We are a kindergarten and primary school that teaches the British National Curriculum. We are registered with the Cambodian Ministry of Education, but have not yet sought accreditation as an internationally recognised centre of learning. We were established in 2016 with the objective of offering local children the opportunity to follow a far-reaching programme of study at a considerably lower cost than is available elsewhere in Siem Reap. To the best of our knowledge, we are still doing this.
We see our mission as empowering the individual child to think, to question and to understand, so that they may play an active and responsible role in the world in which they grow up. We view ourselves as a place of learning rather than a business, and will strive to be honest about a child’s progress at all times, never exaggerating in our assessment while endeavouring to help each one realise his or her potential.
From the beginning of the school year 2024-25, we have been offering our English-based programme only in the morning, while continuing with our Khmer classes in the afternoon. Our teaching of the British curriculum became part time in 2018 when demand for the full-time schedule fell away, either because of fees no longer being affordable or children naturally proceeding to another level. At that point, we introduced our Khmer classes for pupils who were still able to remain with us all day. A good number of those then coming for half a day would switch between mornings and afternoons month by month to conform to the schedule of their Cambodian government school. We had come to find this arrangement unmanageable, as children could find themselves changing teachers and/or in a class too small to justify employing that teacher that particular month. Critically, it had become apparent that under these conditions their progress was being affected.
This has resulted in a significant reduction in our roll and we are now running just two morning classes, a kindergarten and a primary. Our objective is to rebuild within this framework, with the possibility of restoring the British curriculum full-time provision we had in the second year of the school’s existence if there is enough support.