Frequently Asked Questions
Admissions
Applications will begin to be accepted in August 2021 and February 2022. Mid-year admissions are also accepted for some grade levels.
Please visit Admissions to find out more and apply electronically.
We offer partial to full financial assistance for those with a demonstrated need. Please visit Fees and Financial Support for more information, application forms and contact details.
All students are required to wear a uniform while at the Academy. To learn more about our uniform, please visit our Admissions page.
Academic Programme
We offer the IB curriculum alongside the Aga Khan Curricular Strands Early Years, Primary, Middle Years and Diploma levels. See the Academic Programme page.
Please see our Primary Years, Middle Years and Diploma pages for details.
9 August 2021 - 10 June 2022
Students can request extra academic support from their teachers if needed. If a student is struggling with their academics, parents are also informed by their teachers and the leadership team.
Activities
We offer sports including swimming, dance, basketball, football, soccer, tennis and badminton. Explore our sports facilities.
Our students choose from a selection of creative expression, action and service activities. Many of our activities are student-initiated, and may therefore change. Recent activities have included:
- Ballet
- Taekwondo
- Swimming
- Sewing club
- Recycling club.
Off-campus field trips are arranged for all students that correlates with what they are learning within the curriculum. In recent years, students have visited the railway station, a national newspaper office and cultural sites, participated in a beach clean-up, and much more.
Service learning plays a significant part in the student experience at the Academies. Our students might enrol in initiatives with local organisations, intern with local agencies of the Aga Khan Development Network or create their own sustainable community service projects. Read more here
The Residential Experience
Our residential students live in residence buildings separated by gender and grade. However, sports and residential activities are co-ed. We assign all students dorm parents. Dorm parents are a carefully chosen group of teachers who live in faculty apartments in the residential buildings with the students. They are there to ensure a safe, nurturing and comfortable environment for students.
Parents can visit on the weekends with prior approval from the residential head. During the first month of the academic term, parents are encouraged not to visit so the students can become comfortable with each other and the residences.
Each residential room has four separate beds with their own study table, cupboard and shoe rack.
During the weekends, residential students can go on excursions where they visit different sites around Maputo.
Parents are given a form to fill during enrolment in which they can indicate their child’s specific dietary needs, if any. See a typical menu.
Residential students are taken to their place of worship on the weekends and are accompanied by a staff member from the Academy.
If a child does not have a mobile device, parents can contact them through their child’s dorm parent using a phone number provided to them. We have separate phones for both girls’ and boy’s dorms, in which the faculty member on duty for the day will answer any phone calls received that day.
Parents can connect with their child’s dorm parent through email or phone. Dorm parents also offer in-person or online meetings for parents, if needed.
Career Preparation
We offer an extensive university counselling programme, assistance with finding internships, and career guidance. Read more here
The Aga Khan Academies has numerous university connections to prestigious universities around the world, such as the University of Alberta, the University of Victoria and Concordia University. Our Academies’ graduates have also benefited from these relationships through exclusive scholarship opportunities.
The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN)
The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is a collection of non-denominational development agencies operating in various countries within the developing world to improve the living conditions and opportunities for the economically and socially vulnerable. The Network focuses on health, education, culture, rural development, institution-building and the promotion of economic development.
We have Academies in Dhaka, Bangladesh; Hyderabad, India; Maputo, Mozambique; and Mombasa, Kenya. See what other Academies are planned across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Policies
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