OLE - PY5 Students Embark on an Unforgettable Adventure to Kabini
The PY5 students of Shiv Nadar School, Chennai recently embarked on their first Outdoor Learning Experience (OLE) to Kabini, and it was nothing short of spectacular. The two-night camp was packed with adventure, exploration, and unforgettable memories, marking a milestone in their learning journey.
The trip kicked off with an exciting train ride, setting the tone for the adventure ahead. Upon arrival, students were treated to a thrilling safari through Kabini’s lush wilderness, where they spotted deers, the majestic Indian Gaur, and even a tiger—a rare and breathtaking sight.
Evenings were spent around a cozy campfire, where students shared stories, laughter, and songs, creating bonds that will last a lifetime. The bus rides were filled with chatter and excitement, while the scenic surroundings provided the perfect backdrop for nature appreciation and exploration.
Kabini, known for its rich wildlife and diverse ecosystems, was the ideal setting for this adventure. The experience was designed to immerse students in the natural world, fostering a deeper connection with their environment and encouraging them to appreciate the beauty and diversity of their surroundings.
The PY5 OLE trip to Kabini was more than just an excursion—it was an opportunity for students to learn, bond, and grow, making memories that will stay with them for years to come.
Sports Day (EY1 to PY2): A Celebration of Energy, Team Spirit, and Fun!
The much-awaited Sports Day for our EY1 to PY2 students was nothing short of spectacular! The field buzzed with laughter, excitement, and boundless energy as our young athletes took on a variety of fun-filled challenges, displaying determination, teamwork, and a true love for movement. From relay races and sprints to engaging obstacle courses, each event was designed to encourage participation, build confidence, and most importantly—create joyful memories.
One of the most heartwarming moments of the day was the march around the field, where our little champions proudly walked alongside their School Pupil Leaders, waving to their cheering families and showcasing their team spirit. The energy was contagious as students cheered for their peers, celebrating every effort and every little victory.
But it wasn’t just the students who took center stage—the event became even more special with the participation of enthusiastic parents! The Parent Races, including the much-loved Marble Race, added an extra layer of fun and camaraderie, as families joined in the excitement, making for unforgettable moments of laughter, encouragement, and friendly competition.
Beyond the races and games, the day was a reminder of the importance of staying active, embracing teamwork, and enjoying the spirit of healthy competition. It was incredible to see our young athletes give it their all, proving that sports is not just about winning—it’s about participation, perseverance, and enjoying the journey.
Kudos to our incredible students for their enthusiasm, our dedicated teachers for their guidance, and our wonderful parents for their unwavering support. Together, we made this Sports Day a true celebration of movement, teamwork, and shared happiness!
STEAMphony 2025 – A Celebration of Innovation & Leadership!
We are thrilled to share the incredible success of STEAMphony 2025, a first of its kind interschool STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) competition! With 19 schools and over 200 talented students, the event was a vibrant showcase of creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving.
A Dynamic Showcase of Talent
The competition featured six exciting events across multiple domains:
Da Canvas of Codes – Digital Art
Science Showdown – Quiz
Synchrony – Dance
Acoustic Algorithms – Music
Style Synthesis – Product Design
Clash of Minds – Debate
We were honored to have renowned experts from various fields, along with some of our own incredible parents, serving as judges. Their expertise added immense value to the experience, inspiring participants with their insights and feedback.
A huge congratulations to DAV Boys – Gopalapuram, who emerged as the Overall Champions of STEAMphony 2025!
Leadership Beyond Competition
To enrich the learning experience for our Middle Years students, we took a unique approach—having them lead the event as hosts instead of participants. This decision gave them a platform to develop essential life skills beyond competition.
Through this experience, our students:
✅ Built leadership and teamwork skills through event management.
✅ Enhanced communication and interpersonal abilities by interacting with students from different schools.
✅ Developed responsibility and organization by handling logistics.
✅ Gained valuable exposure to high-level competitions.
✅ Embraced the spirit of collaboration and inclusivity as gracious hosts.
From ensuring smooth transitions between venues to reading out rules, managing time, assisting with meals, and creating a welcoming environment, our students truly rose to the occasion!
Looking Ahead
With such an inspiring debut, we are excited to make STEAMphony an annual tradition—continuing to empower students as leaders while fostering a love for STEAM learning in the larger community.
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed to making STEAMphony 2025 a resounding success!
Harmony Unplugged: A Musical Evening with Parents
Music has the power to bring people together, and Harmony Unplugged was a perfect testament to that! This special event saw our talented parents and teachers take the stage, creating an evening filled with melodious performances, heartfelt connections, and shared passion for music. The atmosphere was electric, yet intimate, as performers poured their hearts into every note, making it a night to cherish.
This year’s Harmony Unplugged theme, Melodies and Memories, beautifully captured the essence of the evening. Music is not just about sound—it is a journey through time, evoking nostalgia, emotions, and treasured moments. Each performance carried a piece of the past, weaving together stories that resonated deeply with the audience.
From Tamil classics like Kanmani Anbodu to the soulful Telugu devotional song Brahmam Okate, composed by the saint Annamacharya, and a mix of various genres, the event was a celebration of diverse musical traditions. Every song carried an emotion, a story, and a memory—bringing the audience together through a shared love for music. Some performances had the audience swaying, while others left them misty-eyed.
As voices filled the room, there was an unspoken understanding that music is more than just sound; it is a bridge between generations, experiences, and emotions.
To bring the evening to a close, the school music team delivered a heartfelt cover of Alvida, a poignant and fitting finale that left the audience in awe, carrying the emotions of the evening long after the music stopped. As the final notes faded, the evening didn’t end there. Conversations flowed over delicious food, as parents and educators lingered, sharing reflections, laughter, and the joy of having been part of something special. It was the perfect way to wrap up a night filled with music, memories, and connection.
The event was not just about performances but about celebrating our vibrant school community, where parents, educators, and staff came together to create something truly memorable. The joy of performing, the warmth of encouragement, and the spirit of togetherness made it a night that will be fondly remembered.
With its soul-stirring melodies, heartfelt stories, and an atmosphere of pure joy, Harmony Unplugged was a beautiful reminder that music has the power to unite, heal, and inspire. It was truly an evening to remember—one that will resonate in our hearts for a long time!
The SNS Chennai Campus
The school reflects the values a society imagines for its future. It is a space to set children up with the tools to question pre-conceived norms and construct new, un-imagined realities. Design can make a critical difference in achieving this. The Shiv Nadar School, Chennai, is envisioned to be the epitome of environmental sustainability.
The design stems from the dense vegetation on the beautiful site, ensuring that no single tree is cut. A biophilic design allows a seamless connection indoors and outdoors for the students to be with nature. A banana leaf-like parasol roof unifies and shades the different blocks of the school that doubles up as a skylight and solar power generation.
Designed and engineered for climate responsiveness, the school structure is an appropriate combination of passive measures, optimized active systems, solar energy generation, and various innovative building strategies. The objective is to improve well-being while reducing the carbon footprint of the building.The design promotes hybrid tempered ventilation, a combination of air-conditioning and natural ventilation while ensuring natural light during the daytime. The building material palette highlights the raw and natural characteristics with refurbished wood panels, steel, and AAC blocks, with radiant barrier insulation to keep the indoors cool.
The overall landscape is integrated with the built form by using existing trees and plants to reduce irrigation requirements. It activates the existing waterbody with effective rainwater harvesting and wastewater treatment strategies. A blend of simple yet effective passive and mechanical strategies, optimized and engineered using building physics simulations, contributing toward a net-zero built environment.
Experience Education for Life at SNS Chennai
The Experience Centre at the Shiv Nadar School (SNS) Chennai has been conceptualized as an interactive and self-exploratory space for prospective parents to experience the school at their own pace. The experience centre will provide the parents with an exclusive insight into the SNS pedagogy, throwing light on the evolution of the Shiv Nadar School into one of the best learning experiences for young learners.
It allows parents and visitors to gain insights into their child’s journey on campus. Learn about our curriculum and scholastic and co-scholastic programs. Parents will also be able to embark on an assisted tour with our experienced Parent Partnership Officer inside our very own Shiv Nadar School Metaverse.
Shiv Nadar Foundation Launches Shiv Nadar School in Chennai
Shiv Nadar Foundation has announced the launch of Shiv Nadar School in Chennai, which is envisioned as an international school with traditional values. Reaffirming the Foundation’s deeply rooted commitment to education, the school is affiliated with the International Baccalaureate (IB) Board. It would offer world-class education for the holistic development of young learners. Around 150 students will be enrolled in the first year of operations, and the intake will progressively increase every year.
The academic session for Nursery to Grade 4 will begin from June 2023 onwards.
Campus Infrastructure and Facilities: The school is spread across a 14-acre campus at the lush-green Damodar Gardens, near the Adyar river and the famous Elliot's Beach. The site is well-known in Chennai for its greenery and tree cover, and the school is taking all possible measures to ensure that the ecological balance is not disturbed and will be enhanced with more trees and plants. It is designed by award-winning architects from Vastu Shilpa Consultants, a firm founded by Padma Bhushan awardee Mr. B.V. Doshi, known for creating ecologically sustainable architecture. The campus would enable learners the spirit of inquiry, a love for nature, and an environment for community building.
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https://news.careers360.com/shiv-nadar-foundation-announces-launch-of-shiv-nadar-school-in-chennai
https://expressnews.asia/shiv-nadar-foundation-announces-the-launch-of-shiv-nadar-school-in-chennai/
https://education21.in/shiv-nadar-foundation-announces-the-launch-of-shiv-nadar-school-in-chennai/
Bhoomi Pujan Ceremony at the Shiv Nadar School, Chennai
The last decade at Shiv Nadar School has been focused on advancing, challenging, defining, and redefining benchmarks in education with our three campuses across Delhi NCR. Extending our legacy of raising “Lifelong Learners,” we are now at the helm of launching our fourth school in Chennai.
Our newest chapter in Chennai began on an auspicious note with the Bhoomi Pujan ceremony on 27th July 2022.
The solemn occasion was graced by members of the Shiv Nadar School community, Mr. Shikhar Malhotra and Ms. Roshni Nadar Malhotra. Teams from SNU Chennai, SSN College of Engineering, and the Foundation came together to welcome the newest addition to the Chennai family.
The school campus in Chennai is nestled in the lush greenery of Adyar. Designed by Padma Bhushan awardee Dr. B. V. Doshi, the campus focuses on leveraging the richness of the existing green environment of Adyar to enrich learning outcomes. In keeping with his philosophy, the school will be a blend of aesthetic sensibilities with a critical focus on sustainability.
We look forward to creating an enriching environment to foster young minds and guide them into becoming lifelong learners and ethically and morally responsible citizens.
Experience Shiv Nadar School’s “Education for Life” Philosophy at Chennai!
The intrinsic value schooling adds to a young learner’s life goes beyond classroom interactions. As our Director of Education, Dr. Shashi Banerjee, surmises, “Our approach (must be) rooted in doing the smallest things with true intent”. Every child’s learning journey follows a unique fingerprint; therefore, a pedagogical approach that nurtures their capabilities and skills is best suited to realize their true potential.
At Shiv Nadar School, we pride ourselves in creating unparalleled learning experiences for young minds. We encourage individual expression, challenging the status quo, and imparting value-based lessons rooted not only in winning but also in learning from our failures. As World Champion in Public Speaking, Mr. Dananjaya Hettiarachchi stated, “Shiv Nadar School permits students to fail safely”.
Two weeks ago, our one-of-a-kind Experience Centre in Chennai welcomed its first set of parents and students. Parents were guided through the school’s decade-long journey in education, which has resulted in our time-tested process to create lifelong learners.
Interacting with various members of the SNS Community, including the students, educators, and senior leadership, parents further learned about our holistic curriculum and other avenues through which Shiv Nadar School encourages knowledge co-creation alongside our young learners to nurture them into responsible changemakers of tomorrow.
In her welcome address Mrs. Padmini Sambasivam, Principal of Shiv Nadar School Chennai, assured parents that her team would leave no stone unturned; until every child entrusted in (their) care grew into a confident, responsible, committed, empathetic, and contributing citizen of the globe.
The key highlight for parents and students was an assisted tour into the Shiv Nadar School Metaverse. The Metaverse tour allowed parents and students to experience and visualize the Chennai campus as planned in the near future.
Our Experience Centre is an interactive and self-exploratory space that allows parents to experience and familiarise themselves with the school and our ecosystem. It showcases the evolution of Shiv Nadar School’s approach to creating meaningful and individualized learning journeys for young minds.
Parents gained exclusive insights into the SNS pedagogy and practices. One of the parents mentioned, “I am not looking for the conventional streamlined education; hence I have opted for Shiv Nadar School. I am enjoying the outlook and the approach that this education will give. It is going to be a very transformative educational experience. I am looking forward towards a journey where my son will be nurtured into who he really is.” - Dr. Sandhya.
From engaging storytelling sessions to learning how to draw and sketch, the young ones were engrossed under the expansive shade of the Banyan trees on campus.
Parents who wish to know more about the school can plan a visit to the Experience Centre by contacting the Parent Partnership Office.
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Exploring New Horizons: First Day of School at Chennai Campus
We are delighted to announce that the first day of school was a resounding success! It was a day filled with excitement, new friendships, and a renewed enthusiasm for learning.
The morning began with a warm welcome from our educators and staff, who greeted students with beaming smiles and open arms. The atmosphere was buzzing with anticipation as students explored their classrooms adorned with vibrant name tags and supplies neatly organized. Our teachers wasted no time in engaging students in interactive icebreaker activities, fostering a sense of community and teamwork right from the start.
Throughout the day, students eagerly participated in various sessions, such as mindfulness with our Director of Education, Ms. Shashi Banerjee and our Principal Ms. Padmini Sambasivam, where they familiarized themselves with the school's facilities, routines, and expectations. Our educators spared no effort in ensuring that students felt comfortable and supported, answering questions, and providing guidance.
The delicious and nutritious breakfast and lunch, catered to diverse dietary needs and preferences. The students thoroughly enjoyed their meals, relishing the opportunity to connect with their peers and forge new friendships over shared conversations and laughter.
As we move ahead, we look forward to building upon the momentum of this successful first day. Our dedicated faculty and staff are committed to providing quality education, fostering creativity, critical thinking, and character development in each and every student. We are excited about the possibilities that lie ahead and the bright future that awaits our students. We encourage you to stay connected with us through our Parent Partnership Office.
We look forward to our parents’ and guardians’ unwavering support and cooperation in creating a positive and nurturing environment conducive to learning and growth. We are committed to maintaining this collaboration throughout the year, ensuring that the child’s educational journey remains fulfilling and rewarding. Let us embark on this remarkable journey together, driven by a shared passion for “Education for Life”!
