Nehru World School

Established in 1978 Nehru World School is an English medium co-educational School affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (C.B.S.E.). NWS is the beginning of a lifelong adventure known as learning. The School nurtures a spirit that fosters children's natural inquisitiveness and delight in learning.

The School provides each student, an international and exciting educational experience designed to become a caring, thoughtful, principled and well-balanced human being. Students will have opportunities to become technologically literate, learn to communicate effectively, and take risks in a supportive environment.

Nehru World School received International School Award from the British Council in 2011 for successfully embedding internationalism in their curriculum. The School has a very strong Continuous Professional Development wing and regularly participates in Community Outreach programmes.

The School uses a mix of technology and hands on learning approach to empower students with facilities such as 3D Lab, Mobile Laptop Lab and Mobile Science Trolleys along with work on the field to clear the concepts and develop critical thinking skills. 

Mission Statement

Nehru World School is committed to creating and maintaining a trusting and caring environment where teaching and learning are exciting and students embark on a life long journey of learning.

All aspects of the school's organisation, curricular, and co-curricular activities are child centred and designed to accommodate individual learning styles so that all may experience success.

The mission of Nehru World School is to help students acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to become happy, healthy, well adjusted, productive citizens of the world.

Vision Statement

Striving for excellence today, to prepare students to succeed in the challenges they face tomorrow.

Study Material

We follow the books prescribed by CBSE. Clear cut objective to prescribe these books is to maintain the universality by the students of our schools with the students beyond.The syllabus is enriched by well-structured lesson plans, teacher designed worksheets and lesson specific activities ensuring that the students are equipped with knowledge, skills and values.

Integration of Technology

Teaching- learning at the school is supported by the latest multimedia technology. Most subjects are integrated with technology and teachers use online videos and links to either explain a concept or evaluate understanding of the students.

Web based assignments are part of regular academic activity. All Classrooms are equipped with Interactive White Boards and Digital Content is mapped to the curriculum to enhance the Teaching-Learning experience for students across grades.

Student Evaluation

It is continuous and comprehensive. It is based on the belief that learning takes place all the time, within and outside the classroom. It recognises an ability to regulate oneself, exhibiting creativity, courage to initiate and attempts to better ones performance.

Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation(CCE) caters to different learning styles and acknowledges different intelligences while aiming at assessing the holistic individual. CCE aims at assessing the concept and content, attitude, skills, leadership and capacity to innovate. Such comprehensive evaluation demands appropriate tools to assess, document and provide necessary evidence to show the growth of a student.

Our assessment scheme is a combination of formal testing and observation of all formal and informal engagements of children in and out of school. Several criteria are adopted in assessing children at different levels. The formal assessment has certain mandatory items of assessment for children.

They are: Class Tests |Formative assessments | summative assessments |Unit Tests| Half Yearly Examination |Annual Examination | Project Work | Collaborative activities | Hands on Activities | Class participation | Presentations | Problem Solving Assignments

A Grading System is followed till Class X. This ensures a conducive learning environment, devoid of stressful competition. This also helps facilitate learning at the individual's pace. Assessment from Class IX onwards is focused on preparing students to excel in the examination pattern referred by the C.B.S.E.

Informal Assessments include: Observations |worksheets |oral questions

Teaching Methodology

Teaching at Nehru World School aims at concept and skill development rather than mere acquisition of knowledge. Our system makes the student central to the learning structure and is supported by teachers and a strong peer group. In this scheme of things, enquiry based learning is the main goal wherein students discover concepts, explore them and apply them in the real world. Listening, Communication and Presentation skills are developed among students to ensure holistic learning. Our methodologies include inspiring a competitive and challenging environment for youngsters, with a supportive base. Be it Science, Mathematics, Humanities or Languages, the spirit of enquiry and zest for knowledge are evident from the way students deal with classroom activities.

Learning in Multiple Ways

Learning is a lifelong process and all individuals have the ability to learn. As children learn in different ways, we provide a variety of teaching strategies, meaningful materials, and emerging technologies to nurture the love of learning in every student, maximize student potential and suit individual learning styles.

Learning Life skills and Values

We promote character evolution and holistic development through our emphasis on inculcation of values. This is not done through a fixed curriculum but rather through positive role modelling.

Taking and Using Feedback

A unique feature of the NWS teaching learning methodology is the system of taking feedback from the parents and children about what they are learning and how they are learning. Students' feedback is sought twice a year, and basis their likes, dislikes, needs and interests, teachers plan their lessons, activities and assessments practices. This is a small step in ensuring that we at NWS, put the child at the centre of all planning and programs.

Continuous Professional Development

The teachers at NWS are lifelong learners. Reflecting upon what we are doing and how we are doing is an essential part of development process. Keeping this as our perspective, workshops for teachers are organized and feedback is reviewed. 

The Continuous Professional Development team of the School offers learning activities for teachers to help them upgrade their skills and enhance their respective subjects. The CPD team visits the classrooms on a regular basis and ensures that the teacher's enhance their learning through coaching and support.

Personality Development

We demonstrate our commitment to each student's social, physical and emotional growth through our Life Skills program, an age-appropriate and focused sequence for Kindergarten classes through class XII. We inspire our students to become good public speakers and self-advocates, to have healthy bodies and body image, and to be empathic, effective communicators. We have developed a social and emotional support system that adapts to our students needs.

The Life Skills program offers tools for dealing with the stress of adolescence in the modern world. Its messages and methods are carried from the classrooms to each and every corner as framework for a universal atmosphere of respect and fairness.

A thorough and complex mix of programs and activities address the following major themes: self-esteem building, conflict resolution, goal setting, decision-making in social situations, effective communication skills, grooming and choice of appropriate careers.

Playgrounds

The school has several playrounds for different age groups and sports. On the ground floor NWS has two  national level basketball courts,  a badminton court, swimming pool for the preprimary wing and dedicated play areas with EPDM rubber flooring for students of preprimary and primary wing.

Sky Field

The rooftop playground space of 12000 sq. ft. called the ‘sky field’ is a new concept in urban sports education. Built upon one of the school buildings, it utilises the earlier unused roof top of the school. It was conceptualized in 2008 and took over a year since commissioning to complete. The green Poly-Grass for this surface was made in Denmark and it was woven in China. It travelled over 35000 km. to reach the school and a special fitter from the Olympics fitment team in China was called to commission this field. This is the first surface of its kind on any school's roof in India.

The NWS Sky field has been designed keeping in mind Physical Education Curriculum (PEC), a joint initiative of CBSE and British Council for Primary Classes. Students can play Football, Net Ball, Soft Ball, Cricket, Four-Square and Hop Scotch alongside several other new games, introduced to focus on developing Gross Motor Skills like balancing, body coordination and agility.