DOHA: Bhavan's Public School has become the eighth Indian school in Qatar to be affiliated to the New Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
The school last week was granted CBSE affiliation for its secondary level. The school had got its middle school affiliated to the CBSE in May 2012.
The school is now eligible to send students for the all India examinations --AISSE -- in March 2015, it was disclosed in a press conference yesterday.
Opened in May 2010 with 44 students, Bhavan's currently has 1,500 students on its rolls from 24 nationalities, at two campuses in Al Wakra and Old Airport.
The school is now in the process of incorporating self evaluation by all students from Grade III onwards and parent assessment of students' personality traits and life skills for all classes including kindergarten.
The school has taken many initiatives to inculcate environmental awareness among students including setting up of a vegetable garden from the academic year 2011-12. It has now taken up a project to make compost from the bio-degradable waste, which is in progress.
The school has announced hockey, the Indian national game, as its main sporting event in the year 2011 and secured the runners-up position in the Junior Hockey Championship conducted by Qatar Hockey Federation.
The school has started the Bhavan's Hockey Academy in association with Qatar Hockey Federation. Students are getting advanced training at Al Rayan Hockey stadium for four hours every week. Bhavans has set up the Centre for Educational Research and Training (CERT) to promote research in the areas of assessment and evaluation.
The school gives equal importance to scholastic and co-scholastic areas. To conduct all these activities smoothly, 16 clubs and committees have been set up, the mass media club being one of the most important.
The school is giving importance to Inclusive Education for students with different learning disorders which include students with ADHD, spastic, borderline autism, dyslexia and dysgraphia.
Around 30 new teaching staff from India will join in the new academic year, 2013-14 which begins next month.
Prabhavathi Nambiar, with 20 years of experience in teaching, administration and school management recently joined as head mistress.
© The Peninsula 2013
