Students Life

A bi-weekly programme, co-curricular activities at PBIS are an opportunity for students to discover their interests beyond the books.

• Photography for the nature lovers who want to cherish and freeze time in shots that speak
• Martial arts for the agile and strategic who want to hone their defence
• Skating for the swift who seek an adrenaline rush with speed 
• Yoga for the mindful and heartful, seeking inner peace in meditation
• Music for the instrumentalists who live in rhythm and rhyme
• Chess for the critical thinkers who can play the mind with calculation and tactics
• Crocheting and knitting for the ones who seek the intricate beauty of colour and wool

These unique skills keep our students entertained, engaged and rejuvenated when they need a break from academics.

When we mean school, we mean mind working in tandem with the body, and we are committed to providing a fulfilling experience which includes fitness too. The add-ons that we offer after school are coached professionally for the students seeking an adventure for a career.

PBIS offers professional tennis, football, badminton and basketball. PBIS students become event managers of any function or observance in the school. They take charge and involve from the planning to execution of any event big or small.

To ready students with global competencies, we need to expose them to global cultures and at PBIS, it is an initiative that we have been following right from the school’s inception. With our Global Cultural Exploration Programme (GCEP), our students have had the privilege of meeting teachers and students from around the world. We have invited students from Italy, Spain, Denmark, Australia and France to experience the rich culture of India for a period of three to six months in return for an enriching introduction to their diverse cultures through teaching.

Apart from that, every two years, our GCEP programme allows our students to pick a destination to visit and our students have had fun-filled experiences on their tours to Singapore, Malaysia, London, Switzerland and France. 

We have also engaged in various international collaborative work with schools in Kenya, Sri Lanka, Italy, Nepal, UAE and US through ISA – International Schools Award – and have continued to maintain our friendship with them. Our students initiate debates, discussions, and international culinary preparations with their international counterparts. They also engage with students abroad just to get a Global Outlook.

Albert Einstein says, ‘A mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.’ And we believe in lighting the curiosity of our students through our Curiosity Club.

A weekly critical thinking question is posted on our notice boards for students to answer and win certificates.  Our assemblies also have the Critical Thinking Corner where advanced and complicated puzzles that squeeze the brain for logical reasoning are presented for students to solve and present with explanations and reasoning. The best reasoning is awarded a certificate.

Club Presentation Days are always full of buzz and allow children to present to fellow students and parents. Students choose innovative ideas or even innovate their own ideas by combining different concepts taught. They conduct magic shows, treasure hunts, ground-sized board games, debates and panel discussions to kindle the critical thinker in them. And as an assessment of the whole day of fun, viva voce is conducted by a panel of teachers.

Our Class Activities and Home Activities are also designed to put every student’s brain at work. We design our activities and worksheets for children to complete using the ‘Think, Explore, Solve’ method that spark curiosity and critical thinking.

Student Council is the gateway to leadership and good governance. PBIS has a well-established Student Council that caters to the necessities of students through student representatives. 

Student representatives at PBIS are democratically elected in the Students Council Elections, a weeklong event of fun and learning. From registering for candidacy to swearing for office, the whole event is a prototype of the real. Tough campaigns, electoral symbols, voter ids, polling votes, electoral stains and exit polls, all feature our Student Council Elections.

The Student Council comprises the President and Vice-President, Head and Assistant Head of Discipline, Class and Assistant Class Monitors, Captains and Vice Captains of the Sports Houses, and the Head and Assistant Heads of every Subject Clubs. Each of these elected members govern their respective domains.

The democratically elected office bearers of the Student Council meet every month to discuss the issues, needs or suggestions of students from across the school. The class monitors represent their class and discuss with the President and Vice President of the Student council. 

Additionally, students are given the freedom to drop in their issues and needs in suggestion boxes that are mounted around the school. The Student Council discusses the issues raised and comes up with solutions. 

Alternately students can also seek the guidance of the Sports House Captains and Vice Captains, and the Subject Club Heads on sports and subject related issues.

Every opportunity possible is given for students to exercise their leadership qualities through the Leadership Club. It encourages students to practise their leadership styles in all walks from taking an initiative in planning activities, monitoring collaborative work in class, to taking charge of all events, in academics, sports, culturals and life skills programmes. Our students plan, procure, prepare, practise and perform.

PBIS nurtures nature lovers. We celebrate birthdays uniquely. To Instill caring for our Earth, instead of distributing sweets, our students plant saplings in our campus on their birthdays as a Green initiative towards Climate change. 

The students of PBIS show their commitment towards a better Earth by serving Earth in any way possible. We have built our own compost pit to tackle the kitchen waste and minimal food waste collected in school. The fertilisers produced are thus used for our kitchen and sensory gardens. This way PBIS students learn that Waste Reduction Strategies are a reminder for Responsible Consumption and Production, and the key to harmony. 

Our students take part in various awareness programmes that promote diligent use of water. Our students took part in the ‘Save Tambirabarani’ initiative that encouraged the society to look at our own fresh water source, the Tambirabarani River, as an elixir rather than a dump or refuse. They also contributed to the river cleaning project. 

We believe in gender equality. From the classroom to the sports field, equal opportunities are given to both girls and boys. Our mixed group teaching strategies allow all students to explore their individual strengths without bringing gender as a criterion. Our Student Council, Houses, Class monitors and Club heads have been chosen for their core competencies and we have always had a mix of competent girls and boys in the lead. 

Health and well-being is a priority at PBIS. We believe that nutrition, fitness and peace of mind should be achieved together as health and well-being. In addition to the regular PE classes, a 5 minute short and pacey evening skipping regimen completes every school day. Furthermore, our students and teachers alike grow vegetables and herbs in our own kitchen garden in an organic way to be used for our school meals. We complement the sound body by conducting heartfulness and mindfulness programmes, and moral instruction classes for a sound mind. 

Fund Raising for quality education of the underprivileged – Food Carnival funds and donations towards education in an underprivileged community.  

Quality education starts at home but for PBISians, our school is their second home. By quality education, we mean education for all, including the underprivileged. And the best way has been through our yearly Charity Food Carnival, a novel initiative that allows children to experience the joy of giving. Teachers and students prepare food, sell it to visitors in a grand carnival and donate the money to orphanages in and around the city to improve the quality of their education with better infrastructure and resources. 

Our Commerce Club conducts Charity sales where students create a product to be sold on Club Day Activities. The income thus earned is donated as books to underprivileged schools. 

Our students are taught that every good deed to the deprived is charity so they conduct classes for the helpers on how to use the ATM and ‘Science in the Kitchen’ for World Literacy Day.

Thanksgiving lunch for helpers, Celebrations with the underprivileged

We have conducted a Thanksgiving lunch for all the helpers in school by allowing children to prepare their favourite food in school, serve our helpers and rejoice in the happiness of providing a meal. 

Our students initiated ‘Make a Person Happy’ initiative for World Happiness Day with an aim to do a deed that brings happiness to anyone they feel needs help in their locality. 

PBIS Resonance is a Triennial newsletter issued once a term to keep the PBIS family informed and entertained with all the buzz at school. It is prepared by an editorial board comprising of students from Grade 9-12. Articles are given to students from UKG to Grade 12 to write and ample opportunity is given for students to display their literary talents. 

The quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “He who knows no foreign languages, knows nothing of his own,” is true to its words as it has allowed our PBISians to flourish in their mother tongue as well, an art they acquired as a result of English. Our students of Grade 6 to 8 publish class e-zines in Tamil on a monthly basis. 

Our students acquire a multitude of skills and Language Arts is no exception. Students, right from kindergarten write poems. Poetic Portrayal is an anthology of poems written by our students which was published to mark 5 years of PBIS. Subsequently, a sequel of the same, Poetic Portrayal – the Decuplet, is planned to mark 10 successful years of PBIS with ten different genres of poems as taught at PBIS in all three languages.