Student life
Beyond the classroom.
A child is more than a timetable. The hours either side of lessons, on the stage, the track, the common room and the kitchen garden, are where much of the growing happens.
The whole day
What a child carries home.
We build the day around four habits we want every leaver to take with them: making, moving, serving and belonging. Each has its own time, place and people.
Arts
Two ensembles, three studios and a black-box theatre. Every child performs or exhibits at least once a year, on a real stage, to a real audience.
Sport
Football, athletics, basketball, swimming and cricket across grass, track and court. We pick teams to take part, not only to win.
Service & Leadership
A student council with a real budget, prefects who run assembly, and a service week that takes seniors into the villages below the ridge.
Community
Four houses, eight boarding evenings a week of music and prep, and a dining hall where staff and students sit at the same long tables.
Performing arts & music
Made to be heard.
Music is not an extra here, it is part of the week. Every junior learns an instrument; seniors choose to keep going, and many do.
The school runs a chamber choir, a concert band and a small string ensemble, with peripatetic teachers for piano, guitar, sitar, tabla and the woodwinds. Drama lives in a flexible black-box theatre: a full production each year, plus the house drama festival every spring. The autumn recital and the leavers' concert are fixtures families plan their year around.
See the studios & theatre →
Leadership & student voice
Trusted with something real.
A school council with a budget it actually spends, prefects who run morning assembly, and house captains elected by their peers.
The council meets fortnightly with two members of the senior team and reports back to the whole school. Recent decisions have reshaped the lunch menu, added quiet study hours to the library, and funded the kitchen garden's new beds. Leadership is taught as a craft through service week, the peer-mentoring programme that pairs seniors with new arrivals, and a sixth-form committee that plans the year's events.
Our approach to character →Sport & athletics
Room to run, all year round.
Twenty-two acres mean every child finds a game. We field sixteen teams across five sports, and the rule is simple: if you turn up, you play.
Floodlit until dusk
The eight-lane track
Football & cricket
Games sit in the timetable three afternoons a week, with fixtures against schools across Pune and Mumbai on Saturdays. The indoor pool runs swim squads through the monsoon, and a sports-scholarship pathway supports a handful of senior athletes each year. Beyond the squads, there is yoga at dawn, a hiking club that walks the ridge, and an inter-house calendar that keeps everyone in the game.
Boarding & community
A second home, twenty-two acres wide.
When the windows glow, the day is not over. Evenings are for prep, for music, for the common room and the long conversation.
Boarders belong to one of four houses, each with its own resident tutors, a warm common room and a weekend rhythm of trips, films and the inter-house quiz. Supervised prep runs after dinner, followed by music practice, club sessions or simply the unhurried hour that day pupils rarely get. We keep houses small on purpose, so that the adults on duty know each child, and so the youngest never feel lost in the crowd.
Clubs & societies
More than thirty ways to find your people.
Every child takes at least one society a term. Most take two. A few start their own, and we help them.
Robotics
FIRST Tech build season, in the makerspace.
Model UN
Three conferences a year, Pune and Mumbai.
Debate
British Parliamentary, juniors and seniors.
Chamber Choir
Auditioned, sings at every founders' assembly.
Coding
From first Python to the school's own apps.
Photography
Darkroom and digital, a print show each term.
Eco Club
Runs the kitchen garden and the solar audit.
Chess
Ladder play and an inter-house tournament.
Drama
A full production each year in the black box.
Dance
Classical, contemporary and folk repertoire.
Journalism
The Ridge, our fortnightly student paper.
Astronomy
Dark skies above Tungarli, two telescopes.
And beyond these: a Book Club, the Quiz Society, a Film Circle, the Gardening collective, a Maths Olympiad squad and the volunteer corps that runs service week. The full list changes a little each year, because the best societies are the ones a student asks for.
Come and see
The best way to know us is to spend an afternoon here.
Sit in on a rehearsal, watch a fixture, walk through a house at prep time. Book a visit and see the hours that the timetable does not show.