Acacia has been created by Christophe et Eugenia GALIAN. Their common passion for teaching and their love for children have naturally led to creating this innovative plurilingual nursery and international kindergarten.
Eugenia has grown up in Singapore in a multicultural and multilingual environment which allows her to master English and Chinese from an early age. As a teenager, she fell in love with France and its culture. She decided to live there and has finished her French university studies with success in the domain of linguistics and then a Master 2 in Pedagogy Engineering.
Before the creation of Acacia, she had obtained a solid teaching experience in languages (French, English, Chinese) with teenagers and young children in three different countries : France (Association of “primo-arrivants”, Singapour (Ministry of Education Language Centre, Nanyang Polytechnic and Alliance FranНaise) and Thailand (Garden International School, and Alliance FranНaise).
Eugenia has a great artistic sensibility that she has developed since her young age through music, drawing and painting. This creative potential and her pedagogy abilities allow her to imagine and to create many documents and attractive “play and learn” activities to the great satisfaction of her
students and their parents and also to the delight of her sixteen year old daughter who is already multilingual like her mummy.
His career and the different courses he has taken allowed him to develop good skills in the following domains : Educational Engineering (Master PRO UTICEF – University of Louis Pasteur Strasbourg), Teaching French as a foreign language (Master FLE), Multimedia and Physic (DES Astrophysic – University of Paul Sabatier Toulouse).
Furthermore, his different working experiences in Asia, in Vietnam (as the Educational Advisor of French teaching in the french-speaking universities of Agence Universitaire de la Francophone – AUF ), in Singapore (as the French Specialist at the Ministry of Education Languages Centre) and in Thailand (Bangkok’s Alliance FranНaise ) allow him to obtain a strong practice in French teaching and a good knowledge of the asian public and context.
The center has grown over the years. Here are the important dates of the evolution of ACACIA since the creation in 2008, in Bangkok, in Hanoi and recently in Phnom Penh.
2008
Creation of the first centre in Bangkok in Sathorn area (Yen Akat Soi 2) Opening of an unique section for children from 18 month old to 3 years old : Horizon Section
2009
Opening of an second section for children from 1 to 2 years old : Early years section
2010
Opening of a section for children from 3 to 4 years old : Flying Section section
2013
Creation of the second centre in Bangkok in Sukhumvit area (Sukhumvit Soi 34) Opening of 2 sections in this centre : Early years and Horizon Section
2014
Opening of a section for children from 3 to 4 years old in the Sukhumvit centre
2015
Extension of the Sathorn centre and opening of the section for children from 4 to 5 years old in this centre : Little Travelers section
2015
Moving the Sukhumvit centre to a bigger place at Ekkamai Soi 4
2016
Opening of a Little Travelers Section in the Sukhumvit centre
2017
Extension of the Sathorn Centre and opening of a second class for the Flying Start section
2018
Opening of a centre in Hanoi (Vietnam)
2018
Opening of a Globetrotters Section in the Sathorn centre, Bangkok
2019
Opening of a Little Travelers Section in Acacia Hanoi
2020
Partnership with Tchou-tchou nursery and kindergarten and creation an Acacia centre in Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
2021
Takeover of the BrightSkies International School and moving of the Sukhumvit centre (Bangkok) to Ekkamai soi 6
Here is below the latest job offers of our school in 2022.
We are currently seeking 1 part time English kindergarten teachers, for our kindergarten in Hanoi.
Diploma/Degree required:
– Bachelor’s degree in Education with a specialization in Early childhood
– A Degree in teaching English language with a specialization in Early childhood education.
Skills required:
– Applicants must be English native speakers
– Experience in the domain of teaching young children
– Good abilities in drawing and singing - Dynamic, autonomy, creative, open-minded, good team-work, punctuality
– Passionate about children.
These positions are available for May 2022.
If you are interested to join our team, please send your resume to contact@centre-acacia.com.
We are currently seeking one French kindergarten teacher for our school in Hanoi and one for our school in Phnom Penh.
Diploma/Degree required:
– Bachelor’s degree in Education with a specialization in Early childhood
– A Degree in teaching French language with a specialization in Early childhood education.
Skills required:
– Applicants must be French native speakers
– Experience in the domain of teaching young children
– Good abilities in drawing and singing
– Dynamic, autonomy, creative, open-minded, good team-work, punctuality
– Passionate about children.
This position are available for September 2022.
Your are interested to join our team, please send your resume to contact@centre-acacia.com.