The Shri Ram School

The Shri Ram School is a co-educational private school in India. It is one of the most sought after schools in the country.[1] Founded in July 1988, the Shri Ram School has three campuses spread across the National Capital Region of India. The first is the Junior School in Vasant Vihar, New Delhi to which was added the Senior School on Moulsari Avenue, DLF Phase III, Gurgaon in 1994.

The Shri Ram School (TSRS)
Location
NCR Delhi

India
Information
MottoVidya Dadaati Vinayam
(May Education Foster Humility)
EstablishedJuly 1988
ChairpersonArun Bharat Ram
DirectorManika Sharma, Aarushi Kheterpal
PrincipalSudha Sahay (Senior School Aravali)
PrincipalManisha Malhotra, Aman Kakar (Senior School, Moulsari)
PrincipalPooja Thakur (Junior School, Vasant Vihar)
CampusesVasant Vihar, New Delhi;
Moulsari Avenue, DLF III, Gurgaon;
Aravali - Hamilton Court Complex, DLF IV, Gurgaon;
The Shri Ram Police Public School,
Websitewww.tsrs.org

The Shri Ram School - Aravali was established in 2000 at the request of DLF Limited. It is a common campus for Pravesh Vatika (Nursery), Upvan (Kindergarten) through to Class XII. It is situated at the Hamilton Court Complex, DLF Phase IV, Gurgaon. In 2009, a new branch, "The Shriram Millennium School" was opened in Noida.[2] The Noida School is located in Sector-135.

All the campuses follow a common curriculum, however the moulsari campus follows the IB, IGCSE as well as ICSE. It has been rated the best ICSE and ISC school five years in a row from 2012 to 2017. The Special Education Needs Department was started in April 1997 to provide educational opportunities in smaller settings to children with special needs. Children aged four to ten years attend the Junior School at Vasant Vihar/Aravali and as they turn eleven years they move on to Senior School at Moulsari/Aravali respectively.

Overview

Founded by Mrs. Manju Bharat Ram in July 1988 under the aegis of SRF Ltd. and now the SRF Foundation, TSRS began with the pre-primary section and a Form was added every year.

Although it is an English medium school, Indian culture is strongly valued. It is also recognized for academic excellence and was identified among the top two schools in the country based on academic performance at the Indian School Certificate Examination, and is the number one private school in the locality. It is consistently ranked as not only one of the top schools in India, but also amongst the top schools of Indian background, including embassy schools in other countries and ISC schools across the globe. It is run by one of the oldest educational trusts, the Bharat Ram group, in India.

Students are selected based on their academic and intellectual capabilities and the school caters to a select and relatively smaller set of children compared to other schools. It is known for a high rate of rejection of and low rate of acceptance of about 4%.[3]

It is also one of the most financially expensive Indian board schools in India and is also one of the only few schools that offers the IB curriculum along with an Indian board curriculum in India.

Houses and Student Council

The school has four houses - Vasundhara (the earth - red) Sagar (the ocean - blue) Srishti (creation - green) Himgiri (mountains - yellow)

Student Council

The Student Council consists of the Senior Council (Grade XII) and the Junior Council (Grade XI). The Senior Council consists of a Head Boy, a Head Girl, a Head of Events, two Heads of sports (one boy and one girl), Head of Social Initiatives, Head of Information, Communication and Technology, and Head of Environment. Each house has a Captain from the Senior Council along with Vice Captains from the Junior Council. The Student Council is elected by the student body of the school. There is also an Editorial Board, dealing with matters such as the school magazine, yearbook, event coverage, literary festivals, and newsletters. This consists of two Chief Editors, one Managing Editor, and other editors.

Environment

Each campus is a zero garbage zone, it harvests its roof top rain water, recycles grey water, composts garbage, recycles paper and conserves energy. All campuses are polythene free zones and a fine of up to Rs. 50/- can be levied for the offense (by the Green Brigade).

The Junior Schools are equipped with a 'Green Brigade' that emphasises saving the environment within the school and in the neighbourhood. The Senior Schools have a Tiger Task Force that visits nearby tiger reserves and helps in any way that they can towards the conservation of the tiger - India's national animal.

Motto

Vidya Dadaati Vinayam - May Education Foster Humility. Also the national anthem is widely sung at Shri Ram Awards The Shri Ram School was rated the best school in India in 2010 by the magazine "Education World" whereas in 2011 it came in second.

Curriculum

The school ascribes to the ISC and ICSE Boards. In addition, the IB Diploma Programme (since January 2005), administered by the International Baccalaureate (IB) [4] and the National Indian Open Schooling Certificate are offered at the Senior School in the Moulsari campus.

Campus facilities/infrastructure

The Junior School is at the edge of the Ridge Forest on a 1.5-acre (6,100 m2) plot.

The school has a science laboratory, computer and ICT labs, music and dance rooms, lunch room, assembly hall sports facilities, a yoga room and an all weather performance area- Shri Manch.

The grey-green stone façade of Senior School, set amidst 6 acres (24,000 m2) of gently undulating green of the campus, is set against the desert landscape of Gurgaon. The building's design is based on 'clusters' of rooms for the Middle School, the Senior School and the Administrative offices. Ramps facilitate access for students and visitors. Interspersed in between are the Library, the computer laboratories, science laboratories, AV room, workshop room, the liberal arts studio, the auditorium, the gymnasium, the medical room, the SEN/NIOS rooms, the kitchens, the lunch area and staff rooms. The school's auditorium is rivalled possibly by the one at Epicentre, Gurgaon.

The Shri Ram School - Aravali in on the Hamilton Court complex in DLF City, Phase IV, Gurgaon. Its campus is equipped with basketball courts, a football ground, a cricket pitch and an outdoor stage.

The building has two wings - the Junior and Senior, containing the library, science laboratories, Computer Laboratories, workshop room/AV room, SEN/NIOS rooms, art and craft rooms, music and dance studios, the lunch hall. A new wing for the Elementary School is under construction, designed for low consumption of energy - the rooms will not need to be lit during the days, they will be well ventilated and naturally insulated against the heat and cold, with solar panels on the roof and roof top rain water harvesting.

There is a plan to add another building in the DLF campus. An extra floor is also being added to the older school buildings of the DLF campus. An extra floor has already been added to The Shri Ram School - Aravali and an auditorium has been constructed.

Developing a social conscience

Each campus provides opportunity to the less advantaged in the community. Vasant Vihar plays host to Vidya Bal Vihar, Aravali to Vidya Comfort School, and Moulsari to Balwadi providing a space for 'slum' children to get their education in a 'proper school'.

The children of Class XI take part each year in Socially Useful Productive Work (SUPW) during which they spend a week in a village, experiencing every aspect of village life and contributing to it. Prior to the trip, the village is asked for a wish list and the children offer physical labour to fulfil that need. For example, the students have constructed a road, built a shed in the cremation ground and a completely cemented basketball court - acquiring the skills needed to do so. The students work with the villagers, visit their homes and share their food thus gaining a true understanding of the challenges and strengths of rural India.

The children of the same group that have opted for the IBSCSYSE Diploma Programme take on a similar initiative - that of Community, action, service (CAS).

In 2010, after the 2010 Leh floods, its students formed "Mission Julley", (Julley means 'hello' in the local language), an initiative which included an online community page and events, collected Rs 8 lakh for three schools and a Relief Camp in Leh. The entire parent and student body was involved in raising money.[5]

Sujata Sahu worked here teaching IT and maths for two years before leaving to create a charity to support schools in the Ladakh region.[6]

References
  1. Sahni, Diksha (2 February 2011). "Delhi Nursery Schools Still Tougher to Crack Than Harvard?". The Wall Street Journal.
  2. "Noida gets new Shri Ram School branch". The Indian Express. 15 December 2009.
  3. "Best of luck, parents". hindustantimes.com/. 31 January 2010. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  4. The Shri Ram School IBO website.
  5. "To Leh with pens, pencils, books". The Times of India. 17 September 2010.
  6. DelhiDecember 21, Roshni Chakrabarty India Today Web Desk New; December 22, 2018UPDATED:; Ist, 2018 15:34. "This Iron Lady's haunting Ladakh trek is helping her transform govt schools at 17000 ft". India Today. Retrieved 15 January 2021.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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