Completing the first semester of the school year 2021-2022, teachers and students of Hanoi - Amsterdam High School are officially entering the second term and continuing to attend virtual lessons in the complicated context of Covid-19. Nonetheless, Youth Union’s activities on New Year’s first month were a success thanks to its members’ proactiveness.
It is only less than a day prior to the transition between the year of the Ox and the year of the Tiger. Immersed in the hustle and bustle of everyone’s haste to complete their last tasks before welcoming a perfect Tet, today, let us talk with two students of Class 11 Math 1, Nguyen Le Duc Anh and Nguyen Hoang Dam Thuyen. Join Ams Wide Web in the journey of listening to their thoughts on the traditional Tet holiday through this article.
For thousands of years, Vietnamese people are known as cordial and affable people with a warm heart for their community. Working based on the spirit of mutual affection, and the tradition “a full leaf makes up for a torn one”, youths from Hanoi-Amsterdam have been carrying out an array of practical, yet meaningful, activities. It is their desire, through these deeds, to promote sharing and to bring underprivileged children a fulfilled and heartwarming Tet season.
On the morning of 26/2/2022, via Zoom, the career orientation event “Know yourself to choose your career” was successfully carried out with the participation of two prestigious speakers: Dr Truong Thi Hoa (from Hanoi National University of Education) and Ms Pham Bich Ha (vice president of ICF Coach’s Human resources association of all 12th-graders from Hanoi - Amsterdam High School for the Gifted and Phan Dinh Phung High School). The event had left a profound impact on the senior students in their path of researching and determining career directions, and at the same time raising awareness of their self-perception.
On January 28, 2022, the team participating in the Vietnam Science and Engineering Fair for high school students in the school year 2021-2022 was established with 4 award-winning projects in the City round. Among the 4 teams from Hanoi, Hanoi - Amsterdam High School for the Gifted is honored to have 2 teams participating, who are determined to come out on top.
With great efforts and achievements, Nguyen Mai Ngan (2004), a former student of Hanoi - Amsterdam High School for the Gifted, has fulfilled her dream of studying in Canada.
In 2021, Vietnam’s team participated in the International Junior Science Olympiad and has secured for themselves 4 Gold Medals and 2 Silver Medals.
On January 15, 2022, on Zoom, grade 10 students of Hanoi - Amsterdam High School for the Gifted had the opportunity to participate in a sex education class for adolescents with the participation of specialists from Hanoi Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital and Hanoi Medical University. The program had approached a problem that was considered sensitive by many people in a fun and meaningful way, but also with useful information about gender and puberty psychophysiology.
Faced with hotly debated environmental problems, Hanoi - Amsterdam High School students had brought to us the Green Life 2022 event filled with meaningful activities aimed at protecting the green planet during January 16.
On 13 - 1, the Hanoi Department of Education and Training commended and rewarded students who won prizes in the international exam in 2021 - 2022. 39 outstanding students were honored to be present at the commendation ceremony.
