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| TREAMIS World School | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Information | |
| Grades | Kindergarten - 12th grade |
| Directors | Mrs. Dakshayini Kanna [1] Mrs. Maya Kollegal |
| Website | treamis.org |
TREAMIS World School is a school located in Electronics City, south east of Bangalore, India, that opened on July 9, 2007[2][3] for kindergarten - 6th grade only, with grade 7 - 12 planned for 2008.[4]
History
[edit]TREAMIS World School is promoted by a group in the USA with the objective of providing uninterrupted education to the children of the relocating global employees as well as providing the experience of global learning environment for the local children.[citation needed]
The schools managing director Venkatesh Korvadi said[5]:
| “ | Nearly 75 percent of the funds are expected to come in from America and 25 percent from Indian promoters like Uttamchand Ratadia, chairman, Jagadish Kumar, former president of Bangalore Stock Exchange and Kamalkumar Lilha an entrepreneur. | ” |
A school opening was held on July 9, 2007 at Hulimangala, Jigani with an inauguration by T N Chaturvedi, governor of Karnataka. Guests included[2]:
- N R Narayana Murthy, Indian industrialist
- Padmabhushan N S Ramaswamy, founder-director of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
- Vani Ganapathy, classical dancer
The School
[edit]The school is built on 11 acres of land in green belt area of Electronics City.[6][7] The school will be accessible from the Hosur Road, one of the national highways in Bangalore. The classrooms will be separated by age group. The building will be split into academics and activities wings: classrooms, library and labs will be on one wing; arts, music studios, swimming pool and sports center are on the other wing. The swimming pool is half of the regulation Olympic size. The school has Amphitheater. It will have cricket, soccer and hockey fields and tennis courts.
Learning Environment
[edit]TREAMIS curriculum for lower school (up to 7th grade) will be drawn from both national and international patterns. It offers a choice of curriculum at the upper level (8th - 12th grade) of Indian (CBSE), Cambridge (IGCSE), International (IB), and the American.[8][3]
The school is associated with Morgan Park Academy, a private pre-kindergarten — 12th grade school in Chicago, Illinois, and Lake Forest Academy[1][6]. TREAMIS intends to offer a student exchange program for students to study in the US at no additional cost.[7][9]
It has collaborative arrangements with the US schools in teacher/student and curriculum & pedagogy development.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "An entrepreneur with a teachers soul!". She, Deccan Herald. July 7, 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-09.
- ^ a b "City Today". Deccan Herald. July 9, 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-09.
- ^ a b "'Global' education for local children". The Hindu. March 16, 2007. Retrieved 2007-06-26.
- ^ "Admissions". TREAMIS World School. Retrieved 2007-06-28.
- ^ "World school for expats' kids in Bangalore". Silicon India. March 21, 2007. Retrieved 2007-06-26.
- ^ a b "Bangalore gets another international school". Business Standard. July 6, 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-09.
- ^ a b "CBSE, IB and US, all-in-one school". The Economic Times. March 21, 2007. Retrieved 2007-06-26.
- ^ "Successful global integration". Deccan Herald. May 24, 2007. Retrieved 2007-06-26.
- ^ "Bangalore's new Indo-American School". Education World. No. 53. April 2007. Retrieved 2007-06-26.
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