SSIS Stories

Students in high school are learning how to normalize speaking out about difficult emotions. And, that at times, we all need somebody to lean on. 

Each week more than 100 fourth-graders at SSIS gather for a 30-minute presentation by guest speakers from around the world.

At SSIS, Ms. Braun is known as a fierce advocate for her students, so it is not surprising that she stepped up to the plate to help a group of international students in need.

What do the periodic table, a teddy bear and an autobiography by Alexander Dubcek have in common? They are all examples of the everyday objects used by students in the ToK Exhibition to present a perspective on a “knowledge question.”

When elementary school parents asked for more activities and socialization for their children, our specialists in Art, PE, Drama, Wellness, STEM, and Music sprang to action creating “Dragon’s Club.” 

In just two weeks’ time, the SSIS community has raised 400,700,008 VND to support families in need in Ho Chi Minh City. That’s more than twice our original fundraising goal!

Our Grade 5 students are learning that thinking about space is much more than science. It is the idea of audacious possibility mixed with know-how and tenacity.

In an integrated Language Arts/Social Studies unit, students learn to effect change in their community as they tackle real-life problems, equipped with professional skills and a strong sense of agency.

Dragon Market, a student-led initiative gives high schoolers a venue to try their hand at entrepreneurship.

Focusing on student wellbeing, our MS advisory program makes time for students to engage in rich social-emotional learning experiences twice a week.

Students are learning that they can be agents of change, positively impacting the SSIS habitat for bees and butterflies, and the environment!

During a recent Parent Education session on engineering, coding and design, SSIS parents learned why failure is such an important part of solving difficult problems.

Four seniors reflect on their time at SSIS and their acceptances, as well as what influenced them in choosing their best-fit universities.

Trading places with Principal Burger for a day, Grade 7 student, Nam, learns what it takes to be the Middle School principal at SSIS!

We couldn’t be more excited about the positive feedback from parents and students about our new Virtual School program. Here’s a glimpse into a few of the changes.

Water is rapidly flowing from a spout at the top of the model landmass. What'll happen to the "villages" below? That’s up to our Grade 4 students to predict!

SSIS offers the broadest range of High School course options of any international school in Vietnam. Our support structure ensures that students feel confident in making the best choices.

Thinking about legacies that have been left for them, Grade 7 students in Ms. Natalie Beals' class look to their own cultures, becoming expert storytellers in the process.

Our purpose-built Elementary School Spark Lab is inspiring students to interact with and explore technologies such as robotics, coding, AR/VR and circuitry, more than ever before!

Our recent half-day workshop “Data in a Day” included more than 60 community members with representation by students, faculty, staff, administration, parents, and alumni.

Combining a love of learning about cultures, people and their relationship with medicine, SSIS alum and full-time pharmacy student, Debby Nguyen ('19), makes her authorial debut.

SSIS Dragons in all divisions spring to action to raise funds for flood victims in central Vietnam.

Despite a ten year gap, students find ways to connect while building important community bonds.

While this has been a challenging year in many ways, it hasn’t stopped high school junior, Lindsey, from discovering a new passion: entrepreneurship. And it is a passion she's determined to share with others.

Using new technology to understand and appreciate mandalas, middle schools students are using their iPads in new and unexpected ways.

When EC students arrive at their classrooms each morning, they head outside. Not to play, but to “get to work.” 

At the start of each school year, high school students at SSIS come together to share their passions and interests for various topics, as part of the annual High School Club Expo.

Spirits were high among everyone as students scanned their IDs to enter campus and get the new school year under way!

During what has been a period of uncertainty in our community, and across the world, we are so proud to have been able to give the Class of 2020 the memory of their High School graduation.

When schools start up again, not everything is just "like normal." Students need help processing the past few months. Here are a few ways that's being done.

Although some things remain the same, life on campus has changed from before the worldwide COVID-19 crisis. This is how we've adjusted.

“What is important to you during social distancing and virtual school?”, with this question Middle School Art teacher, Rebecca Jardin prompted students to consider what they are grateful for.

SSIS Elementary School art teacher, Regina Maniaci, believes that good art comes from within and can help us through hard times.

Around this time each year, seniors across the globe anxiously refresh their inboxes for responses to their university application. And in that sense, this year is no different. 

Determined to make a lasting impact on the world, SSIS High School students achieved what they set out to do.

When is the last time you had a chance to meet someone who is friends with a gorilla and has photographed polar bears? For our students, it was just a few weeks ago!

On Saturday, January 18, history was made at SSIS when we became the first school to ever host a VEX Robotics Competition in Vietnam. 

MS students are learning to lead initiatives that will have an impact on our communities. Supporting literacy in local schools is one of those intitatives.

"I wonder why there’s so much paper and tissue in the trash?" Second-grade students have many questions as they are confronted with a week’s worth of waste.

Vo ('20) becomes the first student in Vietnam to ever be published in the prestigious journal, Concord Review.

The “MS Dragons Reading Challenge,” is one of the many creative ways that new MS Librarian, Claire Elam, is encouraging middle schoolers to read more.

What it is like to spend a week away from home, with just your basic needs covered? Mai shares her experience.

Recently awarded at a citywide literature competition, third-grader Hay shares how he began writing, and what inspires him.

Both the Girls' and the Boys' Volleyball teams placed number one in this year's MRISA Volleyball Tournament. What a way to bring the season to an end. Go Dragons! 

Where does our waste actually go and what is our personal impact? Grade 7 students went to Da Phuoc landfill to find out.

Tasked with solving a real-world case study, students from grades 9 and 10 recently became forensic scientists for the day.