Broader Goals

Inspire every child to become both 'good and smart', a good member of a family, community, country and the world, a gift of God to mankind and a pride of the human race, a leader of thought and action,

From Within To Without

What outcomes do we want from this tunnel of learning "the educational process", so that when our children emerge from it, they are not just learned but also enlightened?

Reinforcing Habits Of Life

Daily yoga and at least one of sports, games, gymnastics and aerobics are integrated in the daily schedule along with music as food for the soul. Parents and students are provided lessons on nutrition by Dr Amitabh Pandit and on a healthy way of living and being.

Nurturing Excellence, Building Intrinsic Motivation

Away from traditional assessments which invariably compare children, CIS highlights progress, marks gained against one’s own personal baseline, documented objectively at the beginning and end of each term.

Personalised Attention

Accelerated teaching techniques are combined with excellent teaching materials such as the MAXIM Classbooks. Personalised learning materials are also automatically assigned to every child's diagnosis.

A Stimulating Learning Environment

CIS provides a varied learning environment from one week to the next and within a week so that children are familiar with and can maximize their learning experience. From single age settings to mixed age settings to thematic work utilizing multiple intelligences,

Celebrating Progress

Progress is given more importance than accomplishment.
Value Added Calculations are Based on the premise of 'Competition with Oneself', not Others.

Hands-on & Experiential Learning

Hands-on mathematics and science along with interactive teaching and learning methods in all subjects are used for the introduction of each new concept.

Maximising Class Potential

Assessing Hands-On Mathematics is as essential a part of development as the interactive exercises themselves. Our children most enjoy their hands-on mathematics assessment experience.

Focus On Communicative/Spoken English

From Alice in Wonderland to Harry Potter, watching DVDs in the multimedia room is a favourite class activity for our primary children! Teachers are also using large screens,

Inspiring The Young Child

The CIS environment is rife with possibilities for the young child. A huge range of pedagogical learning materials are arranged on low level shelves for children to pick up and work on their own. Children work independently,

Field Trips

Theme work often involves a field trip. Recent field trips have included a visit to a brick kiln, a farm, the Kukrail National Park, the zoo, a traffic crossing and cross questioning a traffic policeman.

Self/Peer Learning & Checking

Children discover facts by themselves, in peer groups or through interactions with peers. Self checking and peer checking lead to instant feedback and corrections. No child is left behind and

Integrated Social Studies/ Constructivism

Take a project from the its conception to completion, finding the resources and overcoming any difficulties along the way

Music As Food For The Soul

Computer education, general knowledge, moral education, music, arts and crafts, movement, dramatics, imagination plays, SUPW and other goals are fulfilled in thematic work which involves research and its presentations

Nurturing Creativity

Feeding Imagination

The Language Laboratory is used to practice extempore speaking and communicative English skills. It is being upgraded to also run the Bob Baratta Reading Programme focused on pronunciation.

Inspiring Service Leadership

All CIS events have some social objective. For example, ‘SCREAM Against Child Labour’ was organised by the school children.

Values Integration

At CIS, human values and life skills are interwoven into all aspects of a child’s planning and development from the earliest childhood. It is far more important that a child be good, endowed with all

Inspiring Service Leadership

On Saturdays and sometimes after school, children may also sign up for professional training in one or more fields: mental maths (UCMAS), languages (Spoken English and French using a BBC London Programme),