Dhirubhai Ambani International School | |
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Location | |
BKC, Bandra East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400098 | |
Coordinates | 19°04′00″N72°52′14″E / 19.066725°N 72.870464°E |
Information | |
Type | Private |
Motto | "Dare to Dream, Learn to Excel" |
Patron saint(s) | Dhirubhai Ambani |
Established | 2003 |
Chairperson | Nita Ambani |
Faculty | 190 |
Grades | K-12 |
Enrollment | 1000 |
Website | www |
The Dhirubhai Ambani International School (DAIS) is a private co-educational LKG-15 dayschool in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, built by Reliance Industries, named after the late patriarch of the conglomerate, Dhirubhai Ambani. The school was established in 2003 and has been an IB World School since January 2003. It offers the International Baccalaureate Program in its Diploma form. Nita Ambani, wife of Mukesh Ambani is the chairperson of the school. [1]
The school prepares students for the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education, the IGCSE and the IB Diploma examinations.
The Primary School programme comprises Lower and Upper Kindergarten (LKG and UKG) years and classes I to V. In classes LKG to V, the school follows an integrated curriculum by drawing on teaching programmes of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations and international examination boards. The school is a member of the Cambridge International Primary Programme. [2]
The Middle School Programme i.e. classes 6 and 7. The Cambridge Lower Secondary Programme is followed by the school. [3]
The school offers the following in class VIII, where students prepare for the programme that they will study in classes IX and X: ICSE Programme and IGCSE Programme. [4]
Dhirubhai Ambani International School has been an IB World School since January 2003. It offers the IB Diploma Programme. [5] [6] [7]
The school building is seven storied with lawns, landscaped gardens and playgrounds. The school premises house 130,000 square feet (12,000 m2) of teaching space containing classrooms and laboratories. [8]
Every classroom has a public address system, display and writing boards, lockers for students, broadband Internet access and air conditioning. There is schoolwide Wi-Fi internet access for the students of grades 8-10 affiliated with the IGCSE board and its 11th and 12th graders. There are laboratories for Physics, Chemistry and Biology and teaching rooms for Art, Music, Social Science, Languages, Computer Studies, and Mathematics.
The school has a Learning Centre with access to periodicals and audio-visual resources, the internet and photocopying/printing facilities. The school has a terrace garden for its art students and a performing arts centre with sound proof walls and professional AV technology. [9] It shares a playground with the American School of Bombay with an astroturf, tennis and basketball courts for outdoor sports. The Dhirubhai Ambani International School Study and Activity Centre situated in Matheran, 100 km from Mumbai, opened in 2008. It is used for cross-curricular, recreational activities as well as for weekend training camps and Physical Education activities. [10]
The school has four houses: Panthers (blue), Tigers (green), Jaguars (red) and Lions (yellow). Each house has two house captains, one sports captain, one house coordinator, two vice house captains, one vice sports captain, and two cub captains. Recently, the post of a middle school coordinator has also been added.
The council Core positions are Head Boy, Head Girl, two Student Council Coordinators, two Sports Coordinators, one Round Square Student Committee Chair and two Vice Student Council Coordinators and one Vice Sports Coordinator. The council is non-democratic (members are selected by the teachers and outgoing captains). The council is usually changed in October each year.
The school hosts an annual Model United Nations (MUN) conference called The Dhirubhai Ambani International Model United Nations (DAIMUN) [11] in October. The conference is one of two conferences in India to be affiliated with The Hague International Model United Nations (THIMUN) Foundation. [12] [13]
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