Greenwood High International, Sarjapur Road, Bengaluru

Overview

Promoted in 2004 by a group of eminent industry and business leaders, Greenwood High International School is committed to the cause of providing quality education in India.

Sited on a 38 acre campus off Sarjapur Road, Bangalore, the school is affiliated with the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), New Delhi. Greenwood is also affiliated with the Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE, UK) and the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), Geneva. Greenwood High is run by Greenwood High Trust helmed by chairman Mr. Bijay Agarwal, a first-generation entrepreneur who has built a rock-solid empire as the managing director of Salarpuria Sattva, taking the company through a consistent growth curve since 1993.

Providing world class education right from preschool through high school, the co-ed international day-cum-boarding school has established a national reputation for nurturing “free-thinking, socially responsible students, in an active and free atmosphere, to make students truly world-ready.”

The school believes in a holistic approach to education with expert tutelage, creative freedom and inspiring innovation, being essential for moulding students from core to advanced knowledge.

Campus

Sited on a 38 acre campus, the school is well-designed with a “perfect blend of aesthetics, style and comfort”. Greenwood’s contemporary academic infrastructure includes 140 classrooms, well-equipped labs and a state-of-the-art library stocked with 14,000 books for all age groups, among others. The library is equipped with facilities for teachers and students to research for resources online and for parents to keep track of books borrowed by their children from the library and also includes a separate research room for teachers with computer-internet facility.

The computer, math and science (biotechnology, physics, chemistry and biology) labs are staffed with well trained lab assistants to assist them. The school offers 24×7 doctors on call service, quality first aid and pre-medical care equipments. The fully WiFi enabled campus also hosts impressive facilities for sports and games such as swimming, football, throwball, basketball, tennis, and volleyball.

A 500-seats amphitheatre equipped with excellent acoustics and a spacious, well-staffed canteen are other campus highlights. The meals in the school canteen are planned by nutritionists and prepared by experienced chefs. The cafeteria is located in a separate building with two floors and can accommodate 900 children at a time.

Transport facility includes 75 buses that ply across most parts of Bangalore. For children’s safety, buses are equipped with GPS and Route Alert systems, besides speed governance mechanism.

Academics

Greenwood High is affiliated with CISCE, New Delhi and prepares students for the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) exam held at the end of grade X. It also offers the Cambridge International IGCSE curriculum for grades IX and X. Students of grade XI and XII are offered the International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma programme, which is a two year programme recognised by all international universities. The school also provides special coaching for competitive exams such as SAT and AIEEE.

The school boasts well qualified and well trained faculty whose skills and knowledge are constantly upgraded through relevant training programmes and workshops.

At the start of each academic year, Greenwood High teachers receive nine days training on teaching skills, emotional/psychological development, IT skills and media creation. Apart from this, special subject specific training is conducted for the individual departments. Some of these are conducted by the board and some by special agencies hired by the school. Only reputed professionals are engaged for these programmes.

The school’s child-centred teaching-learning approach encourages children to speak and teachers to listen, refine and clarify. Curiosity is instilled and tickled.

Co-curricular:

Greenwood High offers a rich co-curricular education menu. While academics are not compromised, children have a wide array of CCA to choose from: chess, editorials, music, drama, dance, sports, and games. Holistic development is stressed upon.

The school encourages its students to participate in sports and games such as Soccer, Cricket, Basketball, Hockey, Swimming, Athletics, Tennis, Chess, Badminton, Western/Indian music, Art & Craft, Drama, Dance, Debate, Quiz, Yoga, Wushu, etc. The school also organises field trips and excursions for pupils during the academic year.

Greenwood High students not only balance academics, sports, and co-curricular activities, but excel in them. Greenwood High IB results far outshine the world average; the school has produced India toppers in both IGCSE and ICSE. And yet, these very same industrious students immerse themselves in theatre and with support from their theatre, art, and music teachers, and have presented ‘Annie’ a musical that was compared to professional theatre productions. To encourage them further, the school has held various workshops including one from the prestigious Globe Education.

Head of Institute

Aloysius D’Mello (principal)

General Information

Library
Yes

Transportation
Yes

Student Mix
Boys and Girls

No of Students
5000

Campus Size
38 acres

Labs
Yes

Internet Wi-Fi
Yes

Sports
Swimming, Yoga, Basketball, Volleyball, Throw ball, Table tennis, Football, Taekwondo

Admission

Criteria for admission

Nursery to KG-II: Age eligibility/Student interaction.

Nursery: 3 years by 31st August, 2023
KG-I: 4 years by 31st August, 2023
KG-II: 5 years by 31st August, 2023

Grade I to IX: Age eligibility/min 50% and above in the admission assessment in English, Math and Logical Reasoning

Grade XI: Assessment as per the opted subjects and interview with the VP and principal.

Admission period: August to February

Achievement

– Shloka Ashok, IBDP student of Greenwood High International School, Sarjapur Road, Bangalore, is a recipient of The Diana Award 2022 — the highest honour for young persons aged 9 to 25 years for their outstanding social action and humanitarian efforts. The award was launched by former UK prime minister Gordon Brown in honour of the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

– Abeer Agrawal of Grade 3C ICSE & Amishi Agrawal of Grade 11E, IB recently conducted a distribution drive for the supporting staff members of Greenwood High at the ICSE campus. They distributed food, groceries, goodies along with drinks as a gesture of appreciation for their hard work and dedication towards serving the school.

– Aarohi of Grade 3 IPYP has garnered stupendous achievements in IGCI Gymnastics meet held in Mumbai.
She competed and won four medals in in each equipment routine of gymnastics.

1. Vault – 10/10 – Platinum
2. Floor -8.6/10 – Gold
3. Uneven bars-8/10 – Gold
4. Balance beam -6.5/10 – Bronze

– Arjun Malik of Grade IV (2023-2024) has been awarded a gold medal after securing All India Rank 95 in the Unified International Mathematics Olympiad.

– Saarang Srinivasan of Grade 8 IGCSE has bagged the Top Scorer of the Year Award at the recently held DPDL Double Pass Development League 2023. His team BFC was the overall runners-up at the tournament. He also won the Top Scorer Award in the BFC KSFA tournament and Greenwood High Inter-school Tournament.

– Greenwood’s Girl’s Football Team has emerged as winners of the TALENT FC CHENNAI TOURNAMENT (U-19 Girl’s) 2023, held in Chennai.

– Riya Sharma of Grade 1 stood second in the U7 Girls category at the ICA FIDE International Rated Open chess Tournament held at Virginia Mall, Bangalore.

– Iha Fatangare (Grade 5A) participated in the IW (Individual Women) and Trio in the U11 category at the State Level Aerobics Gymnastics Championship & Selections for National 2022-23 organised by the Gymnast Association of Karnataka. She won Bronze in IW (Solo) and Silver in Trio.

GREENWOOD HIGH STUDENTS EXCEL AT NATIONAL SCHOOLS TEAM CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2023 – PONDICHERRY

Shraddha Somanath (Grade 10) of Greenwood International School, Sarjapur, won the individual Gold Medal for her best performance of 100% Score at the 1^st National Schools Team Chess Championship 2023 held from 23^rd to 25^th June, 2023 at Pondicherry. Vrishav V (Grade 9) won the Bronze Medal for his best performance.

Overall, 115 Teams from various parts of India took part in this Mega Event.

Four Teams of Greenwood High took part in the event. Two Teams in Under 18 Category and 2 Teams in Under 12 Category.

All 4 Teams have performed brilliantly.

In Under 18 Category, Greenwood High ‘A’ Team which was ranked 12^th at the Starting Rank moved up to the 10^th position in the Final Ranking. Team ‘B’ which was ranked 36^th place at the Starting Rank ended at the 26^th Place.

In the Under 12 Category, Greenwood High ‘A’ Team which was ranked 24^th place at the Starting Rank finished at 20^th place in the Final Ranking. Team ‘B’ which was ranked 38^th at the Starting Rank finished at 31^st place.

All players of Greenwood High have performed their best at the Tournament and helped their team to improve their ranking.

The Team Members are as follows.

Under- 18 Team A: Dhrithi G Murgod (Captain), Nishanth S Gowda, Shraddha Somanath, Vrishav V and Arav Bansal

Under -18 Team B: Naren Karthik Kandasamy (Captain), Aarush Verma, Aaradhana Jagadeesh, Shruti Praveen and Nikita Nale

Under-12 Team A: Atharva Praveen (Captain), Nisarga G P, Etansh Sadawartwale, Rihan Sharma and Shravya Vaid.

Under-12 Team B: Satvik Pattanaik (Captain), Sannidhi Suresh, Gargi Upreti, Manomay Gupta and Poorvika Avinash.

We are delighted to share that our grade 11 IBDP student, Amishi Agrawal, has recently published two of her research projects at IEEE and the ITM Web of Conferences, The papers explore the intersection of math, computer science, and biology and propose the classification of chest x-ray scans and brain tumours through deep learning-based CNN and hybrid aquila optimisers respectively._

Links to the papers:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10141775

https://www.itm-conferences.org/articles/itmconf/abs/2023/03/itmconf_icdsia2023_02008/itmconf_icdsia2023_02008.html

CISCE Under 14 Men’s Regional Artistic Gymnastics; Darsh Kokrady secured overall 2^nd position with Silver Medal and he will be representing Karnataka & Greenwood High in Nationals.

Accommodation

There are two hostel blocks – one each for boys and girls, accommodating 200 students in total. The rooms are spacious and well planned, with sufficient light and ventilation. The students are provided with all modern amenities and the highest level of security.

Updates

Thonnur Swimmathon,Read more- https://bit.ly/2Y66Aev

Marrs Spell Bee, Read more- https://bit.ly/2YWQm4C

Greenwood High students clinch a perfect 45 in IBDP exam 2019, Read more- https://bit.ly/2XTrKfM

Avani Prashanth participated in IGU (Indian Golf Union) National Golf Championships, Read more- https://bit.ly/2QKYXUQ

Swimming Achievements in Summer 2019, Read more- https://bit.ly/2HT5lGt

1. Ananya Rajaraman of Grade 10 has been recognized by the India Book of Records for being the youngest author in the genre of crime fiction.

2. Girls Junior Badminton category-

Roshni Venkat of Grade 10 got selected to represent USA in U19 Girls Junior Badminton category.

She attended Jr international trials for U19 category couple of weeks back (held in Los Angeles).

This tournament was held in 3rd week of April. Top 16 ranked players were invited to participate in selection tournament held in Los Angeles. Roshni (16 years) playing in her 1st year of U19 singles, beat seeded players and seniors and made it all the way to finals, there by qualifying to represent USA in the continental Pan American championships to be held in Moncton, Canada from July 14th to 20th. She will be playing against 8 countries in the American continent representing USA.

CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES ROSHNI !!

3. Arnav Jabulee of Grade 9 has been awarded the Silver Medal in the Cadet Male – Group category at the 4th National Cadet Poomsae Taekwondo Championships held in Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh from 25 – 27 February, 2019 under the auspices of the Taekwondo Federation of India.

CONGRATULATIONS ARNAV !!

GWHCoders won inter-school Hackathons, Read more- https://bit.ly/2VUjV8J

All India Tennis Association (AITA) Talent Series, Read more- https://bit.ly/2Yoy8YU

Avyan Narayan won Greenwood High KG Chess Tournament, Read more- https://bit.ly/30c1sDX

MaRRS Preschool Bee (MATH) Interschool Championship, Read more- https://bit.ly/2WGRUhV

Annual Day 2019, Read more- https://bit.ly/2ULFngh

Greenwood High talent excels at Hackathon 2019, Read more- https://bit.ly/2FTTHJb

Greenwood High students participated in science camp at National University Singapore (NUS), Read more- https://bit.ly/2IcaR7P

MaRRs Spellbee, Read more- https://bit.ly/2UwzgYW

AITA Talent Series7 (U-14) Doubles category, Read more- https://bit.ly/2EAQk9o

Cambridge Outstanding Learner Awards, Read more- https://bit.ly/2SrTst6

Indica India quiz competition, Read more- https://bit.ly/2GkLsrH

Indian Robocup Junior National level, Read more- https://bit.ly/2Bh7isE

Chess Tournament, Read more- https://bit.ly/2SqeKeF

Indica 2019 – The Annual Republic Day India Juniors quiz, Read more- https://bit.ly/2HAiKVS

AITA Champion from Greenwood High- Anoushka Ashish, won the U-12 Singles Title at the All India Tennis Association Championship held in Coimbatore recently. Her outstanding performances made it to the leading newspapers and has made us all very proud.

Our Star Student Reaches the Finals of Breakthrough Junior Challenge, Read more- https://bit.ly/2Wnjnpc

Ranjini N S – VI G – selected for Karnataka Girl’s under-16 Cricket Zonals (KSCA ) / BCCI (Dec-2018), Read more- https://bit.ly/2QRKxk5

Greenwood High’s LKG Student’s Art Work Featured On Leading Daily, Read more- https://bit.ly/2W0VnIq

Anirudh Nagaraj, A 7th Grader, Clinched A Bronze Medal In The open Swimming Championship, Read more- https://bit.ly/2CpQb7F

Greenwood High 7th Graders Finished Second In Robo Cup Junior South Zonal Competition, Read more- https://bit.ly/2ARk5Sk

Greenwood High Fifth Grader Made Headlines For His Remarkable Creativity, Read more- https://bit.ly/2TTeLVF

Remarkable Achievement by 7th Grader from Greenwood High International, Read more- https://bit.ly/2shU7Tr

Greenwood High won A.R.A memorial inter school chess titles, Read more- https://bit.ly/2TCIkL2

Karate kid from Greenwood High made us proud, Read more- https://bit.ly/2D2Ezt3

OAKiq 2018 GRAND FINALE Results : Winning Team – Shaurya Bhasin & Aarush Verma (Greenwood High, Bangalore), Read more- https://bit.ly/2G0W6VW

All India National U15 Chess Championship, Read more- https://bit.ly/2rjB4Ye

Greenwood High students bring laurels at national-level competitions, Read more- https://bit.ly/2PHLWgt

Greenwood High students won Awards in IGCSE 2018, Read more- https://bit.ly/2Q5nouV

GWH Student Won Gold in Taekwondo, Read more- https://bit.ly/2R62I67

Greenwood High Student wins IGU YES Bank Northern India Junior Girls Golf Championship, Read more- https://bit.ly/2yWwT8m

Greenwood High Leads Karnataka Regional Team To A Win At The CISCE National Chess Championship 2018, Read more-https://bit.ly/2EghQMG

Greenwood High’s Tarun Paparaju reached the Master level on Kaggle. Read more:http://bit.ly/2njdkFi

Greenwood High student selected by the Virat Kohli Foundation for a 3 year scholarship. Read more: http://bit.ly/2o5l9P0

Shubh Jayesh Laddha of Grade 6 won Best Junior Prize at 2019 Pattaya Open Chess Tournament held recently in Thailand. He gained 69 points.

Darsh Kokrady of Grade 3 has won 2 silver medal, both at Floor & Vault, at inter-school gymnastics competition held at VIBGYOR school, Marathahalli on 23 rd Oct. Darsh has been practicing gymnastics for past 2 years.

Ujjwal Paul of Grade 8, participated in the recent ICSE National swimming competition, individually won 2 Silver and 1 Bronze medals. Additionally, he represented the Karnataka team in Freestyle relay and won a Gold medal as well.

Ishnidh Singh Virdi of Grade 5 participated in the IGU South Zone Golf Tournament in Hyderabad recently finished winner in this tournament.

Students from Greenwood High had the opportunity to be a part of HOBITUTE Art in Me -2019 competition. 40 schools and 400 contestants were a part of this. 4 of our students secured the first place and 8 of them were given the Special Jury award.

Special mention about our students’ creativity and innovative ideas made Greenwood High clinch The Best School Award. List of Winners:
1. Aditya Kesav Krishnan 2G (1st Prize, Cat 1)
2. Annora S 6D (1st Prize, Cat 3)
3. Krishiv Rajeev 7F (1st Prize, Cat 3)
4. Sharanya Singhal 8A (1st Prize, Cat 4)

Devansh Upadhyay of Grade 5 participated in the 7th National level Open karate Championship 2019 event conducted by J.A Shito-Ryu Sports Karate-Do Association held on December 1, 2019, at Bangalore and won 2 prizes – 2nd place in Team Kata and 3rd place in Individual Kata event in his age category.

Armaan Rathore of Grade 4 has won the Karnataka Junior Golf Tournament held at KGA and was runners up in the Canadian International Interschool golf tournament held in November.

Sreenidhi Balaji and her partner won the U-14 DOUBLES title in straight sets (7-5, 6-4) conducted by All India Tennis Association held at Practennis Academy, Mumbai in November.

Ananya Rajaraman of Grade 10 has been selected to receive the world’s first Global Child Prodigy award 2020. GCP is an organisation supported by the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam International Foundation, https://www.gcpawards.com/

Greenwood High Boys participated in the oldest and one of the most prestigious Interschool Badminton Tournament in Karnataka – 16 Ramesh Padukone- Mehul Sirur Memorial Inter-School Badminton Tournament held on recently at the Prakash Courts in Malleswaram, Bangalore. Thirty schools participated in this tournament. Greenwood High – Winner in Under 12 Boys Team Even Players – Dhir Ahlawat, Sattvik Venkatesh & Greenwood High – Runner up in Under 10 Boys Team Event Players – Karan Ahlawat, Tanay Das

Nikhil Raj Sakthivel of Grade 5 Won Silver in both U 10 & U 14 National Level Archery competition held recently.

Anya Seth Syed of Grade 8 has been in Kolkata playing the SGFI Chess finals at Heritage School organised by CICSE . There were 27 teams across India participating. The ICSE team of girls has secured a silver medal and Anya won the gold for her board. She scored 5.5 out of 6 points.

Hari Harish of Grade 8 has been awarded National 1^st in Innoventure 2019 Round 1. About 23 states with more than 220 elite schools participated in the round.

Shirin of Grade 7 participated in the 20th Karnataka State Short Course swimming meet at Mandya recently and won 1 silver and 3 bronze in her individual event in group 2.

Naisha of Grade 4 also participated in this meet and won 3 bronze in her individual event.

Mythili Iyer (8C), Naman Narla(8I) and Karthik Ghoshal (8D) were the Best Middle School team in Landmark Quiz 2019 held on December 22 for 5-12th graders. They got qualified for the final round along with 9th to 12th graders of Christ Academy, Sarvabhoomi College, and St. Joseph’s College. It was held at Sathya Sai Samskruta auditorium on 22nd December and was organized by Nexus Consulting. They were given a huge round of applause for being the only middle school team to make it to the finals.

Devansh Upadhyay of Grade 5 participated in the 7th National level Open karate Championship 2019 event conducted by J.A SHITO-RYU SPORTS KARATE-DO ASSOCIATION held in December 2019 at Bangalore and has won 2 prizes – SECOND place in Team Kata and THIRD place in Individual Kata event in his age category.

The school’s U-10 boys & U-12 girls soccer team has won the Bengaluru FC Inter-School Soccer Shield 2019-2020. Special awards were also secured in the category of top scorer boys by Sehajvir Singh & top scorer girls by Ahiri, best goalkeeper, Ria, best coach Sudhakar, best player of the tournament, Jiya, best goalkeeper, Resham Prasad.

A. Smith [7 G – ICSE] won the spotlight challenge for the whole 7th graders in Innoventure finals held at Pune from January 18-19, 2020.

Greenwood High International School has won the 6th Karnataka State Schools Team Chess Championship conducted by United Karnataka Chess Association for the 6th Year in a row. The school topped the score board with 102 points in 12 Categories and won the Overall Championship. A total of 170 teams (680 children) from 21 schools took part in the 2-day mega event held on Jan 21 and 22, 2020.

Keerthana Rajesh (VII-H), Myra Singh (VII-D) and Niveditha S Kumar (VII-G) participated in the World Scholar’s Cup Regional Rounds 2020 held at Greenwood High International School on Jan 25 and 26. The team won the 3rd position in the Overall Scholars Championship in the Junior category at the Regional level and has qualified for the global round. They secured 2nd position in Scholars Challenge,
5th position in Collaborative Writing and 6th position in Scholars bowl. All three of them won individual medals in all the events and fetched 30 medals in total. Niveditha S Kumar also secured the 4th position in the Champion scholars.

Sreenidhi Balaji of class (7-H) has won her maiden Runner’s Title in U18 category in the Championship tournament conducted by All India Tennis Association (AITA) in The Union Club, Madurai.

A travel article “Visit a Dusshera Doll Festival With Me” by Arnay Agarwal of Class 6 has been published in Hyderabad based weekly magazine, Young World by leading newspaper The Hindu.

Sreenidhi Balaji of class (7-H) has Won both the singles & doubles RUNNER-UP Title in a Championship Series (U16 category) conducted by All India Tennis Association(AITA) at Chennai Tennis Centre, Anna University, Chennai.

Ansha Turlapati is now one of the youngest kids in the world to become a Certified WhiteHat Jr Game Developer. She is now one of the youngest creators of logic-based games.

Nisarga.G.P (Grade 1) has won the Vidyasagar 10^th Annual Inter-School Under-7 Chess Tournament conducted by Vidyasagar PreSchool on Saturday, February 29, 2020, at their Campus. Nisarga won all the 5 rounds and scored 5 Points to become the Winner in Girls Section.

Rivka Bansal (Grade 1) Scored 4 points and secured 3^rd Place.

Anvi Joshi Scored 3 Points and secured 6^th Place.

Shreya Dalabehera and Saanvi Sharma scored 3 Points each and based on their tie break Score secured 7^th and 11^th Place.

Atharv Vaish (GRADE 1) Scored 4 Points and Secured 2^nd Place In the Boys Category.

Manomay Gupta and Samarth Nagaich have also scored 4 points each but based on their Tie Break Scores secured 4^th and 5^th place respectively.

Yuvan N (UKG) scored 3.5 points and secured 6^th place.

Ethansh Sadawatwale and Rihan Sharma Scored 3 points and secured 10^th and 13^th place respectively.

Greenwood High International School Won the 11th Vidyashilp Academy Inter-School Chess championship for the successive 3rd year. Greenwood won 22 prizes from total of 8 categories and won the Winners Trophy. 496 children from 43 schools took part in this mega event. The tournament was held on February 20, 2020, at the Vidyashilp Academy School Campus. Greenwood High students who won prizes in different categories are as follows:

Category D: (Grade 6th, 7th and 8th students)

Boys Category: 1st Place: Shubh Jayesh Laddha (6 points) and 3rd place: Yash Jayesh Ladha (5.5. points).

5th place: Vrishank Peddireddi (5.5 points) and 6th Place: Nishanth.S. Gowda (5.5. points)

Girls Category:

1. Anya Seth Syed (6.5 points)

2. Zoya Nizar (6.5. Points)

3. Shruthi Praveen (5.5. points)

4. Aashi Agarwal (5.5 Points)

8. Shraddha Somanath (4.5 Points)

Category C: (Grade 4 and 5 Students)

Boys Category:

2. Yash Abhijit Patil (6.5. points)

8. Vasanth.C (5 points)

Girls Category:

2. Nikita Nale (6 points)

3. Adya Sastry (6 points)

5. Tanirika Sajjan (5.5 Points)

Category B: ( Grade 2 and 3)

Boys Category

2. Sarthak Sharma (6 Points).

Girls Category

1. Kyra Seth Syed (6.5 Points)

5. Sashi Razdaan (5 points)

8.Shambhavi Banerjee (5 points)

Category A: ( Grade 1)

Boys Category:

7. Shubhankar Joshi (5 points)

Girls Category:

3. Poorvika Avinash (5 points)

6. Nisarga. G.P (4.5 points)

Vaishnavi Kumar and Ira Rasam of Grade 11 conducted a short interview with Dr. Guruprasad about techniques on how to manage stress during the lockdown, how to maintain health even at home, misconceptions about masks and much more.

Grade 10 students Sampreeth Immidisetty, Aryan Jain, Pranav Karthik, Prisha Jhala, Harshita Ranjan, Siddharth Sundararajan, Ainesh Mohan, Ajitesh Dasaratha, and Neha Gupta started a program two weeks ago known as ‘Quarantine Learning’ that offers free classes in subjects like art, python, guitar, card tricks, and Rubik’s cubing. Students can register for upcoming classes as well as view past classes at their website: https://quarantinelearning.weebly.com

Any donation proceeds they collect through this initiative will be given directly to the Prime Minister Relief Fund (PM Cares).

For more information, follow them on their social media:

Instagram handle: @quarantinelearning

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Lg105mVTw4E

Aarush Verma, student of Grade VII, recently participated in a competition “Protect from COVID 19 Tag Line” organised by WISE Foundation India. He bagged the 3rd prize.

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Students of Greenwood High school have been awarded the Game Coding and Developer Certification by White Hat Junior. The recipients are Jyotiraaditya Ghosh, Sophie Mondal and Reyaansh Jaiswal.

Hari Sai Harish (ICSE 8B – last year) has created an inspirational video about lock down fun, dedicated to GWH – to inspire the fellow classmates to enjoy and utilise the lock down period. Check out the video here.

Reynah Gupta, a class 6 student is doing a series where she is talking to 7 different families in 7 different countries on how they are surviving lock-down. Below are links to different videos of her series “Surviving Lockdown – 7 Countries, 7 Families”

Teaser Video of the series

Indian family in India

Jordanian family in Dubai

English family in UK

Nigerian family in Nigeria

Chinese Family in Singapore

The other two upcoming videos are from families in US and Australia. Her channel “REYNAHS” has been getting some attention and being appreciated for the effort she is making to reach out to people in different parts of the world.

Aarush Verma, a student of Grade VII, recently participated in a competition “Protect from COVID 19 Tag Line” organised by WISE Foundation India. He bagged the 3rd prize.

Sparsh Bhowmick (Grade 5) has created his own website where he plans to blog about latest happenings from the space world. Whether it is the recent news about Sunita Williams slated for another space journey or Bob and Doug launching into space with Space X, he has covered it all. He built the website completely on his own using the intuitive artificial intelligence based design. Here is a link to his website: https://www.letsexplorespace.com/

Yuven Kumar of ICSE Std 1 gets awarded, distinction and scholarship offer by AI coding company. He has been recognised by WhiteHat Jr, a Mumbai-based edtech company, currently teaching AI to over 4,00,000 students between the age group of 6 and 14. Yuven’s coded-project is awarded a distinction amongst 38,000 entries received by them, from more than 130,000 students globally.

Their algorithm selected top projects on 3 attributes:

1. Concept implementation,

2. Code blueprint, and

3. Project design

He is among the top 3 percent students in terms of concentration, logic and creativity.

ICSE & ISC results 2020

About 201 students appeared for ICSE and 82 appeared for ISC with 100% result in both. The top place was taken by Sunaina Anantha in ICSE with the aggregate of 99.40%. In ISC, Science student Akshay Balasubramaniam Sivaraman achieved 99.0%; Artham Mittal in Commerce achieved 95.0%; in Humanities, Vaishnavi Reddy (97.75%), Maitreyi Sreenivas (97.75%), and Gayatri S (97.75%).

Greenwood High students perform virtual concert to raise funds for food supply to disability school. Read here.

Greenwood High to host inter-school digital Sports & Cultural Fest

Greenwood High student Arnav Jabulee has been deemed eligible by the Karnataka Taekwondo Association (affiliated with the Taekwondo Federation of India) to participate in the National Poomsae Judge Seminar to be conducted in Bangalore from Friday, February 26 – Sunday, February 28. This will enable him to appear for a subsequent test – passing which in turn qualifies Arnav to serve as a referee in national level Taekwondo competitions.

Arnav recently qualified for his 3rd Dan Taekwondo Black Belt. He remains a national and state gold medal winner, and recently secured 4 gold medals in an online national level Poomsae competition. He will also compete in the next official state and national Taekwondo championships – both in the Poomsae and Kyorugi categories – once the Taekwondo Federation of India resumes live competitions.

Devansh (6-E) won fiurth place at National Sports Fest 2021

Devansh Upadhyay, 6-E, represented Greenwood High and participated in the Online National Sports Fest 2021 Kata (Karate) competition conducted by DPS, on Jan 30 and secured the 4th position in the Under-15 Boys category.

Palakshi Singh of class 4 has scored full marks and a first-rank 1 in IEO. She received gifts worth Rs 1000+ International Gold Medal+Certificate of Outstanding Performance.

Ranjini N S of standard XI, got the opportunity in the BCCI Karnataka State Cricket Women Under-19 zonal match & opened the innings. She scored her debut match 28 runs (stayed for 98 minutes & faced 78 balls). She was the second-highest scorer in the match.

Hackathon 2022: Nivaan and Neel represented Greenwood High International in the Stonehill Hackathon 2022 event in the Junior category (Class 6-8) under the theme “Responsible Consumption and Production”. This was an initiative completely driven by them and they designed “Auto-Pot”, an automatic watering system using aeroponics and a moisture sensor. They coded on Arduino board using CSS, and went a step further and created a working prototype with a plant (something that they didn’t need to do). They beat a field of approximately 30 teams in the junior category from different schools, and won the first place. This is the first hackathon competition Nivaan has ever participated in, and Neel and Nivaan worked as a team for the last 24 hours straight and a week before that on their project!!!

GREENWOOD HIGH WON STATE SCHOOL’S CHESS TITLE

Greenwood High International School won the Overall Chess Championship of the 7th Karnataka State Schools Team Chess Championship held at their School Premises. More than 880 Students from 26 Schools Took part in the mega Event. Greenwood International Top Team in each Category Scored 116 Points from Total 12 Categories and won the Overall Championship. Gear Innovative International School got the 1st Runner up Position with 65 Points and Sri Aurobindo memorial School got 2nd Runner Up position with 58 Points and Lawrence High School with 48 Points got 4th Position. Greenwood high won the Best School Winner’s Trophy at Under-7 Open, Under-9 Open, Under-13 Open, Under-15 open and Under-18 Open Categories. Runner Up Trophy in Under-11 Open Category. Greenwood high won the Best School Winner’s Trophy at Under-7 girls, Under-9 Girls, under-11 Girls, Under-13 Girls, Under-15 Girls and Under-18 Girls categories. Out of 12 age group Categories Greenwood high won 11 Categories.

INDIVIDUAL BOARD PRIZE MEDAL WINNERS OF GREENWOOD HIGH:

NO	NAME OF STUDENT	CATEGORY	BOARD	MEDAL WON
1	Melvina Rath	U7 GIRLS	1	GOLD
2	Thenkavi Srisundar	U7 GIRLS	1	SILVER
3	Sanchaya Pushty	U7 GIRLS	1	BRONZE
4	Riya Sharma	U7 GIRLS	2	GOLD
5	Aiza Zaufishan	U7 GIRLS	2	SILVER
6	Sanchaya Prusty	U7 GIRLS	2	BRONZE
7	Hanika P Prabhath	U7 GIRLS	3	GOLD
8	Naina Gulati	U7 GIRLS	3	SILVER
9	Dia Vishal Dhawani	U7 GIRLS	3	BRONZE
10	Riddhi Gupta	U7 GIRLS	4	GOLD
11	Shannya Kashyap	U7 GIRLS	4	SILVER
12	Manisha Mohanty	U7 GIRLS	4	BRONZE
13	Aarav Mohanty	U7 OPEN	1	GOLD
14	Mudit Chitlangta	U7 OPEN	2	GOLD
15	Ayansh Agarwal	U7 OPEN	2	SILVER
16	Atharv Gupta	U7 OPEN	3	GOLD
17	Aahir Mittal	U7 OPEN	3	SILVER
18	Atiksh Singh	U7 OPEN	3	BRONZE
19	Atharv Gaur	U7 OPEN	4	GOLD
20	Ishaan Viraj Athavale	U7 OPEN	4	SILVER
21	Kanishk Kundlia	U7 OPEN	4	BRONZE
22	Aanya Mahajan	U9 GIRLS	1	GOLD
23	Kiara bhojnagarwala	U9 GIRLS	1	SILVER
24	Miraya Agarwal	U9 GIRLS	1	BRONZE
25	Hanvitha koneru	U9 GIRLS	2	GOLD
26	Krishnavi Gupta	U9 GIRLS	2	BRONZE
27	Snighda M Reddy	U9 GIRLS	3	SILVER
28	Avika Dhandania	U9 GIRLS	3	BRONZE
29	Kavya Ranjan	U9 GIRLS	4	GOLD
30	Samyak Sharma	U9 OPEN	1	GOLD
31	Darsh Jain	U9 OPEN	2	GOLD
32	Reevan Sinha	U9 OPEN	2	BRONZE
33	Aahel Biswas	U9 OPEN	4	GOLD
34	Nisarga G P	U11 GIRLS	1	GOLD
35	Shambhavi Banerjee	U11 GIRLS	2	GOLD
36	Poorvika Avinash	U11 GIRLS	2	BRONZE
37	Gayathri	U11 GIRLS	3	SILVER
38	Arya Gayathri Kurse	U11 GIRLS	3	BRONZE
39	Shravya Vaid	U11 GIRLS	4	GOLD
40	Mridula	U11 GIRLS	4	SILVER
41	Gia Maria Alfin	U11 GIRLS	4	BRONZE
42	Nathan George	U11 OPEN	3	SILVER
43	Rihan Sharma	U11 OPEN	3	BRONZE
44	Atharv Vaish	U11 OPEN	4	BRONZE
45	Kyra Seth Syed	U13 GIRLS	1	SILVER
46	Adrika Satpati	U13 GIRLS	2	GOLD
47	Sanjeevani Kankani	U13 GIRLS	2	SILVER
48	Reet Gupta	U13 GIRLS	3	SILVER
49	Satvika Subbavarapu	U13 GIRLS	4	GOLD
50	Nehal Agarwal	U13 GIRLS	4	SILVER
51	Sarthak Sharma	U13 OPEN	1	GOLD
52	Guru Raghavendra S	U13 OPEN	2	SILVER
53	Atharva Praveen	U13 OPEN	2	BRONZE
54	Nived Binod	U13 OPEN	3	GOLD
55	Akshat Upadhyay	U13 OPEN	3	BRONZE
56	Shruti Praveen	U15 GIRLS	1	GOLD
57	Shraddha Somanath	U15 GIRLS	2	GOLD
58	Suhani Choudhary	U15 GIRLS	3	GOLD
59	Ahana Jain	U15 GIRLS	3	BRONZE
60	Nikita nale	U15 GIRLS	4	GOLD
61	Nishanth s Gowda	U15 OPEN	1	GOLD
62	Krish Nair Sahu	U15 OPEN	2	BRONZE
63	Dhrithi Murgod	U18 GIRLS	1	GOLD
64	Shreya Seshadri	U18 GIRLS	2	GOLD
65	Ishita Ladha	U18 GIRLS	3	GOLD
66	Akshaya Reddy	U18 GIRLS	4	SILVER
67	Shubh j Laddha	U18 OPEN	1	GOLD
68	Arjun Khandelwal	U18 OPEN	1	SILVER
69	Yash J Laddha	U18 OPEN	2	GOLD
70	Ayaan Gupta	U18 OPEN	2	BRONZE
71	Raghav Jaggi	U18 OPEN	3	GOLD
72	Aneesh Mamidi	U18 OPEN	3	SILVER
73	Kushal Baranwal	U18 OPEN	3	BRONZE
74	Shraddha Somanath	U18 OPEN	4	SILVER

GOLD: 32 SILVER:21 BRONZE: 21 TOTAL=74

Avani Prashanth of grade 10 (ICSE) has created history in India by being the individual champion at the Queen Sirikit Cup Manila, Philippines in February 2023, which helped Team India finish T2.

This is the best finish by an individual and Team from India in the 43^rd History of the Queen Sirikit tournament. Ms. Avani won by a margin of 10 shots.

Ms. Avani is presently studying in grade 10 (ICSE) and will be appearing for the board examinations amidst the many crowns that she has donned in this sport.