SCHOOL PROFILE

Principal CEEB Code: 671 885

Ms. Rekha Krishnan www.vasantvalley.org
[email protected]

Head of Senior School College Advisor

Ms. Sharmila Bakshi Ms. Arshita Kapoor
[email protected] [email protected]

SCHOOL VISION
We at Vasant Valley School believe that each child entrusted to us will receive education in its finest
form. Learning is a life-long process and all students and teachers are challenged to exceed their own
expectations. This holistic experience synergises the growth of mind, body and spirit. We nurture
and prepare generations of individuals; the torchbearers of tomorrow who believe in the strength of
their own convictions and take pride in being Indian. They will work together in the spirit of Global
Citizenship. Our work in school shapes the future and no constraints shall daunt us.

Introduction
Vasant Valley School, New Delhi established in 1990, is a private day school with a current enrollment of
1,350 in classes Foundation to Twelve. The school campus spreads over eight acres and has fully equipped
laboratories libraries, gymnasium and sports facilities.

School Philosophy
All learning in school is centred around five areas of development - Social, Emotional, Cerebral, Physical
and Spiritual. These Areas of Development are the essence of good citizenship, which nurtures students to
become responsible and sensitive members of the community.

Whilst high academic achievement is a priority, the school aims to create a ‘community’ of well-rounded
individuals where there is a spirit of cooperation and mutual respect. Performing Arts, Visual Arts and
Physical Education form an important part of the school’s curriculum.
The school organizes many activities throughout the year where qualities such as leadership and self-
discipline are nurtured. Students take responsibility for their actions and progress, through goals they set
for themselves on their Road Maps; this is the first step towards self-awareness, accountability and integrity.
The pastoral care in the school is strengthened through the tutor – tutee system, which acts as a scaffolding
to help students realise their goals.

Vasant Valley School encourages students to imbibe the essence of environmental values and ethics in order
to live in harmony with nature. Students work towards developing a sense of responsibility towards all
living beings. This is achieved through life skills classes, trips outside school, talks by environmentalists,
film shows, nature walks, adventure camps, vermicomposting, recycling paper and reducing food waste.
During the festival of Deepavali saplings are distributed to all students and teachers.
The Outreach Programme encourages active participation in community service initiatives in the school.
The students participate in awareness initiatives like visits to hospitals, paper recycling, education of the
less privileged and hygiene in villages etc. The students of the senior classes contribute to community
service for 50 hours in the year. This includes traffic duty in the morning, teaching students after school
and other self-directed programmes both in and outside of school.

Inclusion for children with special needs has been integral to the vision of Vasant Valley School since the
very beginning. They are given additional support in all areas of development. A multi-disciplinary team
of special educators, occupational and physical therapists, and speech and language therapists work with
children to ensure they are able to actualise their potential.

Academic Curriculum
The school is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) which conducts the All India
Secondary School Examination in Class10 and the All India Senior School Certificate Examination in Class
12. It is a rigorous curriculum, which caters to admission in top Engineering, Medical, Law and Liberal
Arts programmes in India and abroad. In Classes 11 & 12, the school offers over 20 subjects at the Elective
level, each student is required to take four Electives along with English, and there is no gradation within
these Elective subjects. The students are free to choose any combination of subjects. We could give an
example here. Students study the subjects for two years (classes 11 & 12) and then they take the All India
Senior School Certificate Examination at the end of class 12.

Covid-19 Changes
A typical school year has over 200 student – teacher contact days. The academic year 2020-21 began on
10th January 2020. However, with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 and the resultant
advisory from the government, we switched to an online version of school on the 16th of March 2020.
Currently we are conducting online classes for all grades, in accordance with the guidelines from the
Government of India as well as local advisories.

All assessments and evaluation in the form of examinations, reviews and assignments, have been conducted
on online platforms. The students' transcripts for the first semester (two learning cycles) of Class 12 remain
the same as every year, as the school was able to conduct one set of examinations physically in February,
before the nationwide closure of schools. Thereafter, we have held examinations online.

A robust and well-structured Outreach programme was an essential element of the Vasant Valley School
experience. This included numerous field trips, tree plantation and community cleaning drives as well as
post-school classes for children from a neighbouring slum cluster. This year , the closure of schools as well
as a stringent lockdown advised by the Government has forced us to keep all Outreach activities on hold.
However, all non-academic activities, both Inter-House as well as Inter-School, have been conducted as per
schedule on an online platform. Many of the sporting events had to be cancelled in order to adhere to the
safety guidelines prescribed for the containment of Covid-19.

Faculty
The school has 174 members of staff, out of which 110 members hold a postgraduate degree.

Class Ranks
The school does not assign a class rank to students.

School Awards
Vasant Valley School gives four kinds of awards: Excellence Awards, Subject Awards, The Grade Card
Distinction Award and Proficiency Award.
Awards for Excellence are given to students for excelling in all fields of endeavour. In order to get these
awards students, need to surpass benchmarks in all aspects of school life. These awards are given in classes
10 & 12.

Subject Awards are given to all those students who have surpassed benchmarks for excellence in a particular
subject in classes 9,10 &12.

The Grade Card Distinction Award is given to students who maintain an overall weighted average of over
85% in an academic year in classes 9 – 12.

Proficiency Awards are given to students of classes 9, 10 and 12, who excel in a particular sport, any
performing or visual art.

Academic Reports
The school year has been divided into two terms and each term is further subdivided into four learning Cycles;
the first term consists of two Learning Cycles, and the second of three (two) Learning Cycles. A report is issued
at the end of each learning cycle.

Students Performance in the Class 12 CBSE Examinations

In 2020 more than 600,000 students took the All India Senior School Certificate Examination at the national
level. 97 students from Vasant Valley School took the Examination this year, of which, a total of 57% A1’s
were secured by students in various subjects. An A1 grade is awarded by the CBSE to those students who
constitute the top 1/8th in a particular subject in the country.

Highest and Average Scores of our Students

100
95
90
85
80
75

Average Score (%) Highest Score

 Aggregate Scores of Vasant Valley expressed in
Percentage

70 to 79

80 to 89

>=90

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90

University Placements
India
• Amity University • ITC-Hotel Management Institute • NIFT, Delhi
• Ashoka University • Jawaharlal Nehru University • NIFT, Gandhinagar
• Bhagat Singh College • Jesus and Mary College • O.P. Jindal University
• Christ University • Jindal Global Law School • Oberoi School of Hotel Management
• Delhi College of Arts and • Kamala Nehru College • Pearl Academy of Fashion
Commerce • Kasturba Medical College, Manipal • Ramjas College
• Delhi School of Planning and University • Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business
Architecture • Khalsa College Studies
• Flame University • Lady Shri Ram College for Women • Shiv Nadar University
• Gargi College • Lisaa School of Design • Shri Ram College of Commerce
• Hindu College • Manipal Institute of Technology • Srishti School of Art
• Hinduja College • Maitreyi College • St. Stephens College
• Indian Institute of Management - • Medical College Gandhinagar • St. Xavier’s College
Indore • Miranda House • Sushant School of Art and
• Indian Institute of Art and Design • MIT Pune (Art College) Architecture
• Indigo Airlines • Narsee Monjee School of Economics • Symbiosis Law School
• Indraprastha University • National Law University Delhi • Vellore Institute of Technology
• Institute of Hotel Management, • National Law University, Gandhinagar • Venkateshwara College
Aurangabad • National Law University, Jodhpur
• Institute of Tech and Management
 USA
• Boston University • Lafayette College • University of California, San
• Brown University • Lehigh University Diego
• Bryant University • Macalester College • University of Southern California
• Bryn Mawr College • Massachusetts Institute of • University of Chicago
• Babson College Technology • University of Illinois-Urbana
• Barnard College, Columbia • Middlebury College Champaign
University • Mount Holyoke • University of Michigan, Ann
• Carnegie Mellon University • New York University Arbor
• Claremont Mckenna • Northwestern University • University of Pennsylvania
• Carleton College • Oberlin College • University of Rochester
• Colby College • Ohio State • University of Southern California
• College of William and Mary • Parson’s School of Design • University of Texas
• Columbia University • Penn State • University of Virginia
• Dartmouth College • Princeton University • Wellesley College
• DePauw University • Purdue University • Weslyan College
• Emory University • Rensselaer Polytechnic • Yale University
• Georgetown University • Rutgers College • Michigan state University
• Georgia Institute of Technology • Sarah Lawrence College • Fashion Institute of Technology
• Grinnell College • Scrips College • University of Colorado
• Harvey Mudd College • Stanford University • Drexel University
• Illinois Institute of Technology • Swarthmore College • Tufts University
• Indiana University-Bloomington • Syracuse University • University of California, Berkeley
• Ithaca College • University of California, Los
• Johns Hopkins University Angeles
Canada
• McGill University • University of Windsor • University of Alberta
• University of Waterloo • University of York • OCAD University Is this a
• University of Toronto • University of British Columbia university?
• McMaster University
• University of Queens

UK
• Cardiff University • Regents College • University of Nottingham
• Central St. Martin’s College • Royal Academy of Drama (RADA) • University of Sussex
• Durham University • University of Cambridge • University of Warwick
• Exeter College • University of Kent • Loughborough University
• Northampton University • University of Lancaster • University of Bath
• King’s College, London • London School of Economics • University College London
• Queen Mary, University of • London College of Fashion
London

Singapore
• Institute of Economics • National University of Singapore • Singapore Management
• LaSalle School of Art • Nanyang Institute of Technology University
• Singapore Institute of
Management
Australia
• Blue Mountain School of • University of Adelaide • University of Melbourne
Hospitality • University of Sydney
• Macquarie University

Switzerland
• Les Roches International School • École hôtelière de Lausanne
of Hotel Management.

Scotland
• University of St. Andrews • University of Aberdeen • University of Edinburgh

France
• Sciences Po
Ireland
• Trinity College, Dublin
Germany
• European Business School font is • Germany International College
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