HIS Sports and Athletics

Here at Hanoi International School, we believe in a balanced program where students can develop new skills and take away experiences above what the academic curriculum has to offer.

We believe that a good after-school athletics program will be beneficial for students in later life.

We believe sport plays a core part of the school community, with the aim of helping students maintain balance in their lives, take risks and participate in the wider aspects of school and society, beyond academic study.

We encourage and strive to promote a healthy lifestyle, enjoyment, skill development, camaraderie/friendships, and respect.

We participate in local and international sporting associations that can be complicated at the best of times. Therefore it requires a tremendous amount of commitment from our student-athletes, parents, and coaches to make such an athletics program work.

HIS is an active member of the Hanoi Activities Conference (HAC) and the Mekong River International Schools Association (MRISA). The later was founded in 1999 to facilitate cultural and sporting exchanges between regional schools in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand.

PYP Sports

In PSPE at HIS, the primary focus is on the learner's well-being through the promotion and development of concepts, knowledge, attitudes and skills that contribute to this well-being.

Well-being is intrinsically linked to all aspects of a student's experiences at school and beyond. It encompasses physical, emotional, cognitive, spiritual, and social health and development, and contributes to an understanding of self, developing and maintaining relationships with others, and participation in an active, healthy environment.

At HIS, PSPE is planned and taught through collaboration between the homeroom teachers, PSPE teachers, and the PYP Coordinator. The primary focus is always to look at the units of inquiry and meaningful connections to physical education.

This can be done by:

Developing and supporting a unit within the programme of inquiry
Preparing for or following on from a unit within the programme of inquiry
Independent inquiry

At HIS the IB learner profile together with the other elements of the programme - knowledge, concepts, skills, and action inform the planning and teaching of PSPE to ensure the development of each student's well-being continues to grow year by year.

MYP / DP Sports

MYP Physical and Health Education courses, in combination with MYP sciences, help specifically to prepare students for the study of sports, exercise, and health science in the IB Diploma Programme (DP).

PHE aims to empower students to understand and appreciate the value of being physically active and develop the motivation for making healthy life choices. To this end, physical and health education courses foster the development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will contribute to a student’s balanced and healthy lifestyle.

Through opportunities for active learning, courses in this subject group embody and promote the holistic nature of well-being. Students engaged in physical and health education will explore a variety of concepts that help foster an awareness of physical development and health perspectives, empowering them to make informed decisions and promoting positive social interaction.

Physical and health education focuses on both learning about and learning through physical activity. Both dimensions help students to develop approaches to learning (ATL) skills across the curriculum. Physical and health education contributes a unique perspective to the development of the attributes of the IB learner profile, promoting the health of individuals and communities.

At HIS, PHE takes many different shapes and forms. We work very closely with our program integration coordinators to make meaningful connections to all other subjects, ATLS, and to engage our students in a way that allows them to experience physical activity like never before.

We count on great facilities that the school books for the lessons, including full-size stadiums, swimming pools, tennis courts, taek-won-do facilities, badminton courts, and outdoor parks for trail running.

We also work to teach our students the science behind the activities, and we offer units on Nutrition, first aid, and CPR, sleep cycles, human anatomy and physiology, and self-defense.

Our yearly plan offers 5 different units that cover a wide variety of topics. As seen below, which of course varies and adapts to different grade levels.