Vasant Valley School
Motto	श्रेष्ठतमाय कर्मणे (Excellence in Deed)
Established	June, 1990
Founder's Day	November 18
Director	Arun Kapur
Location	New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is... , India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
Students	approximately 1300

Vasant Valley School is a co-educational private high school in Vasant Kunj

Vasant Kunj

Vasant Kunj is an upmarket residential colony located in South West Delhi district of Delhi, India, on the hills of Aravali, which today has well over 100,000 residents...

, Delhi

Delhi

Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. It accepted students in July 1990, up to grade 4. The school added a new grade each year as the classes graduated to the next level. It operates from Monday to Friday, with a 7:25am – 3:15pm schedule.

The first graduating class of Vasant Valley completed 12 grades under the CBSE syllabus in May 1999. The Director of the school is Mr. Arun Kapur, a former housemaster at The Doon School and an alumnus of St. Stephen's College, Delhi, the Headmistress of the Junior School is Mrs. Rekha Bakshi, and the Headmistress of the Senior School is Ms. Rekha Krishnan.

Overview

Begun by the India Today

India Today

India Today is an Indian weekly news magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1975 based in Mumbai. India Today is also the name of its sister-publication in Hindi...

 group, the school has earned it a reference in the July 2005 edition of Fortune

Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is a global business magazine published by Time Inc. Founded by Henry Luce in 1930, the publishing business, consisting of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner. In turn, AOL grew as it acquired Time Warner in 2000 when Time Warner was the world's largest...

magazine for the academic excellence of its students. The Director of the school is Mr. Mahesh Narayanam.

School building

The academic, non-academic, assembly areas, and the sports fields, are around the beige and red sandstone building.

On entry, the junior school building is to the right and the senior school building is to the left, at the entrance to each is a display of artwork by the children.

The school's central assembly area is an open-air stage and links the two main buildings together. This where the school meets on the first and last day of every term and on major occasions. The Founders' Day play is staged here. Most of the time the stage is a basketball court and this is where Physical Education exercises take place. Both the buildings have their own smaller open-air stage, where the weekly class activities take place.

Each building has its own class rooms, science, art, dance and music labs, library, staff room, and offices arranged in a hexagonal pattern around a central courtyard. The daily assembly is held separately for the senior and junior school in their quadrangles. The senior school quadrangle doubles up as the badminton court and the senior school stage.

The junior school has indoor and outdoor play areas for the little ones, while the senior school has its own indoor gym - and these are apart from the sports fields behind the school.

Sports facilities

The school has a field which can be used as two soccer fields, a cricket field and two hockey pitches. There is another small field for the Junior School. There is one tennis court, three basketball courts, two squash court and all forms of athletics are undertaken in the school. The school soccer team has won the Zonal Championship on numerous occasions and students have won medals at athletic meets. The school has hosted the national 2004 special olympics

Prefect system

Like most schools following the UK system, Vasant Valley School has a Prefect System. Prefects are chosen by the teachers in Class 5, which is the final year of Junior School, and Class 12, which is the final year of school as a whole. In the Junior School, the most basic prefects are chosen, i.e. Head Boy, Head Girl, Sports Captain, Vice-Sports Captain, and the Captains of the houses (Red, Blue, Yellow, Green).

In the Senior School there are more than 20 prefect posts. These include Head Boy, Head Girl, Sports Captain, Vice-Sports Captain, the four House Captains as well as four House Prefects (considered Vice-Captains). Additionally, there is the Editor of the school newsletter and the heads of the various councils (Arts Council, Students Council, Essentials Council, Academic Council etc.) who also hold powers of prefects.



Head Boy Shaun Adil Nargolwala

Head Girl Aananya Banaik

Games Captain Jaiveer Bakshi

Games Vice Captain Avie Kakkar

Editor Mallika Pal

Red House Captain Gautam Nagpal

Red House Prefect Megha Mehdiratta

Blue House Captain Anahita Bakshi

Blue House Prefect Diya Puri

Green House Captain Shoubik Ghoshal

Green House Prefect Aalika A Peres

Yellow House Captain Mona Nooreyezdan

Yellow House Prefect Varun Datta

Head of Academic Council Shiksha Kamra & Pihu Yadav

Head of Art Council Yun Hee Ji & Priyamvada Dalmia

Head of Essentials Council Ada M Grewal & Rytim Vohra

Head of Outreach and Environment Council Aditya Kaushik & Vedika Berry

Head of External Council Ishita Sethi & Kartik Bhasin

Head of Library Council Advika Gupta

Head of School Council Nidhi Jain & Amar Singh Dhingra

Head of Sports Council Brea Mohini Dutt

Special days and trophies

The school's Founder's Day is celebrated on the 18th of November. The students celebrate it by showcasing dances or performances for the parents, after which the Excellence Awards are given, which are proficiency awards for students who have excelled in student life.

The school holds an Inter-House Athletic Meet, where the four houses [i.e Blue, Red, Green, Yellow] compete in athletics including sprinting, long distance running, jumping, and throwing, for which they receive medals for merit. There is a Moksh Dang Memorial Award for Athlete of the Year for the student who achieves most points for their house.

The Akshay Chibber Memorial Award for All-Rounder of the Year is given to one or two students of class 12, who have displayed excellence in the field of academics as well as in sports. The Subject Awards are given to students from Classes III to XII who have excelled in an academic or co-curricular subject, such as Visual or Performing Arts and PE. The Grade Card Distinction Award is for those students who receive an 85% overall throughout the year.

Co-curriculars

The school encourages co-curricular activities such as debating, quizzing, Model United Nations, robotics (the VVS team won the Indian Robotics Olympiad in 2007 and 2008 and went to China to participate in the International Robotics Olympiad).

Four students have represented Delhi at the Red Rover Goes to Mars Competition organized by NASA.

The school has a history of good debaters, participating in some of India's most prestigious debates including the Chukerbutty Debate in The Doon School, Revd. Dr. Samuel Slater Memorial Invitational Inter-School Debate at The Bishop Cotton School, Shimla, The East India Debates at The Assam Valley School, as well as holding their own debating competition, The India Today Cup, which is sponsored by the India Today Group. Six students participated in the IIT Guwahati Technothlon, one team winning and the second team placing fourth in the national competition. After nine years, Vasant Valley School won the prestigious India Today Cup.
Newsletter=
The school's newsletter is 'Vasant Valley Today' and is published bimonthly. It includes stories written by students of the school as well as covering the events of the fortnight