Futurism lecture. On Tuesday, 15th April we were very privileged to have Dr Lyn Jeffery present a talk on futurism to our secondary school students. Dr Jeffery is head of research in anthropology in the university in Paolo alto, California, USA.  A futurist is a bit like an historian except they look into the future, […]

International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE). We have received a couple of enquiries from a parent about two items in our current school calendar and thought it was worth sharing the information especially to relatively new parents.  The first question asked about IGCSEs.  As part of our school development plan we are working towards […]

Middle and Senior Year residential to Dali. We are very pleased that we have had a good level of response for the Y7-9 trip to Dali.  This has been moved to 2nd-6th June.  This is because the take up from Y10-13 was much lower, so this is not able to go ahead as a separate […]

Hanova Garden. We are extremely pleased and excited to announce that work has already begun on an important addition to our school: Hanova Garden. This will be a long-term project that every student at our school will be able to use to improve their learning. There are many uses of a school garden for students […]

Sports Match. We had a lovely afternoon last Friday with students, staff and parents from Xi’an International School (XIS) on a beautiful sunny and warm spring afternoon.  XIS visited Hanova for a football match between the older students from each school.  Both teams were cheered on by their own supporters with the primary students from […]

Parent School Association (PSA). Thank you to all of you who were able to attend the PSA Question and Answer (Q&A) session on Tuesday.  School presented to the parents an important document identifying key aspects of our school’s Language Policy.  Various other questions were posed by the parents.  The aspects of the Language Policy that […]

Diploma Programme and Middle Year Plans. Over the past two weeks there have been evening meetings held in the school to explain the school’s approach to ensuring students get the best possible chance to go to the university of their choice to achieve the career goals they have in mind.  Robert Muntzer explained to parents […]

PSA Meeting. The PSA meeting last week was attended by 40 parents. Thank you all for your active interest in the school. Parents heard presentations about assessment in the MYP, developing knowledge in the PYP.  Later they heard a brief presentation on Community Service in the school.  Finally information was given on the teaching of […]

Table Tennis Tables. The Hanova Student Council has been working on a project to raise funds from sale of Christmas and Chinese New Year DVDs to purchase 2 additional Table Tennis Tables that will be used by students during break times and in PE class. The Student Council members are pleased to announce that, thanks […]