Ryan Global School, Andheri (Mumbai)

Accredited by the Geneva-based IBO and the UK-based CIE, Ryan Global School, Andheri (Mumbai) is set to evolve as a benchmark institution for all 128 Ryan International Group schools in India and abroad The Mumbai-based Ryan International Group of Institutions (RIGI) — India’s largest chain of proprietorial K-12 schools comprising 128 high quality English-medium schools with an aggregate enrolment of 250,000 students mentored by over 14,000 teachers countrywide — has gone upmarket. On June 18, its Ryan Global School, Andheri, Mumbai (RGS-A, estb. 2009), was accredited by the Geneva-based International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO) as an IB World School. Earlier, in January 2010, RGS-A was affiliated by the UK-based Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) and authorised to offer its IGSCE (International General School Certificate Examinations) curriculum. Currently, RGS-A provides a fully international school education to its students — the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) in classes I-V and the IGSCE curriculum in classes VI-XII. “The combination of the IB-PYP and IGSCE curriculums is the best academic programme for Indian conditions. PYP introduces primary students to IB’s inquiry-based learning process, which encourages self-learning whereas the CIE’s rigorous IGSCE curriculum is familiar to Indian teachers and students and easy to follow. But beyond academics, in the RIGI tradition, there is strong emphasis on co-curricular and extra-curricular learning to provide balanced education. RGS-A is committed to developing students as thinking and caring global citizens, who are at the same time securely rooted in their communities, share common values and have a genuinely compassionate attitude towards society,” says John Last, principal of Ryan Global School, Andheri (Mumbai). A maths, science and physiology alumnus of the University of Western Australia, Last brings an international experience of 23 years in schools in Oz and 12 years in Dubai, Singapore, Indonesia, Kuwait, Cambodia and Vietnam, in various capacities, including teacher, consultant and headmaster/principal into RGS-A, where he signed up as principal in June this year. Sited on a 1.2-acre plot in a five-storey building, with a built-up area of 47,346 sq. ft, Ryan Global School, Andheri (Mumbai) offers 36 fully-wired classrooms equipped with smart interactive boards and other ICT (information and communications technology) facilities. Its state-of-the-art campus offers a spacious library with 5,000 volumes, several journal subscriptions and online research facilities. Other facilities include dance and art studios, music rooms, a well-equipped computer lab, science laboratories, two multi-purpose halls, a children’s activity room, as well as a special education wing and language labs. The parent RIGI Group, established by Dr. Augustine Pinto and Mme Grace Pinto in 1976, has always prided itself for sparing no pains to provide thoroughly contemporary sports facilities for students of all constituent schools. Therefore RGS-A’s sports infrastructure comprises an imported turf football ground, all-weather synthetic surface tennis and basketball courts and fully-equipped outdoor play areas. To ensure students are properly tutored and mentored in games and co-curricular activities of their choice, RIGI has signed up with the Mahesh Bhupathi Tennis Academy, Baichung Bhutia Football School, Vishwanathan Anand Chess Academy, the Raell Padamsee Academy for…