Oberoi International School, Mumbai

Oberoi International school is one of the modest and reputed schools in Mumbai, and it is ranked as the third-best school in international schools in India. By a survey conducted by EducationWorld in 2017. The school is sited on an 80 acre land at Oberoi garden society. It has world-class infrastructure, and it is very comfortably housed in a multi-storey building. The campus is fully airconditioned and is designed by renowned international architects from Singapore, the same team of architects has designed more than 200 schools in Singapore, UAE and China. It is affiliated to IB board Geneva for education. 

They have become a benchmark for K-12 international schools because it has excelled academics, sports or curricular, and the pursuit of the school is excellent in every field. 

The school maintains an excellent teacher-student ratio; it has 1:8 in kindergarten, 1:6 in higher and secondary classes and 1:6 in primary grades. OIS has a student count of more than 1500 students with students of 26 countries, 200 teachers, 54 foreign languages and foreign faculties for the same.

The school strives to provide a dynamic environment for education so that students can adapt various changes going on in this fast-moving world so that they could meet the demands of the world. The school aims to enable solving and critical thinking skills in the students, to make learning a long-lasting as well as practical It seeks to promote a sense of curiosity and enquiry amongst children as well as to accept all the cultures going on globally as the school itself is an international school. Intercultural understanding is fundamental to have an international education. They also aim to foster students with excellent and holistic skills through a learner approach.

The campus is built on a land of 4 lakh sq ft. and the classrooms are spacious, well designed with the IT facilities, a well-stocked library for academic support which includes dallies, journals, reviews, reference books and national dallies, science gardens. There is also a cafeteria which is catch up point for the students with a huge modern kitchen providing nutritious snacks to the students. Each classroom is finely equipped with a computer and LCD projection, and all the classrooms have a central Wi-Fi system with an all-time internet connection.

The school is also equipped with different music and dance rooms, a theatre, auditorium to encourage children theatre and library activities and other extracurricular activities. The sports facilities are world-class which include large badminton courts, swimming pool, basketball courts, yoga corner and a place for martial arts, tennis court and athletics track with professional cricket pitch for various competitions that school organize every year.

Oberoi International school has an affiliation to Geneva-based IBO board. IB programme is an application and practical based curriculum which focus on the overall development of the children, which includes spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical development. Another primary focus of the IB programme is that it helps in knowing the similarities and differences between various cultures thriving globally.

The pedagogy revolves around project work; fun and research activities. The school focuses more on hands-on and practice-based learning rather than just making students learn by rote learning. The school often organises excursions study tours and educational trips.

As the school is affiliated to the IB board striving to make the students successful global citizens. It offers many diploma courses for the junior as well as the middle classes. It has a general certification of CIE, i.e., Cambridge international examinations. Both the boards work for hands in hand in the school to provide excellent academic opportunities with a pool of courses for senior classes that are very deep and broad. The school pays primary emphasis on extracurricular activities. It hosts 51 co-curricular activities and has significant activities covered like pottery, journalism, robotics, animation, forensics and ballet with jewellery designing; the student must choose 3 curricular activities as it is a part of the curriculum and it focuses on CAS. CAS stands for creativity, action and service, which is a framework of practice-based hands-on experiential learning promoted by the school to involve pupil in roles. Learning is enabled with experiences going on in real-time, and some of the main CAS creativity extracurriculars are commercial arts, origami, debates, speech, fundraising, sports, foreign languages and environmental protection etc. The school is particular about its admission criteria and hence considers eligibility process seriously.

Many scholarships are provided to the meritorious students in each academic year.

The school holds various records for excellence in the field of sports and co-curricular activities. 

School is very specific about its admission criteria and hence considers eligibility process seriously.

Basic documents required are like previous recommendation records, and the student must clear the eligibility test which includes writing samples, aptitude test conducted by the school.

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