Pune school to introduce new education system

Begining with three classes of play group and kindergarden and one section of class one from the next academic session, the school will gradually expand upto higher secondary and will include sports grounds for cricket, lawn tennis and other disciplines alongwith a huge swimming pool in the subsequent years on the 33 acres of land belonging to the institute, Dr Shejwalkar said.

Explaining the concept, Dr Phathak said computers would be extensively used by the children for learning and by the teachers for teaching and evaulating the children’s performance. The emaphasis will not be so much on computer learning, but use of computers to learn the school curriculum.

Students at the National School, Dr Phathak said, would not be confined to a single classroom and would move to specially designed classrooms for a particular subject. While the language classrooms will have a dictionary on each table, the science class will house a small laboratory, the geography class will be equipped with maps.

Every classroom will have a TV and video so that a clip, relevant to the topic of discussion, could be immediately shown during the class, he said.

Alongwith studies, the school will also a number of games like cricket, lawn tennis, volleyball, kho-kho, kabaddi, gymnastics and indoor games like chess and carrom and also swimming, which is compulsory for children from the third standard.

Replying to the crucial question of fees, Dr Phathak said besides the caution money of Rs twelve thousand (refundable at the time of leaving the school), the fees for the kg class would be Rs 11,000, Rs 24,000 for class one and two, Rs 30,000 from class three to six and Rs 34,000 from class seven to ten inclusive of all expenses– tution fees, uniforms, snacks and lunchs, pencils and rubbers, art materials, the use of playfields and swimming.

The admissions to the kg and standard one onfirst-come-first-basis, would begin from January 14, Dr Shejwalkar said.