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Yarra International Kindergarten
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  • About Yarra
    • About Yarra
    • Yarra Facilities
    • Yarra Building
  • Why Choose Yarra?
  • Yarra Program
    • Curriculum
    • Yarra's Learning
    • The Yarra Culture & Positive Psychology
    • Extra-curricular activites
    • Fees
  • School Life
    • School Calendar
    • Learning Areas
    • Daily schedule
    • Food Menu
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About Yarra

Yarra in a nutshell

Yarra International Kindergarten is an Australian-centred, English-immersion kindergarten, offering an active learning, play-based, child-centred program inspired by the Australian Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF). Our warm and engaging environment nurtures each child’s individuality and encourages creativity, confidence, and kindness. The founding family, part-Australian, part-Vietnamese, invested in this as a passion project, investing heavily for their own children and to provide an international standard option for families in Da Nang.


We combine native English-speaking international teachers with accredited Vietnamese co-teachers to create a language-rich and supportive classroom. Children enjoy a balance of structured and open-ended activities such as phonics, English, storytelling, science, role play, show & tell, cooking, arts, music, and sports and P.E in our unique indoor air-conditioned sports room or outside in our natural playground.

Beyond purposeful learning based on our detailed lesson plans, we place great emphasis on character development, promoting values such as care, empathy, politeness, cooperation, and respect — all embedded in daily routines and social learning experiences.

Yarra is home to families from over 24 nationalities, creating a diverse and welcoming international community. Our students thrive in an immersive English environment where they naturally acquire language through play and interaction, not just with teachers and English-specific lesson content, but crucially with their friends whereby English is the common language.

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The Yarra Values

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The Yarra Culture

Yarra strives to ensure our school is a safe, fun, friendly and supportive learning environment, such that the teachers, fellow students, and by extension, parents, become part of our close-knit learning community.
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Good character development

Yarra understands that these early formative years are crucial in character development, so we focus on instilling, modeling and reinforcing good character traits and good behaviour. This includes exhibiting empathy, showing appreciation and gratitude, being eager to support others, being polite and being respectful. 
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Citizens of the world

At Yarra we want to cultivate a positive, respectful and inclusive learning environment. This includes valuing and respecting each other, different cultures, animals and the environment.  This reflects modern international values.​

"Empathy is an important factor in academic and career success and an essential leadership skill"

- Donna Matthews, PhD, Psychology Today

O U R   M I S S I O N

Quality education and care

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Balanced international education

At Yarra International Kindergarten we offer high quality early learning in a customized program extending upon the Australian framework. The Yarra philosophy embraces balance in education to allow children to thrive academically, emotionally, socially and physically.​
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The Yarra Learning Program

The Yarra learning program is committed to fun, engaging and effective active learning approaches, largely inspired by Reggio Emilia and HighScope, and using Montessori and Glenn Doman materials. We aim to stay at the forefront of early learning.
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The Yarra Curriculum

Yarra offers a structured, purposeful curriculum via a dynamic, play-based active learning approach. We welcome parents to visit our kindergarten to inspect our comprehensive curriculum

T H E   T E A M

Our Founders

Our founders are all qualified educators with years of teaching experience.
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Richard Davidson

B.Com, B.Sc, Dip. Ed, Master of Teaching, University of Melbourne, Australia
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Gwen Morrish

Dip.Ed., University of Melbourne
​Over 40 years teaching preparatory age in Australia

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Victoria Nguyen

Graduated from National College of Education, Ha Noi.
Teaching from 2011, a decade of experience in International kindergartens in Vietnam. 
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  • Home
  • About Yarra
    • About Yarra
    • Yarra Facilities
    • Yarra Building
  • Why Choose Yarra?
  • Yarra Program
    • Curriculum
    • Yarra's Learning
    • The Yarra Culture & Positive Psychology
    • Extra-curricular activites
    • Fees
  • School Life
    • School Calendar
    • Learning Areas
    • Daily schedule
    • Food Menu
    • Gallery
  • Contact