CBSE Schools in Kolkata

In September, 2016 CBSE had instructed the schools under it not to give any homework to Class I and II students in order to reduce the pressure from students,. Also they were asked to ensure that students should not bring school bags.  CBSE will soon be making mandatory for all its affiliated schools to keep those books that students don't need to take home. According to reports, this move comes in a hope to lighten backpacks that have become a health concern for being too heavy. As the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) making drastic changes in the curriculum of the school, the board has started to install lockers for students to keep their books. For this, the board will soon be making mandatory for all its affiliated schools to keep those books that students don't need to take home. According to the issued circular, young children whose spine is at a crucial stage of growth are the most susceptible ones to hazards such as back pain, muscle pain,...

Authorities at BDMI, one of the top CBSE schools in Kolkata , believes that awareness about the importance of playgrounds in the lives of children should be there among both parents & schools. In fact, playgrounds play a very crucial role in the social, emotional, cognitive, as well as, physical well-being of children for their development process right from the stage of early childhood. It is literally a natural tool for children to develop resiliency. By this process they learn to cooperate, overcome challenges, as well as, negotiate with others around them. Play helps children to be creative in nature. It even provides a solid platform to build a healthy parent-child relationship. One does not need to survey things in order to find out that the amount of time children spend outdoors in playgrounds has rapidly decreased in the last few years. As the obesity rate for children is consistently on the rise, it is important to encourage children to do regular exercise on a r...

Authorities at BDMI, one of the top CBSE schools in Kolkata believes that personalization of our education system is an extremely important step to provide quality education to the students in India. Assembly line education is designed to produce assembly line workers. There was a time when this was actually useful. As of today the drift of economic world is moving away from assembly line production. The biggest problem with the Indian education system is that it is built on the presumption that if something is good for one kid, it is good for all kids i.e. one size fits all. Some kids learn faster, while others are comparatively slow. Some students tend to be visual learners, while others are auditory learners. Some others learn much faster from experience. As one massive monolithic education system has to provide education to everyone, it is natural to assume that one size fits all. If however, we can innovatively decentralize the education system, and if the government does...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has started developing an online system, which will ensure that students are allocated examination centres which are located within eight kilometres of their schools. The board will provide all information with respect to exam centres for board exams, National Eligibility Test (NET), NEET, JEE main online. For this purpose it had asked for mandatory disclosures from schools throughout the country about the current infrastructure. This is done for the purpose of bringing transparency in the system. As of now there is no system for online mapping of such information. The CBSE has decided to allocate the exam centres within an 8km radius of schools. This way the students don’t have to travel long distances for examination purposes. The closest centre will be allocated for other competitive exams. This will help CBSE to allocating centres automatically based on the information of school infrastucture. The system will prompt the of...