The Riyadh-based Delhi Public School (DPS) has announced an ambitious plan to build its own school building with world-class facilities in the Saudi capital. “The new sprawling campus covering an area of over 12,000 square meters with a huge school building will have a separate section for IGCSE with high-tech classrooms, laboratories and activity rooms besides an auditorium and an administrative block,” announced Nadeem A. Tarin, chairman of DPS managing committee, in Riyadh.
Tarin, while unveiling the plan of the new school campus, said: “The new DPS campus will have all facilities within its premises, facilities which are rarely found in general schools.” Moreover, the plan is to impart high-quality education to DPS students as per DPS plans and policies back home in India. The DPS is affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the IGCSE boards simultaneously; giving students a choice they would like to pursue.
Tarin said that the opening of DPS in Riyadh was a result of a painstaking process of research into the educational requirements of the children of expatriates here. “The DPS, Riyadh strives at imparting the best of education, quality wise and keeping in mind the competition that the children have to face in life,” said A.J. Shiromani, school principal, while thanking Dr. Ibrahim Al-Qayid and Tarin for supporting DPS initiative.
Shiromani said that DPS seeks to make its students ready to face all challenges bravely and honestly. “We do not believe in coaching for memorization or as transmission of facts merely,” said the principal, while reaffirming his desire to work hard to ensure all-around development of children studying in his school. DPS, he said, has an international outlook, despite being a school that primarily follows the CBSE curriculum.
“And keeping in mind the need for the international students we also follow the IGCSE curriculum” said Akhtar Hussein Siddiqui, member of DPS managing committee. He said that DPS prides itself by claiming to give personal attention to every child. “We have kept the number of students in every class in practical measures i.e. not more than 25 and we don’t look for growth in terms of number of students,” he said.
“In fact, we seek qualitative development of the child,” said Hussein adding that the school lays added emphasis on sports and related activities. He elaboratedfurther by saying that “the word ‘extra curricular activities’ is now redundant, instead we use the term co-curricular activities. Some of our co-curricular activities are cultural programs, dramatics, elocution, art, sports of various types, gastronomy, yoga and many more.”
“We also arrange for our students regular educational trips to manufacturing units and tertiary units,” said DPS officials, adding that the school aims at excellence at every aspect of educational endeavor, while it promotes creativity and innovation among children. “As our motto says ‘service before self’ we have pledged to promote this at any cost,” he said, while referring to the children, who are doing exceptionally well compared to children in other schools.
