The British School, New Delhi

To provide the finest British and international education with an Indian soul.

We try to live out our mission and test our success in doing so on a regular basis. So what does it mean and what does it feel like here, if you are a visitor to the school, a family considering enrolling your children here, or, indeed, a student here now? 

British - we follow the National Curriculum (of England) from the beginning of the Foundation Stage in the Nursery to the end of Year 9 (Key Stage 3). We use the University of Durham’s standardized assessments to monitor students’ progress, to support and challenge them, to recognize potential and any under-achievement (and intervene quickly, in the case of the latter). In addition to looking at every individual’s performance, we follow the GCSE/IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education Examinations) in Years 10 and 11 and benchmark ourselves against leading private and state schools in Britain. We have strong links with British universities, including an internship scheme with undergraduates from Oxford and Cambridge. Our staff frequently goes on training programs in England or we bring British trainers, speakers and facilitators into school, to work directly with staff and students. We have a strong and valued relationship with the British High Commission, with many British companies and with the British Business Group. All such links are made to benefit the students: we exist for them and constantly re-evaluate what we do in the light of their changing circumstances. We are proud of our record of success in helping students to transfer to leading schools in Britain, if and when they return to Britain.

International - We are an international community of 55-60 nationalities, proud of our cultural tolerance and our ability to respect diversity. The students are the main strength of the school, closely followed by the staff. We are accustomed to supporting our students to attend leading universities all over the world. We are international in our outlook, our demography and in our curriculum. Our aims and values reflect those of the IB very closely, though we are distinctively different. We link, in our affiliations, to schools internationally and have a staff that is international in outlook and in its continuous professional development and training. Our curriculum, from the Foundation Stage through to the INTERNATIONAL GENERAL CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION and IB Diploma, draws on international contexts. Our pedagogy lines up with the best of enquiry-based learning and critical thinking world-wide. 

Indian - when we receive a visitor to the school, we want that visitor to know that they are in India. This does not feel like a British school in Britain. It has a closely-connected and vibrant feel to it, one that is akin to the Indian extended family at its best. We support the development of Hindi for all who wish to study it, we promote Indian cultures throughout the school as well as the best traditions of participation and democracy. Our largely Indian staff as well as a core (about 30% by passport) of Indian students ensures that the values, culture and traditions of India are always at the fore.