Author Day. We had a super day last Friday celebrating Author Day on the day (or nearly) of Dr Seuss’ birthday.  It was lovely to have so many parents (and older students) in to read to classes, then all of the activities during the morning including making Cat in the Hat hats.  The afternoon snack […]

Welcome back friends, parents and students, both new and old.  I hope you had an enjoyable Chinese New Year and hope the students all return refreshed and ready to apply themselves to this, our second semester. This week we welcome 11 new students and their families to the Hanova family.  These newcomers enter classes between […]

Art Exhibition. Hanova’s first whole school art exhibition was opened on Monday, 4th February to an audience of parents and students.  This exhibition in the school foyer shows off the artistic talent of students from 3 to 18 years of age under the guidance of our art teacher Mrs Carrie Varjavandi.  Many people besides the […]

Centaur iBook for children. This children's book was developed by our senior students with young learners in mind.  It was produced as part of their Community & Service programme. This book was researched, produced and tried out on real, live children with great results by: Bolton Choi, Mark Lee, Garrett Seo, Max Na, Sally Yoo.  […]

Students’ reports. Your child’s first report, and the first ever from Hanova, should be winging its way to you via email on Friday (25th January). We really hope you find these reports both informative and clear. Along with this report will come an invitation to the 2 and 3 way conferences with the teachers. This […]

International Baccalaureate. As you may know Hanova applied to implement all three International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes –that is the Diploma Programme (DP) for students in Y12 and 13, the Middle Years Programme (MYP) for students in Y7 to Y11, and the Primary Years Programme (PYP) for students from Nursery to Y6. I am very pleased […]

Waiting list and the Early Years. We have had a lot of interest in the programmes we are running at Hanova. At the moment it looks likely we will have 70 students at Chinese New Year. We are very keen to keep the true international flavour of our school both in terms of nationalities, and […]

A Christmas Carol. Our inaugural performance at Hanova took place on Wednesday and Thursday this week.  You could feel the excitement in the air before “opening night”.  The students put on a tremendous performance that was a fitting climax to the preparations that started six weeks ago.  As in so much of what we do […]

Staff. Our library has been organised and run mainly by one of our volunteer parents, Ms Camellia Feng, along with Mr Sam Quan.  I am delighted to tell you that Ms Feng has accepted an offer following interview to become the full time Librarian.  Any questions or comments about the library, as well as book […]