Mallya Aditi International School

School campus

Mallya Aditi has a curriculum for its elementary school students that is designed to acquaint them with both Eastern and Western culture and methods of study. Aditi students study Indian languages, namely Kannada and Hindi, but can also study European and East Asian languages. Students are tutored in Western classical music as well as Indian dance and Indian classical music. Class sizes are generally small with roughly thirty students per class room. Aditi has received recognition for the excellence of its faculty.[3] School has ISC topper for year 2019 with 100% score. [4]

Examinations are held at the end of each academic year for grades 6, 7 and 8. For grades 9 and 10, a choice between the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) and the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) is offered. For grades 11 and 12, a choice between the Indian School Certificate (ISC) and the Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) is offered. IGCSE and AICE are conducted by the University of Cambridge International Examinations – CIE. Week-long internships are also compulsory in the 12th grade.

Sports include basketball, football, cricket and hockey. School starts at 8:05 am and ends at 2:55 pm, with a break from 9:50–10:10 am and from 12:40–1:10 pm

There are three computer labs serving the Junior School, the Senior School and the faculty. Alongside these computer labs, there are two technical hubs, which serve students and faculty with computers and educational material.

The Srishti School of Art Design and Technology – an affiliated school – is located on the Aditi campus.

The school produces plays, musicals and concerts. Now, Aditi has also started talent shows hosted by the 6th grade class. These talent shows usually have themes related to certain movie or music genres, and every class in Elementary school can participate. Student organisations include/have included the Dramatic Society, Model United Nations, Insight Club (sociology based debate club), Debating, Quiz and Chess Clubs, a school choir, the MAIS Film Club, Robotics Club, Aviation club, film and book club and the Photography Club.

Aditi students have their own newspapers and magazines. Past student publications include The Joke, Silhouette, The Scribbler, The White Crayon, The Big Issue, Aditi Spectrum and The Wise Guy. The current student Magazine is "The Scribe". A Kannada magazine was also launched in 2015.

The school's teams in football and basketball perform well in inter-school events. Aditi's football field is less than a third the size of a true football field, with new and improved goals, and an astroturf surface as of 2014. The sports teams have excelled in many inter-school tournaments. The school also has an indoor basketball court as well as a swimming pool. Badminton nets are also available.

Aditi students of all grades have a Domains of Development (DOD) week every year. DOD is a learning project undertaken by MAIS. A week is allotted for DOD for grades 5 to 12. MAIS has identified four Domains of Development: personal, social, experiential and aesthetic. So one grade might attend a workshop in pottery and paper-making and another might go to Chennai to study South Indian music and dance while another might go rock climbing and trekking. The graduating class takes up a project under 'social useful productive work' for a week instead[5] .

International understanding has been fostered by the MAIS annual student exchange with St. Benno-Gymnasium in Dresden, Germany and two schools, Realschule Germering – Unterpfaffenhofen (near Munich), and Sophie-la-Rochelle in Kaufbeuren (a medieval town near the Alps) in Bavaria. The Bavarian exchange was organised after an MOU signed between the governments of Karnataka and Bavaria.

There is an exchange programme for +2 students with Ostra Reals Gymnasium and Kungsholmens Gymnasium in Stockholm, Sweden as well.

Its proactive Interact Club, founded and supported by the Rotary Club of Bangalore. A tradition at Aditi is Reach Out (previously 'Out of the Box'), an inter-school competition run by the school's Interact Club, which attracts contestants from more than 20 schools. It was started in 2002.

The Interact Club organises an annual Retreat, in which club members attend an array of personal development workshops conducted by professionals in the field. Past events conducted by the Interact Club include fund raising Music Concert, which aimed at bringing together musical talent in schools and colleges around Bangalore in the hope of supporting the education of underprivileged children, and Fast Forward, a two-day fund raising carnival that aimed towards bringing about an awareness regarding the current environmental situation.

Now an annual event, the Interact Club also organises a blood drive to elicit blood donations from the Aditi community.

The Interact Club conducts bake sales and personal development workshops throughout the year, and has participated in other community-driven activities such as the annual Terry Fox Run and the collection of money for the National Association for the Blind.

In 2005, the school was awarded the Cambridge Fellowship by the University of Cambridge in England, in recognition of academic excellence among schools offering Cambridge qualifications. Only 20 secondary schools in the world have received this fellowship. In early 2005, Aditi won the Intel Award for the Best Integration of Technology in Education 2004, from a pool of India's best schools.

Aditi is one of the two or three schools chosen worldwide by the University of Cambridge to be prototypes in an experimental science exam (where the practical paper is completed through computer simulation). These schools were chosen based on their academic record. The results of the students in the board exams will decide whether or not the experimental paper will come into practice.

• "Best" International Schools: India and Nepal, Newsweek Showcase.com
• Cool Schools, Newindpress.com, Nov 10, 2006
• Official website