Singapore Vinschool received awards in the categories of "Mental Health Awareness" and "Climate Change Education" at the ESG Business Awards International Sustainability Development Awards Ceremony.
ESG Business Awards is an annual award initiated by Asian Business Review magazine to honor businesses and organizations that are leading in promoting positive social change and building a sustainable future in Asia. At the same time, the award supports development towards innovative goals and meaningful impact in the fields of climate change mitigation, resource conservation, social responsibility, and ethical governance.
In the Health and Wellness Award category, Vinschool received the Leading System Award in the field of Mental Health Awareness with the project "Wellbeing for better learning" (WBL). This is a project to support school mental health, launched in 2021 by the Vinschool School Psychology Department.
The goal of WBL is to connect students, parents, schools and psychologists, thereby raising awareness and enhancing mental health care activities for students across the system.
Representatives of Vinschool Education System attended the ESG Business Awards International Sustainable Development Awards Ceremony in Singapore. Photo: Vinschool
After two years of implementation, the project has completed nearly 100 capacity training courses for nearly 1,500 Vinschool teachers on caring for, supporting and improving students' mental health; supporting students to implement many projects on school mental health such as the BeWell series (student-led wellbeing workshops), the Talk Psychology forum....
In particular, the psychology forum is held annually, attracting the participation of thousands of students, parents and hundreds of thousands of online views on social networks. Most of Vinschool's facilities have a School Psychology Club and become a source of spreading knowledge and practicing mental health care.
In parallel, to improve the ability to monitor and support school mental health, the system has developed the SWB (Student Wellbeing System) application. Currently, this platform has nearly 65,000 registered accounts from parents and students throughout the system.
The SWB application developed by Vinschool aims to ensure coordination in monitoring, guiding and supporting students' school mental health. Photo: Vinschool
In the category of Vietnam's Leading Education System for Climate Change Education (Vietnam Climate Advocacy and Education Award), Vinschool won with the subject "Global Citizenship Education" (GCED). This is a special subject, built on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
GCED aims to help students understand important issues in Vietnam and around the world, thereby developing the skills and qualities needed to become pioneers and future creators. The system implements this subject for all students from grade 1 to grade 12.
Vinschool students learn about climate change. Photo: Vinschool
One of the focuses of GCED is education on sustainable development and environmental protection. Throughout the learning process, Vinschool provides knowledge on real-world issues while also enabling students to carry out practical projects to solve environmental problems in the community.
Thanks to that, Vinschool students have led many environmental and climate projects outside the scope of their subjects, actively participating in prestigious competitions on sustainable development. Among them, Bui Khanh Minh won first prize in the high school category of the Pratt and Whitney Singapore Invention Convention (PWSIC) with his disaster rescue drone project "The Servator". In addition, students also launched many competitions within the system such as Z Pitch or Innovation Challenge to share and develop start-up ideas and green projects, contributing to building a sustainable society.
Vinschool students carry out "The Servator", a drone project for disaster search and rescue, supporting rescue efforts for flood victims in Vietnam. Photo: Vinschool
Vinschool representative shared that the double award from ESG Business Awards has helped the unit make more mark in the journey of educational innovation in Vietnam: focusing on knowledge and skills in parallel with focusing on mental health care and caring for global sustainable development.
Nhat Le
After more than 9 years of establishment, Vinschool currently has 50 campuses and nearly 48,000 students from kindergarten to high school nationwide. The system has twice been awarded certificates of merit for educational innovation by the Ministry of Education and Training, and is the first Vietnamese school to be fully certified by the Council of International Schools (CIS). The unit also received two prestigious awards for edtech (educational technology) at the international awards ceremony Asian Technology Excellence Awards 2023.
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