myanmar’s 1st international education magazine • …

M YA N M A R ’ S 1 S T I N T E R N AT I O N A L E D U C AT I O N M A G A Z I N E • ျမနမာႏငင၏ ပထမဆး ႏငငတကာ ပညာေရးမဂၢဇငး

plus Behind the Scenes,

Pre-school Directory and More!ဆရာတစေယာကရ႕ တစေန႔တာဘ၀၊ ေကာငးမားလမးၫႊနႏင

အျခားေသာ ပညာေရးဆငရာ အေၾကာငးအရာမား...

How to Get Your Kids Reading More

သငကေလးငယ စာဖတအားေကာငးလာေအာင ဘယလလပၾကမလ ...

Advice from an International School Graduate

ႏငငတကာေကာငးမ ဘြ႕ရၿပးသ၏ အႀကျပခကမား

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FREEInquiring Young Minds: Our Guide to Early Childhood Education

လငယမား၏ စတဓာတခြနအား တးတကေကာငးမြနေစဖ႔ ကေလးပညာေရးအတြက ကၽြႏပတ႔၏ အႀကျပခကမား

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“Edu International Myanmar” (ျမနမာႏငင၏ ပထမဥးဆးေသာ ႏငငတကာ ပညာေရးမဂၢဇငး)မ ႀကဆပါသည။ ကၽြႏပတ႔၏ အဓက ရညမနးခကမာ စာဖတ သမားအေနႏင မမကေလးငယမား၏ ပညာေရးႏင ပတသကၿပး သသငသ ထကေသာ အေၾကာငးအရာမား၊ အသပညာမား၊ သတငးမား၊ စလငစြာ သရ နားလညၿပး အေကာငးဆးေရြးခယဆးျဖတႏငေစရနျဖစသည။

ငယစဥကာလတြငလမႈေရးရာႏင စတပငးဆငရာတ႔အားလးသည ပတ၀နး ကငမအရာရာကသငယေနၿပး အာ႐ေၾကာမားသညခတဆကေနကာ ဥး ေႏာက ဖြ႕ၿဖးမႈ အလြနလငျမနေသာ ကာလျဖစသျဖင အထးအေရးပါလသည။ ကေလးမားတြင ဥးေႏာက၏ ၉၀ ရာခငႏႈနးသည အသကငါးႏစအရြယတြင စတငဖြ႕ၿဖးေလရသည။ ထ႔ေၾကာင ယခေဆာငးပါးတြင ရနကနၿမ႕ရ မႀက ေကာငးပညာေရး ပပးသ ၄၀ ေကာထမ လမးၫႊနခကမားရယကာ ကေလး ငယမားအတြက အသငေတာဆးေသာ ပညာေရးဆငရာ လမးၫႊနမႈတစခက ဖနတးတငျပထားပါသည။

ေဆာငးပါးထတြင အသကအရြယမတေသာ ကေလးငယမားက စာဖတအား သနေစရန အမတြငးမာပင ကယတငကညပပးသငၾကားႏငမည အႀကဥာဏ ေကာငးမားပါ၀ငၿပး ဆရာတစဥး၏ လကေတြ႕ဘ၀ျဖတသနးပကလညး ေတြ႕ ရမညျဖစသည။ ထ႔ျပင အငတာဗးက ေျဖၾကားေပးသည ကၽြႏပတ႔၏ ေလး စားရေသာ ကဖနးေကာမးျမငမ သသရထားေသာ ပညာေရးအေၾကာငးႏင ဇြ လ႔လ ၀ရယတ႔၏ အေရးပါပတ႔ကလညး မေ၀ထားသည။

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Loren Nadin မနေနးဂငး အယဒတာ

Welcome to Edu. International Myanmar - Myanmar’s first international education magazine. We hope to equip our readers with the knowledge they need to make the best choices for their child’s education.

The early years of a child’s life are particularly vital; social and emotional skills are developing, synapses are connecting, and the brain undergoes an intense period of growth. In fact, ninety per cent of brain development takes place by the time a child reaches the age of five. That’s why, for this edition, we’ve created a guide to terminology used in early childhood education, along with a directory of over forty preschool education providers in Yangon.

Inside, you’ll also find advice on how you can support literacy at home with children of all ages, we take a peek behind the scenes to see what life as a teacher is really like, and our inspiring interviewee - Phone Kyaw Moe Myint - shares his words of wisdom on education and the importance of developing resilience.

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IT’S KNOWING THAT THE GREATEST LESSONS THAT CAN BE LEARNT ARE OFTEN OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM.

အေကာငးမြနဆးေသာ သငခနးစာမားက စာသငခနးျပငပလႈပရားမႈမားမလညး မၾကာခဏ မားစြာသငယႏငပါသည။


IT’S KNOWING THAT THE GREATEST LESSONS THAT CAN BE LEARNT ARE OFTEN OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM.

အေကာငးမြနဆးေသာ သငခနးစာမားက စာသငခနးျပငပလႈပရားမႈမားမလညး မၾကာခဏ မားစြာသငယႏငပါသည။

Photography Sebastian See-Schierenberg

Contents

06Day in the Life of…A high school music teacherတစေန႔တာလပငနးစဥအထကတနးေကာငးတစေကာငး၏ဂတဆရာ

10Beyond the ClassroomSchool volunteering and outreach activities across Yangonစာသငခနးျပငပ သငၾကားေရးေကာငးတြငးလပအားေပးျခငးႏငျပငပလႈပရားမႈမား

12Graduate StoriesAn interview with international school graduate Phone Kyaw Moe Myintဘြ႕ရပျပငမားႏငငတကာေကာငးမ ဘြ႕ရ ကေကာမးျမငႏငအငတာဗးခဏတာ

20Parenting MattersAdvice on how to get your childreading moreအပထနးမႈဆငရာကစၥမားသင၏ကေလး စာပမဖတလာဖ႔အတြကဆရာလမးၫႊန

24Education DecodedYour guide for navigating early childhood educationပညာေရးထတေဖာခကသငအတြက ကေလးငယမား၏ပညာေရးလမးၫႊန

28Directory of Early Education ProvidersOver forty international schools, pre-schools and daycare providers in Yangonကေလးငယမား၏ ပညာေရးပငးပပးေပးေသာ ေနရာမား လမးၫႊနရနကနၿမ႕ရ ႏငငတကာေကာငး ၄၀ ေကာ၊ မႀကေကာငးမားႏငေန႔ကေလးထနးေကာငးမား

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06:00Wake-up

Before school, I pack lunch, shower, play with the cats and try to do a New York Times crossword.

07:00Leave for school

My husband and I try to get some exercise by cycling, but the hot season has a way of talking us out of biking, in which case we’ll get a taxi to the school.

07:30Teaching day starts

My morning classes consist of a 90-minute preparation period and two 45-minute 8th-grade classes.

11:10Lunch

Over lunch, I might have lunch supervision duty, a lunchtime meeting, or be running auditions for a showcase or other musical activity.

11:55Afternoon classes start

In the afternoon I teach two 45-minute 7th-grade classes and one 90-minute High School Choir class.

A Day in the Life of …A High School Music Teacher

15:30Teaching day ends

I often run after-school activities. On Mondays, I lead Girls Choir, an ensemble of amazing young women from Grades 6-11 (it makes Monday one of my favourite days of the week!) During festival season, I have rehearsals with groups of students for travelling or local festivals.

16:30Leave school

I have something planned most evenings. On Monday I meet up with my friends, on Tuesday I lead a community choir called ‘The Strand Singers’, Wednesday is frisbee day and then Thursday I spend cooking, reading or watching something on TV with my husband.

Ever wondered what it’s like to be a teacher?We met up with Katherine to find out more about her role as Music Director at Yangon International School, why she chose to become a teacher and how music instruction helps pupils to develop skills of analysis, interpretation and reflection.

Insights

My experience as a child in a great music program ultimately inspired me to become a music teacher myself. I’ve been teaching at YIS for four years so far and I’m still going strong! Myanmar is such a fantastic country to live in, and I feel very fortunate to have this opportunity. My role as the Music Director for the High School is to ensure that each student, no matter their musical background, knows more about themselves and the world through music. I want my students to leave my class not just knowing how to sing something, but how to understand the meaning of what they’re singing. I want them to develop skills of analysis, interpretation, evaluation, reflection and performance that will serve them in many capacities throughout their life.

Logistically, I teach about 180 students each year over a span of six grade levels. I am responsible for creating the curriculum for five different courses, in addition to organising two major concerts, a talent show, at least two musical fundraisers, graduation ceremony music, and at least two extra-curricular festivals.

If my work can inspire just one student to take up an instrument, sing a solo at a concert, or learn to love music just a little bit more, then I know that I’ve had a positive impact.

Conducting a Strand Singers concert, May 2018. Photography MYANMORE MAGAZINE, ‘THE STRAND SINGERS CONCERT @ RIVER GALLERY’.

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I want my students to leave my class not just knowing how to sing something, but how to understand the meaning of what they're singing

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06:00အပယာထ

ေကာငးမသြားမ ေန႔လညစာထမငးဘး ျပငဆင၊ ေရ ခး၊ ေၾကာငေတြန႔ကစား၊ နယေယာကတငးမစရ ပေဟဠ အေျဖရာၾကညတယ။

07:00ေကာငးသြား

ကၽြနမအမးသားႏင ကၽြနမ ေလကငခနးအေနႏင စကဘးစးၿပး ေကာငးသြားေလရတယ။ ဒါေပမယ အရမးပတ ေႏြရာသမာေတာ စကဘးမစးနငဘး။ အဒအစား Taxi စးၿပး ေကာငးသြားျဖစတယ။

07:30တစေန႔တာ စာသငမႈစတင

ကၽြနမရ နနကခငးအခနစာရငးမာ မနစ ၉၀ ျပင ဆငခနႏင ၈တနး (Grade – 8) အတနး ၂ တနး က ၄၅ မနစစ သငၾကားခနေတြပါပါတယ။

အထကတနးေကာငးတစေကာငးမဂတဆရာတစဥး၏ တစေန႔တာလပငနးစဥ …

ဆရာတစေယာကဆတာ ဘယလမးလလ႔ သခငေနၾကမယ ထင ပါတယ။ကၽြႏပတ႔အဖြ႕မ Yangon International School တြင ဂတဒါရကတာအျဖစ တာ၀နထမးေဆာငေနေသာ Katherine ႏငေတြ႕ဆၿပး အဘယေၾကာင ဆရာမတစဥးအေနႏင ရပတညဖ႔ဆးျဖတခပႏင ဂတသင႐းသည ေကာငးသားမား ၏ ဆငျခငသးသပႏငစြမး၊ အဓပၸါယေကာကယႏငစြမးႏင စဥးစားေတြးေခၚႏင စြမးမားက မညသ႔အေထာကအကျပႏငသည မားက ေဆြးေႏြးခပါသည။

11:10ေန႔လညစာစား

ေန႔လညစာစားၿပးခနတြင ေကာငးသားေတြရ ေန႔ လညစာစားခနက ႀကးၾကပတ ဂတတ႔ အစညး အေဝးတ႔ ရတတတယ။ ျပပြအတြက လေရြးပြေတြ ဒါမမဟတ အျခားဂတဆငရာ လပရားမႈေတြ လပရ တတေသးတယ။

11:55ေန႔ခငးအတနးခန

ေန႔လညမာေတာ ၇ တနး (Grade - 7) ေတြအတြက ၄၅ မနစ အတနး ၂ တနး သငရၿပး အထကတနး Choir (သၿပငေတးသဆျခငး) အတြက မနစ ၉၀ အတနး ၁ တနး သငရပါတယ။

15:30စာသငခနၿပးဆး

ေကာငးခနျပငပ လႈပရားမႈေတြမာလ မၾကာခဏ ဦး ေဆာငရေလရတယ။ တနလၤာေန႔မာဆရင ၆ တနး

Katherine with two of her students who have dressed up as her for a school dress-up day, Spring 2018.Photography YIS

(Grade - 6) မ ၁၁တနး (Grade - 11) ထရ တ အတနးေတြထက Choir အမးအစားဆတ အၾသစရာေကာငးေအာင ၿပးျပညစတ မနးကေလး အဖြ႕က ဦးေဆာငရတယ။ (အဒါေလးက ကၽြနမရ႕ တနလၤာေန႔ေလးက အျခားေန႔ေတြထက ပၿပး ေပာရႊငေစပါတယ။) ေကာငးသားအဖြ႕ေတြရ႕ ေပာ ပြစားခရးစဥေတြန႔ သၿပငေတးသဆတ ပြေတာ ရာသေတြမာ ေဖာေျဖေရးအတြက အစမးေလကင ရတာေတြရတယ။

16:30ေကာငးမျပန

ကၽြနမရ ညေနပငး ေတာေတာမားမားကေတာ အစ အစဥေတြႏင ျပညေနတတတယ။ တနလၤာေန႔မာ သငယခငးေတြန႔ေတြ႕ျဖစတယ။ အဂၤါေန႔မာ “The Strand Singers” လ႔ေခၚတ Choir အဖြ႕အစညးက ဦးစးေဆာငရြကရတယ။ ဗဒၶဟးေန႔ကေတာ ဖရစ ဘ (Frisbee) ေန႔ေပါ။ ၾကာသပေတးေန႔တြင ကၽြနမ အမးသားႏငအတ ထမငးခကတယ၊ စာအပဖတ တယ၊ တဗၾကညၾကတယ။

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With four students and Dr. Nicole Lamartine (Wyoming University) at the TAISM Festival of Choirs. Oman, March 2018.Photography YIS


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သတ႔ေလးေတြရ ဘဝတစေလာကလးက အေထာကအကျပသြားမယ ဆငျခငသးသပႏငစြမး၊ အဓပၸါယေကာကယႏငစြမး၊ အမားအမန ခြျခားႏငစြမးႏင ေၾကာငးကးေတြးေခၚတတစြမးေတြမာ တးတက သြားေစခငတယ။

ေျပာရမယဆရငတစႏစတြင အတနး ၆ တနးေပါငး ေကာငးသား ၁၈၀ ခန႔ သငၾကားရတယ။ ကၽြနမရ႕ တာဝနက မတညတ သင႐းညႊနးတမး ၅ ခက ဖနတးရတယ။ ဒါအျပင ေဖာေျဖပြႀကးႏစခ၊ ပင ကယစြမးရညျပပြ၊ ဂတရနပေငြပြ အနညးဆး ၂ခ၊ ဘြ႕ႏငးသဘင အခမးအနားအတြက ဂတပငးႏင ႐းရာပြစဥ အနညးဆး ၂ ခ ကလညး ဦးေဆာင စစဥရတယ။

ကၽြနမအလပမတဆင ေကာငးသားတစဦးက ဂတ တရယာတစခ စတငတးခတျခငး၊ ပြေတာတစခခ မာ တစဦးတညး သဆေဖာေျဖနငျခငး သ႔မဟတ ဂတက ပၿပးႏစသကသြားမယဆရငျဖင ကၽြနမ အတြက ေကာငးတလကၡဏာလ႔ ျမငမတယ။

Strand Singers ေဖာေျဖပြတြင ပ႔ခေနစဥ၊ May 2018Photography MYANMORE MAGAZINE

စထားရတ ပဂၢလရ႕ စတငလအတငး ၀တဆငရတ ပြမာ ဆရာမ Katherine စတငလအတငး ၀တဆငထားတ သမရ႕ ေကာငးသား ၂ ဦးႏငအတ။ 2018 ေႏြဦး. ပက YISမကးယေဖာျပသည။Photography YIS

TAISM ေကာငး ရ႕ Choir (သၿပငေတးသဆျခငး) ပြေတာတြင ေကာငးသား ၄ ေယာကႏင ေဒါကတာနကးလလမာသင (ေဝးမငး တကသလ) မတလ ၂၀၁၈. ပက YISမကးယေဖာျပသည။Photography YIS

Translation NAM KHAM LI

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Yangon International School Spring Showcase, May 2018.Photography YIS

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From student-led fundraising to large-scale donations, here’s a look at just a few of the fantastic projects that Myanmar’s International Schools are involved with.

Beyond the Classroom

The Secret Service @ MyanmarInternational School Yangon (MISY)

The Secret Service is a student-led volunteer group at MISY. Students work together to make decisions about which causes to support and how they will fundraise.

"This year we donated our money to an old persons’ home, a cancer charity, an orphanage and some environmental projects in Yangon. We also gave up our weekends to spend time at the old persons’ home and the orphanage. We hope to bring happiness to the people that we work with." - [ M I S Y S E C R E T S E R V I C E T E A M ]

Magic Bus Myanmar & Dulwich College Yangon

Dulwich College Yangon has supported Magic Bus Myanmar since March 2016. The project works with children in the townships of Thanlyin and Hlaing Thayar. The goal is to break children out of the cycle of poverty by nurturing them on a journey to livelihood, following an activity-based curriculum. Through the Dulwich International Schools Foundation (DISF) a donation of US$400,000 was made, with continued support coming from ongoing fundraising initiatives and events.

The New Children’s Choir & The International School Yangon (ISY)

The majority of children in The New Children’s Choir live in orphanages in Yangon - the choir hopes to provide them with educational and performance opportunities. ISY supports the project with rehearsal space, resources and expertise, and students from the school also take part in the choir. As the choir’s Founder-Director Sebastian See-Schierenberg points out, the project has enormous benefits for everyone involved; ‘it is rewarding to see young people achieve all these amazing things and to see their confidence grow each time they perform. It’s also valuable for the international school children to come into contact with children from differing backgrounds and to support and learn from each other’.

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Social Circus Myanmar @ The French International School of Yangon (LFIR)

Social Circus Myanmar’s motto is ‘everyone needs to have fun’. They work with children to build confidence through circus skills workshops. Students at LFIR decided to organise a solidarity campaign to support a group of street children who have been taking part in the workshops for the past four years. Student’s took the fundraising into their own hands; they designed posters, sold cakes, and collected clothes, toys and donations. The project culminated in an afternoon spent learning circus skills together.

It’s valuable for the international school

children to come into contact with children

from differing backgrounds and

to support and learn from each other.

The Secret Service students.Photography MISY

Children take part in an activity based session, run by Magic Bus community staff. Photography Dulwich College Yangon

New Children's Choir.Photography Sebastian See-Schierenberg

Student bake-sale.Photography LFIR

Sharing experiences.Photography LFIR

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S E B A S T I A N S E E - S C H I E R E N B E R G


School Days

Where did you attend school?

I studied at the International School of Yangon enrolling in Pre-K in 1990 and graduating in 2002. It was a close-knit family because the student-teacher ratio was so small. I graduated in a class of 32 students, and the whole school body was around 400 students at that time. Now

Graduate Stories: Phone Kyaw Moe Myint

When parents invest in an international education for theirchild, it is an investmentin their child's future. Graduate Stories is the realisation of some of those futures; we hear from successful graduates from international schools in Myanmar to find out how they got to where they are today.

I have been given a privileged life and could

not ask for anything more so I feel it is my duty to

give back whenever I can. From an environmental perspective, I work with many young kids, and I feel a responsibility for

their future.

As a teen, Phone Kyaw Moe Myint (Carl) represented Myanmar in sailing competitions across the globe. As an adult, he has turned his childhood passion into a rewarding career. As Vice President of the Myanmar Yachting Federation and Director of Ngwe Saung Yacht Club & Resort he shares his love of sailing with the next generation. In this interview, Carl reflects on his experiences in international education and shares the secrets to his success.

the school has doubled in size. Nevertheless, during my last visit it was nice to see some old teachers and employees. It’s still very homely.

What were you like at school?

I was very playful and energetic. Let’s say I kept my teachers entertained! I enjoyed music, art, anything that allowed me to be creative, and I loved sports too. I had a love-

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hate relationship with chemistry, biology and maths. I did not like English literature - studying novels was not my cup of tea. I prefer to be doing something; I love doing projects, especially with teammates, and creating or building things. I was in almost every play or musical the school hosted starting from Grade 6.

Do you think you gained anything from taking part in the school musicals?

Taking part in the musicals changed me from being a shy kid to being more open on stage. That was definitely a benefit. As an adult, most people will likely end up being on stage at one time or another; giving a speech or a presentation. At least if you’ve performed as a child, then it’s not the first time you’re doing it.

You took up sailing at the age of 9, how do you feel your involvement with the sport has shaped you?

It turns out that on the first summer sailing course that I took I met the people who, to this day, I still call my best friends.

Sailing taught me to challenge myself and to set goals. The first time I was on the national team, I went to South Africa. The sea was only 15 degrees, the wind was strong, and I had never competed in the open sea before. Of course, it was scary, there were even times when I wanted to quit, but this was a valuable lesson; in life you will be thrown challenges, there will be storms, and there will be big waves, it’s going to be tough but you have to pull through and finish the race. In that sense, sailing played a big part in developing who I am.

University

Where did you attend university?

I attended Colorado School of Mines, which is an incredibly tough school with a very high drop-out rate. At that time my father was already working in the oil and gas business, so he wanted my brother and me to get petroleum degrees. Initially, I did study petroleum engineering; however, three years into the course I realised that it was not a good fit for me, so I changed my major. It was a great thing for the world that I did not become an engineer. I graduated with a BA in Economics and a Minor in Petroleum Engineering. Very few students have that qualification because you have to take so many courses!

What was your experience of studying in the USA?

For me, the best experiences came outside of the classroom. Attending University abroad was a significant milestone in my adult life - being away from home for the first time I had the opportunity to learn a lot of life’s lessons. I loved the college friends I met and I loved the culture. It was one of the best times of my life.

Back in Myanmar

Tell us about your career, what do you do now you’re back in Myanmar?

I do many different things in my career, although nothing to do with petroleum and economics! My primary role is as Vice President of the Myanmar Yachting Federation (MYF). As a former sailor and athlete, I have an enormous love for the sport, but this is not just a passion but a necessity; the programme needs someone to oversee all the operations of the Federation. I’m also Director of Ngwe Saung Yacht Club

& Resort (NSYC) which was built to host the 2013 SEA games. As well as being a resort, the yacht club acts as a base for sailing activities. It is a training ground, a location for races, and has a sailing and surf team made up of locals who are supported by the NSYC. I’m also the Co-Founder and Director of a clothing brand.

Your various roles must keep you busy, but you’re still involved in lots of voluntary activities. Can you tell us more about those?

Since the beginning of June 2016, I’ve been Country Coordinator and Founder of Trash Hero Myanmar. I spend a lot of my personal time on this project. So far 10,000 volunteers have participated in over 100 clean-ups to collect 40,000 kilos of trash across Myanmar. Trash Hero has changed my life and my lifestyle. It has opened my eyes to the devastation that pollution is bringing to our world and motivated me to take action. It is the individual responsibility of every human to protect our planet.

This was a valuable lesson; in life you will be thrown challenges, there will be storms,

and there will be big waves... but you have to pull through and finish the race.

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Why do you think volunteering is important?

We all have jobs and need to put food on our plates and a roof over our head, but we must not forget to be grateful. I have been given a privileged life and could not ask for anything more so I feel it is my duty to give back whenever I can. From an environmental perspective, I work with many young kids, and I feel a responsibility for their future, especially when it comes to pollution.

Reflections

To what do you owe your success?

There’s no doubt about it; I owe my success to my parents. I wouldn’t be here today if they hadn’t supported me, both emotionally and financially. They’ve given me a lot of opportunities.

Sailing has also positively shaped my life, and I wish the same for others. I feel grateful to still be a part of the sport and have the opportunity to share the experience. My involvement in sports has taught me so much about life and has opened many doors for me.

What role has education played in your life?

I am grateful for the lessons my teachers taught me which I’m now passing on to my young sailors; respect your elders, be responsible, don’t litter, don’t be a bully. Getting these basics right is so important.

Ultimately, I think what school taught me is; here's a problem, find the solution. Colorado School of Mines was arduous. At times, it was mentally and emotionally heartbreaking doing something that I wasn’t good at, but I made it somehow. That struggle taught me how to find answers and face challenges.

What role do graduates who have studied abroad have to play in the future of Myanmar?

That's hard to say because of course, it’s up to the individual. Nevertheless, Myanmar suffers from a brain drain, so the country definitely needs their expertise. As a repat you know your country, you know the

culture and can play a significant role. I’ve seen a lot of repats do great things.

Regardless, I hope that those who have these opportunities, as I did, remember where they came from, because having the chance to travel abroad, let alone get an education or job outside of Myanmar, is very fortunate.

You have successfully gone through the international education system and now work with young people in Myanmar. What advice do you have for parents?

In my experience, I think it is essential that children spend time outside of the classroom; I have seen first hand the benefits of letting a child try new things and find something they love doing. This could be any extra-curricular activity, ranging from music to art or sports. They may not be good in the beginning, or at all, but the point is for them to learn the process of becoming better

at something and not giving up. Children also need to have time to play and have fun.

I’d also encourage parents not to force their dreams upon a child to make them pursue a career that is not right for them. Unlocking a person’s potential is the most rewarding thing, but this means a certain amount of freedom must be given, along with lots of love and support. When a child finds their passion and pursues it, that’s when they become unstoppable. That’s how leaders and champions are made.

When a child finds their passion and pursues it, that’s when they become unstoppable. That’s how

leaders and champions are made.

Phone Kyaw Moe Myint (aka) Carl.

Surfing with kids at the Nwe Saung Yacht Club.

Young sailors enjoying the great outdoors.

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Find out about Carl's projects on facebook: @myanmarsailing @NgweSaungYachtClubandResort @trashheromyanmar

For an extended version of this interview, head to www.edu-intl.com

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As well as developing early academic skills such as basic numeracy, literacy, problem solving and creative thinking, children also learn the value of respect and caring, of teamwork and sharing, and of motivation and empathy. Teachers at Le Petit Schoolhouse are patient, creative, and passionate about their vocation, and are chosen not just for their skills and qualifications, but also for their dedication to providing only the highest standards of care and education to their beloved little wards!

Drawing on its influence from the novel, The Little Prince, life at Le Petit Schoolhouse is a wonderful journey of learning, activity, and play, where children can explore and enquire within a nurturing and caring environment. With such student centred learning, children are fully engaged and open to all of the new and exciting ideas they are going to discover, laying the foundation for future academic success.

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Our 21st Century philosophy engages children through communication, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration, and equips students with the skills they need to be successful in the world of tomorrow. Our Primary programme, which accepts children from five years old, consists of the Cambridge International Primary Programme (CIPP) and the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB PYP). RBIS is the only school in Myanmar to offer the IB PYP, and our pupils enjoy a full range of subjects including maths, English, science, ICT, music, social studies, P.E., Myanmar, Chinese, and Spanish. Of course, pupils have a wide range of exciting after school activities to choose from and we even offer free additional tuition classes for students who need a little extra help with core subjects. Leading on from the primary years, our secondary programme offers Cambridge Secondary Checkpoint One & Two, a full range of Cambridge IGCSEs and Cambridge and Pearson Edexcel A Levels.


Royal British International School offers you the very best in 21st Century student-centred education, with a fully international British curriculum primary and secondary programme.

Admissions Office: No. 15. Thukhitar Street, Moe Kaung Road, Yankin Township, Yangon, Myanmar Tel: (+95) 01579492 / 09950257208 Email: [email protected]

Admissions Office: 26B Mar Lar Myint Street, Yankin Township, Yangon, Myanmar Tel: (+95) 09953380088 Email: [email protected]

As well as developing early academic skills such as basic numeracy, literacy, problem solving and creative thinking, children also learn the value of respect and caring, of teamwork and sharing, and of motivation and empathy. Teachers at Le Petit Schoolhouse are patient, creative, and passionate about their vocation, and are chosen not just for their skills and qualifications, but also for their dedication to providing only the highest standards of care and education to their beloved little wards!

Drawing on its influence from the novel, The Little Prince, life at Le Petit Schoolhouse is a wonderful journey of learning, activity, and play, where children can explore and enquire within a nurturing and caring environment. With such student centred learning, children are fully engaged and open to all of the new and exciting ideas they are going to discover, laying the foundation for future academic success.

Royal British International School is branching out! Introducing Le Petit Schoolhouse - our premium preschool for children aged eighteen months to six years. Centred around the world leading International Early Years Curriculum, the school programme provides a well-structured and broad based range of subjects which will perfectly prepare your children for primary study at the international level.

Call today to arrange a visit and learn about life at

Le Petit Schoolhouse!

Our 21st Century philosophy engages children through communication, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration, and equips students with the skills they need to be successful in the world of tomorrow. Our Primary programme, which accepts children from five years old, consists of the Cambridge International Primary Programme (CIPP) and the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB PYP). RBIS is the only school in Myanmar to offer the IB PYP, and our pupils enjoy a full range of subjects including maths, English, science, ICT, music, social studies, P.E., Myanmar, Chinese, and Spanish. Of course, pupils have a wide range of exciting after school activities to choose from and we even offer free additional tuition classes for students who need a little extra help with core subjects. Leading on from the primary years, our secondary programme offers Cambridge Secondary Checkpoint One & Two, a full range of Cambridge IGCSEs and Cambridge and Pearson Edexcel A Levels.


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ကြနေတာ (၁၉၉၀) ခႏစမာ၊ International School of Yangon မာ မႀကစတကၿပး၊ (၂၀၀၂) ခႏစမာေကာငးၿပးပါတယ။ ေကာငးသားန႔ ဆရာ၊ ဆရာမ ဥးေရက အရမးနညးတအတြက ေႏြးေထြး တ အသငးအဝငးတစချဖစခ႔ပါတယ။ အဒအခန တနးက၊ တစေကာငးလးမာ ေကာငးသားအေရ အတြက (၄၀၀) ေလာကရေပမယ၊ ကြနေတာတ႔အ တနးမာ စစေပါငး (၃၂) ေယာကပရပါတယ။ အခ ေတာ ေကာငးကႏစဆေလာကျဖစသြားၿပ။ ေနာက ဆးတစေခါကေရာကခ႔တအခနက အရငက ဝန ထမးေတြ ဆရာ၊ ဆရာမေတြန႔ ေတြ႕ခရတယ။ အရင ကလဘ ေႏြးေႏြးေထြးေထြး ရေနဆပါပ။

ေကာငးတကတနးက ဘယလေကာငးသားမး ျဖစခပါသလ။

ကြနေတာက အၿမတမးတကၾကြေနၿပးအရမးေဆာ တယ။ ဆရာ၊ ဆရာမေတြ မပငးေအာင လပေပး တယဆပါေတာ။ ကြနေတာ ဖနတးစဥးစားရတာ ေတြစတဝငစားတယ။ ဂတ၊ အႏပညာေတြ စတဝင စားတယ။ အားကစားလညး စတဝငစားတယ။ ဓါတ ေဗဒ၊ ဇဝေဗဒန႔ သခၤာန႔ကေတာ ႀကကလက မ ႀကကလကပါဘ။ အဂၤလပစာေပေတြေလလာတာ ေတာမႀကကဘး။ ဝတေတြသငရတာ ကြနေတာ အတြက ပငးစရာေကာငးတယ။ ကြနေတာက အဖြ႕လကဖနတးရတာေတြ၊ တစခခေဆာကရတာ ေတြက ပႀကကတယ။ လကေတြ႕လပေနရတာက ပႀကကတယ။ ကြနေတာ (၆) တနးေလာကကစၿပး၊ ေကာငးကလပတျပဇာတ (သ႔) ဂတဆငရာအဖြ႕ ေတြမာ အလလပါဝငျဖစတယ။

ေကာငးကျပဇာတေတြမာ ပါဝငဆငႏႊမႈေတြက ေန တစခခရခတယလ႔ထငလား။

ျပဇာတေတြမာပါဝငချခငးေၾကာင အရငက အရမး ရကတတခတ ကြနေတာသည စငေပၚမာ ပြငပြင လငးလငးေျပာရဆရျဖစလာတယ။ အတာကေတာ တကယအကးရလာဒေပါ။ အသကအရြယရလာတ အခါမာ လေတာေတာမားမားဟာ စငေပၚတကၿပး စကားေျပာရတာ၊ တငျပရတာေတြ အနညးန႔အမား လပလာၾကရတယ။ ကေလးဘဝကတညးက စင ေပၚတကၿပးေဖာေျဖဖးေတာ စငေၾကာကတာမးမရေတာဘးေပါ။

အသက (၉) ႏစအရြယမာ ရြကလႊငတာစလပ ခတယ။ ဒလအားကစားထမာ ပါဝငချခငးက ဆရာက ဘယလေျပာငးလေစခတယလ႔ထငလ။

ပထမဥးဆးအႀကမ ေႏြရာသရြကေလသငတနးသြားတကတနးကသခတ လေတြအကနလးက၊ ယ

ဥးဖနးေကာမးျမင (ကာလး) သည ဆယေကာသကတစဥးအေနျဖင ႏငငတကာရြကေလၿပငပြမား တြင ျမနမာႏငငကယစားျပအေနျဖင ယဥၿပငခသတစဥးျဖစပါသည။ အရြယေရာကသတစဥး အေနျဖငလညး သ၏ကေလးဘဝအပမကမားက ေအာငျမငေသာ အသကေမြးဝမးေကာငးတစခ အျဖစ ေျပာငးလႏငခပါသည။ ျမနမာႏငငရြကေလအဖြ.ခပ၏ ဒတယဥကဌ၊ Ngwe Saung Yacht Club & Resort ၏ ဒါ႐ကတာတစဥးလညးျဖစၿပး သ၏ ရြကေလစးျခငးအေပၚ ခစျမတႏးမႈ မားအား ေနာကမးဆကသစမားအတြက မေဝထားသည။ အဆပါ ေတြ႕ဆေမးျမနးမႈတြင ကာလး အေနျဖငႏငငတကာပညာေရးစနစအေတြ႕အႀကမားႏင သ၏ ေအာငျမငမႈလ႕ဝကခကမားအား ျပနလညေျပာျပထားသည။

မဘမားသည မမတ႔၏ သားသမးမားအား ႏငငတကာေကာငး၌ ပညာသငၾကား ရျခငးသည ၄ငးတ႔သားသမးမား၏ အနာဂါတအတြက ရငးႏးျမႇပႏမႈတစခပငျဖစပါသည။ ဘြ႕ရပျပငမားမာ အဆပါအနာဂတတခ႕၏ ေအာငျမငမႈပငျဖစပါသည။ ကၽြနေတာတ႔ ျမနမာႏငင၌ရေသာ ႏငငတကာေကာငးမားမ ေအာငျမငေသာ ဘြ႕ရသမားအားရာေဖြ၍ ၄ငးတ႔ယခေရာကရေနသည ေနရာအား မညကသ႔ ျဖတသနးခရသညဆသည အေၾကာငးအရာမားပငျဖစပါသည။

ဘြ႕ရပျပငမားဖနးေကာမးျမင

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Translation SAI THU RAIN


ဘဝအတြက တကယတနဖးရတသငခနးစာရခတယ။ ဘဝမာ ဒလမးစနေခၚမႈ

အခကအခေတြန႔ ႀကရမာပ။ မနတငးေတြရလမမယ၊လႈငးလးႀကးေတြ ရလမမယ။ အားတငးၿပးေတာ

ပနးတငေရာကသညအထ ယဥၿပငရမယ။

ေန႔အထ အရငးႏးဆးမတေဆြေတြလ႔ ေျပာလ႔ရ တယ။ ရြကေလစးျခငးေၾကာင ကယကယက စန ေခၚတတလာတယ။ ပနးတငေတြခတတလာတယ။ ပထမအႀကမ ႏငငလကေရြးစငအျဖစ ေတာငအာဖ ရကႏငငက သြားရတယ။ ပငလယအပခနက (၁၅) ဒဂရပရၿပး ေလကလညးၾကမးတယ။ ကြနေတာက လညး ဒလပငလယမာ တစခါမၿပငဖးတာမဟတ ဘး။ တကယေၾကာကစရာေကာငးတာေတာအမန ဘ။ ကြနေတာဆကမၿပငေတာဘး ထြကေတာမယ လ႔ စဥးစားတအခနေတြေတာင ရခဖးတယ။ ဒါေပ မယ ဘဝအတြက တကယတနဖးရတသငခနးစာ ရခတယ။ ဘဝမာ ဒလမးစနေခၚမႈအခကအခေတြန႔ ႀကရမာပ။ မနတငးေတြရလမမယ၊ လႈငးလးႀကး ေတြရလမမယ အားတငးၿပးေတာ ပနးတငေရာကသညအထယဥၿပငရမယ။ ဒလအေတြ႔အႀကေတြ၊ ဒလအရာေတြက၊ ကၽြနေတာ႔ဘဝ တးတကဖ႔အ တြက အေထာကအကအမားႀကးျပခ႔တယ။

တကသလ

ဘယတကသလမာတကခတာလ။

ကြနေတာ Colorado School of Mines မာတကခ ပါတယ။ ေကာငးကအရမးခကခၿပး၊ ေကာငးထြက ႏႈနးလညးအရမးျမငပါတယ။ အအခနမာ ကြ နေတာ အေဖက ေရန၊ သဘာ၀ဓါတေငြ႕န႔ ပတသကတ လပငနးေတြလပကငေနၿပ။ အတာေၾကာင ကြန ေတာတ႔ ညအစကႏစေယာကက ေရနန႔ပတသကတဘြ႕ေတြရေစခငတယ။ ပထမေတာ ကြနေတာ ေရနအငဂငနယာ ဘာသာရပကတကခတယ။ ဒါ ေပမယ သးႏစေလာကတကၿပးတေနာကမာ ကြန ေတာန႔မကကဘးဆတာ သလာၿပး တျခားဘာသာ ရပတစခေျပာငးလကတယ။ ကြနေတာ အငဂငန ယာတစေယာက မျဖစလာတာေတာေတာေကာငး တယလ႔ေျပာလ႔ရတယ။ ကြနေတာ BA Economic and a Petroleum Engineering က Minor ဘာ သာရပတစခန႔ ေကာငးၿပးတယ။ တကရတ႔အတနး ေတြ အရမးမားေတာ ေကာငးၿပးဘြ႕ရတ ေကာငး သားအေရအတြကက အရမးနညးခ႔တယ။

USA မာေကာငးတကရတအေတြအႀကကေရာ ဘယလမးရလ။

ကြနေတာအတြက တကယအေတြ႕အႀကေတြက ေတာ စာသငခနးျပငပမာရခတာမားတယ။ ႏငင ျခားမာ တကသလတကခရတာဟာ ကြနေတာဘဝ အတြက တကယထးျခားတအခနေတြပါဘ။ အမန႔ ပထမဆးအႀကမခြၿပး သြားေနရေတာ ဘဝသငခနး စာေတြအတြကလညး အခြငအေရးေတြ အမားႀကး ရခတယ။ ခငစရာေကာငးတ႔တကသလသငယခငး ေတြလညးရခ႔တယ။ ယဥေကးမႈကလညး ႏစသက တယ။ အဒအခနေတြက၊ ကၽြနေတာ႔ဘဝရ႕ အ ေကာငးဆးအခနေတြပါပ။

ျမနမာျပညက ျပနလညအေျခချခငး

ဆရာရ႕ အလပကယေရးသမငးက ေျပာျပေပးပါ။ အခ ျမနမာျပညမာ ဘာေတြလပေနပါသလ။

ကြနေတာ အသကေမြးဝမးေၾကာငးအျဖစလပတာ ေတြ အရမးမားတယ။ ဘြ႕ယခတစးပြားေရးန႔ ေရန န႔ ပကသကတာေတာ တစခမမပါဘး။ အဓက တာ ဝနကေတာ ျမနမာႏငငရြကေလအဖြခပရ႕ ဒတယ ဥကဌတာဝနယထားပါတယ။ ရြကေလအားကစား သမားေဟာငးန႔ အားကစားက အရမးျမတႏးတယ၊ ဒအားကစားက လပခငစတရတယဆတာထက မရမျဖစအရာအေနန႔ ျဖစလာတယ။ ဒအဖြ႕ကလညး ရြကေလအဖြ႕ခပတစေယာကေယာကက မျဖစမ ေနစမေဆာငရြကဖ႔လတယ။ (၂၀၁၃) ခႏစ၊ SEA Games ၿပငပြႏင ၿပငပြေတြကလကခကငးပေပး ဖ႔တညေထာငထားတ Ngwe Saung Yacht Club & Resort (NSYC) ရ႕ ဒါရကတာျဖစပါတယ။ ဒေန ရာဟာ အပနးေျဖတေနရာလညးျဖစသလ၊ ရြက ေလန႔ပတသကတ လႈပရားမႈေတြက အဓကလပ ေဆာငေပးတေနရာလညး ျဖစပါတယ။ အဒေနရာ ဟာ ေလကငျခငး၊ ၿပငပြကငးပျခငးအတြက ေနရာ ျဖစသလ၊ NSYC မ ပပးထားတ ေဒသခေတြန႔ ဖြ႕ စညးထားတ ရြကေလႏင Surf အားကစားအဖြ႔လညး ရပါတယ။ အဒအျပင အ၀တအစားလပငနးတစခ၏ ပးတြတညေထာငသႏင႔ ဒါ႐ကတာအျဖစလညး တာ ၀နယထားပါတယ။

ဆရာအလပအမးမးလပေတာ႔ အရမးက အ လပမားမာဘ။ ဒါေပမ႔ အျခားေစတနာ၀နထမး အလပေတြလညး လပေဆာငေနေသးတယ။ အ႔ဒအေၾကာငးလေျပာျပေပးပါအး။

(၂၀၁၆) ခႏစ၊ ဇြနလေလာကကစၿပးေတာ ကြန ေတာ Trash Hero Myanmar ရ႕ တာ၀နခႏင တညေထာငသအျဖစ စလပခ႔ပါတယ။ ကြနေတာ ရ႕ ကယပငအခနေတာေတာမားမားကလညး အဒ မာပ အခနကနျဖစတာမားပါတယ။ အခခနထ ေစတနာ၀နထမး (၁၀,၀၀၀) ေကာန႔ စေပါငးအမႈက ေကာကအဖြ႕အႀကမေရ (၁၀၀) ေကာ၊ အမႈကကလ

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ဆရာအေနန႔ ႏငငတကာပညာေရးစနစကလညး သငၾကားေအာငျမငဖးတယ။ ၿပးေတာ ျမနမာ ျပညက လငယေတြန႔လညး အတတကြအလပ လပေနတယဆေတာ ေကာငးသားမဘေတြက ဘယလ အႀကဥာဏေတြေပးခငလ။

ကြနေတာအေတြ႕အႀကအရ ကေလးေတြက စာ သငခနးအျပငဘကမာလညး အခနေပးဖ႔ လအပ တယလ႔ထငတယ။ ကေလးေတြက အသစအဆနး လပခငးတာ၊ သတ႔ႏစသကတာ၊ သတ႔ကယတင ရာၿပးလပခငးျခငးရ႕ အကးေကးဇးေတြက လက ေတြ႕ျမငဖးပါတယ။ အျခားသငၾကားမႈ အေနန႔ဂတ တ႔၊ အႏပညာအားကစားတ႔ကလညး သငၾကားေပး သငပါတယ။ အစပငးမာေတာ႔ သတ႔အဆငေျပ ၾကမာ မဟတဘး။ ဒါေပမ အဓက,က သတ႔က တစခခမာ တျဖညးျဖညး ပမတးတကလာေစၿပး ေတာ အ႐ႈးမေပးတစတဓါတေတြ ရလာေစမယ။

မဘေတြကလညး၊ မမတ႔ျဖစခငသညအပမကက သားသမးေတြအေပၚဖအားမေပးဖ႔န႔ သတ႔န႔ မသင ေလာသည အသကေမြးဝမးေၾကာငးတစခက အ တငးအၾကပလပရန ဖအားမေပးဖ႔ တကတြနးခင ပါတယ။ လတစေယာကရ႕ အရညအခငးေတြထြက ေပၚလာဖ႔ လပေဆာငျခငးဟာ အငမတနေကနပ စရာေကာငးပါတယ။ ဒလျဖစလာဖ႔အတြက ခစျခငး၊ ေထာကပမႈေတြန႔အတ လြတလပမႈတစခ႕ကပါ ေပး ရမာျဖစပါတယ။ ကေလးတစေယာကဟာ သ ဝါသ နာပါတာကေတြ႕ၿပး လကစားသြားၿပဆရင ရပတန႔ လ႔မရေတာပါဘး။ ခနပယေတြ၊ ေခါငးေဆာငေတြ ဆတာ ဒလနညးန႔ထြကေပၚလာၾကတာပါ။

ေပါငး (၄၀,၀၀၀) ခန႔က၊ ျမနမာႏငငတစဝမး ေကာက ၿပးပါၿပ။ Trash Hero က ကြနေတာရ႕ဘ၀န႔ ေနထငမႈ ကပါေျပာငးလေစခပါတယ။ အမႈကေတြမားၿပး ညစ ညမးလာျခငးဟာ ကြနေတာတ႔ ကမၻာအတြက ဆး ကးေတြ အမားႀကးရလာတယဆတ႔ အသေတြရ လာတယ။ အျမငေတြကယလာတယ။ အဒအတြက တာဝနယလစတေတြလညးျဖစလာတယ။ တကယ ေတာ ကၽြနေတာတ႔ကမၻာႀကးက ကာကြယဖ႔ဆတာ လသားတငးမာတာ၀နရပါတယ။

ေစတနာ၀နထမးလပျခငးက ဘာေၾကာင အေရး ႀကးတယလ႔ထငလ။

ကြနေတာတ႔ လတငးထမငးစားဖ႔အတြကန႔ အမး ေကာငးေကာငးေအာကမာေနဖ႔ အလပကယစလပ ၾကတယ။ ရရလာတ ေကးဇးတရားေတြကလညး

သတ႔က ကြနေတာက စတပငးဆငရာအရေရာ၊ ေငြ ေၾကးပငးအရေရာ ကညေထာကပမႈ မေပးခရင အခ ကြနေတာဒေနရာမာရေနမာမဟတပါဘး။

ရြကေလစးျခငးကလညး ဘ၀က အေကာငးဖက ကေရာကေစခ႔ပါတယ။ အားလးကလညး ကြန ေတာလပျဖစေစခငပါတယ။ အခထ အားကစားန႔ ဆကလကပတသကခြငရတယ။ ၿပးေတာ အေတြ႕ အႀကေတြကလညး မေ၀ခြငရတအတြက အရမး ကေကနပမပါတယ။ ဒအားကစားမာ ပါဝငချခငး က ကြနေတာက ဘ၀အေတြ႕အႀကေတြအမားႀကး ရေစၿပး အျခားအခြငအေရးေတြ ရေအာငလညး တခါးေတြ ဖြငေပးခပါတယ။

ပညာေရးက ဆရာ႔ဘ၀အတြက ဘယလအခနး က႑ကပါ၀ငခပါသလ။

ကြနေတာကသငေပးခ႔တ႔ ဆရာ၊ ဆရာမ အားလး က ေကးဇးအရမးတငပါတယ။ သတ႔သငေပးခတ အႀကးက ႐ေသဖ႔၊ တာ၀နယမရဖ႔၊ စညးကမးမ အမႈကမပစဖ႔၊ အႏငမကငဖ႔ စသညတ႔က ကြန ေတာရ႕ရြကေလအားကစားသမားငယမားက ျပန ၿပးမေဝျဖစပါတယ။ ဒလ အေျခခစညးကမးေတြက အရမးကအေရးႀကးပါတယ။

ေျပာရရင၊ ကြနေတာေကာငးမာသငခ႔ရတ႔ပစက “ဒမာအခကအခတစခရတယ။ အေျဖကမရရေအာင ရာပါ’’ ဆတာမး။ Colorado School of Mines က ေတာအေတာကခကတယ။ ကယမကၽြမးကငတ အရာဆေတာ႔ ႐ပပငးဆငရာအရေရာ၊ စတပငး ဆငရာအရေရာခကခခတယ။ ဒါေပမ ဘာပျဖစျဖစ ကြနေတာရေအာငလပႏငခတယ။ အဒလ အခက အခေတြက၊ အခကအခေတြက ဘယလအေျဖရာ ၿပး စနေခၚမေတြက ဘယလရငဆငမလဆတာေတြ ကသငေပးခ႔ပါတယ။

ႏငငျခားမာ ဘြ႕ရခသေတြအေနန႔ အနာဂါတ ျမနမာႏငငမာ ဘယလအခနးက႑ကေန ပါဝင ႏငမယထငလ။

အ႔ဒါကေတာ ေျပာရခကပါတယ။ လတစဥးတစ ေယာကစေပၚမာဘမတညလမ႔မယ။ ျမနမာႏငင ဟာ ဥးေႏာကယစးမႈျပနာန႔ ရငဆငေနရတယ။ ဒါေၾကာင ႏငငျခားမာဘြ႕ရခတပညာရငေတြ အမား ႀကးလအပေနပါတယ။ သတ႔ဟာျမနမာႏငငရ႕အေျခ အေန၊ ယဥေကးမႈက သၿပးတသေတြ ျဖစတာေၾကာင အေရးပါတေနရာကေနၿပးေတာ အမားႀကး လပ ေဆာငႏငပါတယ။ ေကာငးတာေတြလပေနတ ဒလ မးပညာရငေတြ အမားႀကးေတြ႕ဖးပါတယ။

ဒါတငမက ကြနေတာလ ႏငငျခားမာပညာသငခြင ရတသေတြအေနန႔ သတ႔ဘယကလာတယဆတာ မေမဖ႔ အေရးႀကးပါတယ။ ဘာျဖစလ႔လဆေတာ ျမနမာႏငငကထြကၿပး ႏငငျခားမာပညာသငဖ႔၊ အ လပလပဖ႔ အခြငအေရးရတယဆတာ အငမတနကေကာငးမျဖစတာမ႔လ႔ပါ။

ကေလးတစေယာကဟာ သဝါသနာပါတာကေတြ႕ၿပး

လကစားသြားၿပဆရငရပတန႔လ႔မရေတာပါဘး။ ခနပယေတြ၊ ေခါငးေဆာင

ေတြဆတာ ဒလနညးန႔ထြကေပၚလာၾကတာပါ။

မေမသငပါဘး။ ကြနေတာဘ၀ကထပၿပး ေတာငး ဆစရာမလေအာငျပညစၿပး အေတာကေကာငးခပါ တယ။ ဒါေၾကာင အလဥးသငသလ ျပနေပးဆပရ မယတာ၀နရတယလ႔ ခစားရတယ။ ပတ၀နးကငထနးသမးေစာငေရာကတ လတစေယာကအေနန႔ လငယေတြရ႕အနာဂါတအတြက ကၽြနေတာ႔မာတာဝနရတယလ႔ခစားရတယ။ အထးသျဖင ပတ၀နးကငညစညမးမႈေတြမျဖစေအာင တားဆးရမယဆ တ႔စတေတြ ျဖစလာတယ။

ျပနလညသးသပျခငး

ခလေအာငျမငမေတြရလာတာ ဘယသ႔ေကးဇး ေၾကာငလ။

ကြနေတာေအာငျမငမႈေတြက ကြနေတာမဘေတြ ေၾကာငဆတာေမးခြနးထတစရာေတာငမလပါဘး။

Phone Kyaw Moe Myint (aka) Carl

Celebrating gold with his brother and parents, 2013 SEA Games

Big Catch! Carl as a seven year old at Ngapali beach

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It’s widely accepted that reading is an important habit, and most of us guiltily acknowledge that we should spend more time doing it. Those who read regularly tend to have a more extensive vocabulary, a better understanding of grammar, a stronger ability at adapting their writing style and even increased emotional intelligence and empathy. As an English teacher, I can usually predict how much time a student spends reading by studying their writing: regular readers are more likely than their peers to describe characters and settings in creative detail, have a sophisticated grasp of structure and even analyse texts in more depth.

Along with the benefits above, reading provides escapism from the speed of modern life. Unlike scrolling through apps,

Parenting Matters: Advice on How to Get Your Child Reading More

social media feeds, Youtube or Netflix, reading a book requires a time investment and patience. When we immerse ourselves in a story, we get to check out from our real lives for a while. We make friends with fictional characters who give us the gift of a new perspective. We reflect. We slow down.

However, therein lies a problem. For some students, reading is second nature: they require no persuasion to curl up with a good book. For other students, reading is a struggle, a chore, perhaps even seen as a punishment. Is it fair that those who naturally love reading gain all the benefits above, when the latter group don’t?

I don’t think it is. I think we owe it to young people – our students and children – to nurture in them a love of reading. It isn’t

Students will gain so much from learning

to enjoy reading whatever language

the book is in.

REBECCA KEARON-WILESSecondary English Teacher at The British School Yangon

an easy feat: books have to fight against smartphones, laptops and TVs, but if you help a child to find joy in reading, you have given them a gift that will keep giving for the rest of their lives.

If your child is already an avid reader, then you have won the jackpot. Talk to them about what they are reading and about how they feel about characters and situations.

If your child would rather watch paint dry than read – all is not lost. It might take a while, but everyone can learn to love reading; they just need to find the right book.


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Read

Does your child ever see you reading? This might sound simple, but I cannot emphasise it enough: if you want your child to read, you must show them what a reader looks like. Children need to have reading modelled to them, so consider how you could build some reading time into your family life – whether in the evenings, weekends or during holidays – so that your child sees that you value and enjoy reading.

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Ask about what they are reading

It’s amazing what you can find out about a young person in an animated conversation about a book. Talk to them about what they are reading, and you may be surprised by the insights that they have.

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Don't dictate their reading choices

My brother Joe hated reading growing up – he was much more interested in playing, watching and discussing sport. It was only when my parents gave him Steven Gerrard’s autobiography for his 12th birthday that he saw any benefit in picking up a book. Now he has shelves full of sporting autobiographies – and won’t stop talking about them! If your child is into Marvel films, then encourage them to read graphic novels. If they love computer games, you could consider getting them a subscription to a games magazine. If students begin to see reading as an extension of a hobby or passion they already have, they will not see it as an arduous task but instead as something they enjoy.

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Make books available

A dearth of books is a barrier to reading. Make sure you have books available all the time; with their toys, in the car, in their bedroom. It’s a great way to encourage them to reach for a book when they have time to fill.

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Give them books in their home language

Students will gain so much from learning to enjoy reading whatever language the book is in. Even if the book is not in English, it will still benefit their knowledge of characters, structure and description which will undoubtedly have positive effects at school.

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Give them books appropriate to their age and level

Children and teenagers often disengage from a book if they feel it is aimed at a younger audience. If your child is new to English, then Barrington Stokes is a great publisher for teenagers: their content is aimed at secondary students, but the reading age is much lower. Ask your child’s school whether they have books suited to non-native speakers and have a look on Amazon too.

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Practise everywhere

For younger learners, there are countless opportunities to practise reading and reading skills. Point out signs and letters wherever you see them. Help your child to develop inference skills by encouraging them to infer meaning from what they know about the world around them. For example, if the traffic lights are red, ask them what colours will come next and what they mean. If the clouds are grey and dark, encourage them to predict what might happen next. This skill will help them when they read stories.

Rebecca and her colleague, Stephanie Smailes (Primary English Teacher), have teamed up to create these tips to help you support your child's reading:

TopTips for Parents

Promoting Reading: The Literary Canon

At The British School Yangon (BSY) we are privileged to have students from a wide range of nationalities and cultures: some are native English speakers and others are comparatively new to the language. Because the students have been schooled all around the world their ‘cultural capital’ – knowledge and insights that they gain from reading different stories – is very diverse.

Our aim this year has been to develop a shared cultural capital through a Literary Canon: an annual collection of books that students, staff and parents aim to read to promote conversations with each other.

This year’s secondary Literary Canon was ‘Wonder’ by R. J. Palacio. Many of our students and staff have enjoyed reading the book and have engaged in conversations about the issues it raises, which range from bullying to empathy. For next year’s Literary Canon, we invited parents, staff and students to suggest and vote on books that they felt explored interesting ideas or topics. This has resulted in a diverse and exciting collection of 20 books.

No one will be forced to read these books, but if students, staff and parents choose to engage with them, they will be part of a community in which they can discuss and share their different perspectives, learnings and ideas with each other. We aim to make reading enjoyable and accessible for all.

If you want your child to read, you must show

them what a reader looks like.

World Book Day 2018. Photography BSY


သင၏ ကေလး စာပမဖတလာဖ႔အတြကဆရာလမးၫႊန

စာဖတျခငးအေလအကငသည အေရးႀကးေသာ အေလအကငတစခအျဖစ လအမားက လကခထားၾကၿပး အခနမေပးမသျဖင မမကယကယ အျပစရသညဟ ခစားေနၾကသေတြ မားသည။ ပမနစာဖတေသာသမားသည ပမမားျပားေသာ ေ၀ါဟာရမားက အသးျပႏငျခငး၊ သဒၵါပမနားလညျခငး၊ ေရးေနကစာအေရးအသားမ ပစေျပာငးလေရးသားလာႏငျခငးအျပင စတပငးဆငရာျဖစေသာ အသဥာဏႏင ကယခငးစာနာစတမားပင တးတကလာႏငသည။ အဂၤလပဆရာမတစေယာကအေနျဖင သတ႔၏ အေရးအသားက ၾကညျခငးအားျဖင ေကာငး သားတစေယာက စာမညမဖတသညဆသညက ခန႔မနး၍ရႏငသည။ ပမနစာဖတေသာ ေကာငးသားမားသည အျခားသမားထက ဇာတေကာငစ႐ကႏင ဇာတ၀ငခနးတ႔က အေသး စတေဖာျပတတၾကၿပး၊ ႐ႈပေထြးေသာ ၀ါကတညေဆာကပမားက အသးျပကာ အတြငးကက သးသပမႈမားက ျပလပႏငၾကသည။

အထကတြင ေဖာျပထားေသာ အကးရလာဒမားအျပင စာဖတျခငးအားျဖင လငျမနစြာေျပာငး လေနေသာ ယေန႔ေခတမ လြတေျမာကမႈက ေပးႏငသည။ လမႈကြနယကမား၊ Youtube (သ႔) Netflix တ႔ႏငမတဘ စာဖတျခငးအတြက အခနတစခေပးရနလအပၿပး စတရညရပါ သည။ ဇာတလမးတစပဒအတြငး နစေျမာသြားရန လကရေလာကက ေခတေမထားရမည။ ကၽြႏပတ႔အား အျမငသစလကေဆာငမားေပးေသာ စတကးယဥဇာတေကာငးမားႏင မတဖြ႕ ၾကသည။ ဤသ႔အားျဖင ေျပာငးလမႈအရနက ေလာခႏငသည။ သ႔ေသာလညး ျပနာ တစခရေသးသည။ ေကာငးသားအခ႕သည စာအပမားႏင အကၽြမးတ၀ငရၾကသည။ စာ အပေကာငးတစအပႏင ဇမယဖ႔အတြက မညသညတြနအားေပးမႈမးမမလေပ။ အခ႕ေကာငး သားမားသည စာဖတရနအတြက ႀကးစား႐နးကနရသည။ မဖတခငဘ ဖတေနရၿပး အျပစ ထားသညဟပင ထငျမငႏငသည။ စာအပမားႏင အကၽြမးတ၀ငရေသာ ေကာငးသားမားမာ အထကတြင ေဖာျပထားေသာ အကးေကးဇးမား အားလးခစားရၿပး ကနေသာေကာငးသား မားမာ ထသ႔မခစားရသညမာ တရားမတသညဟ ထငပါသလား။

ကၽြနမေတာ တရားမတတယလ႔ မထငပါ။ ကေလးမား ေကာငးသားမားႏင လငယမား စာဖတျခငးႏင အကၽြမးတ၀ငရေလာေစရန ကၽြနမတ႔တြင တာ၀နရသညဟထငသည။ ဖနး၊ လပေတာပ၊ တဗတ႔အား စာအပျဖင ၿပငရသညမ လြယကလ သညေတာမဟတ။ ဒါေပမယ စာဖတျခငးအား ႏစသကလာ ေအာငကညျခငးသည သတ႔၏ တစဘ၀လးစာအတြကရေန မည လကေဆာငတစခက ေပးျခငးႏငတသည။ အကယ၍ သင၏ ကေလးသည လလခငခင စာဖတသတစေယာကျဖစ ေနၿပဆပါလင သငသည ထေပါကထားေသာ သသာျဖစသည။ သတ႔ မညသညအေၾကာငး မားဖတေနသည။ ဇာတေကာငအေၾကာငး၊ ဇာတလမး အေျခအေနမားႏင မညသ႔ခစားရသည ဆသညက သတ႔ႏင ေဆြးေႏြးေျပာျပေပးပါ။ အကယ၍ သင၏ကေလးသည စာအပအားေၾကာက႐ြ႕ၿပး မဖတခငျဖစေနပါလညး အားလးဆး႐ႈးသြားသည မဟတပါ။ အခနၾကာႏငေသာလညး မညသမဆ စာဖတျခငးအား ႏစသကလာေအာင သငၾကားေပးလ႔ရပါသည။ သတ႔အတြက သငေလာမညစာအပက သာ ရာေဖြရနလအပသည။

မညသညဘာသာစကားျဖင ေရးထားသည စာအပျဖစေစ ေကာငးသားမား အေနျဖင စာဖတျခငးအား ႏစသကဖ႔

သငၾကားရာမာ မားစြာ အေထာကအကျပပါသည။

REBECCA KEARON-WILESSecondary English Teacher at The British School Yangon


မဘမား အတြက အႀကေပးခက

Rebecca ႏင သ၏ လပေဖာကငဖကျဖစသ ဆရာမ Stephanie Smailes (မလ တနး အဂၤလပစာဆရာမ)တ႔မ သင၏ ကေလးအား စာဖတရာတြင အေထာက အကျဖစေစရနအတြက အႀကျပခကမားက အတတကြ စစညးေရးထားပါသည။

BSY students dress-up as their favourite characters for World Book Day 2018.Photography BSY


ေျပာေနေတာသည။ သင၏ကေလးမားက Marvel မ ႐ပရငမား ႀကကသညဆပါက သတ႔အား ႐ပျပ၀တမားဖတရန အားေပးသင သည။ ကြနပတာဂမးမားက ႀကကသညဆပါက ဂမးႏငပတ သကသည မဂၢဇငးမား ပမနယရန စဥးစားသငသည။ စာဖတျခငး မာ သတ႔၀ါသနာပါသညက လပေနရျခငးျဖစသညဟ ျမငလာပါက ခကခသညတာ၀နတစခအျဖစ မျမငေတာဘ ေပာရႊငစရာတစခ အျဖစျမငလာလမမည။

သင၏ကေလးမ သငစာဖတေနသညက ေတြ႕ဖးပါသလား။ အင မတန႐းရငးေသာ ကစၥျဖစေသာလညး ထပ၍ေျပာခငပါသည။ သင၏ ကေလးအား စာဖတေစခငပါက စာဖတသ တစေယာက မညသ႔ပစရသညဆသညက ျပသရနလသည။ ကေလးမားအ တြက အတယႏငရနအတြက စာဖတျပရနလအပသည။ ထ႔ ေၾကာင သငအေနျဖင စာဖတျခငးအား တနဖးထားႏစသကသည ကျပသရန စေန၊ တနဂၤေႏြ၊ ညေနခငး၊ အားလပရကမားတြင စာဖတခနသတမတထားရနလအပသည။

သငကယတင စာဖတပါ။

စာအပတစအပအေၾကာငးေျပာရငးျဖင လငယတစဥး၏ အေတြး အျမငမားက သရရျခငးသည အၾသစရာေကာငးလသည။ သတ႔ ဖတေနသည စာအပအေၾကာငး ေျပာဆေဆြးေႏြးၾကညပါ။ သတ႔ ၏အေတြးအျမငမားသည သငက အအားသငေစပါလမမည။

သတ႔ ဘာဖတေနသညဆသညက ေမးျမနးပါ။

ကၽြနမ၏ ေမာငေလးျဖစသ Joe သည စာဖတရန စတမ၀ငစား ဘ ႀကးျပငးလာသျဖစသည။ ကစားျခငး၊ အားကစားအေၾကာငး ေျပာဆေဆြးေႏြးျခငးႏင ၾကည႐ႈျခငးကသာ ႏစသကသျဖစသည။ သ႔အသက (၁၂)ႏစျပည ေမြးေန႔တြင ကၽြနမ၏ မဘမားမ သ႔အား စတဗငဂရတ(လဗာပးလအသငး၏ ကစားသမားေဟာငး)၏ကယ တငေရး အတပၸတအား ေမြးေန႔လကေဆာငအျဖစ ေပးသည အခနမသာ စာဖတျခငး၏ အကးေကးဇးက သသလာသည။ ယခ ဆလင သ႔ထတြင အားကစားသမားမား၏ ကယတငေရးအတပၸတ မား စာအပစငတစခစာအျပညရၿပး သတ႔အေၾကာငး မရပမနား

သတ႔ဘာဖတသငသညဆသညက မကန႔သတပါန႔။

မညသညဘာသာစကားျဖင ေရးထားသည စာအပျဖစေစ ေကာငး သားမားအေနျဖင စာဖတျခငးအား ႏစသကဖ႔ သငၾကားရာမာမားစြာ အေထာကအကျပပါသည။ အဂၤလပစာအပ မဟတသညတင ဇာတေကာငမား၏ စ႐ကလကၡဏာမားႏင ဖြ႕စညးပမား၊ ေဖာျပပ မားက သငယႏငၿပး ေကာငးတြင မားစြာအေထာကအကျပႏင သညမာ ဧကနမချဖစပါသည။

သတ႔၏ မခငဘာသာစကားျဖင ေရးသားထားေသာ စာအပမားေပးပါ။

ကေလးငယမားႏင ဆယေကာသကမားသည စာအပက သတ႔ ထက ငယရြယသမားအတြက ရညရြယထတထားသညဟ ခစားရပါ က ထစာအပက မဖတခငဘ ျဖစတတသည။ သင၏ကေလးသည အဂၤလပစာက စတငသငယေနသျဖစပါက Barrington Stokes စာအပတကသည ဆယေကာသကမားအတြက အလြနေကာငးမြန ေသာ စာအပတကျဖစသည။ သငကေလး၏ ေကာငးတြင သတ႔ အတြက သငေလာမည စာအပမား ရ၊ မရ ေမးျမနးႏငၿပး Amazon တြငလညး ရာေဖြၾကညပါ။

သတ႔၏ အသကအရြယႏငကကညေသာ စာအပမားက ေပးပါ။

လငယမားအတြက စာဖတသည အရညအခငးမားအား ေလကင ရန အခြငအေရးမားစြာရပါသည။ ခငခနႏငစြမးမား တးတကလာ ေစရနအတြက သတ႔သထားသညအခကမားအေပၚ မတညၿပး သ တ႔အနးပတ၀နးကငတြငရေသာ အေၾကာငးအရာမားအား စဥးစား ၾကညရနတကတြနးပါ။ ဥပမာ- မးပြငမ မးနေနသညဆလင ေနာက ထပမညသည အေရာငလာမည၊ မညသညအဓပၸါယရသညဆ သညက ေမးၾကညပါ။ ဤအရညအခငးမားသည စာဖတရာတြင အေထာကအကျပလမမည။

ေနရာတငးတြင ေလကငေပးပါ။

စာအပမားရားပါးျခငး၊ မရျခငးသည စာဖတျခငးအတြက အတား အဆးတစချဖစသည။ ကားထ၊ အပခနးထႏင သတ႔ ကစားသည ေနရာမားအပါအ၀င အခနတငး စာအပရရႏငေအာင လပထား ေပးပါ။ သတ႔အားလပသည အခနတြင စာအပဖတျဖစေစရန အတြက နညးလမးေကာငးျဖစသည။

စာအပမားအား လကလမးမရာတြင ထားေပးပါ။


What does EYFS stand for? What's the difference between fine and gross motor skills? Is play important? What does child-led learning mean??

Education DecodedYour guide for navigating early childhood education

There's an array of different approaches to early childhood education and a long list of pre-schooling options. This guide explains some essential language to help you understand the basics.

Curricula, methods and approaches most commonly used in international pre-school settings in Myanmar

I Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) The EYFS is the curriculum set by the UK government which sets the standards for the learning of children from birth to 5 years. It is a play-based curriculum with seven core areas; communication and language, physical development, personal, social and emotional development, literacy, mathematics, understanding the world, expressive arts and design. (Source: gov.uk)

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American CurriculumThere is no single curriculum followed in America. Many international schools, therefore, follow the curriculum for a particular state and adopt the common core standards for English and maths. A regional body in America usually accredits international schools that use a US curriculum. American based pre-schools generally take a play-based approach to learning, and as with any school, the admissions team will be able to answer future questions about the curriculum they follow.

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Montessori MethodThe Montessori method views the child as naturally eager for knowledge and capable of initiating learning in a supportive, thoughtfully prepared learning environment. It is an approach that values the development of the whole child. Learning is pupil-led, with the teacher as a guide and students learn concepts from working with materials, rather than by direct instruction (Source: amshq.org)

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Reggio Emilia ApproachThe approach is based on the idea that children are full of potential and capable of driving their learning. The curriculum, which is not prepared in advance, is pupil-led and project-based. The teachers’ role is to arrange the learning environment. Significant to the approach is the ‘100 languages of children’; the assertion that children have many ways of expressing themselves - such as singing, dancing, writing - and should be given the opportunity to do so.

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Singapore Nurturing Early Learners (NEL) framework (iTeach)This framework is underpinned by the idea that children are curious, active and competent learners. The framework is spelt out in six principles: an integrated approach to learning, teachers as facilitators, engaging children through purposeful play, authentic learning through quality interactions, children as constructors of knowledge and holistic development. (Source: moe.gov.sg)

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Glossary of TermsAdult:Child Ratio In a school or childcare setting this refers to the number of qualified adults present in the classroom compared to the number of children. In high-quality programs, there is usually a smaller number of pupils per adult.

Bilingual EducationWhen instruction takes place in two languages, usually with the aim that pupils will become fluent in both.

Child-ledSometimes referred to as child-centred or student-led, this is when children are encouraged to determine the direction of their own learning; teachers are there to facilitate and guide learning, rather than dictate it.

Developmentally AppropriateThis practice takes into the consideration both the age and developmental stage of the children, individually and as a class. The aim is to ensure that activities are neither too simple, nor too complicated, and therefore enable each child to learn and grow.

Fine & Gross Motor SkillsFine motor skills are used for actions that require control of the small muscles of the body. E.g. drawing, cutting with scissors and handwriting. Gross motor skills require the development of large muscle movement and control. E.g. crawling, running, and jumping.

Peer LearningWhen children learn from and with their peers - each other. Children can learn a great deal by playing together, explaining their ideas to each other and watching how other children complete tasks.

Play-based LearningTo learn while at play. It is widely accepted that young children learn effectively through play. This includes free play directed by the children themselves, and guided play, which has some level of teacher involvement.

Pre-reading & Pre-writing ActivitiesActivities that young children engage in before they can read and write that help to develop the skills that are necessary for these tasks. For example, pointing at each word on the page when reading a book aloud to a child.

Project-based LearningThis is a child-centred approach in which children learn through active exploration of a real-world problem or question, often in collaboration with other children, and guided by the teacher. For example, starting a school garden to learn about life-cycles.

School ReadinessA term used to describe how socially, emotionally and physically ready a child is to successfully transition to, and perform well in the early years of school (usually Kindergarten or Year One depending on the school).

Social-emotional DevelopmentRefers to the development process whereby children learn to identify and understand their feelings and the feelings of others, manage their emotions and behaviour, and establish and maintain relationships with their peers and adults.

Whole ChildThis is every aspect of a child’s development; intellectual, social, emotional, physical and creative. Every child develops in these different areas at their own rate and may not be equally developed in all areas. For example, a child may have solid intellectual skills but less developed social skills.

Educators share their thoughts ...Alyssa LundeEarly Years Teacher at The International School of Myanmar (Reggio-Emilia Approach)

A lot of the work that we do is inspired by the passions and interests of the children. The teachers act as observers to see how children use materials, perceive things, and what interests come up to then foster further exploration into those interests. It’s less of the teacher having the knowledge and giving it to the children and more of the teachers, children and even parents learning together. Academics are not put to the wayside, but they come in a more organic and meaningful way. When children learn through things that they’re interested in, they can become even more skilled academically because it’s meaningful work for them rather than something they have to do.

Jenni ParkerEarly Years Teacher at The International School of Myanmar (Reggio-Emilia Approach)

Children are capable and can do so many things. It’s easy to underestimate a three-year-old, but they can do so much if you believe in them and give them the opportunity. That’s something that parents can support with at home too. It’s important that parents let children do things, like carry their backpack, for themselves. Yes, we can do it for them, but they will learn more if they can do that for themselves.

Becci LeeHead of Early Years at Dulwich College Yangon, Star City Campus (Early Years Foundation Stage)

We aim to focus on process rather than product at Dulwich College Yangon (and in many early years settings around the world); each child is on their own, unique learning journey and needs time to develop new skills. The development of fine motor skills is one such example; parents may worry if their young child is not ready to hold a pencil yet, or has an unconventional pencil grip. However, children have to gain strength in their fine motor skills, and there are many steps to this before they are ready to write and draw. This takes time. They need opportunities to play with malleable materials such as plasticine. They need time to experiment in free, unstructured ways with paint brushes such as using them with water outside on the ground. Children may improve their fine motor skills by scratching lines into the mud with a stick or by using their fingers to spread glue around a tray or by using scissors, tweezers, tools or Lego... the opportunities are endless! However, if these sorts of opportunities are not provided, and a child is put under pressure to form letters before they are ready, they can quickly lose interest, motivation or confidence.

The wonder of magnification.Photography ISM

Practising fine motor control with sand play.Photography DULWICH COLLEGE YANGON

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EYFS ဆတာ ဘာလ။ ၾကြကသားငယႏင ၾကြကသား မညသ႔ကြာျခားသနညး။ကစားနညးေတြက အေရးပါေသာ က႑မာရေနပါသလား။ ကေလးသငယဥးေဆာငတ သငယျခငးဆတာ ဘယလအဓပၸာယေဆာငလ။?

ပညာေရးထတေဖာခက - သငအတြကကေလးငယမား၏ ပညာေရးလမးညႊန

ျမနမာႏငငရ ႏငငတကာမလတနးေကာငးမားတြင အသးျပေလရေသာ မလတနးသင႐းၫႊနးတမး၊ နညးစနစမားႏင ခဥးကပမႈပစမား

I Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

EYFS သည ယေကအစးရမ ခမတထားေသာ သင႐းၫႊနးတမးျဖစၿပး ေမြးကငး စအရြယမ အသကငါးႏစအထ ကေလးမားအတြက အကး၀ငသည။ ကစားနညးမားက အေျခခထားေသာ သင႐းၫႊနးတမးျဖစသည။ သင႐းတြင အဓက ခနစပငးပါ၀ငသည။ ယငးတ႔မာ ဆကသြယဆကဆေရးႏင ဘာသာစကား၊ ႐ပ ပငးဆငရာဖြ႕ၿဖးမႈ၊ တစကယရညဖြ႕ၿဖးမႈ၊ လမႈဆကဆေရးႏင စတပငးဆငရာ ဖြ႕ၿဖးတးတကမႈ၊ စာေပ၊ သခၤာ၊ ကမ႓ာႀကးအေၾကာငး သေကာငးစရာမား၊ အႏပညာေဖာကးမႈမားႏင ဒဇငးမားျဖစၾကသည။

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American Curriculum အေမရကန သင႐းညႊနးတမးအေမရကတြင သင႐းတစမးတညးက စြသးျခငးမဟတေပ။ ႏငငတကာေကာငးမားသည ျပညနယတစခမ သင႐းၫႊနးတမးက အေျခခၿပး အဂၤလပႏင သခၤာ ဘာသာရပမားက ဘစၫႊနးမားႏငကကညေအာင ျပျပငထားသည။ ေဒသပင အဖြ႕အစညးမားအေနႏင အေမရကနသင႐းက အသးျပေသာ ႏငငတကာ ေကာငးမားက အသအမတျပၾကသည။ အေမရကနသင႐းအသးျပေသာ မႀက ေကာငးမားအေနႏင ကစားနညးအေျချပနညးလမးမားက အသးျပၾကသည။ အေမရကနသင႐းအသးျပေသာ မႀကေကာငးမားအေနႏင ကစားနညးအေျခ ျပနညးလမးမားက အသးျပၾကသည။

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Montessori နညးလမးMontessori နညးလမးသည ကေလးမားအား ဗဟသတမားက လခငေစၿပး သငယရနအတြက အသငျဖစေနကာ သငၾကားသမား အဆငေျပေစရန အေထာကအကျပသညဟ ျမငသည။ အဆငျမငေသာ စာသငခနးမားတြင သငယ သမ ဥးေဆာငၿပး ဆရာ၊ ဆရာမမားအေနႏင အေထာကအကျပသအျဖစန႔သာ ရသည။ ေကာငးသားမားအေနျဖင မညသ႔လပေဆာငရမညဟ ေျပာသည လမးၫႊနခကမားထက ပစၥညးကရယာမားမ သငယရရမႈပမားသည။

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Reggio Emilia ခညးကပနညးဤခညးကပနညးတြင ကေလးမားသည မမတ႔သငယလသညမားက ကယတငသငယႏငသည အရညအခငးမားရသညဟဆသည အယအဆက အေျခခထားသည။ သင႐းမားက ႀကတငျပငဆငထားျခငးမရဘ သငယသမားမ ဥးေဆာငသြားသည။ ဆရာ၊ ဆရာမ၏ တာ၀နမာ သငၾကားမႈအဆငေျပေစရန လပေဆာငေပးရနသာျဖစသည။ ဤခညးကပနညး၏ ထးျခားခကမာ ကေလးစကား ၁၀၀ ဟေခၚသည ကေလးမား မမကယက ေဖာျပသညဟ သတမတသည သခငးဆျခငး၊ ကခနျခငး၊ စာေရးျခငး စသည အရာအားလးကျပလပႏငရန အခြငအေရးေပးျခငးျဖစသည။

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Singapore Nurturing Early Learners (NEL) framework (iTeach)ဤနညးလမးတြင ကေလးမားသည စးစမးလစတရၿပး တကၾကြသည သငယသမား ျဖစသညဟ သေဘာထားသည။ ဤနညးလမးတြင စညးကမးေျခာကခကရသည။ ဘကေပါငးစသငၾကားရန၊ ဆရာ၊ ဆရာမမားမ ကညပပးသအျဖစရရန၊ ရညရြယခကပါေသာ ကစားနညးမားက ကစားရန၊ အျပနအလနဆကဆျခငးျဖင သငယရန၊ ကေလးမားမ မမကယက အသပညာရာရနႏင ဘကစဖြ႕ၿဖးမႈရေစရန စသညတ႔ျဖစသည။

ငယရြယႏနယေသာ ကေလးသငယမားအတြက မလတနးႀကပညာေရး သငၾကားေရးစနစမား အမားအျပားရသကသ႔ ေရြးခယစရာေကာငးမားလညး အလြနမားျပားသည။ ဤလမးၫႊနတြင အေျခခသေဘာတရားက သရနားလညေစရန လအပေသာ အေရးႀကးသည ေ၀ါဟာရမားက ရငးလငးထားသည။

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ဆရာ၊ ဆရာမ မားမ သတ႔၏ အျမငမားက မေ၀ထားသည ...

Alyssa LundeThe International School of Myanmar မ Early Years Teacher (Reggio-Emilia Approach)

ကၽြႏပတ႔လပေဆာငတ အရာေတာေတာမားမားက ကေလး ေတြရ႕ စတ၀ငစားမႈန႔ စတဆႏၵက အေျခခထားသညက မား သည။ ဆရာ၊ ဆရာမတြငရေသာ ဗဟသတမားက ကေလး ထသ႔ ေပးသညဆသညထက ကေလးမား၊ ဆရာ၊ ဆရာမမား ႏင မဘမား အတတကြသငယၾကျခငးျဖစသည။ ဘာသာရပ သငၾကားမႈမားက ေဘးဖယထားျခငးမဟတဘ ပ၍အဓပၸါယ ရၿပး အျပစကငးသညနညးျဖင သငၾကားပါသည။ ကေလးမား စတ၀ငစားသည အရာမားျဖင သငၾကားပါက သတ႔လပေဆာင ရမညဆသညထက စတပါ၀ငစားေသာေၾကာင ေဆာငရြကျခငး မးျဖစလာသည။

Jenni ParkerThe International School of Myanmar မ Early Years Teacher (Reggio-Emilia Approach)

ကေလးမားသည အစြမးအစရၿပး မးစလပႏငၾကသည။ သး ႏစအရြယကေလးအား အထငေသးရန လြယေသာလညး အခြင အေရးေပးၿပး ယၾကညေပးမညဆပါက လပႏငတာေတြ အမားႀကး ရသည။ ေကာပးအတက ကယတငလြယေစျခငးက သ႔ေသာ အရာမားအား မဘမားအေနႏင လပေဆာငခြင မားေပးထားရန လအပသည။ ကၽြႏပတ႔ လပေပးလ႔ရေသာလညး သတ႔ကယတင လပေဆာငပါက ပ၍သငယႏငမည ျဖစသည။

Becci LeeDulwich College Yangon မ Head of Early Years,Star City campus (Early Years Foundation Stage)

Dulwich College Yangon (ႏင အျခားႏငငတကာမ ကနဥး အရြယေကာငးမား)တြင ရရလာမည ရလာဒထက မညသ႔ လပေဆာငသညဆသည နညးလမးက အဓကထားရန ရည ရြယသည။ ကေလးငယတစေယာကစတငးသည သငယသည နညးလမးမား ကြျပားၾကၿပး အသစတစခက တတေျမာကရန အတြက အခနတစခေပးရသည။ ၾကြကသားငယဖြ႕ၿဖးမႈသည လညး ဥပမာေကာငးတစချဖစသည။ မဘမားအေနျဖင မမ ၏သားသမးမား ခတက မကငႏငေသးလင(သ႔) သမာ႐းက မဟတေသာ ဆပကငသညပစရလင ပပငေသာကေရာက တတၾကသည။ ထအခါ ရြ႕ကသ႔ေသာ ေပာေျပာငးသညအရာ မားႏင ကစားဖ႔အခြငအေရးေပးရနလသည။ ကေလးငယမား အေနႏင သတ႔၏ ၾကြကသားငယမား ဖြ႕ၿဖးလာေစရနအတြက ရြ႕ထတြင တတေခာငးမားျဖင ေရးျခစျခငး၊ အျပားခပတစခ ေပၚတြင လကေခာငးမားအားအသးျပၿပး ေကာမားလးျခငး၊ ကပေၾကး၊ ေမြးညႇပကသ႔ေသာ ပစၥညးမားအသးျပျခငး၊ Lego အ႐ပမားဆကျခငး တ႔ျဖင ေလကငႏငသည။ သ႔ေသာ ထက သ႔ေသာ အခြငအေရးမား ေပးထားျခငးမရဘ အဆငသငမျဖစ မ စာလးမားေရးရန ဖအားေပးမပါက သတ႔၏ စတ၀ငစားမႈ၊ တကၾကြမႈမားႏင ယၾကညမႈမား ဆး႐ႈးသြားႏငသည။

Investigating a sunflower.Photography DULWICH COLLEGE YANGON

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စကားလးတ႔၏ အဓပၸါယမားအရြယေရာကသႏင ကေလးအခးေကာငး(သ႔)ကေလးထနးေကာငးတြင အခနးတစခနးအတြငး ကေလးမား အေရအတြကႏင ၾကညရႈရန အရညအခငးျပညမသည အရြယေရာကသ အေရအတြကက ဆလသည။ အဆငျမငသည ေကာငးမားတြင ၾကညရႈသတစေယာကအတြကရေသာ ကေလးငယ အေရအတြကမာ အနညးငယသာရသည။

ဘာသာစကားႏစမးသးေသာ ပညာေရးေကာငးသားမား ဘာသာစကားႏစမးလး ကၽြမးကငလာေစရန ရညရြယခကျဖင ညႊနၾကားမႈမားက ဘာသာစကားႏစမးျဖင ေျပာဆသည အေျခအေနကဆလသည။

ကေလးမား ဥးေဆာငမႈမမတ႔ သငၾကားလသညလမးက ေရြးခယရန ေကာငးသား မားအား တြနးအားေပးသည စနစျဖစသည။ ဆရာ၊ ဆရာမ မားအေနႏင ဥးေဆာငျခငးထက ကညေထာကပရနသာ ျဖစသည။

သငေလာေသာ ဖြ႕ၿဖးမႈဤနညးလမးက ကေလးငယတစေယာကခငးေသာ လညး ေကာငး၊ အခနးတစခအေနန႔ေသာလညးေကာငး အသက အရြယအရေရာ၊ ဖြ႕ၿဖးမႈအဆငအရပါ စဥးစားၾကသည။

ၾကြကသားငယႏင ၾကြကသားဤနညးလမးက ကေလးငယတစေယာကခငးေသာလညး ေကာငး၊ အခနးတစခအေနန႔ေသာလညးေကာငး အသကအရြယအရေရာ၊ ဖြ႕ၿဖးမႈအဆငအရပါ စဥးစားၾကသည။

အခငးခငး သငယျခငးကေလးငယမားအေနႏင အတတကြကစားျခငး၊ အျခားသ မားက ရငးျပျခငးႏင အျခားသမားမညသ႔လပေဆာငသညဆသညက ၾကညျခငးအားျဖင မားစြာသငယႏငၾကသည။

ကစားျခငးမ သငယျခငးကေလးငယမားကယတင ဥးေဆာငသည လြတလပစြာ ကစားျခငးမားႏင ဆရာ၊ ဆရာမမ ဥးေဆာငၿပး လမးညႊန သည ကစားနညးလညး ပါ၀ငသည။

မေရးမဖတမ လပေဆာငမႈမားကေလးငယမား မေရးတတ၊ မဖတတတခင ျပလပ ေသာ လႈပရားမႈမားသည ေရးတတဖတတတရန အ ေထာကအကျပႏငသည။

အေၾကာငးအရာ အေျခခသငယမႈဤနညးလမးသည တကယျဖစပကေနသည အေျခအေနမားအား ေမးခြနးမားျဖင တကၾကြ စြာ ရာေဖြေလလာျခငးျဖစၿပး အမားအားျဖင အျခားကေလးငယမားႏင အတတကြ ဆရာ၊ ဆရာမ၏ လမးညႊနမႈျဖင လပေဆာငၾကသည။

ေကာငးအတြက ျပငဆငျခငးကေလးတစေယာကအေနႏင စတပငးဆငရာ၊ ရပ ပငးဆငရာ၊ လမႈဆကဆေရးဆငရာတ႔က မညမ လပေဆာငႏငမညက ေဖာျပရနအတြကအသးျပသည။

လမႈဆကဆေရး ဖြ႕ၿဖးမႈကေလးမားအေနႏင မမတ႔၏ စတခစားမႈ၊ အျပအမ၊ အတနးေဖာမားအေပၚ ဆကဆေရး မညသ႔နားလည၊ ထနးသမးသည စသည ဖြ႕ၿဖးမႈျဖစစဥက ဆလသည။

Whole Child

အသပညာ၊ လမႈဆကဆေရး၊ စတပငးဆငရာ၊ ႐ပပငးဆင ရာႏင ဖနတးႏငမႈစသည ကေလးတစေယာက၏ ဖြ႕ၿဖးမႈ အားလးက ဆလသည။ ကေလးတငးသည မတညေသာ က႑တငးအတြက မတညေသာ ႏႈနးျဖင ဖြ႕ၿဖးၾကသည။


American International School Yangon (AIS Yangon)

South Okkalapa 09 957 496 105 [email protected] www.ais.academy @AISYangon

From age: 4 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: Based on American curriculumPre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:10

Asia Language and Business Academy (ALBA)

Dagon, Sanchaung, Thuwunna, Bahan 09 51 376 236 / 09 51 376 314 [email protected] www.alba-edu.com @ALBAyangon

From age: 3 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: Early Years Foundation StagePre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:7

Bahan International Kindergarten Thaketa

01 548 452 / 09 456 008 595 [email protected] www.bfi-edu.com @bahankindergarten

From age: 3 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: Cambridge curriculum

Brainworks International School Botahtaung, Hlaing, Kamayut, North Dagon,

Tamwe, Thingangyun 01 855 1360 / 09 262 934 441 [email protected] www.brainworks-total.com @brainworkstotalinternationalschool

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Pre-schools

From age: 3 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: Cambride curriculum with multiple intelligence based learningPre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:5

Bright Kidz Pre-school & Childcare Kamayut, South Okkalapa, Thingangyun

09 769 213 547 (South Okkalapa) / 09 799 501 680 (Kamaryut)

[email protected] (S. Okkalapa) / [email protected] (Kamaryut)

www.myanmarbrightkidz.com @MyanmarBrightKidz

From age: 2 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: NoCurricula: Multiple intelligence based learning

Central Park Pre-School Yankin

09 404 050 448 / 01 549 013 [email protected] www.centralparkschool.net @CentralParkPreschool

From age: 2 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: NoCurricula: Montessori Method and Reggio Emilia approachPre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:4

Crane International School Myanmar (CISM)

Mayangone 01 655 818 / 01 655 828 [email protected] www.cismyangon.com


Dulwich College Yangon, Pun Hlaing Campus

Hlaing Thayar 01 368 4450 [email protected]

yangon.dulwich.org @dulwichcollegeyangon

From age: 2 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: Early Years Foundation StagePre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:4 - 1:8

Dulwich College Yangon, Star City Campus

Thanlyin 0 562 023 402 [email protected]

yangon.dulwich.org @dulwichcollegeyangon

From age: 2 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: Early Years Foundation StagePre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:4 - 1:8

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The British School Yangon (BSY) Mayangone

09 250 739 873 / 09 426 492 301 [email protected]

www.britishschoolyangon.org @britishschoolyangon


Mayangone 01 657 225 / 09 259 277 711 / 09 259 277 722 [email protected]

www.etonhouse.com.mm @etonhouseyangon

From age: 12 months - 6 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: NoCurricula: EtonHouse Inquire-Think-Learn curriculum inspired by Reggio Emilia approach

EtonHouse International Pre-school

Shaping the future through education


Edelweiss Singapore Pre-school Yankin

09 420 816 881 [email protected] @EdelweissSporePreschool

From age: 18 monthsOption to continue after 5 years of age: NoCurricula: Adheres to Singapore’s Nurturing Early Learning framework (NEL)Pre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:5 to 1:8

Elite International School Hlaing Thayar

09 420 117 735 / 09 783 617 736 [email protected]

[email protected] www.eliteinternationalschool.com @EISYangon

From age: 2 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: Early Years Foundation Stage Pre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:4 to 1:8

Future Kidz Mayangone

09 254 258 561 [email protected] www.futurekidzinternationalschool.com @futurekidzinternationalyangon

From age: 3.5 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: Christian Light Education (CLE) curriculum supplemented with other activitiesPre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:5

Gifted Kids Montessori Preschool and Learning Centre

North Dagon 09 202 3851 @giftedkidsndg

From age: 2 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: NoCurricula: Montessori Method, Singapore curriculum, bilingual instruction (Eng & Myan)Pre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:6

IMM Montessori Myanmar Bahan

01 546 097 / 01 546 761 [email protected] www.immschool.com @IMM.school

From age:15 monthsOption to continue after 5 years of age: Yes, up to 10 yearsCurricula: Montessori MethodPre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:5 for older pre-school children (with more adults for younger children)

International School of Myanmar (ISM)

Hlaing 01 530 082 / 83 [email protected] www.ismyanmar.com @weareism

From age: 3 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: Reggio Emilia ApproachPre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:6 to 1:9

Kings International School Latha

01 382 213 / 01 395 816 / 17 [email protected] See Facebook @kingsintl.edu


Little Learners Playgroup and Pre-School

Lanmadaw, Hlaing 09 441 571 020 / 09 441 571 022 [email protected] See Facebook @littlelearnersmm

Yankin 09 953 380 088 [email protected]

www.lepetitschoolhouse.com @LePetitSchoolhouse

From age: 18 monthsOption to continue after 5 years of age: Yes, at the Royal British International School main campus in YankinCurricula: National Curriculum of UK & International Early Years Curriculum (IEYC)Pre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:5

Le Petit Schoolhouse

International Pre-schools

The Khayay School Kamaryut

09 972 438 802 [email protected]

www.khayayschool.org @thekhayayschool

From age: 18 monthsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: The Iwasaki Method, Myanmar national curriculum, multilingual educationPre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: Varies by class level

The French International School of Yangon - Lycée Français International de Rangoun

Open a world of opportunities

Bahan 09 457 499 063 [email protected]

www.lfir.org @LFIR.Yangon

From age: 2 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: French national curriculum (with one third of teaching hours done in English and extra French tuition for non-francophone students)Pre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: Small classes for inclusive learning


Do-Re-Me Family Club Mayangone

09 798 474 241 @Do-Re-MeFamilyClub

From age: 0 - 5 yearsParental supervision required? Children under 3 years of age to be supervised by a parent or guardian.Description: Music, arts & crafts, fitness, phonics and sports classes for babies and kids

Gymboree Yankin

09 259 999 113 / 09 797 777 311 @gymboreeclassesmm

From age: 0 - 5 yearsParental supervision required? Parents attend with their childDescription: Play & learn, music classes, art classes, sports classes and pre-school preparation

Heguru Yangon Centre Bahan (Myanmar Plaza)

09 787 858 000 / 09 787 868 000 @Heguru Yangon Centre

From age: 6 months - 6 YearsParental supervision required?: For infant & toddler classes students must be accompanied by a parent or guardianDescription: Award-winning right-brain development centre from Japan

Momo Play Bahan (Myanmar Plaza), Lanmadaw

(City Mall St John), North Okkalapa (Waisayantar Orange)

09 775 587 717 @momoplaycitymall

From age: 1 -13 years (depending on outlet)Parental supervision required?: Children under 2 years of age must be supervised by a parent or guardianDescription: Indoor playground providing edutainment for kids and youngsters

NELC Sanchaung

018 550 727 / 01 855 0728 @nelcyankin

From age: 3 - 15 years (plus adult classes for ages 16 and over)Parental supervision required?: Parents can leave children to be supervised by NELC staff.Description: Quality English language courses

People Impact Bahan (Myanmar Plaza)

09 404 229 869 @peopleimpactmm

From age: 6 months - 12 yearsParental supervision required?: Children under 3 years of age must be supervised by a parent or guardianDescription: Play-based education to nurture children’s IQ and EQ

Educational Play Centres, Daycare & Language Courses

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International Pre-schools

From age: 1 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: NoCurricula: Creative classes and play-based curriculum Pre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:4

Myanmar International School (MIS)

Yankin 01 558 115 / 01 558 118 [email protected] www.mis-edu.com @myanmarinternationalschool

From age: 3 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: Early Years Foundation Stage

Myanmar International School Yangon (MISY)

Yankin 09 500 5555 / 09 550 4139 [email protected] www.misyedu.com @misyedu

From age: 3 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: Early Years Foundation StagePre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:6 to 1:7

Network International School Bahan

01 519 306 [email protected] www.networkinternationalschool.com @NetworkInternationalSchool

From age: 2 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: Early Years Foundation StagePre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:4 to 1:7

Pingu’s English International Kindergarten

Bahan 09 975 751 817 [email protected] www.pingusenglish.com @pingusenglish.myanmar

From age: 2 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: Yes, English Enrichment for ages 2-9 years oldCurricula: UK curriculum developed by Kingston University (London) Pre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:6

Pride International School Myanmar (PISM)

Kamaryut 01 530 640 / 09 73 028 322 [email protected] www.myanmareducationservice.com @pismofficial

From age: 3 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: Early Years Foundation Stage Pre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:9

Promise - An International School (PAIS)

Mingaladon 09 965 739 883 / 09 965 739 884 [email protected] www.promiseyangon.com @promiseeducationcentre

From age: 2 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: Bilingual International Curriculum

Rhythms & Rhymes Pre-school Bahan

09 43 108 839 [email protected] www.rnrschool.com @RandRInternationalPreschool

From age: 2 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: NoCurricula: Montessori Method. Mixed age-group classes for 2-6 years oldsPre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:5

Right Start International Montessori Hlaing

01 710 040 / 09 254 075 919 [email protected] www.rightstartschool.net @rightstartmontessoriyangon

From age: 16 monthsOption to continue after 5 years of age: NoCurricula: Montessori MethodPre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:5

Shu Khinn Thar International Kindergarten

Thaketa 01 941 0010 / 01 450 396 [email protected] www.bfi-edu.com @sktkindergarten

From age: 3 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: Cambridge curriculum

SILTA Lumbini Academy Bahan

01 856 4452 Via Facebook See Facebook SILTA Lumbini Pre-School

From age: 2.5 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: NoCurricula: Montessori Play-Way MethodPre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:5 to 1:10

Singapore International School: RVi Academy Yangon

Kamaryut 01 230 5998 / 01 536 260 [email protected] www.sismyanmar.com @Singapore.School.Myanmar

From age: 2 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: Singapore iTeach PrincipalPre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:6

Thalun International School Early Learning Centre

Kamaryut 09 793 899 809 / 01 535 037 [email protected] www.thaluninternationalschool.com @ThalunInternationalSchoolYangon

From age: 1 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: Yes, at Ahlone CampusCurricula: The Creative Curriculum® for preschoolPre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:5

The International School Yangon (ISY)

Bahan 01 512 793 / 94 / 95 [email protected] www.isyedu.org @ISY.officialpage

From age: 4 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: Based on American curriculumPre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:10

Yangon Academy Bahan

01 557 219 [email protected] www.yangonacademy.com @yangonacademy2004

From age: 2 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: American-based curriculumPre-school Adult:Pupil Ratio: 1:6

Yangon International School (YIS) Thingangyun

01 578 171 [email protected] www.yismyanmar.com @yangoninternationalschool

From age: 3 yearsOption to continue after 5 years of age: YesCurricula: Based on American curriculum

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