The School Newsletter is the official news publication of Xi’an Hanova International School. Since Hanova began in 2012, our school has regularly communicated to the Hanova Community about what has been happening inside and outside the school classrooms.
January 15, 2015
New Staff appointments. Owing to the development of the school and our continued determination to make Hanova a top quality international school with the extensive teaching and support staff to deliver programmes of the highest quality, we have 4 new teachers who have joined us since Christmas or who are joining us this month. We […]
January 8, 2015
A Happy New Year to you all - families of both returning and new students. I hope you had a lovely Christmas (if you celebrate it in your family or culture) or at least you were able to enjoy some parts of the holiday with your children. Hanova is an IB World School for the […]
December 17, 2014
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Last week students from Year 5 performed the play, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, to audience of primary students and a number of parents. Everybody was entertained and impressed by the quality of the acting and the sequencing of the many scenes of the play. Students had four […]
December 11, 2014
Secondary Award Assembly. We would like to congratulate the following students who were our first awardees at the Secondary School Assembly on 5th December: Academic Awards nominees earned 5 house points for their house: Nicole Quilaton, Jimmy Li, Amée Trull, Rodrigo Martin, Aino Jauhiainen, Kelly Lee, Cory Quilaton, Ellen Lee, Emily Chen and Catherine Nam, […]
December 4, 2014
IB Diploma Programme Verification Visit. Apologies for the delay in providing feedback on this visit of more than 2 weeks ago. We are happy and proud to announce that the visit went very smoothly and it was clear from the visitors’ comments in the last meeting that we had made a very good impression. Thank […]
November 27, 2014
Student Leaders. We would like to congratulate the following students for being appointed to the school leadership team: Head Students are Harry Zhang and Hyun Yi So. The house leaders are: Collins Mbithi and Emily Chen for Tang; Rodrigo Martin and Amée Trull for Song; Cory Quilaton and Do Kyung Kim for Qin; and Sam […]
November 20, 2014
School Leadership. In the Secondary School the big news this week is the launching of our house and school leadership system. Houses at Hanova International School: Qin Han Tang Song All students at Hanova have been placed in a house. The Secondary School students already know what house they are in and the Primary students […]
November 13, 2014
Primary Years Units of Inquiry. As you will know the curriculum is organised in the Primary school around Units of Inquiry as we follow the IB PYP curriculum framework. The following are the units for the next 6 weeks. We are always looking to use local knowledge or ideas to support the children’s exploration of […]
November 6, 2014
IB Diploma Programme Verification Visit. Next week will be see the culmination of a lot of hard work by the Secondary School teachers and administrators of the school. We have visitors from the International Baccalaureate (IB) coming to inspect our school to judge our readiness to deliver the IB Diploma Programme (IB DP). Mr Matthew […]