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The origin of the BIS Group of Schools goes back to 1996. The school's founders, Maurice and Rosie Nguyen, were unsuccessful in finding a pre-school place for their one-year old daughter Jenny. Consequently, her parents decided to invest time, energy and savings into establishing their own pre-school which opened in August 1997. It was called Tiny Tots and located in a renovated villa on Nguyen Van Thu Street in District 1. With two classes in the mornings and one play-group in the afternoon, Jenny's parents were pleasantly surprised when 60 children had registered by the end of the first week and another 50 were on the waiting list. Tiny Tots quickly became the pre-school of choice for expatriates living in ho Chi Minh City. Building on this success, a second pre-school called Fundino was established in District 3 in 1998. Again the places on offer in the extra classes were rapidly filled taking the school enrolment to 120 children within just a few weeks of its opening day.

As these two pre-schools grew rapidly, so did Jenny and her parents who decided in the year 2000 to extend the original Tiny Tots villa on Nguyen Van Thu street to accommodate an additional 10 primary classrooms bring the total school roll to 300 children. This was the first year the school was officially called the British International School HCMC, with Mrs. Marjorie Hunt being the first Head Teacher. The founders enlisted the professional services of the UK based education company, Nord Anglia Education, to assist them in the establishment of BIS HCMC and to provide quality control of the educational provisions at the new school.

Two years later, a new purpose built campus was established in the residential An Phu area of the city. The whole school with its three campuses then had around 560 children on roll including the first secondary pupils who at that time were sharing the facilities and resources of what is now known as the British International School Ho Chi Minh City - Junior Campus on 246 Nguyễn Văn Hưởng, Street, Quận 2, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh which roughly translates to 246 Nguyen Van Huong Street, District 2, Ho Chi Minh City. Mr. Alun Thomas was appointed as the principal of the whole school (Primary and Secondary).

Within just a few years after its humble beginnings, BIS HCMC quickly established itself as the international school of choice to expatriate and local parents with pre and primary school aged children. In order to provide the same type of high quality education to secondary pupils, the school opened a separate purpose built secondary campus on land across from AP1 (the Primary Campus) in August of 2005 at 246 Nguyễn Văn Hưởng, Street, Quận 2, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh. The number of students on roll had now risen to more than 1,000 with the addition of this new school.

2006 saw the first Year 13 students graduate from BIS HCMC. It was only a small group of students, but they symbolised another significant landmark for the school that had developed from a small pre-school just 9 yeras earlier. For the first time ever students from BIS HCMC were going to university.

In August 2007 another new primary school was built on Tu Xuong Street in District 3, combining the Nguyen Van Thu campus and the Fundino campus into one new school. Mr. Shaun Williams was appointed as Principal of this campus and the school roll had risen to 1,350 children.

Over the ensuing years, various extensions were built in AP1 and AP2 (Secondary Campus) to provide additional classrooms and specialist facilities allowing BIS HCMC to grow towards its projected target maximum capacity of about 2,000 students.

As BIS HCMC developed over the years, its founders came to realise that the nature of the school's international curriculum delivered exclusively in English was not necessarily appropriate for some Vietnamese families who wanted their children to learn their mother tongue and nurture their Vietnamese culture in a school that would nonetheless prepare them well to go to universities abroad. In 2010 Mr. Shaun Williams was appointed as CEO of the BIS Group of Schools and tasked to develop a dual language curriculum school. The first British Vietnamese International School was opened in the Binh Chanh District of Ho Chi Minh City in August 2011 with approximately 350 students on roll and with Mr. Michael Deveney as its first principal.

Building on a more than decade of successful schools development in Ho Chi Minh City, the BIS Group of Schools decided to extend its model of international and dual language schools in Hanoi with BIS Hanoi and BVIS Royal City established in 2012 and 2013 respectively. The first appointed Principal at BIS Hanoi was Mr. Anthony Rowlands (who since 2019 was appointed as the principal of both An Phu campuses - AP1 and AP2) and the Founding Principal for BVIS Royal City was Mr. Mark Sayer.

Throughout the country, the BIS Group of Schools now (as of August 2022) enrolls more than over 4,000 children aged 2 to 18 from more than 55 nationalities and employs around 250 teachers, making it the largest and most successful international group of schools in Vietnam.

In March 2015, the group went from being apart of Nord Anglia Education to merging with them and being apart of a large and established education company with 77 international schools around the world enabling the schools to further develop and consolidate its leading status as a provider of high quality education to children aspiring to enroll in the most renowned universities around the world.

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