Our first formal sporting event took place last Friday.  All of The students did remarkably well by taking part in a running event and a cycling event.  Some of the students had even learned to ride a bike for the first time.  The determination and effort from so many of the students were really impressive, […]

Kitchen opening. We were very pleased to serve our first meal prepared in our beautiful new kitchen last Friday.  Our Korean visitors and students were the first to have the opportunity of a Hanova meal.  There were a number of Korean dishes, beef stroganoff and even a dessert which was also very popular.  As you […]

Links with other schools. It was a real pleasure to have 42 students from Bradford Grammar School, England to visit last Saturday evening.  I was so pleased to see that nearly all our secondary students were able to attend and to hear that the event was a great success.  There was a little reticence at […]

Unity and Internationalism. Hanova’s logo is a representation of a tree.  A tree was chosen as our symbol as it represents a living growing body made up of many different parts all working to a common goal – that of learning together to live and work in an international world.  The different parts of the […]

We had our first planned community event of International Day on Wednesday. It was lovely to have so many parents join in with our activities.  The students were in mixed age groups and spent much of the day visiting 8 “countries” and learning a little about those countries’ cultures through sport, dance, art and other […]

Growing School. Our 60th student and 12th nationality joined us today on Thursday – welcome to our first representative from Bulgaria!  This brings the total number of nations here to 14 among the students and staff.  We currently have a number of active enquiries from potential enrolments.  All of these parents have expressed a desire […]

International Day. Next Wednesday (17th October) we will celebrate International Day.  The United Nations recognises this date as International Eradication of Poverty Day, when it is intended that the voices of the poor are heard.  As an International School we are celebrating the different nationalities and cultures that we have within our school community.  The […]

Students sharing work. Every week in assemblies students from a number of classes share their learning.  This develops their confidence in speaking to an audience and going up on stage.  It also helps us to share and celebrate the learning that is happening.  These assemblies have been one of the many highlights of our new […]

Curriculum Information Afternoon. It was very good to see most of our parents from Nursery to Year 4 at the curriculum information afternoon on Tuesday.  The parents heard information on how the classes were run and organised, and were able to ask questions.  We very much appreciated the positive support from parents.  The issue of […]