Sardar Patel Vidyalaya
| Sardar Patel Vidyalaya | |
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| Location | |
| Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India | |
| Information | |
| Motto |
विद्यैव धनमक्षयम Knowledge is the sole undiminishing wealth |
| Established |
April 1, 1957 set up and administered by Gujarat Education Society |
| President | Shri Ujjwal Rana |
| Principal | Ms Anuradha Joshi |
| Faculty | 60 |
| Grades | KG-12 |
| Number of students | approximately 2000 |
April 1, 1957
Sardar Patel Vidyalaya (SPV) is a school in New Delhi, India, located in the heart of the city at Lodi Estate. It has 1500 students from the nursery level to the 12th grade, with 200 teachers and supporting staff members.
The School was set up and is administered by Gujarat Education Society.
Shri Ujjwal Rana is the President of the Society.
The school is named after a leader of the Indian independence movement, and independent India's first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
It is perhaps the only private school in India that employs Hindi as a medium of instruction in the primary school. Though primarily subjects such as Math, science and social studies are taught in Hindi, students are taught 'technical terms' which are the English counterparts of whatever they learnt. This equips them to proficiently use the same in both languages.
Students are provided instruction in four languages. English is the medium of education from the 6th grade onwards. Hindi and Sanskrit are mandatory until the 8th grade. In the 9th grade, students are asked to choose between Hindi and Sanskrit.
The objective of this policy is to produce young citizens who are not only bilingual but also equi-lingual in Hindi—national link language—and English—international link language. The students have to choose a fourth language from Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu or Bengali. This helps the student acknowledge the richness of the Indian culture. It shares an equal status with music where songs in these languages are often taught.
The school has football, basketball, volleyball and cricket teams, and has produced many top class cricketers and athletes who have played for the nation or Ranji teams, including Ajay Jadeja, Rahul Sanghvi, Gagan Khoda, Deep Dasgupta, Vivek Razdan and National level-record holder, highjumper Tejaswin Shankar.
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