Coastweek– The Aga Khan Academy, Mombasa, has broken new ground with the first ever Swahili – English version of the Primary Years Programme (PYP) for the International Baccalaureate (IB), the world’s most prestigious university entrance qualification, by developing and pioneering a Kenyan-relevant version of the programme at a time when all other IB schools in the country are using an English language version.
The programme’s development in collaboration with the International Baccalaureate Organisation, has been driven by the Academy’s vision of offering world class education that spans both global and local expertise.
Learning in two languages has additionally been proven to aid the development of children’s intelligence and thinking, with bilingual children able to solve problems that contain conflicting or misleading cues at an earlier age, and more easily, than monolingual children, according to research by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition.
The Aga Khan Academy, Mombasa, which is one of a global network of academies dedicated to the development of leaders, began developing the new PYP programme in 2009.
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