Amrita Vidyalayam

Mata Amritanandamayi's trust is well known throughtout India for its service. I was well aware of their engineering college in Bangalore. It was after an user, Nitin asked about Amrita Vidyalayam that I came to know of their school in Bangalore.

The trust is involved in health-care (Amrita Krupa),education, service to down-trodden, building of houses to those affected by floods and Tsunami.They are involved in education through colleges and schools throughout South India, Delhi, Maharashtra and Gujarat.

About the Amrita Vidyalayam in Bangalore:
Syllabus: CBSE
Location: Amrita Vidyalayam
Ullala Cross Road, Jnanabharathi II Stage,
Ullala Upanagara Post,
Bangalore - 560 056
(Their trust is located nearby)
Phone: (080) 28486565

Email: av_bangalore@rediffmail.com
Website: http://www.amritavidyalayam.org/ (this is a general website of their schools)

Classes: Till 12th
Activities: They have slogas, yoga, bhajans. The students are taught the Science of living and meditation. They have drawing, music, arts and sports.
Language: Third language till 8th. Sanskrit and Kannada offered.

Admissions: Admissions are available throughtout the year. You will have to fill in an application form. For classes 1 and above, there will be entrance test.

Remark: The best thing about their colleges and schools is they offer quality service. They are very disciplined and follow the principles of Amma. They also offer scholarships to needy students.

I hope other users can offer their feedback about the school.

The Samhita Academy

For those parents in the south-west of Bangalore, who cannot find a Prakriya -like school in their vicinity, there is another new school, "The Samhita Academy" situated off Bannerghatta road.

It was started this year, 2009 and the founder is Shibulal, COO of Infosys. He and his wife started the Advaith foundation in 2004 and their first venture "Ankur" was for under-priviledged children. They have boarding with meals for about 1000 students. They hope to incubate some of the kids into the main stream academy with a 20:80(priviledged student) ratio.

Their teaching methods are no rote memorization, open-minded and innovative thinking. Students are encouraged to have mutual respect for all sections of society.

Syllabus: CBSE
Location: The Samhita Academy
#52, Lakshmipura Village, Jigani Hobli,
Anekal Taluk (Off Bannerghatta Road),
Bangalore – 560083

Phone:  080 27837001 (8:30 - 3:30 on weekdays)
Ranjini Shridhar: 90087 90372, 90080 32163
email: info@samhitaacademy.com
Website: http://www.thesamhitaacademy.com/

Classes: Nursery till 6th
Activities: Art, Craft, Music, Adventure sports, football, hockey, cricket, volleyball, throwball, basketball, chess, carrom.
Second language: Hindi, Kannada

Admissions: Open throughtout the year. Now they are admitting students for 2010-2011.
Fees: I read somewhere it is about 25K plus an admission fee. You can expect a 10% increase in fees yearly.

Remark: The aim of the founders and their noble mission can be found here. You can read about them from their website.

Teachers are trained by the Teacher Foundation of the Ratan Tata Trust. Foremost they want to imbibe a sense of love and a nurturing environment.

The school also has a day-care facility for nursery students.

Have you visited the school? Did you like the environment? Hope to hear from you.

Update on Gopalan National School for 2010

The fees for this year seems to be 38K and an admission fees of 40K. Next year they propose to increase the fees to 42K-44K.

Update on New Horizon Gurukul

The school which is to start functioning from 2010 has started with a fee- structure of 48K+ as tution fees and 40K as admission fees. Extra for transport.
( I am sorry about the fees, I had made a mistake while typing,3 instead of 4, thanks to the user for correcting me).

Forum and group:
A parent has created a forum and yahoogroup for those interested to discuss on New Horizon Gurukul.

http://nhg-blr-parents.findtalk.net/
NHG_Parents@yahoogroups.com

Update on New Horizon Public School (NHPS)

The fees for 2010-2011 for NHPS is Admission fee of 50K and tution fees of 38K. You will have to shell out extra for books, uniform and transport.

For 2009-2010, the fees breakup was as follows:
Refundable deposit - 20000
Development Fees - 15000
Administration Fees- 15000
Tuition Fees - 33000

They have increased only the tution fees, while the admission fees is 50K.

Venkat International Public School

A regular topper in the school board exams is St. Ann's High School in Rajaji Nagar. It is no wonder that they opened Venkat International School in 1995 and it is also topping results.  It has a strength of 5000 students at present.

Syllabus: CBSE
Location:Venkat International Public School,
6th Block, Rajaji Nagar
Bangalore -560 010.
Phone : 080 23502805, 23502735, 23382572 ,23402416

email: info@vips.ac.in

Website: http://www.vips.ac.in/

Classes: Montessori till 12th
Languages offered: Hindi, Sanskrit/ Kannada( 3rd language from Class 3 onwards till Class 8th).

Admissions: Admissions for 2010-2011 have already started.
Admissions are based on entrance test and medical fitness. One thing to note is students promoted from UKG from their school itself have to apply for fresh admissions to 1st. They are exempted from admission fees. I don't see what is the need of fresh admissions for a prior student.(any idea?)
Admissions begin by October/ November. You will have to first register with the school.

Eligibility: Monterssori - 2 years and 5 months as on day of school reopening or 1st June. Likewise for LKG 3 years and 5 months.

Activities: They have facilities for athletics, football, hockey, cricket, basketball, table tennis, badminton, chess, throw ball and chess. They encourage trekking, rock climbing and mountaineering adventure sports outside the school. They have a music academy for vocal, tabla, sitar, sarod, flute, drums, violin and piano. Guitar, western and classical, also vocals.
Fees: Admissions fees of about 40K non-refundable. Annual fees is also around 50K. Fees was hiked 5% from last year(2008).

Extra: They have tie-ups for avenues like i-math, BASE, AAT, ASSET, IAIS, V-Sat.

Remark: They also offer non-scholastic subjects like art, music, electric gadgetry, carpentery.

I thought 3rd language starts only from class 5 for CBSE. Am I mistaken?
Have you applied here? How do feel about the school?

St. Patrick's Academy

Another of those leaflets that landed with the paper was the announcement of admissions to a new school "St. Patrick Academy" in Sarjapur Road. This is their first school in Bangalore and they have about 30+ brother concerns. One of them is the acclaimed St. Michaels Academy in Chennai.

The school comes under the Patrician Brother Schools. They have some of the finest schools in the country in Dehra Dun, Coonor, Mussorie, Chennai.

Location: St. Patrick's Academy
Before Kodavu Arch, Sarjapur Road
Bangalore
( I am not sure if the arch is Kodavu, it is a yellow colour arch). Coming from Total Mall on Sarjapur, you will pass Dodakanahalli (Prakriya, Pirums and then comes Kodathi village stop after crossing the railway line. Then you can see the building on the left. A few metres from there is the bright yellow arch on the left).

email: patsbangalooru@gmail.com
Admissions: Admissions are going on for Nursery till 3rd std.
Website: I don't think they have created a website yet for the school.

Remark: The building is still under construction. There seems to be good ground facilities and school building has some months of work to be finished. It looks like work will be finished by the start of the next academic year.

They have already commenced admissions for the academic year 2010-2011.

Update on Delhi Public School Admission

I had been to the school (DPS east) recently and the approximate fee structure is as follows for 2010:

Admission fees: 65K
Annual fees (includes tution fees): 35K
Bus fees: Around 13K to 15K
Hope this helps for those seeking admission here.

Also admission for LKG and UKG has to be registered personally at the school. The online form is not to be used for nursery admissions.