School Adopts Cambridge Curriculum for a Global Future

In a significant move aimed at enhancing the learning experience, Arsha Vidya Mandir has announced its decision to shift from the CBSE system to the prestigious Cambridge IGCSE and A Level curriculum starting in the 2025-26 academic year. The announcement, made by the school’s leadership, marks a new chapter in its commitment to providing world-class education. The new curriculum promises to introduce a holistic, inquiry-based learning model, known for fostering critical thinking, problem-solving, and global awareness.
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Giving and Growing: A new life for old items

‘Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.’
In a continued effort to foster a culture of sustainability and community support, Arsha is thrilled to announce the expansion of its successful ‘Free Store’ initiative. Designed to encourage mindful consumption, the Free Store allows students, teachers, and staff to donate gently used items, such as books, clothes, toys, and stationery, which can be taken by others in the school community, completely free of charge.
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A Harvest of Knowledge: Annual Day 2024 Showcases Farming and Innovation

On September 6th, 2024, Arsha Vidya Mandir celebrated its Annual Day with a captivating showcase centered around the theme of ‘Farming’. Students from classes 6 to 12 took to the stage to present a series of performances and presentations that celebrated the vital role of agriculture in our lives, merging traditional farming practices with modern innovations for a sustainable future.
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In a first, Chennai school has garbology

Have you heard of ‘garbology’? A Chennai-based school has included the subject in its school syllabi. Two foreigners Ribhu Vohra and Chandrah Nusselein who are siblings from Auroville are behind the syllabus. To pass in the subject, students have to segregate waste, manufacture home made paper, generate compost and handle e-waste.
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These students study waste and how!

Garbage collectors visiting Arsha Vidya Mandir on Velachery Main Road, Guindy, on their daily rounds are going empty-handed these days. For a high school, which has 480 students, it sends out as little as one kg of waste to the landfills. What happens to the rest? All the waste from the school is segregated and is used for composting or recycling purposes. And, it is done by the students themselves.
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Setting an example, Arsha scores high in garbology

When Arsha Vidya Mandir celebrated its annual day on Saturday, there was song and dance with a difference. The students used the occasion to exhibit what they have been practising for two years: sustainable waste management on the campus to be an example to a city grappling with mounting garbage.
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Team India off to Thailand

Chennai, India, July 31, 2014: India’s team of five elite young debaters were given a warm send-off yesterday to compete in the World Schools Debating Championships (“WSDC”), hosted at Assumption University, Bangkok. The international competition, held every year in a different location, has been the world’s leading school-level debating tournament for the past 25 years.  The tournament will run from 5 – 15 August 2014, culminating in a Grand Final on 14th, August at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC).
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The BBC Symphony Orchestra gave school children an extraordinary experience

It is not often that you get to listen to a western classical composer presenting his best composition live in a symphony orchestra in Chennai. This happened twice over the past weekend: First, when the 15-piece string, wind and brass sections opened with Paul Rissmann’s medley from his award-winning composition: The Chimpanzees of HappyTown, for the lucky school students, who attended the music workshop by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (SSO) on Thursday last; second, on Friday, when the full complement of the orchestra regaled children at the packed Lady Andal hall with Stomp by James MacMillan with the composer wielding the baton.
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Bio-Dynamic Farming

A three day trip was arranged for class X to Rajapalaiyam with focus on learning about biodiversity, value of Biodynamic farming and its relation for a sustainable environment. 48 children accompanied by 4 teachers had gone for the trip and they enjoyed the trip.
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