Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi
Board and curriculum
Vadlo School is affiliated to CBSE up to Class XII. We teach the NCERT curriculum and add the campus to it: the trees, the lake, the garden and the city.
Plate I
The board
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) affiliates the school and sets the board examinations in Classes X and XII. Its rules for affiliated schools are the Affiliation Bye-Laws; what they ask us to publish is on the Mandatory public disclosure page.
- Board
- Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi
- Affiliation no.
- 4499901 (sample)
- School code
- 19991 (sample)
- Affiliated up to
- Senior Secondary (Class XII), affiliation valid till 31 March 2031 (sample)
Check the affiliation on the board's website (opens in a new tab) · Search CBSE's list of affiliated schools by the affiliation number; it shows the highest class affiliated.
Plate II
Teachers keep notes and a folder of each child's work; no marks, no exams.
Foundational stage
Balvatika 1 to Class II, ages 3 to 8
Play-based, following the National Curriculum Framework for the Foundational Stage (2022) and NCERT's Jadui Pitara materials. Children talk, build, draw, sing and spend part of every day outdoors.
Subjects
- Language: English and Gujarati
- Early mathematics
- The world around us
- Art, music and movement
Plate III
Short written and spoken checks, and a report card each term with comments, not ranks.
Preparatory stage
Classes III to V, ages 8 to 11
Reading for meaning, number sense, and the first projects. Every child keeps a nature journal through the year.
Subjects
- English
- Gujarati
- Hindi (from Class III)
- Mathematics
- The world around us
- Art education
- Physical education and wellbeing
Plate IV
Two term examinations and continuous assessment, as CBSE sets out.
Middle stage
Classes VI to VIII, ages 11 to 14
Subjects with their own teachers, taught with experiments, field work and a skill subject each year.
Subjects
- English
- Hindi
- Gujarati or Sanskrit
- Mathematics
- Science
- Social science
- Art education
- Physical education and wellbeing
- Skill education (e.g. gardening, coding, carpentry)
Plate V
School examinations, then CBSE's board examinations in Classes X and XII.
Secondary stage
Classes IX to XII, ages 14 to 18
The CBSE board years. Classes IX and X take the common subjects; Classes XI and XII choose a stream, with a counsellor for subject and college choices.
Subjects
- English
- Hindi or Gujarati
- Mathematics (Standard or Basic in Class X)
- Science
- Social science
- One skill subject
- Streams in XI and XII: see below
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Languages
| Language | From | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | Balvatika 1 | The medium of teaching |
| Gujarati | Balvatika 1 | The child's first school language alongside English |
| Hindi | Class III | |
| Sanskrit | Class VI | An option in place of Gujarati, Classes VI to VIII |
Plate ·
Classes XI and XII
Science
Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics or Biology (or both), with English and one more
Lab work in the three science labs
Commerce
Accountancy, Business Studies, Economics, with English and Mathematics or Informatics Practices
Humanities
History, Political Science, Geography or Psychology, with English and one more
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Beyond the classroom
- Garden club and the campus tree survey (the trees are labelled in English and Gujarati)
- Music: vocal, tabla and harmonium; the school choir sings at Navratri
- Sport: football, athletics, kho-kho, basketball, yoga
- Pottery and art in the studio
- Debating, the school paper and a Model UN for Classes IX to XII
Books follow the NCERT list for each class. The book list and the uniform specification are on the notices page; buy them from any shop. Nothing has to be bought from the school.