Apeejay School Nerul
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| Apeejay School, Nerul |
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| Motto | 'Soaring High is my Nature' |
| Established | 1986 |
| Type | Private |
| Chairman | Dr. Stya Paul |
| Principal | N.N. Nayyar |
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| Grades | Nursery–12 |
| Location | Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra India |
| Mascot | Falcon |
| Yearbook | The Soaring Falcon |
| Website | http://www.apeejay.edu/nerul/home.htm |
Apeejay School Nerul, Navi Mumbai is one of a number of private schools run K-12 by Apeejay Education Society. The School is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi (Affiliation no. CBSE/Aff./1130023/2001/37) and is a member of the National Progressive Schools Conference (NPSC). The school was started in the year 1987, when Navi Mumbai was still under develpoment. It is the first CBSE school to be started in Navi Mumbai. Initially the school offered classes in Nursery , Kindergarten and classes up to IV std. More classes were added in subsequent years.
The school's Executive Committee nominated on 16th June 1986 constitutes of Dr Stya Paul Chairman, while Sushma Berlia Vice Chairman. Berlia is also the Chairperson, Managing Committee, Apeejay School Nerul C. Jayson was the principal of the school from 1987 to April 1999. After that consequently N. N. Nayyar took over in May 1999.
The entire school is well connected through LAN. Each classroom, staff room and the administrative block is provided with a TV set and a desktop computer which are used as learning aids and also used as public address system.
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[edit] Curriculum
The school offers classes from Nursery to XII. At Senior Secondary (Plus 2 , XII) level the school offers two streams - Science and Commerce. The commerce stream was started in the year 2004.
The school also provides a larege variety of Co-curricular activities like Karate , Gymnastics, Horse riding, Yoga, Music, Painting,Swimming etc. [1].Coaching facilities for cricket, football, martial arts and roller-skating are provided.
The school follows the House system in which students are divided into 4 Houses -Nalanda, Takshashila, Ujjain and Vikramshila named after the famous universities of Ancient India
[edit] Infrastructure
School building is a ground + 3 floor structure.
The school has well-stocked computerized library with more than 10,000 books and a number of newspapers, journals and magazines .
A Campus-wide network is being installed at Apeejay School, Nerul, wherein each and every classroom, staff room and the administrative block has been connected to a cluster of high-end servers. Thenetwork serves as the backbone for the implementation of Mira’ Skool, and ERP solution for automating the school’s administration and all scholastic and non scholastic activities.
To popularize play way teaching and learning methodology in the field of science, a Science Park is established in the school. It has well designed gadgets to nurture knowledge with amusement. Each gadget is installed with an explanation plate, with proper write up about how to play/operate the gadget, the principle involved in it and application if any for the concept.
[edit] Publications
The school publishes Newsletter - published biannually and The Soaring Falcon - published annually which contains articles written by students, teachers, principal and from chairman.
[edit] Achievements
The school was awarded with Best School in Navi Mumbai by Nagrik Seva Samiti in 2000 , 2001, 2003 and by CIDCO in 2000. Principal Mr. N. N. Nayyar was honoured with prestigious CBSE Award to Teachers in Maharashtra State On 4 th September 2004. [2]
The school has been accredited for an outstanding development of its curriculum for which it received the International School Award by the British Council in October 2006.
Apeejay School, has also been included in the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), under which it will receive a grant of approximately 24,000 pounds (Rs.20,40,000) for a period of two years.
The second Apeejay school in Navi mumbai was started 2000 at Kharghar Sector 21.
