Events

Akshar Arbol International School is a candidate school* for the Diploma Programme. This school is pursuing authorization as an IB World School. These are schools that share a common philosophy - a commitment to high quality, challenging, international education that Akshar Arbol International School believes is important for our students.

Students of Grades 1 to 5 attended a workshop on expressing ideas and beliefs through movement. This was perfectly in sync with the unit of inquiry being explored in the theme ‘How We Express Ourselves’. This workshop with Mr. Vijay Palaparty, well-known dancer and choreographer began with an expression of poems through movement. Later, students worked in groups to put […]

Akshar Arbol International School conducted pottery classes for its students with a view to initiating them into the fine art of pottery. Mr. Palani from Dakshin Chitra was at the school premises on 10th and 11th April, teaching students pottery from grade 1 to grade 11.The workshop was conducted from 9.30am to 3.15 pm. The students learnt how to make […]

Choice in your backpack, Indian Express(18th April 2014). Children may be rejoicing the end of term, but parents are just getting ready to put the city’s schools to the litmus test, in readiness for the next academic year. With traditional syllabuses competing with alternative education—that extols home schooling and a democratic approach (voluntary attendance, anyone?)—there’s plenty to choose from. Also […]

Earth Day was celebrated in Akshar Arbol and the proceeds from this Earth day was collected and donated along with the contribution made by the students and teachers. The money was used for painting the rooms at Karunai illam, an orphanage in Saidapet that caters to the poor children’s needs.

AAIS becomes the first school in Chennai, authorized to offer the IB Primary Years Programme. Thank you, parents and well-wishers for your continued support.

AAIS partnered with Kaivalam - World Craft Council to run a programme on Shell Art. The fundamental idea of this session was to provide students an expisure to a traditional Indian art form. Students made various pieces of art using shells. Beginning with simple designs, they moved on to making complex animals using shells.

IB PYP Coordinator Prabha Dixit and ELC Coordinator Latha Muthukrishnan attended the IB regional network meet at Bangalore. It was a day well-spent, interacting with IB officials and other PYP practioners from South India and sharing notes on good classroom practives, inquiry-based teaching and additional language teaching in the PYP. Besides, Prabha attended the 'Approches to Learning' presentational by Ms. […]

Primary school students visited the INTACH Architectural Splendours exhibition to extend their classroom learning on history. This was a "Tuning In" activity to explore how ancient artefacts provide information about present-day life. This, finally culminated in the IB PYP Exhibition, where students show-cased their learning through the unit.