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.
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
The Yarra CultureYarra 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 developmentYarra 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 worldAt 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.
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"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
Balanced international educationAt 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 ProgramThe 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 CurriculumYarra 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
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T H E T E A M
Our Founders
Our founders are all qualified educators with years of teaching experience.
Richard DavidsonB.Com, B.Sc, Dip. Ed, Master of Teaching, University of Melbourne, Australia
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Gwen MorrishDip.Ed., University of Melbourne
Over 40 years teaching preparatory age in Australia |
Victoria NguyenGraduated from National College of Education, Ha Noi.
Teaching from 2011, a decade of experience in International kindergartens in Vietnam. |