SVKM’s CNM School, Vile Parle, Mumbai, gets shortlisted for the Five World’s Best School Prizes in the Innovation category

SVKM’s CNM School has been receptive to the changing times and has evolved its curriculum and pedagogy regularly to make the maximum impact on students. Constructivism and Inquiry-Based learning have been the mainstay of the school since its origin. When the school observed a diminishing interest in STEM subjects amongst students, it decided to transform its curriculum, making it competency driven. This gave birth to a new subject called Global Outlook in 2019 for the students of Std I to VIII.

Kavita Sanghvi, the Principal of the school, who played a significant role in designing the subject, says, “We applied for our in-house STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) subject. It is a skill-driven subject where every student participates. Each unit runs for nearly two months, and all the learning is driven by the students who research, create hypotheses, experiment, conclude and present.” 

Under the Global Outlook, experiential learning is encouraged to build concepts and skills among students. An annual event titled ‘HI-STEAM’ (History with STEM) is organized to celebrate the history of every discovery, invention, or event, in which participation is mandatory for all the students. This event offers them an opportunity to present their STEM learning to the entire community and fraternize the Global Outlook curriculum. Kavita Sanghvi is proud that her efforts to promote STEM learning and skills have been appreciated globally.

Meanwhile, congratulating the schools that have made it to the Top 10 shortlist of the World’s Best School Prizes, Vikas Pota, the Founder of T4 Education, said, “I want to congratulate the schools for making the Top 10 shortlist for the inaugural World’s Best School Prizes. Educators all over the world will now be able to learn from the examples of these outstanding Indian schools.” Apart from SVKM’s CNM School, the other shortlisted schools are SDMC Primary School, Khoj School, PCMC English Medium School, Bopkhel, and Samaritan Mission School (High).

The World’s Best School Prizes winners will be announced in October this year to coincide with the World Education Week, and the award money of US $250000 will be shared equally amongst the winners. As for SVKM’s CNM School, the jubilation will be magnified with several programmes to celebrate the silver jubilee of the school.