Class of 2021-2022
Our Story
Yangon Academy International School is a privately-held, Pre-Nursery through Grade Twelve international school located in Yangon’s Bahan Township. The School, established in 2004, utilizes American curriculum standards, with English as the primary language of instruction. Yangon Academy strives to educate the whole child with the goal of developing excellent students today, so they become responsible global citizen-leaders tomorrow.
Vision and Mission
- Vision: Yangon Academy empowers students to reach their full potential.
- Mission: Yangon Academy is a dynamic international school that provides a challenging K-12, American-based education, which prepares our students for excellence in university and life. Our community inspires students to love learning and to contribute positively within a diverse and ever-changing world.
Schoolwide Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
- Listens respectfully and asks questions to facilitate understanding
- Presents information and ideas clearly and honestly with sensitivity to others
- Demonstrates the ability to effectively communicate in multiple ways; e.g., speaking, writing, artistic/musical expression, kinesthetic/movement, mathematical/logical, interpersonal/social, intrapersonal/reflective, media/technology
- Uses appropriate technology as a tool to convey ideas
- Creates, adapts, and evaluates new ideas in the light of the common good
- Thinks reflectively and creatively to evaluate and solve problems
- Achieves excellence, originality, and integrity in one’s own work
- Recognizes and solves problems using various strategies appropriate to the situation or issue
- Analyzes and employs the arts, media, and technology to enhance the quality of life
- Participates in leisure and fitness activities for a balanced and healthy lifestyle
- Supports the health and safety of self and others
- Demonstrates a robust sense of physical and emotional happiness
- Demonstrates the skills of effective collaboration to achieve personal and group goals
- Collaborates meaningfully, supportively, and efficiently on teams
- Demonstrates leadership through collaboration and teamwork
- Understands that each member of a team plays an essential role, and all are interdependent
- Demonstrates a positive sense of respect for the dignity and welfare of others
- Acts ethically, taking responsibility for one’s own actions
- Values and honors the role of family in society
- Embraces awareness and respect for the rights of others, both locally and globally
- Respects and affirms the diversity and interdependence of the world’s peoples and cultures
- Demonstrates care and concern for the environment and community
- Uses resources wisely
- Demonstrates attributes of passion, curiosity, and inquiry
- Continually develops one’s given potential
- Takes risks to imagine and innovate
- Accepts responsibility for learning
High School Profile
To learn more about the inspiring success stories of our students and graduates, please visit our High School Profile.
Child Protection
At Yangon Academy, our first priority is ensuring the safety and well-being of all students. As such, we continually strive to develop and implement the best child protection policies and the safest hiring practices as recommended by the International Task Force on Child Protection. Therefore, all school stakeholders as well as candidates for employment should read, understand, and agree to abide by the policies and procedures set forth in the Handbook for Child Protection.
Curriculum Highlights
Welcome
Welcome to the 2022-23 version of our new school website. We hope these pages will prove helpful and interesting!
Mingalabar! On behalf of the faculty, staff, and students – Welcome to Yangon Academy – Home of the Wolves! My name is Mike Gordon, and I am the secondary school principal, serving my sixth year at Yangon Academy. It is a privilege to work at a school with such dedicated, caring teachers and with such wonderful, kind students. Together, our school community strives every day to live-out our Mission:
Curriculum
The high school program at Yangon Academy offers a challenging college preparatory curriculum using a wide variety of American textbooks and materials. We also use high quality materials and resources from other publishers from around the world, together with the ever-increasing multitude of internet-based options. Topics and processes in English encountered include in-depth discussion and text analysis in world literature, guided practice in writing, grammar, spelling, speaking, and listening techniques, among others.
Welcome
I always love the first day of school better than the last day of school. The firsts are the best because they are beginnings. The first day of school is the first day of life, as well. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults.” Frederick Douglas perhaps understood the value and relevance of early childhood education. Early childhood education is focused on the critical developmental milestones, skills, and concepts that children attain during this period of their lives, from social-emotional skills to the beginnings of numeracy, literacy, and critical thinking.
Curriculum
Our pre-primary team provide a caring environment where children, from age two, are able to learn together through a careful balance of structured play and more formal activities. Facilities are available for children to learn and play both indoors and outdoors.
Welcome
Dear Yangon Elementary School Parents,
On behalf of the staff of Yangon Elementary School, it is my distinct pleasure to Welcome You to 2022-2023 School Year! We assure you that we will implement the vision, mission and set goals of the school where all students will receive a world class education.
Curriculum
The Yangon Academy Elementary School includes Kindergarten to grade five. Applicants must be the specified age for each grade by 1 September. The majority of our elementary students first successfully attended our Early Childhood Center program. From its beginning 13 years ago the school’s purpose has been to provide the very best English language education possible using an U.S.-based curriculum at a lower tuition than the few international schools of that time period.
Welcome
Welcome to the 2022-23 version of our new school website. We hope these pages will prove helpful and interesting!
Mingalabar! On behalf of the faculty, staff, and students – Welcome to Yangon Academy – Home of the Wolves! My name is Mike Gordon, and I am the secondary school principal, serving my sixth year at Yangon Academy.
Curriculum
The Middle School program at Yangon Academy offers a challenging curriculum using a wide variety of American textbooks and materials. We also use high quality materials and resources from other publishers from around the world, together with the ever-increasing multitude of internet-based options. Topics and processes in English encountered include in-depth discussion and text analysis in world literature, guided practice in writing, grammar, spelling, speaking, and listening techniques, among others.
