Mallya Aditi International School
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| Established | 1984 |
| Location | Bangalore Bangalore Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and... , India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world... |
| Students | approximately 500 |
Mallya Aditi International School (M.A.I.S) is a private school located in Yelahanka
Yelahanka
Yelahanka is a suburb of Bangalore in the Indian state of Karnataka originally envisaged as a satellite town of Bangalore city, but now part of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike.-Location:...
, Bangalore, India.
Mallya Aditi is named after Bangalore billionaire and Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
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Vijay Mallya
Vijay Mallya
Vijay Mallya is an Indian liquor and airline baron. The son of industrialist Vittal Mallya, he is the chairman of the United Breweries Group and Kingfisher Airlines. His United Spirits is world's second largest liquor maker, by volume...
as a result of a generous endowment. It has been consistently ranked among India's top ten private schools.
The school
Aditi, as it is popularly known, has a broad curriculum for its elementary schoolPrimary education
A primary school is an institution in which children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as primary or elementary education. Primary school is the preferred term in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth Nations, and in most publications of the United Nations Educational,...
students that is designed to acquaint them with both Eastern and Western culture
Western culture
Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization or European civilization, refers to cultures of European origin and is used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, religious beliefs, political systems, and specific artifacts and...
and methods of study. Aditi students study Indian languages
Languages of India
The languages of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-European languages—Indo-Aryan and the Dravidian languages...
, namely Hindi and Kannada
Kannada language
Kannada or , is a language spoken in India predominantly in the state of Karnataka. Kannada, whose native speakers are called Kannadigas and number roughly 50 million, is one of the 30 most spoken languages in the world...
, but can also study European and East Asian languages. Students are tutored in Western classical music
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
as well as Indian dance
Indian dance
Dance in India covers a wide range of dance and dance theatre forms, from the ancient classical or temple dance to folk and modern styles.Three best-known Hindu deities, Shiva, Kali and Krishna, are typically represented dancing. There are hundreds of Indian folk dances such as Bhangra, Bihu,...
and Indian classical music
Indian classical music
The origins of Indian classical music can be found in the Vedas, which are the oldest scriptures in the Hindu tradition. Indian classical music has also been significantly influenced by, or syncretised with, Indian folk music and Persian music. The Samaveda, one of the four Vedas, describes music...
.
Class sizes are generally small, with less than twenty students per class room. In the upper school, there are often only five or six students per class.
Aditi has consistently received recognition for the excellence of its faculty.
Examinations are held once at the end of each academic year
Academic term
An academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. These divisions may be called terms...
for grades 6, 7 and 8. For grades 9 and 10, a choice between the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education
Indian Certificate of Secondary Education
The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education or ICSE examination is an examination conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, a private, non-governmental board of school education in India, for class 10, i.e., grade 10...
(ICSE) and the International General Certificate of Secondary Education
IGCSE
The International General Certificate of Secondary Education is an internationally recognised qualification for school students, typically in the 14–16 age group. It is similar to the GCSE in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Standard Grade in Scotland or Junior Certificate in the Republic of...
(IGCSE) is offered. For grades 11 and 12, a choice between the Indian School Certificate
Indian School Certificate
The Indian School Certificate is an examination conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations for Grade 11, i.e., year 11, until 1976....
(ISC) and the Advanced International Certificate of Education
Advanced International Certificate of Education
The Advanced International Certificate of Education is an academically rigorous, internationally used, specialized, English language curriculum offered to students in the higher levels of secondary school intended to prepare them for an honours programme during tertiary education...
(AICE) is offered. IGCSE and AICE are conducted by the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
International Examinations - CIE. "Real" Homework only begins in 6th grade.
Internships are compulsory in 12th grade.
Clubs and facilities
Sports include basketball, football, cricket and volleyball. School starts at 8:05 a.m. and ends at 2:55 p.m., with a break from 10:00-10:30 a.m. and from 12:30-1:00 p.m. There are three computer labs - these serve The Junior School, The Senior School and the faculty. Alongside these computer labs, there are two "Tech Hubs", which also serve Students and Faculty with computers and educational material. There is also the Srishti School of Art Design and Technology - an affiliated schoolFederated school
An affiliated school is an educational institution that operates independently, but also has a formal collaborative agreement with another, usually larger institution that may have some level of control or influence over its academic policies, standards or programs.While a university may have one...
- located on the Aditi campus.
The school has also produced plays, musicals and concerts. There are a variety of student organizations, such as the Dramatic Society, Model United Nations, Debating, Quiz and Chess Clubs, a school choir, the M.A.I.S Film society, Robotics Club and the Photography Club.
Aditi students have their own newspapers and magazines. Past student publications include Silhouette, The Scribe, The Scribbler, The White Crayon and The Wise Guy. The Current student Magazine is "The Big Issue".
The school's teams in football and basketball regularly perform well in inter-school events. Aditi's football field is less than a third the size of a true football field, with new and improved goals, and a mud surface. The sports teams have excelled in many inter-school tournaments.
Aditi students of all grades have a DOD week every year (Domains of Development). Domains of Development is a learning project undertaken by MAIS. A whole week is allotted for DOD for grades 9-12 and two weeks for grades 5-8. MAIS has identified four Domains of Development: personal, social, experiential and aesthetic. So one grade might attend a workshop in pottery and paper-making and another might take off to Chennai to study South Indian music and dance while yet another might go rock climbing and trekking. The graduating class interns with professionals, testing out various careers of their choice.
Exchange Programs
International understanding has been fostered by MAIS's annual student exchange with St. Benno-Gymnasium in Dresden, Germany and two schools, Realschule Germering - Unterpfaffenhofen (near Munich), and Sophie-la-Rochelle in Kaufbeuren (a medieval town near the Alps) in Bavaria. The Bavarian exchange was organised after an MOU signed between the governments of Karnataka and Bavaria.There is also an exchange programme for staff and students with the Brearley School in New York and the Castilleja School, California.
Interact Club
Aditi is known across Bangalore for its proactive Interact Club, founded and supported by the Rotary ClubRotary International
Rotary International is an organization of service clubs known as Rotary Clubs located all over the world. The stated purpose of the organization is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help...
of Bangalore. A tradition at Aditi is Out of the Box, a well-known inter school competition run by the school's Interact Club, which attracts contestants from more than 20 schools. It was started in 2002 and has grown every year. The Interact Club also organizes an annual Retreat, in which club members attend an array of personal development
Personal development
Personal development includes activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and potential, build human capital and facilitates employability, enhance quality of life and contribute to the realization of dreams and aspirations...
workshops conducted by experienced professionals in the field. Past events conducted by the Interact Club include fund raising
Fundraising
Fundraising or fund raising is the process of soliciting and gathering voluntary contributions as money or other resources, by requesting donations from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies...
Music Concert, which aimed at bringing together musical talent in schools and colleges around Bangalore in the hope of supporting the education of underprivileged children, and Fast Forward
Fast Forward
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, a 2 day fund raising carnival that aimed towards bringing about an awareness regarding the current environmental situation.
The Interact Club also conducts bake sales and personal development workshops throughout the year, and participates in other community-driven activities such as the annual Terry Fox Run
Terry Fox Run
The Terry Fox Run is an annual non-competitive charity event held in numerous regions around the world in commemoration of Canadian cancer activist Terry Fox, and his Marathon of Hope, and to raise money for cancer research....
and the collection of money for the National Association for the Blind.
Awards
In 2005, the school was awarded the Cambridge Fellowship by the University of Cambridge in England, in recognition of academic excellence among schools offering Cambridge qualifications. Only 20 secondary schools in the world have received this fellowship. In early 2005, Aditi also won the Intel Award for the Best Integration of Technology in EducationMicroelectronics Education Programme
The UK Government's Microelectronics Education Programme ran from 1980 to 1986. It was conceived and planned by a Labour government and set up under a Conservative government during Mrs Thatcher's era. Its aim was to explore how computers could be used in schools in the UK...
2004, from a pool of India's best schools.
In addition to this, Aditi has been one of the two or three schools chosen worldwide by the University of Cambridge to be prototypes in an experimental science
Experiment
An experiment is a methodical procedure carried out with the goal of verifying, falsifying, or establishing the validity of a hypothesis. Experiments vary greatly in their goal and scale, but always rely on repeatable procedure and logical analysis of the results...
exam (where the practical paper is completed through computer simulation
Computer simulation
A computer simulation, a computer model, or a computational model is a computer program, or network of computers, that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system...
). These schools were chosen based on their excellent academic record, and the results of the students in the board exams
Board examination
In India, board examinations refer to the pivotal examinations that occur at the end of the 9th to 10th grade education , or at the end of the 11th to 12th grade education...
will decide whether or not the experimental paper will come into practice.
See Also
- Dhirubhai Ambani International SchoolDhirubhai Ambani International SchoolThe Dhirubhai Ambani International School is a private co-educational LKG-12 day school in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, built by Reliance Industries, named after the late patriarch of the conglomerate, Dhirubhai Ambani. Dhirubhai Ambani International School was established in 2003 and has been an...
(D.A.I.S). - Oberoi International SchoolOberoi International SchoolOberoi International School is an International School in Mumbai, India, it was opened on the 17 July, 2008, and is directed by Ms Bindu Oberoi, who has directed it since the school was started...
(O.I.S).