Pride ISM was inaugurated in Yangon in 2001-2002 and has a growing enrolment spread across four campuses, two for Early Childhood Education, one for Primary and one for Secondary. A sister campus in Mandalay was inaugurated in March 2005 and provides a home for nursery, kindergarten, primary and secondary education.
The school year runs for 190 or so teaching days from late May to March, with an intensive exam preparation classes for IGCSE candidates during April - May. Class size is set at 24 maximum. Since inauguration the school has adopted a Singapore based curriculum but will transition to the UK National Curriculum from 2014 -15 (Secondary) and 2015 – 16 (Primary).
At Secondary, subjects offered at CIE syllabi Key Stage 3 include English, Maths, History, Geography, Science, ICT/Computing. Non –examination classes are offered in Art, Music and PE. For Key Stage 4, Cambridge IGCSEs are currently offered in English as a Second Language, Maths, Pure Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Economics and ICT. Next year, we intend to offer Human Biology, Accountancy, Business Studies, World Literature, History and Geography.