A teacher engaging with a student demonstrates the positive school culture at Australian International School Phnom Penh

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Vision

Inspiring the joyful pursuit of learning and intercultural understanding.

AISPP values:

  • Sharing our passions to make things better together.
  • Our differences make us stronger. 
  • Find Sok Sabay (wellness) inside and out.
  • Our learning is limitless

Mission

Igniting a passion for a life of learning together.

Strategic Intent

AISPP aspires to excellence and aims to be a regional leader in education, providing an: 

  • internationally minded, private school education. 
  • engaging and creative curriculum based upon the Australian Curriculum (AC) and the IB programmes
  • outstanding educational organisation accredited and authorised to international standards. 

Philosophy

AISPP recognises that successful schools today have an enormous responsibility to educate students for their unknown futures. As such, AISPP is committed to meet the needs of its students with passion, drive, creativity, innovation and dedication.

To undertake this enormous responsibility AISPP strongly believes we must focus our efforts on upholding the following:

Our essence as an Australian school working in an international context.
Our commitment as a world-class school with outstanding teachers who are ensuring children are ready for the challenges and opportunities presented by our increasingly interdependent world, developing into culturally aware, open-minded and confident young people.

Our Logo

Our logo, the lotus flower, is integral to our host country, and the 3 top petals are symbolic of Angkor Wat, at the heart of Cambodia’s heritage and culture. Each of the delicate petals represents one of the ten IB Learner Profile traits.

The three gold petals at the top also symbolise our philosophy of excellence and the Australian Curriculum with an internationally-minded context, providing:

Student Centered

AISPP strives to understand the nature of every child and provide student-centered, growth mindset learning. Each day spent at school provides precious time to learn and to be challenged. We are committed to moving beyond the traditional approach of teaching all children the same way. Addressing individual learning needs and ensuring individual learning styles are a part of all of our programmes providing a stimulating, targeted, personalised approach.

High-Quality Teaching and Learning

High-quality teaching at AISPP is student-centred, using purposeful pedagogy and assessment together with a range of data to establish agreed targets, guiding students through inquiry.

High-quality learning at AISPP is inquiry-based and student-driven, using knowledge, skills and conceptual understandings to prepare our students for success.

High-Quality Teaching and Learning in the Early Years:

  • is a play-based collaborative experience

  • facilitates curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking through hands-on learning experiences

  • develops global and digital citizenship

  • understands and nurtures interdependence and agency

  • leads students to a lifelong love of learning.

High-Quality Teaching and Learning in Primary Years:

  • is based on a mapped and articulated curriculum

  • promotes inquiry and concept-driven learning

  • provides real-life experiences

  • understands and nurtures the whole student

  • continually seeks to know how students learn, where they are and where they are going

High-Quality Teaching and Learning in Secondary Years:

  • is holistically focused on student progress

  • is understanding student needs

  • is based on inquiry

  • offers real-life, creative learning experiences

  • uses a shared language

  • uses data to inform and guide teaching and learning

  • fosters and celebrates a love of learning, academic rigour and active global and digital citizenship.

Community

AISPP believes that contemporary education recognises the importance of social values and responsibilities. Emotional intelligence, values, social and emotional programmes, involvement in action and service programmes, and developing international-mindedness feature in all of our programmes. This is further enhanced by our implementation of Positive Education, a supportive and healthy way in which we bring our students and our staff into our environment, focusing on well-being for all in our community.

AISPP prides itself on offering a beautiful setting, creative contemporary learning spaces and a learning environment that focuses on local and global aspects of our shared planet and common humanity.