The Hiranandani Foundation School, Powai, Mumbai, India, was started to serve the residents of Hiranandani Gardens. The school follows the ICSE curriculum. It offers schooling for students from nursery to tenth grade. A second branch, the Hiranandani Foundation School Thane has opened in Hiranandani Estate (Complex) in Thane.
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The Hiranandani Foundation School, Powai comprises two buildings.The old school building is a 5-storeyed building, which consists of two wings, and a playing field. The new school building was inaugurated on 13 June 2007, and is only used by the secondary section. The new school building is five storied as well, but is much larger than the other school. The new school was included for the students from fifth to twelfth for the first two years. The secondary section has been extended to eleventh standard in 2007-2008, and twelfth in 2009 and after.
The houses are Alpha (brown),Beta (green),Delta (mauve) and Sigma (orange).
The school's motto is "Mens sana in corpore sano" ("A Sound Mind in a Sound Body").
Boys wear a formal uniform with a white half sleeved shirt and white trousers along with a school tie. Girls wear a blue pinafore with a checked blouse worn inside the pinafore.
A sports uniform is worn on days when sports are going to be played. The sports uniform is a white t-shirt and white shorts bearing the school logo and house colours for boys, and a white t-shirt and divided white skirt for girls which also bears the school logo.
The students wear black formal shoes with the formal uniform and white canvas shoes with the sports uniform. The boys of eleventh are expected to wear the same uniform as the secondary section. The girls need to wear striped shirts and denim skirts.
An ID card is worn around the neck on both uniforms on all days. The uniform is ther same for the sister school at Thane.
In July 2008, HFS inaugurated the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, administered by the IB Organization, based in Geneva. The Diploma programme offers a study course that prepares the students for assessments in six subject areas through 11th and 12th.