Apeejay School Nerul

Infobox Secondary school
name = Apeejay School, Nerul

motto= 'Soaring High is my Nature'
type = Private
grades = Nursery–12
established= 1986
city = Navi Mumbai
state = Maharashtra
country = India
enrollment = -
mascot = Falcon
colors =
principal = -
chairman = Dr. Stya Paul
television station =
yearbook = The Soaring Falcon
newspaper =
website = http://www.apeejay.edu/nerul/home.htm

Apeejay School Nerul, Navi Mumbai is one of a number of private schools run K-12 by Apeejay Education Society. The School is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi (Affiliation no. CBSE/Aff./1130023/2001/37) and is a member of the National Progressive Schools Conference (NPSC). The school was started in the year 1987, when Navi Mumbai was still under development. It is the first CBSE school to be started in Navi Mumbai. Initially the school offered classes in Nursery , Kindergarten and classes up to IV std. More classes were added in subsequent years.

The school's Executive Committee nominated on 16th June 1986 constitutes of Dr Stya Paul Chairman, while Sushma Berlia Vice Chairman. Berlia is also the Chairperson, Managing Committee, Apeejay School Nerul C. Jayson was the principal of the school from 1987 to April 1999. After that consequently N. N. Nayyar took over in May 1999. Under N. N. Nayyar's dynamic leadership, the school reached new heights and slowly became the most respected school in Navi Mumbai. Mr N. N. Nayyar left the school on 30th June, 2008 to take up his new post as principal of Apeejay School, Noida.

The entire school is well connected through LAN. Each classroom, staff room and the administrative block is provided with a TV set and a desktop computer which are used as learning aids and also used as public address system.

Curriculum

The school offers classes from Nursery to XII. At Senior Secondary (Plus 2 , XII) level the school offers two streams - Science and Commerce. The commerce stream was started in the year 2004.

The school also provides a larege variety of Co-curricular activities like Karate , Gymnastics, Yoga, Music, Painting,Swimming etc. [http://www.apeejay.edu/nerul/activities.htm#] .Coaching facilities for cricket, football and martial arts are provided.

The school follows the House system in which students are divided into 4 Houses -Nalanda, Takshashila, Ujjain and Vikramshila named after the famous universities of Ancient India

Infrastructure

School building is a ground + 3 floor structure.

The school has a well-stocked computerized library with more than 10,000 books and a number of newspapers, journals and magazines .

A Campus-wide network is being installed at Apeejay School, Nerul, wherein each and every classroom, staff room and the administrative block has been connected to a cluster of high-end servers. The network serves as the backbone for the implementation of Mira’ Skool, and ERP solution for automating the school’s administration and all scholastic and non scholastic activities.

To popularize play way teaching and learning methodology in the field of science, a Science Park is established in the school. It has well designed gadgets to nurture knowledge with amusement. Each gadget is installed with an explanation plate, with proper write up about how to play/operate the gadget, the principle involved in it and application if any for the concept.

Publications

The school publishes Newsletter - published biannually and The Soaring Falcon - published annually which contains articles written by students, teachers, principal and from thechairman.

tudents and Alumni

The school has a very active Alumni association called the AOSA (Apeejay Nerul Old Students` Association). AOSA organises get-togethers and re-unions for the batches that have passed out. The students passing out from this school mostly get into prestigious institutions like IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, UICT Mumbai, Thaddomal Sahani - Bandra - Mumbai, St. Xaviers Mumbai, Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, BITS Pilani, NIT Trichy, NIT Surathkal, Law Institutions and many more. Many students even land up in universities abroad and pursue their higher education in diverse fields such as Commercial Pilots, genetics, Botany etc. The peer groups which students get at Apeejay are very competitive and maintain a healthy relationship among each other.

Results in AISSE 2008

Ist three positions-1)DISHA GURNANI 96 % 2)DEBADITYA SARKAR 95.8 % 3)SHWETA TEWARI 95.6 %

65 students scored 90% and above which is an all-time record for any CBSE school in Mumbai.

Achievements

The school was awarded with Best School in Navi Mumbai by Nagrik Seva Samiti in 2000 , 2001, 2003 and by CIDCO in 2000. Principal Mr. N. N. Nayyar was honoured with prestigious CBSE Award to Teachers in Maharashtra State On 4 th September 2004. [http://www.apeejay.edu/nerul/misc/achievements.htm]

The school has been accredited for an outstanding development of its curriculum for which it received the International School Award by the British Council in October 2006.

Apeejay School, has also been included in the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI),under which it will receive a grant of approximately 24,000 pounds (Rs.20,40,000) for a period of two years.

On 5th August 2008, the school team represented by Pranav Balachander, Ronak Nagori and B. Venkat won the Samsung Olympic Games Quest 2008 and the school was adjudged the national champion after winning the finals in New Delhi.

The second Apeejay school in Navi mumbai was started in 2000 at Kharghar Sector 21.

External links

* [http://www.apeejay.edu/nerul/main.htm Apeejay School website]