News from the IGS

To celebrate World Book Day on April 23rd, we, the people responsible for the school entry program, invited the children of Class 1, the preschool children and their parents to a reading evening on the IGS campus. Books of all kinds in German, English and Vietnamese were read out loud around a crackling campfire and in cozy reading corners....Read More

Grade 8 have just finished an animation project where they developed their ability in using computational thinking. They were challenged to recreate a movie scene using the skills of problem solving through using algorithms, abstraction, pattern recognition and decomposition. You can see the projects and how they work with the user’s mouse pointer here.

We had a visit from Germany this week from Ms. Silvana Bluhm and Mr. Dirk Thormann. Both names are not unfamiliar to the IGS: Ms. Bluhm is the Deputy Chair of our school sponsor, the Foundation for Education & Crafts, and Mr. Thormann was the principal of the IGS from 2015-2021. Both were in Ho Chi Minh City for...Read More

In the last two weeks, through a series of experiments, we have learned how to determine energy changes that occur during chemical reactions. Our experiments included a variety of chemical processes that required the use of different methods and equipment. In one of the experiments, we measured the released energy during the combustion reaction using a self-made calorimeter, which...Read More