Within a short span of four years, this day-cum-boarding school affiliated with the most respected international exam boards has quickly made a favourable impression on the parents community of the IT city – Shraddha Goled Sited on a sprawling 60-acre campus shaded by eucalyptus groves in east Bangalore’s fast-growing industrial suburb of Hoskote, the new-age Sharanya Narayani International School (SNIS, estb.2015) had several good reasons to celebrate its fourth anniversary on July 1. The school’s first batch of class X students to write the IGCSE (class X) exam of the Cambridge Assessment International Education, UK, recorded excellent grades with 60 percent awarded A and A*. Moreover, within a short span of four years, this K-12 day-cum-boarding school affiliated with Cambridge International, UK and International Baccalaureate (IB), Geneva — the world’s most respected international school-leaving exam boards — has quickly made a favourable impression on the hi-tech garden city’s upwardly mobile parents community — mainly engaged in new digital technologies — for providing rigorous academics, international pedagogies, excellent pastoral care, sports and co-curricular education to 260 students including 120 girls and 80 boarders. SNIS is ranked among India’s Top 15 international day-cum-boarding schools and #6 in Karnataka and Bangalore in the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings 2019-20. SNIS is promoted by the Narayani Group of Educational Institutions Charitable Trust registered in 2012 by B.A. Gopala Reddy, a real estate entrepreneur and family, to commemorate the memory of their matriarch, the late Narayani Abbaiah Reddy. “My parents were not formally educated but understood the value and significance of education and they struggled and succeeded in educating all their five children. All SNIS trustees, myself included, are first-generation learners and owe our success to their hard work and determination. SNIS is a tribute to their unshakeable belief in the transformative power of education,” says Nagaraj Reddy, trustee and managing director of SNIS. An alumnus of South Dakota State University, USA, Nagaraj served as an IT consultant in blue-chip multinational companies in the US (Johnson & Johnson and Oracle) before returning to India in 2008 with wife Lakshmi to promote “a progressive new-genre international K-12 school with a difference”. According to Lakshmi Reddy, trustee and director of academic programmes, SNIS has been designed as a “world-class school to provide balanced and rounded education to enable students to think, inquire, act and reflect”. “We have taken great pains to build a contemporary ICT-enabled campus, invested liberally in teacher training, curriculum development and providing a wide range of sports and co-curricular activities. Most importantly, SNIS is a ‘thinking school’ where teachers encourage and nurture individual thinking and creativity. We are one of few schools in the country to host a full-fledged HOTS (higher-order thinking skills) lab for training primary and middle school students to develop their cognitive skills,” says Lakshmi Reddy, a highly qualified business management postgraduate of the University of Houston (USA) with work experience in reputed multinationals (Oracle and Stewart Title) in the US. To nurture and develop self-driven thinking students, SNIS provides a carefully…
