Sardar Patel Vidyalaya

Sardar Patel Vidyalaya
Location
Lodhi Road, New Delhi
India
Information
Motto विद्यैव धनमक्षयम
Knowledge is the sole undiminished wealth
Established

April 1, 1957

set up and administered by Gujarat Education Society
Principal Ms Anuradha Joshi
Faculty 110
Grades Nursery to 12
Number of students approximately 2000

Sardar Patel Vidyalaya (SPV) is a school in New Delhi, India, located in the heart of the city at Lodi Estate. It has 1500 students from the nursery level to the 12th grade, with 110 teachers and supporting staff members, and its greenery forms the lungs and the beauty of the city.

The school is named after a leader of the Indian independence movement, and independent India's first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

Academics

Language policy

It is perhaps the only private school in India that employs Hindi as a medium of instruction in the primary school. Though primarily subjects such as Math, science and social studies are taught in Hindi, students are taught 'technical terms' which are the English counterparts of whatever they learnt. This equips them to proficiently use the same in both languages.

Students are provided instruction in four languages. English is the medium of education from the 6th grade onwards. Hindi and Sanskrit are mandatory until the 8th grade. In the 9th grade, students are asked to choose between Hindi and Sanskrit.

The objective of this policy is to produce young citizens who are not just bilingual but equilingual in Hindi [1] and English—international link language. The students have to choose a fourth language from Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu or Bengali. This helps the student acknowledge the richness of the Indian culture. It shares an equal status with music where songs in these languages are often taught.

Sports

The school has football, basketball, volleyball and cricket teams, and has produced many top class cricketers and athletes who have played for the nation or Ranji teams, including Ajay Jadeja, Rahul Sanghvi, Gagan Khoda, Deep Dasgupta, Vivek Razdan and National Record holder, highjumper Tejaswin Shankar and Adityavardhan Jha.

Every year Activity Week is held in the school in which the school's four houses i.e. Shakti, Neeti, Jyoti and Pragati compete. During the sports week events like 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m race, shot put, javelin throw, discus throw, high jump, long jump and triple jump are held. Inter house basketball, football, volleyball and chess matches are also held. An inter-house sports quiz is held.

Main corridor from the garden

Principals

Rhodes Scholars

SPV has produced a number of Rhodes Scholars. In 2006, for example, three of the five Indian Rhodes Scholars were alumna of SPV. In 2005, two of the six were alumni.

Notable alumni

Arts and media

Literature

Business

Administration

Science and technology

Sports

Law

  • Bishwajit Bhattacharyya, Former Addl. Solicitor General of India
  • Kaushik Moitra, Advocate, Supreme Court of India & Partner - TMT Law Practice[6]
  • Karuna Nundy, Supreme Court advocate
  • Maneka Guruswamy, Supreme Court advocate, legal scholar and Rhodes scholar.
  • Arudra Burra, legal scholar

References

  1. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/06/24/for-the-last-time-hindi-is-not-the-national-language-of-india_a_22952944/
  2. ↑ "I am dyslexic: Pakhi Tyrewala". The Times of India. Dec 18, 2010.
  3. ↑ "Personal Agenda: Swara Bhaskar, actress". Hindustan Times. Nov 29, 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-12-01. Retrieved 2013-12-01.
  4. ↑ "imdb: Sarah Hashmi, actress". Hindustan Times. Nov 29, 2013. Retrieved 2013-12-01.
  5. ↑ "Financial Express article on Vineeta Rai".
  6. ↑ http://www.tmtlaw.co.in/kaushik.html
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