Vidyatree Modern World College, Lucknow is a

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K–12 day school based in

Lucknow Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division ...

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. It was the first school in

to be certified for

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, on 30 February 1997.

History

Established in 1980, and located at Aliganj,

, it is a co-educational K–12 day school run by Kapoor Educational Society. The school was founded by Shri Rakesh Kapoor, educationist and teacher of meditation, who was inspired by the message of

Jiddu Krishnamurti Jiddu Krishnamurti (; 11 May 1895 – 17 February 1986) was a philosopher, speaker and writer. In his early life, he was groomed to be the new World Teacher, an advanced spiritual position in the theosophical tradition, but later rejected thi ...

. Mr R. K. Trivedi, former Governor of the State of

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and Chief Election Commissioner of India is the patron of the school. The Chairman of the school's Advisory Council is Mr Justice D. K. Trivedi former Senior Judge of the High Court of the state of UP. The Principal is Ms. Meena Kane.

Awards and recognition

Modern School was the first school in the history of Indian Education to be certified for ISO9002 and then ISO9001 (since May 1997)– a symbol of consistent quality control. The Modern was awarded the Golden Peacock National Quality Training Award for excellence in staff training in 1998. Since 16 January 2009, the school is the first school in India to be accredited to the Quality Council of India's NABET Standard for Quality School Governance. The school is the first school in the city of Lucknow to implement the International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Program (PYP), which is a Geneva-based curriculum framework, with over 2984 IB schools worldwide.

Houses

It is involving I.B PYP system from class 1 to 5 . It has ICSE curriculum for grades 6 to 12. The Modern School has four house named on the biggest leaders of the world: * Krishnamurhti - Blue Colour * Geeta - Yellow Colour * Socrates - Green Colour * Vivekanada - Red Colour

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