Early years
Play, oral language, and numbers through materials. Outdoors every day. No homework. The day ends at 12:30 for Nursery and 1:15 for LKG and UKG.
Home Academics
The syllabus, and the hours around it.
We follow CBSE from Nursery to Grade 12. English is the medium. The extra hours are for reading, labs, art, and sport, and they are written into the week.
Curriculum
CBSE, taught at a pace a class can follow.
The board syllabus is the spine of Grades 1 to 12. Teachers plan the year in June, not in February. If a class has not understood a topic, we stay with it and trim a later worksheet rather than rush on.
English is the medium of instruction. Hindi is the second language and Kannada the third through Grade 8. French is a club, not a replacement for either language.
Grades 9 and 10 prepare for the CBSE board examinations. Grades 11 and 12 offer Science and Commerce only. Every senior student takes English Core.
Programmes
Five stages, one campus.
Primary
Reading, writing, mathematics, and environmental studies in the morning. A specialist period — art, music, PE, or library — each afternoon. School runs 8:20 am to 3:10 pm.
Middle
Subject teachers, a weekly science lab, and one longer project each term. Students keep a reading log and present it twice a year.
Secondary
The CBSE board courses, with extra problem sessions in mathematics and science. Sport stays on the timetable. We do not cancel PE for revision until the final fortnight.
Senior secondary
Science: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Biology or Computer Science. Commerce: Accountancy, Business Studies, Economics, and Mathematics or Informatics Practices. English Core for all.
Departments
Who teaches what
Each department has a head who watches books, tests, and the pace of every section, not only their own class.
English
Literature and writing from Grade 1. A seen and an unseen text in every senior term. Grammar is taught inside the writing, not as a separate drill for its own sake.
Languages
Hindi and Kannada from Grade 1, with speaking time in every lesson. The department also runs the French club for Grades 5 to 8.
Mathematics
Concrete materials through Grade 5. From Grade 6, a weekly problem class that is not a race. Board classes practise under timed conditions from October.
Sciences
Primary science uses a shared materials room. From Grade 6, physics, chemistry, and biology have separate labs and a weekly practical.
Social sciences
History, geography, and civics, with map work that is marked. Local studies in Bengaluru are part of Grade 6 and Grade 7, not an extra project.
Computer science
A 32-seat lab. Coding begins in Grade 6. Senior students may use the lab machines or their own laptop on lab days.
Arts and music
Visual art every week through Grade 8, then as an elective studio. Choir and instrumental groups rehearse twice a week after school.
Physical education
Four lessons a week until Grade 10. Athletics, football, basketball, and a term of yoga or table tennis indoors.
Teaching
How a lesson is supposed to feel.
Departments share four habits. They are checked in classroom visits, not only written in a handbook.
01
The idea before the exercise
A new topic starts with a question or a demonstration. The worksheet comes after at least half the class can say the idea back.
02
Reading hour
Four mornings a week, children read books they chose. Teachers read too. The library restocks from the logs, not from a single book list.
03
Hands on the materials
Labs and art rooms are used from the primary years. A practical is written up the same week, while the class still remembers what happened.
04
The child speaks at the meeting
Twice a year the student leads a short conference with their family: what improved, what is unfinished, and what the next month is for.
Assessment is a mix of short quizzes, projects, and two term exams. Grades 10 and 12 follow the CBSE board calendar. Report cards go home with a comment from the person who teaches the subject, not a generated line.