His Highness the Aga Khan Visits the Aga Khan Academy, Hyderabad
His Highness the Aga Khan visits the Aga Khan Academy, Mombasa
December break
The Aga Khan Academy Maputo will be closed from 17 December 2021 to 10 January 2022 for December break, with classes resuming on 11 January 2022. More information regarding the return to campus will be shared with parents in January.
Grade 10 Moving Up Ceremony
On Friday, 27 May the Aga Khan Academy Maputo will host a special ceremony for its Grade 10 students from 2-2.45 pm in the Commons. Invites to the ceremony have been shared with Grade 10 parents via email.
Africa Day: community event
The Aga Khan Academy Maputo will be organising a community event for Africa Day on Saturday, 28 May from 11 am to 3 pm for the school community and beyond. Parents are requested to present their child's student ID to enter. Additional details will be shared with parents via email.
Parent Teacher Conference
The Aga Khan Academy Maputo will host parent-teacher conferences on Thursday, 14 December from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm and on Friday, 15 December from 8:00 am - 12:00 pm. For more information, please contact school secretaries.
Vehicle safety
Effective on Monday, 26 February 2024, the Aga Khan Academy Maputo will introduce new pick-up and drop-off guidelines on campus to ensure the safety of our school community. For more information, please contact Ms Marli Mendes.
Introduction to the Aga Khan Academies
In 2000, His Highness the Aga Khan initiated the establishment of the Aga Khan Academies, an integrated network of schools to be located in countries across Africa, South and Central Asia, and the Middle East.
The aim of the Academies is to develop future leaders with the skills and knowledge to support positive development in their societies. The Academies achieve this by recruiting exceptional young people from all backgrounds and providing them with the highest international standard of education.
Admission is based upon merit, with financial aid available to ensure access for accepted students regardless of financial circumstances.
Global network
The first Aga Khan Academy opened in Mombasa, Kenya in 2003, the second in Hyderabad, India in 2011, the third in Maputo, Mozambique in 2013 and the fourth in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2022.
Rigorous academic programme
The academic programme offered by the Academies has been developed according to the principles of the widely-recognised International Baccalaureate (IB). The IB provides a challenging academic environment for students and allows their achievement to be measured against international standards.
In addition to providing a rigorous academic and leadership experience, the Academies help students develop an ethical and public-minded outlook through community service opportunities and education on ethics and pluralism.
“An education must equip students with the tools that enable them to adapt and thrive in a world characterised by change.”They also recognise that to become effective leaders, students must be both globally minded and locally rooted. Global as well as local perpectives are reflected in the curriculum, and students study in both English and the local language.
Purpose-built residential campuses
Each Aga Khan Academy campus is architect designed and purpose built. They feature state-of-the-art classrooms and resource areas, and extensive sports facilities.
The residences provide secure and well-supervised accommodation for local and international students as well as those visiting from another Academy. As the network develops further, both students and teachers will participate in visits and exchanges between Academies to broaden their experience and practical understanding of pluralism.
Professional development
Promoting excellence in teaching, both on campus and more broadly, is a major goal of the Academies. Each Academy is established as a Professional Development Centre (PDC). The PDC aims at strengthening the profession of teaching in the region by providing substantial professional learning opportunities and modelling highly effective educational practice.
AKA Maputo Construction Diary March 2019
See the latest construction progess at the Aga Khan Academy Maputo campus.
Student Leadership
The Academies’ programmes aim to develop students who are ethical, public-minded and who possess a pluralistic outlook. Both curricular and co-curricular activities work to educate effective home-grown leaders who are actively engaged in their local communities and are aware of the implications of their actions. Through their participation in co-curricular clubs, students are encouraged to take on leadership positions in a variety of different forms (e.g. house leaders, student council, team captains, dorm duties).
Not only do these opportunities provide an environment to explore and enhance skills such as cooperation and problem solving, they also enable students to set personal goals and challenge themselves.
Student leadership activities vary from community service opportunities to sports and expressive arts. Students have opportunities to participate in the Student Representative Council and other similar activities.
Leadership activities instil in participants a sense of community ownership, creativity and a collaborative spirit, and prepares them for a lifetime of active engagement and leadership.
"The conviction that home-grown intellectual leadership of exceptional calibre is the best driver of a society’s destiny, underpins the Ismaili Imamat’s endeavour to create catalytic centres of educational excellence."
