Enrichment Programmes

Circle Time
This is a time during which children gather together in a circle and share their thoughts and ideas on topics that are meaningful and significant to them. Having the freedom to express their feelings in a safe environment, in the presence of their friends and teachers, helps improve their self-esteem and communication skills, and encourages deep and genuine bonding.

ARE (Ask, Review and Explore)! Time
Scheduled appropriately towards the end of the day, ARE is a time for students to pause, reflect upon and discuss their concerns and experiences of the day. During this time, children either ask questions and clarify their doubts, review and reinforce the day's learning or explore and go beyond to grapple with topics of greater complexity and challenge. The flexibilty to make their own choices in this way, encourages children to take ownership of their learning and become independent, lifelong learners.

Saath-Saath
This is a service-based learning together programme that inculcates in our students the joy and deep sense of fulfilment that comes from serving the community. It includes both the Green School Initiative that teaches children to respect and protect their environment, and the Social Outreach Programme that allows them to involve themselves in the work of an NGO, learning to understand, contribute and prepare reports on the experience. We believe that the inspiration and enthusiasm experienced by children in both strands, is motivation enough for them to start thinking about good citizenship and become real world practitioners of their learning.

Integrated Project
Every year, our school team selects a theme for the year and children across classes and age-groups research and explore the same theme through the lens of different disciplines and approaches. We believe that examing a topic both laterally and in-depth not only fosters a comprehensive understanding but also encourages creativity and a questioning of traditional boundaries, while it promotes the recognition of new and hitherto unseen connections. Over the past few years, some of the braod themes investigated by our students include Water, Patterns and Stories.

Atithi Programme
This unique in-residence programme has guests from different disciplines quite literally spending a few days with us and sharing their talents, knowledge and skills with our children, teachers and parents. Every effort is made during the guest's visit to create a non-institutional, relaxed and comfortable environment where children can observe the expert at work from close quarters and be inspired by his or her brilliance, or satisfy their curiosity during canteen chats and develop a sense of the person behind the expert.

Nirmal Explorer
The NE programme charts out various study visits and trips to places of significance, historic sites, and other venues for learning. Our children visit museums, planetariums, art galleries, army camps, factories, etc, both during school hours and on longer overnight trips, as part of their exploratory learning. Seeing is believing and actually visiting places related to their study offers students the most authentic learning experience of all.

Exchange Programmes
Exchange programmes provide our children with a greater range of learning opportunities and experiences. At NBS we are exploring e-exchanges as a learning tool as well as the possibility of sending groups of students to our partner schools and hosting their students at our school.

Hobby Clubs
Hobby clubs are a recent initiative to inspire children to discover and enjoy new interests and passions. Organised as multi-age group communities they are an effective means of encouraging creativity and self enterprise and are simply fun! Our children have currently, formed a Design Club, a Cooking Club, and a Heritage Club called Dharohar.