Abhyasa International School, Hyderabad

Abhyasa Residential Public School, Toopran, Andhra Pradesh is a coeducational residential school affiliated with the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), New Delhi. Founded in 1996, the education offered by the school is a blend of the modern public school system and the traditional Indian Gurukul culture.

Abhyasa aims to develop all the faculties of the child to mould him into a Complete Human Being. This involves physical fitness, mental alertness, intellectual capabilities, emotional balance, aesthetic fulfillment, social responsibility and spiritual awareness. During their long years of stay at Abhyasa, each of the above faculties will be strengthened by constantly providing the necessary inputs in the form of practical lessons in the respective field of study.

The school’s curriculum focuses on the physical, mental, intellectual, aesthetic, social and ethical, emotional and spiritual development of the students.

Stress is laid on high quality of spoken and written English.

At the primary level teaching is facilitated through various forms of creativity for example multiplication tables learnt with the help of rhythmic walking and skipping. Classroom learning is supplemented by multi-media presentations displayed on plasma television and latest systems connected to a centralized server and supported by technical staff, an internet access and more than 25000 educational CDs – apart from an Audio-Visual lab with various types of projection facilities, educational video cassettes and satellite television – aid the teaching process at Abhyasa.

In classes VI, VII and VIII, the curriculum focuses on solving problems through creative thinking and stress is laid on doing. Here the experiential approach is used where the child encounters the concepts or phenomena and acquires abilities to work with materials and specimens. Students undertake live observations and undergo hands-on-experience through ploughing, sowing, harvesting in their natural environs and develop abilities that stem out of such activities.

In classes IX, X, XI and XII, the emphasis is on developing emotional intelligence. Various concepts which were earlier analysed to understand are now synthesized to draw conclusions. Students are challenged to work independently to cultivate skills of individual judgment through research, dissertations, projects, seminars and viva presentations.