The school strives to create a learning environment that is child-centred, international in perspective, engaging, active and critical. Its ways of working are democratic and decentralized. The school celebrates student and teacher-led initiatives and values creativity, excellence and a social conscience.
Aditi recognises that each student learns differently and that these differences must be acknowledged and supported. Never resting on its laurels, Aditi strives constantly to be a community of learning.
The Junior Library is located in Elementary School, and the Senior Library is for older students. Both are imaginatively stocked with over 25,000 titles that cover fiction and non-fiction in all genres and subjects. The libraries often host parents and guest speakers for interactive sessions like book readings, author visits and story-telling workshops. The Teacher Resource Centre is a library exclusively for teachers. It contains textbooks, reference books and multimedia resources for teachers to use. Books and Beans is a reading space for teachers to relax and read.
We believe that the creative and performing arts are not extra-curricular activities and are profoundly related to learning. The school’s innovative Creative Arts Department has produced critically acclaimed plays, art exhibitions, musicals and concerts. More importantly, this incredibly talented department has led several initiatives to integrate the creative arts into several other parts of the curriculum. The result has been the creation of riveting learning experiences that have proved invaluable for students. There are a variety of spaces throughout the school for students to explore the visual and performing arts. These include a visual arts studio, an art courtyard, rooms for dance and drama, music rooms, an amphitheatre and open courtyards throughout the school where teaching, learning and performance are enabled.
There are five comprehensive laboratories, one each for Physics, Chemistry, Biology and two for Computer Science. The Physics lab has a separate dark room which doubles as the school’s photography studio. Many meaningful group projects in the sciences are assigned to students with clear but open-ended guidance from the teachers. This gives students a chance to experiment together and so learn cooperatively, a skill that is irreplaceable in today’s world.
This is in tune with the idea of cooperation over competition. Aditi’s strong belief is that PE is about the all-round development of motor skills, coordination, movement, health and nutrition, first aid and game skills for games such as cricket, football, basketball, throwball, hockey and athletics. The PE department consists of passionate teachers, each an expert in their sport. They work as a team to plan and deliver an interesting and stimulating PE programme for all grades. The school also offers optional school sports activities for students of Stds. 3 onwards. Coaching is offered in football, basketball, cricket and swimming. Aditi is among the top boys’ and girls’ teams in football, basketball and cricket in the city and has regularly produced state-level players in these sports.
Design Thinking projects happen across all grade levels and academic subjects at Aditi. The 1,500 sq. ft. lab houses work tables, tools, materials, machines, and equipment for fabrication and rapid prototyping. Floor-to-ceiling whiteboard wall cladding encourages group ideation, and multi-level seating options and wheeled furniture make this a flexible space. In the Tinker Lab, lessons are designed to equip students with the processes, cognitive frameworks, and culture required to navigate undefined, open-ended problems. Students work as teams to apply academic subject knowledge as they collaboratively problem solve.
DOD is a dedicated learning project with activities across the four identified domains – personal, social, experiential, and aesthetic. It spans across three days for grades 4-5 and a week for grades 6-12.
The SUPW programme in Grades 9 -12 is an integral part of the school experience at Aditi. It designed to inculcate empathy and an appreciation of diversity whilst building practical skills in different areas.
DOD is a dedicated learning project with activities across the four identified domains – personal, social, experiential, and aesthetic. It spans across three days for grades 4-5 and a week for grades 6-12.
The SUPW programme is designed to inculcate empathy and build a sense of diversity and inclusion. Each year the students of grade 11 and 12 spend two weeks on various community service activities.
The school has a strong college and career advisory service that is available to all students and their parents. The service provides advice about colleges and universities and coordinates internship opportunities. The service ensures individual guidance and assistance for any admission process, in India or overseas, that a student may opt for. The school is visited by over fifty university representatives each year. Aditi students currently attend or have graduated from some of the finest universities in India and abroad.
