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Grade 11 Students in hundreds lined in front of their boarding school in Maymyo High schools students choose one of 2 tracks upon entering high school: science or arts. Science-specialized students have six major subjects: Myanmar , English , Mathematics , Chemistry , Physics and Biology .
The mostly-girls school offers classes from kindergarten to Tenth Standard (or Grade 1 through Grade 11 in the new nomenclature). The school's main colonial era building, in its 13-acre (5.26 hectare) campus, is a landmark protected by the city, and is listed on the Yangon City Heritage List . [ 1 ]
Dagon 1 has the largest student body in Yangon and in Myanmar, numbering near 6,600. [4] A high student-to-teacher ratio exists, like most of the schools in Myanmar. The students are spread across eleven standards or grades, from Grade 1 (formerly Kindergarten) to Grade 11 (formerly Tenth Standard).
The school offers classes from K through 10 in two daily shifts. (The Burmese education system is based on the colonial 11-year secondary school curriculum although most other countries are on a 13-year curriculum.) The early shift handles K through 4 and the second shift does 5 through 10.
The Burmese alphabet (Burmese: မြန်မာအက္ခရာ myanma akkha.ya, pronounced [mjəmà ʔɛʔkʰəjà]) is an abugida used for writing Burmese. It is ultimately adapted from a Brahmic script , either the Kadamba or Pallava alphabet of South India .
Although it is a high school in the technical sense, TTC's student body comprises students from Grade Kg to Grade Twelve or Matriculation, the highest standard in the Myanmar's new education system. The origin of the name of the school comes from the fact that TTC is part of the Institute of Education (former Teachers' Training College), whose ...
Basic Education High School (BEHS) No. 16 Mandalay (Burmese: အခြေခံပညာအထက်တန်းကျောင်း အမှတ် (၁၆) မန္တလေး; abbreviated to အ.ထ.က (၁၆) မန္တလေး; formerly Wesley High School; [1] commonly known as Mandalay 16 High School) is one of the best known public high schools in Upper Burma.
The all-boys school was among the few early schools that educated the children of the country's British officers, the Anglo-Burmese, the Anglo-Indians and the wealthy Burmese. [5] The language of instruction was mainly English in the early days, and bi-lingual for some classes in the later days. There were also some Hebrew classes for the ...