Annual Report 2011-2012 - United Nations International School of ...

AppendicesStudent Fact File“Our students are naturally inquisitive, naturally driven to learnmore and naturally empathetic towards their peers. They are inan environment that models this continually and they thereforetruly accept each other as being different people with their ownunique set of strengths.”Jill McHale, Grade 2 Homeroom Teacher“The students at UNIS Hanoi are responsible for creating anenvironment that provides plenty of professional rewards for ateacher.”Rebecca Bechard, MSHS Science“Two new Grade 3 students arrived in August, 2009 with onlyenough English to identify letter sounds and a handful of colours;they also knew maybe twenty other English words betweenthem. By the end of Grade 5 they were jointly presenting aproject for the Exhibition about the Second World War in fluentEnglish with a wide-range of apposite academic vocabularyskillfully deployed. They did this with a confidence that madetheir first few months at UNIS Hanoi seem incredible in contrast.Being aware of such linguistic and personal transformations ispart of the pleasures of having a role in the UNIS Hanoi learningcommunity.”David Carter, Grade 3 EALStudents by Division 2011-12Students by Nationality 2011-12High School23%Middle School25%ElementarySchool52 %Vietnam16%USA14%Korea16%50 Other24%50 Other24%UK4%India3%Netherlands4%Japan4%Germany3%Malaysia3%Students by Gender 2011-12Girls48 %Boys52%Enrolment 2011-12(as of October 2011)ECC (Discovery to Kindergarten) 127Elementary (Grade 1 to 5) 403Middle (Grade 6 to 8) 252High (Grade 9-12) 234Total Students 1016Average length of stay08-09 2.3 yrs09-10 2.4 yrs10-11 3.1 yrs11-12 3.3 yrsIn our student body:60 nationalities38 mother tongue languages26UNIS Hanoi Annual Report 2011-2012