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, is housed on two campuses – the elementary school campus for Pre-Nursery through Grade 5 students, and the nearby secondary school campus for Grade 6 through Grade 12 students. Utilizing an American curriculum 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 that they become ethical, global leaders tomorrow.
Vision and Mission
- Vision: Yangon Academy empowers each student 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
- Use 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 roles 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
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Yangon Academy middle school math students are participating in a Math Counts competition for the first time this year. Math Counts is a middle school mathematics competition held in various places in the United States and in a select number of cities around the world. Its founding sponsors include the CNA Foundation, the National Society of Professional Engineers, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Our students will go to the International School of Myanmar on January 26th to compete in individual and team categories. The top ten finalists in Yangon will continue to the Chapter competition in February. We hope to continue to participate in this prestigious competition each year.
ရန္ကုန္အကယ္ဒမီေက်ာင္းမွ အလယ္တန္းေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားျဖစ္ေသာ ၆တန္းမွ ၈တန္း ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားသည္ Math Counts သခ်ၤာစြမ္းရည္ ့ျပိဳင္ပြဲကိုယခုႏွစ္တြင္ ပထမဦးဆံုးအေနျဖင့္ စတင္ပါ၀င္ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ၾကမည္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
ဤ Math Counts သည္ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံ တ၀ွမ္း အလယ္တန္းေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားအတြက္ က်င္းပသည့္ သခ်ၤာစြမ္းရည္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲျဖစ္ပါသည္။ စပြန္စာမ်ားအျဖစ္ CNA foundation, ႏိုင္ငံအတြင္းရွိ ကၽြမ္းက်င္အင္ဂ်င္နီယာမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံတြင္းရွိ သခ်ာၤဆရာဆရာမမ်ားေကာင္စီမွ ဆရာ၊ ဆရာမမ်ားမွ ပါ၀င္ထားပါသည္။ ၄င္းအဖြဲ႔အစည္းသည္ အေမရိကန္သံရံုးမွ ေထာက္ပံ႔ေပးထားသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာရွိေက်ာင္းမ်ားကို ကူညီေထာက္ပံ႔ေပးလွ်က္ရွိပါသည္။
ဇန္န၀ါရီ ၂၆ ရက္ေန႔၊ ISY တြင္ က်င္းပမည့္ ဤၿပိဳင္ပြဲသို႔ ရန္ကုန္အကယ္ဒမီမွ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားသည္ တစ္ဦးခ်င္း က႑တြင္ေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း
၊ အဖြဲ႔လိုက္ က႑တြင္ေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း သြားေရာက္ပါ၀င္ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ၾကမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္း ထိပ္တန္း ဆန္ကာတင္ (၁၀) ဦးသည္ ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီလတြင္ က်င္းပမည့္ ေနာက္တဆင့္ Chapter အဆင့္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲကို ပါ၀င္ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ခြင့္ ရရွိမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
လာမည့္ႏွစ္စဥ္ႏွစ္တိုင္းတြင္လည္း ဂုဏ္သတင္းေၾကာ္ၾကားေသာ ဤၿပိဳင္ပြဲကို ပါ၀င္ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ႏိုင္ရန္ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါသည္။