Sri Aurobindo International School, Hyderabad is a school located in
Hyderabad
Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part ...
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Telangana
Telangana (; , ) is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian subcontinent, Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India b ...
. The school is named in honor of philosopher
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers such as ''Vande Mataram''. He joined the ...
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Prefectorial system
Each year, a centralized prefectorial body is set up to ensure proper functioning of the school body. The board consists of the School President and School Captain, with a deputy Vice-Captain to assist. They lead a group of prefects, including high post holders like the school sports secretaries, the house captains and captains of other activities, along with the other prefects. The students of class 10 hold the majority of the posts.
All posts except for the post of the school captain and the school president are elected directly by high school students. Together, the post holders make up the Students' Council.
The school has four houses or sub-groups: Perfection (white), Power (red), Harmony (pink), and Wisdom (yellow). Students are divided into these houses and participate in Inter House competitions.
Facilities
The total area of the school is 15000 sq. m. The school has two blocks: the Primary school block, and the High school block. Together these also house the following: the principal's and vice-principal's offices, staff room, assembly courtyard and classrooms, as well as laboratories for computer science and the natural sciences.
Extracurricular Activities
Students have vast options of extracurricular activities to choose from, such as music (vocal and instrumental), dance, theatre, arts, craft, home science, fashion designing, pottery, and various languages, including German, French and Sanskrit. Basketball, chess, swimming, tennis, karate, and badminton are offered as after-school activities.
The school has a basketball team actively takes part in ICSE meets and other interschool competitions.
See also
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Auroville
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Integral education
Integral theory is a synthetic metatheory developed by Ken Wilber. It attempts to place a wide diversity of theories and models into one single framework. The basis is a "spectrum of consciousness," from archaic consciousness to ultimate spiri ...
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Mirra Alfassa "The Mother"
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Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers such as ''Vande Mataram''. He joined the ...
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Sri Aurobindo Ashram
The Sri Aurobindo Ashram is a spiritual community (ashram) located in Pondicherry, in the Indian territory of Puducherry. The ashram grew out of a small community of disciples who had gathered around Sri Aurobindo after he retired from ...
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The Mother's International School
The Mother's International School (MIS) is a private secondary school in New Delhi, India. It is an establishment of the Sri Aurobindo Education Society, an agency of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. It shares its campus with the New Delhi branch of ...
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Sri Aurobindo International School, Hyderabad
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Schools in Hyderabad, India
Schools affiliated with the Sri Aurobindo Ashram
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