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School that encourages thinking among students

By Our Correspondent

A view of a classroom at the Amber Valley Residential School in Chikmagalur.

CHIKMAGALUR, FEB. 10. The Amber Valley Residential School provides the students of Chikmagalur with an opportunity to avail themselves of education which match international standards.

The school, which was inaugurated a year ago by the then Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, has focussed on a learning environment that is designed to encourage thinking.

Poornima Jairaj, executive trustee of SVGH Education Trust, which launched the school, and Roxy J. Pestello, director of the school, who briefed presspersons about the facilities offered by the school, said the school was committed to providing a challenging, enriching and purposeful learning environment on a sustained basis in the belief that this engaged students in maximum learning.

Situated on the outskirts of Chikmagalur on 40 acres of land amid scenic surroundings, the Amber Valley Residential School believed that a holistic value-based self-development approach would help children to develop intelligence quotient as well as emotional quotient.

The crafted curriculum of the school drawn from ICSE as well as from various international curricula for its standards, assessment structures and methodologies, allowed students, teachers and the administration to be effective technology users through knowledge management and ERP system, they said.

All classrooms had audiovisual equipment and monitored access to the Internet. The school, which focussed on personalised education, looked at children's perception as an important means to their learning process.

Importance was given to the academic programme, they said and added that assessment, which was made at regular intervals, was a continuous and comprehensive evaluation, they said.

The school has 102 students from first to seventh standards and 23 teachers most of whom live on the campus. It boasts of well-equipped laboratories, a library, art and music studios and an amphitheatre. Sports facilities include a cricket ground, swimming pool, table tennis, volleyball, basketball, tennis, badminton, a gymnasium, horse-riding grounds, a roller-skating ring, an athletic track, football ground, a shooting range and golf facilities.

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