Mahatma Gandhi International School

Alumni Students turn teachers: The dedicated MGIS alumni

Our Alumni – the products of this very educational framework and best equipped to work with it – are returning to help out with the teaching! A slew of Alumni students have been returning to school to assist in teaching subjects that they enjoyed when they were at MGIS. To name a few examples: Mihir [...]

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Civilized, are we? (An Article by Pascal Chazot)

This is an eye-witness account from my wife who was at Panchwati Circle a few days ago. The time was 6.00 pm. She was waiting at the cross road as the traffic lights were red. “A lady driving a scooter shot across while the other side had already started moving. A young volunteer traffic cop stopped [...]

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Off the Report (An Article by Anjou Musafir)

I remember being in first grade and getting a 2 out of 10 in a dictation. It was my first and I proudly gave the test report to my mother. My mother then had to gently explain to me that the score was not exactly a great score. Needless to say, I went on to [...]

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Catching Up With Our Alumni!

Our first batch gave their exams in may 2007, and there were many unanswered questions and apprehensions back then. Nonetheless, all our appeared for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme and most passed with flying colors; in fact two of our students attained top scores among IB schools worldwide. It has been a long time since [...]

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MGIS teachers and Environmental Education

We had reported earlier that some of our faculty members were enrolled in the ‘Green Teacher‘ programme. A course facilitated by the Center for Environmental Education that focuses on orienting teachers towards Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development. Having completed the course, our teachers Seema Joshi, Ravinder Kaur, and Deepa Shah have been working to [...]

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MGIS students help educate underprivileged children

Students of grade 11 and 12 have been devoting their weekends to work with the underprivileged children of Mithakali village. With guidance and support from their CAS coordinator, Nandita Dinesh and their language teacher, Anjou Musafir they have taken great initiative in identifying and addressing the primary academic needs and concerns of these students as [...]

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Class of 2009 Graduates!

A BIG congratulations to the graduation of MGIS’s third batch of students! The class of 2009 sat for their exams just this May, and the results they have acquired are most praiseworthy, and perhaps the best on average thus far. Furthermore, most of the students have also assured places in respected colleges in India and [...]

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To create, to act, to serve: Going beyond the classroom

Talk to students at IB programs across the world and they will tell you about CAS. Creativity, Action and Service. The 150 hour commitment that every Diploma student has to complete in order to graduate. Not content with challenging students in more traditional academic disciplines, the IB has immense focus on a wholesome approach to education. It [...]

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