HCM City's children set for 10 new amusement parks

Floating around: Children at HCM City's Dai Nam amusement park. The city's authorities plan to build 10 new amusement parks and three cultural centres for children during the next two years. — VNS File Photo

HCM CITY — The HCM City People's Committee is giving priority to building 10 amusement parks and three cultural centres for children this year.

A centre each will be built in Tan Phu, Hoc Mon and Binh Chanh districts this year while the amusement parks will be completed next year. Work on all of them will begin this year.

The 10 will be modelled on the Khanh Hoi Children's Entertainment Area in District 4, a free, 13,000sq.m facility that attracts 1,500-2,000 children every day.

One each will be built in the Can Thanh Town Park in Can Gio District, Phu Lam Park in District 6, Le Thi Rieng Park in District 10, the Youth Activity Centre in Nha Be District, the Binh Chanh Commune Cultural Park in Binh Chanh District, with the districts funding them.

The City Department of Transport will build four others at Gia Dinh Park in Go Vap District and Tao Dan Park, 23/9 Park, and Le Van Tam Park in District 1.

The city Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs will build the last one at the Youth Education and Vocational Training Centre.

The People's Committee has also ordered construction of the Rach Chiec Physical Training and Sport Complex, the City Museum, the symphony and opera theatre, and the City Circus in the Thu Thiem New Urban Area in District 2.

Around 1.7 million children aged below 16 live in the city but there are few amusement and entertainment venues for them. — VNS

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Canadian school opens new campus in Binh Chanh

The new campus of the Canadian International School - Photo: Tuong Vi

The Canadian International School (CIS) opened on Saturday in Residential Quarter 13C, Phong Phu Commune, HCMC’s Binh Chanh District.

The school which has students from kindergarten to high school, is organized and operated under the Education and Training Department of Niagara in the Canadian province of Ontario. Lessons are taught in English by Canadian teachers alongside subjects such as Vietnamese language, history, geography, literature and civic education taught in Vietnamese for Vietnamese students. When native students attend classes for Vietnamese subjects, foreign students will study French.

The school has been running for a year in Nguyen Duc Canh Street, Phu My Hung, District 7 during the construction of the US$21 million campus in Binh Chanh District that also has a culture – sports center.

The center has a theater, a cinema, bowling alleys, two swimming pools and 15 vocational classrooms.

CIS has a private library which contains nearly 7,000 book titles in English, Vietnamese and French, and an online library system supplied by the U.S.-based Follet Corporation, three science labs and three computer rooms. Seventh graders will be equipped a laptop by the school.

After a year of operation, CIS has thirty classes from pre-school to 10th grade with students from 25 different countries. CIS has 41 native Canadian teachers and 19 Vietnamese teachers.

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