]

Mission Statement and School Aims Meeting. On Saturday we were fortunate to bring our community together again to brainstorm ideas about our school’s guiding statements (namely our mission statement and vision.) About 30 of our community members (parents, students, support staff, teachers and our Board) reviewed three separate categories with reference to our beliefs, achievements […]

Playgroup. We are happy to announce the start of our first Playgroup. This will be held every Tuesday from 2pm until the end of club time (4:30pm). Our first playgroup is planned to take place on Tuesday 19th March. This is a great opportunity for your child to play with other children and take part […]