Vidyashilp Academy is a primary and secondary international school based in North Bangalore

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 in the India

India

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n state of Karnataka

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The school is affialied with Cambridge

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 University's International General Certificate of Secondary Education(IGCSE) and Indian Certificate of Secondary Education

Indian Certificate of Secondary Education

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(ICSE) from Grades 1 to 10.

Recognition

The school is referred to as the "first and most progressive school in the country".
The ideology and educational process implemented by the Founder Principal, Winston Gomez, that Vidyashilp run has been recommended by the Board to other schools in the nation, almost 10 years after Vidyashilp Academy was founded.
Newspapers such as Times of India and magazines such as Business Gyan have covered extensively on the school's pedagogy has.

The campus

The school is situated en route to the International Airport Road, near the Jakkur Flying Club, in Yelahanka, Bangalore North.

The school is built on an eighteen acre campus with over a hundred thousand square feet of built-up area comprising classrooms, work areas, laboratories, auditoriums, seminar halls and the dining halls.

The facilities

The campus building encompasses a 25 meter swimming pool, a volley ball court, a basketball court, a badminton court, a skating rink (Bangalore's largest), a full-size cricket field, football and hockey fields, and an indoor-sports facility for chess, yoga, badminton and music, arts and sculpture centers. It also has a newly built table tennis court.

The school has a library with 70,000 titles, and dailies, magazines and journals.

News

Extracurricular activities include quizzes, elocution and recitation, chess, sculpture, and musical events. The Academy took a large share of the awards at the 2004 Children's Chess Festival conducted by the Malleswaram Association. Vidyashilp won the under 11 girls' section. The girls were placed second in the under seven and under nine categories, and the boys were second in the under eleven, under thirteen and under fifteen competitions.

External links

• http://www.vidyashilp.com Official website]
• Vidya Niketan School http://www.vidyaniketanhebbal.com/