Academics
Nurturing children's curiosity, enabling them to excel by acquiring knowledge and skills, and developing in them sound values are at the core of Reliance Foundation School's academic programmes.
The school's academic programmes emphasise children's intellectual growth, experiential learning, creative exploration, emotional development, acquisition of social skills, physical well-being and character building. With the aim to provide a meaningful educational experience to children, the school integrates the best practices into teaching and learning in the curriculum, thereby promoting a culture of pedagogical excellence.
Transformative pedagogies like Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) and Role, Audience, Format, and Topic (RAFT) have been adopted and implemented by the school to ensure creative and happy learning. STEAM activities such as Parachute Making, Construction of a Boat, etc., introduced in the Pre-primary and progressing to projects like Doers and Fliers, Chemsim, Solaris Orbitron (Mobile Application), Insignia (Indian Sign Language converter/generator), Analeptic Masks, Dewumen, etc., in the Senior School help the students experience guided inquiry and creative process. The pedagogy is based on approaches like scientific enquiry, realworld problems, projects, case studies, play and learn, storytelling etc. An inclusive and comprehensive Coding Learning Module has been integrated into our regular curriculum to give young minds the cutting edge of technology. The coding curriculum is divided into courses for each grade level, where students explore topics at their own pace.
The RAFT (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) writing strategy is a technique which encourages creative and organized writing. It helps in developing the writing skills of students in a fun and prolific way. A blend of inquiry- based learning, problem - solving approach and experiential learning aligns students' thoughts with real-world problems. These pedagogies are developed by analysing the habits , behaviour, competencies, skills, interests and hobbies of the students. The students have the freedom to think, explore and express their ideas and thoughts.
The school has embraced the Design Thinking Model, which is a structured framework for identifying challenges, gathering information, generating potential solutions, refining ideas, and testing solutions. The inclusion of mini projects, case studies, and enquiries in studies brings a lively element to the school curriculum. It brings a novel structure to academics, which changes the thought process and vision of all stakeholders. The educational focus now centres on nurturing competency-based education and fostering 21st century skills among students. This kind of learning is lifelong and it brings transformation in the teaching-learning process and takes us very close to the expected learning outcomes.
The school promotes a dynamic curriculum, that addresses the challenges of the everevolving world. The curriculum design promotes experiential learning, keeping in perspective how children learn from foundational level skills and knowledge to higher levels of application and competence. Vertical integration of the curriculum ensures a systematic formation of skills, concepts, knowledge and application from one grade level to the next. An interdisciplinary approach is built by the horizontal alignment of the curriculum, cutting across subjects.
The wide array of effective and varied assessment techniques for continuous evaluation and comprehensive assessment of broad-based learning and behavioural outcomes make the assessment and evaluation model of the school unique. The assessment techniques help teachers identify the learners' strengths and learning gaps. They help teachers design individualised academic support programmes to bridge the learning gaps, if any.