Early Years · Nursery to UKG
Play, talk, phonics, number, and a long time outside. Classes are capped at 24 with a teacher and a teaching partner.
Academics
A curriculum with a spine.
English is the language of instruction. CBSE and Cambridge IGCSE share teachers, laboratories, and a common standard of written work.
Curriculum
Five stages, one standard of care.
Children move stage by stage. Subject specialists begin in Grade 6. Pathway choice is made in Grade 8, with the student’s own work on the table.
Primary · Grades 1 to 5
A class teacher holds the day. English, mathematics, environmental science, Hindi or French, art, music, and games. Reading is checked every term, not once a year.
Middle · Grades 6 to 8
Subject teachers, a tutor, and the first laboratory rotations. Students learn how to write a sourced paragraph and how to keep a practical notebook.
Secondary · Grades 9 and 10
CBSE or Cambridge IGCSE. Both pathways use the same laboratories and the same expectation for practical work. Transfer between them is possible at the end of Grade 9 if the evidence supports it.
Senior Secondary · Grades 11 and 12
CBSE streams in Science, Commerce, and Humanities. University counselling starts in June of Grade 11, with a written plan for each student.
Academic programmes
Depth, not a longer list of clubs.
Sciences
Separate physics, chemistry, and biology laboratories from Grade 6. A junior discovery lab for primary. Senior students may join the monsoon field project.
Languages
English literature and language at every stage. Hindi or French from Grade 1. A third language is available as a club, not as a rushed credit.
Arts and design
Visual art, music, and theatre have rooms of their own. The design studio teaches drawing, materials, and simple robotics to middle and senior years.
Sport and outdoor learning
Games four times a week. Athletics, football, basketball, and cricket. Two outdoor days a year for Grades 4 to 12, with trained staff.
Learning support
A small support team for literacy, numeracy, and study skills. Plans are written with the family and reviewed every term. We do not hide the plan in a file.
University guidance
From Grade 11, each student has a counsellor and a subject referee. We write references from the work we have actually seen.
Departments
Eight departments. Named heads. Open doors.
Department rooms are labelled, and heads publish their office hours on the tutor noticeboard every Monday.
English and Languages
Literature, writing, Hindi, and French. The library sits inside this department’s care.
Mathematics
From early number to calculus. Problem sets are short enough to be marked.
Sciences
Physics, chemistry, biology, and the junior discovery lab.
Humanities
History, geography, economics, and political science. Essays are conferenced, not only graded.
Computer Science and Design
Computing from Grade 6, plus the design and robotics studio.
Visual and Performing Arts
Art, music, and theatre, with exhibition and concert weeks on the calendar.
Physical Education
Games, athletics, house sport, and the outdoor education days.
Wellbeing
Counsellors, tutors, the nurse, and the learning support team.
Teaching methodology
Show the work. Then talk about it.
We do not run a single branded method. We do run a shared set of habits that every department can be observed against.
A question worth a week
Units open with a question the class cannot answer on Monday. The week’s reading, practical, or studio work is in service of that question.
Feedback while it still matters
Teachers return marked work within five teaching days. Comments name one strength and one next move.
Mixed evidence
Tests matter. So do notebooks, oral explanations, and made things. Reports say which evidence was used.
Observation
Heads of department watch a lesson every cycle and meet the teacher the same week. The notes are about the students’ work, not the teacher’s performance.
Digital only when it helps
Boards and shared documents are tools. Senior students keep a digital portfolio. Primary students still write by hand every day.
Time outside
Early years go out daily. Older students use the lawn, the garden, and the field as part of science, art, and games, not as a reward for finishing a worksheet.