H O R I Z O N - HIBS

HIGH SCHOOL 

NEWSPAPER 

Volume 5 Issue 41 

October 2011 / 1 

Horizon International Bilingual School Newspaper 

H O R I Z O N 

Exam system at HIBS 

Perfect Saturday at Dorm 

Lets go to Movies 

Happy Birthday to you 

I miss my School (HIBS)

Horizon International Bilingual 

School academic year consist of 

two terms. The first term is from 

September to January. while the 

second term is from January to 

June. 

The teachers evaluate and assess 

the students not only through midterm 

and final, but also through 

homework, mid-term projects they 

assign throughout the term, quizzes 

and tests during the term. 

If the score of any subject is 

50 or more, the student passes, 

while below 50 is a failing score. 

Thus, the total average of the overall 

subjects is calculated and it 

forms the student’s overall average. 

If the overall score is 50 or more, the student has the right to pass 

to the upper class. However, if the overall average is less than 50 

the student is supposed to study the same grade. 

The examination system of Horizon international Bilingual 

School is similar to those in the universities. The schedules of the 

exam dates and sitting charts are announced one week before the 

exam week. In addition, the proctors, the teachers who watch the 

classes during the exam time, are also announced and the lists are 

posted on the bulletin boards in the teachers’ room. 

The exam questions are typed on computer and then they are photocopied. 

The exam papers are stored and reserved securely and 

safely. All the exams are supposed to have two different sets, Set A 

and Set B. Before the exam starts, the teacher who is to give the 

exam is supposed to make the exam ready to give and submit it to 

the administration on time. Exam attendance logs are included to 

the exam papers and all the documents are given to the proctors 

before hand. 

All the students should put their bags in front of classroom 

board near the teacher’s desk. It is not permitted to put any 

material in or on the desk and cheating is strictly forbidden. The 

proctor watches the students very carefully and there are two proctors 

each class. In case of cheating or misbehavior, the exam paper 

is taken and the student is sent out. The situation is reported to 

administration and the student is punished by the discipline committee. 

The rules that the student are 

to obey: 

1-Make sure that you are prepared 

for the exam. Have your 

pens, pencils, pencil sharpener, 

easers. 

2-You will not be allowed to 

leave the exam room during the 

exam. 

3– You may be asked by the 

invigilator to place a barrier 

between you and the person 

sitting beside you. 

4-An exam is a race against 

time, try to be fast but careful. 



11-Keep silent during the exam. 

5-Open your exam paper when 

you are told to do . 

6-Make sure you write your 

name. surname, class, and school 

number on the exam paper. 

7-Keep the exam paper clean and 

flat. 

8-The proctor will not answer 

any questions about the exam 

once it has started. 

9-If you have any difficulty with 

the exam paper, raise your hand 

and wait the wait for the invigilator 

to respond. 

10-Only equipment which is necessary 

for the exam should be 

kept on the desk. 

12-Be careful that you mark multiple choice answers properly, Incorrect 

entries may loose your marks. 

13-If you have time when you finish the exam, check your answers. 

14-If you have finished the exam in time, turn over the page and 

wait. don't disturb others. 

15– When the exam ends the proctor calls ‘Time is up, Pens down’. 

Put your pen down immediately and wait until your paper is collected. 

The teacher evaluate, the exam paper fairly and justly in a week’s 

time. If the students who could not take exam during the exam 

week have a medical report, they are given a chance of a make up 

exam. 

Our school has an advanced database system. All the mark-entry 

applications are operated via the database. All the students and 

parents have their user accounts. The teachers are able to enter 

and see relevant scores via their individual accounts. 

The database supervisor prints the draft scores than hands out 

them to the teachers to check. The teachers check their scores 

and, if any mistakes, correct them and then they submit them to 

the supervisor. After this process, the report cards are printed. The 

report cards include the lesson average, attendances , disciplinary 

events and case and teacher’s comments. As well as the report 

cards, students are giving statistical 

and comparative information 

which show their performance 

about their lessons. The 

students are able to see their 

position in his class, grade and 

school. 

The students are given report 

cards and thus they are presented 

to parents .Sometimes they 

are given to the parents at school 

by class teachers. 

In addition the overall scores of 

each class, the overall of each 

lesson, each class order in school 

and the top students in the exams 

are announced on the bulletin 

boards.

9 A I N G I R L S D O R M I T O R Y 

I and my friends love cooking some special dishes like the Sushi and the Spaghetti. When our 

class teacher,Mr.Ramazan, told us that Funda abla would invite us to the HIBS girls dormitory 

for cooking our own dishes, we all were excited and started arguing about the dishes we were go- 

ing to cook on that Saturday. I was looking forward to cooking my own dish and serve in my own 

way to my friends and the ablas. On the Saturday,we all gathered in the school and walked to the 

dormitory through some vegetable shops and we bought some that we might need most. Funda abla 

already prepared the ingredients about what we would like to cook; Sushi and Spaghetti. We all 

agreed about the menu because it was our common favorite dishes. We started cooking without 

wasting any time right after arriving to the dorm. It was great and finger licking delicious! we 

all were happy and we consumed all the dishes in a minute. Then we had some fruits and later on 

we pop some popcorn to eat while watching a movie. it was a very nice and happy day of my life. 

I would like to thank our class teacher and abla for all these nice moments. 



Ngoc Anh-Trang-Quyenh

9 A G o e s t o C i n e m a 

The weekend that our parents' have meeting with our class teachers, Mr. 

Ramazan, suggested an activity while we were waiting our parents in the 

school. His suggestion was catching a movie at a cinema near the school 

while parents meeting the class teachers. we all found it wonderful and discussed 

about the movie that we were going to see. we also decided to have 

our lunch in a fast food cafeteria on the way to the cinema. On that day, we 

gathered in the reception and invited Funda abla to go with us and we were 

very happy to spend time with abla. We took a taxi and headed for the nearest 

cinema and we told jokes to each other on the way, it was very amusing. 

We arrived there and we quickly got a bit to eat and then rushed to the cinema 

hall to take our places. it was a good movie and we mostly like it. After 

the movie finished we rushed back to the school and it was free buffet time 

for the parents and we tasted some cookies and drinks too. it was a wonderful 

day and i enjoyed lot with my friends and abla. 

I would like to thank our class teacher and abla for all these nice moments. 

Ngoc Anh-Trang-Thao 


Horizon International Bilingual School Newspaper

Please…! Come down 

In the morning we had lessons. At 11:20am, everybody in my class was so excited cause 

this will be the first picnic that we join together with our class teacher. 

We went downstairs and waited for our teacher. When he comes, he says we need to wait 

a bit much time about waiting our abi to buy some stuff for picnic. at the end we hired a 

taxi and went to the picnic area. I was so hungry and looking forward to eating lunch at the 

picnic area. Teachers sais for lunch everything was ready and we were going to eat chicken 

kebap . I was so happy cause chicken kebap was my favorite. 

After lunch we played football, and ride lake swan with my friends and our class teacher. 

we even raced each other. Of course I was the winner ^^ 

Thanks to my friends, my class teacher and our class teacher assistants. We had a great 

time together. I hope we will have more time like this in near future. 

Long 11-A 



I MISS MY SCHOOL (HIBS) 

I want to tell you about my school where I spent nice 

and exciting three years. Now I am studying in the 

US. Although it's been only 3 months since I came 

here, I have realized that I really miss HIBS, my 

friends and my teachers there. 

I still remember my first day at HIBS. It was a Monday. 

I got up early in the morning. My mom told me 

to have breakfast but I didn't as I was very excited- I 

was starting a new school. We arrived at the school at 

7:00 am. I was in grade 8 then. I had spent 7 years in 

my previous schools but I had never been that excited. 

The first people I saw in front of the school were my 

(foreign) teachers and I guess that was the main cause 

of my excitement then. 

The classes start at 7:30 there at HIBS. We were in 

front of the classroom with my mom when the bell 

went at 7:30. It was completely different from other 

bells that I had heard till then. Back at my previous 

schools, there was a drum instead of a bell which was 

played at the beginning to start the classes and the 

another one at the end of each class to end the class. 

And then a break time and after that another dong for 

the next class and so on. But it was different at HIBS. 

What I heard was a piece of music which I, later on, 

realized that it was the bell. Yeah, it was my first day 

there and it was the first class. I was looking at the 

other kids there, who were only a few, and I was wondering 

why the others were ever late to the class on 

the very first day of the class ,but it turned out that 

there were only seven of us in that class, no others. 

Then opened the door and appeared my first foreign 

teacher. He said he was our Maths teacher and introduced 

himself. After going on by telling us what we 

were going to do throughout the school year, he started 

teaching. I was hearing something, I knew someone 

was talking but I had no idea what was going on 

as I was in a new environment and the teacher was 

teaching Maths in English and my English was no 

good back then. 



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Esra Sasmaz Editor at large 

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educating students and training journalists. 

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I did have hard times at the beginning as I 

had 40 classes per week half of which were 

taught in English and it was difficult to understand. 

I told my parents that it was not 

easy but they just kept saying I would get 

used to it. 

As time passed by, I got used to my new 

school. In fact, my English skills improved 

and I started to understand the lessons better 

which helped me enjoy the classes in English. 

I also had started forming good relationship 

with my new, foreign teachers. I was li-k-i-n-g 

my new school. 

So that was my first year then. When I was 

in grade 9, my second year at HIBS, I was 

like a part of the school. I was spending 

most of my time there. I was getting on well 

with my ABIs. I enjoyed taking part in almost 

all activities and events. This school 

was different. Everybody was like brothers/ 

sisters to each other. We were like a family. 

You could talk to any teacher anytime you 

wanted. You could sit and drink something 

together, tell jokes, share your happiness or 

sadness with them. It was also possible to be 

so close to the principal that he let us in his 

room and ate and drank tea with us, but at 

my former schools, I could hardly see the 

principal and I was afraid to go to his room 

as I was scared that I might had done something 

wrong. 

2010-2011 was my third and also my last year 

at HIBS. I can never forget that last year. 

It's not possible to express my feelings of it 

here in this piece of writing but I still want 

to write a few words. In my last year, I knew 

almost everybody so well that I knew even 

all the family members of most students. 

We were good friends with everybody at 

school. I felt that I was really liked by everybody. 





They had celebrated my birthdays. Everybody 

had bought me presents, my 

friends, my teachers and even the principal. 

We had had a dinner at the principal's 

house. It was so interesting and also 

nice to eat at the principal's house. I just 

realized now how much they liked me, 

how close we were. We played soccer on 

Saturday evenings with my friends and 

teachers, we stayed in the dormitory after 

the match. The dormitory was like a second 

home for me. Sometimes, we cooked 

our own meal there. I had never cooked at 

home but I did at the dormitory and only 

then did I realize how delicious is the 

food you cook yourself. 

And then, the third yeas was over and I 

was leaving for a new school((university) 

with a new life in another country, USA. 

It was my last day in Vietnam. We were 

all at the airport, my family, my friends, 

teachers and my ABIs. After the checkin, 

it was time to say goodbye. I started 

with my parents. They hugged me and 

gave me some advice. Then my sister and 

then my friends and finally my abis and 

my teachers. At that moment, I, once 

again, realized that they all liked me very 

much. So, I left my most lovely school 

and my most beloved ones in such feelings 

and now I miss all of them.

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