Campus life
Thirteen sports, and none of them optional
Every student plays something, every year, including Class 10. Sport is on the timetable rather than after it, which is the only way to make participation real rather than aspirational.
- Disciplines
- 13
- Full-time coaches
- 9
- Compulsory through
- Class 10
- Swimming
- Every child, by Class 3
Team sports
Cricket
From Class 3Two turf nets, a full-size ground, and a season that runs all year.
Coach, facilities and results
Football
From Class 2The fastest-growing sport here, and the one with the best girls' squad.
Coach, facilities and results
Basketball
From Class 6Two full courts and a programme built around Class 6 upward.
Coach, facilities and results
Volleyball
From Class 5The house sport — every house fields a team, whether they want to or not.
Coach, facilities and results
Individual sports
Badminton
From Class 3Four indoor courts, and the sport with our deepest competitive squad.
Coach, facilities and results
Table tennis
From Class 4Six tables, and the only sport where a Class 6 student beat the coach.
Coach, facilities and results
Skating
From Class 1A dedicated rink, and the sport our youngest students take up first.
Coach, facilities and results
Karate
From Class 2Belt gradings twice a year, assessed by an external panel.
Coach, facilities and results
Gymnastics
From Class 1Foundation gymnastics for everyone in Classes 1 to 4.
Coach, facilities and results
Athletics
From Class 3A 400m track, and the sport that decides Sports Day.
Coach, facilities and results
Aquatic sports
Swimming
From Class 1Every child leaves Class 3 able to swim 25 metres. No exceptions.
Coach, facilities and results
Mind sports
Chess
From Class 3Timetabled in Class 4, because it teaches something nothing else does.
Coach, facilities and results
Wellbeing sports
Yoga
From Class 1On the timetable for every year group, not an optional extra.
Coach, facilities and results
Why sport stays on the timetable in Class 10
It is the single most common request we receive from Class 9 parents: drop physical education so there is more time for board revision. The answer has been no since 2008.
Partly this is evidence — the correlation between physical activity and examination performance runs the opposite way to the intuition. Mostly it is simpler than that. A fifteen-year-old who spends a year doing nothing but revision does not become a better student; they become an exhausted one, and we have watched it happen at other schools.
Nobody sits on the bench
Every student is entered in at least one Sports Day event, and every squad runs a development group alongside the competitive one. A child who will never represent the school still trains with a coach who knows their name.
Come and watch
Saturday mornings are the best time to visit
Fixtures run most Saturday mornings in term time. If you want to see the school at its most itself, that is when.
Prefer to talk to someone? Call the admissions office on +91 89 7788 1200, weekdays 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM.