The Assam Valley School

The school covers the lower, middle and senior years. The lower school comprises Classes 5 to 8 and follows the curriculum guidelines prepared by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations. Classes 9 and 10 follow the ICSE course, and Classes 11 and 12 follow the ISC course. Admissions are published for the classes leading up to Class 9 and again for entry to Class 11, so new students join either in the junior and middle years or at the start of the final two years. Board results for both the ICSE and the ISC are published by the school each session.

The school's vision is to give every student knowledge, values and skills that encourage excellence and innovation and prepare them to act as responsible global citizens. Its mission covers high-quality teaching through innovative methods, critical thinking and creativity, respect, integrity, empathy and discipline, well-being, and partnership with parents and the wider community. Alongside these, the school names integrity, resilience, pursuit of excellence and respect as its core values, and presents education as the development of character rather than grades.

The 235-acre campus is laid out among tea gardens and the school says its facilities are among the best equipped of any residential school in the country. Academic buildings include biology, biotechnology, chemistry, physics and computer laboratories, a library, and the Craft, Design and Technology Centre, which with the Art School forms the visual arts department. Boarding life is organised through separate boys' and girls' houses, supported by the Central Dining Hall, an infirmary and a laundry. Sporting infrastructure includes a sports complex, an indoor sports hall, a court games area, a sports pavilion, a swimming pool, a cross country course, an archery range and a riding school.

Pastoral care is organised through the house system, with separate boys' and girls' houses, a prefect council and a school counsellor. Health cover is provided by an infirmary on campus. The ART SEN Centre supports students with additional learning needs, and the school publishes career reports, placement information and a careers newsletter for families. Catering services run the Central Dining Hall and a campus cafetery known as By the Way. The school also operates its own transport and a laundry, and keeps a guest house on campus for visiting parents.

The Assam Valley School is a fully residential school and boarding is the basis of daily life on the 235-acre campus. Students live in separate boys' and girls' houses under a pastoral team that includes house staff, a prefect council and a school counsellor, with an infirmary, catering services and a laundry on site. Meals are taken in the Central Dining Hall and families visiting their children can stay in the campus guest house. The school presents boarding as part of its 'school for adventure' approach, with the co-curricular, sporting and cultural programme running outside class hours through the week.

More than thirty co-curricular activities are on offer, among them chess, debating, theatre, dance, music, photography, quizzing, Model United Nations, astronomy, a STEM and robotics workshop, the school newspaper and electronic media, and the Social Service League. The school is part of Round Square and runs the International Award for Young People, along with exchanges, educational tours and outward bound trips. On the sports side more than fourteen disciplines are played, among them cricket, football, tennis, badminton, squash, swimming, volleyball, table tennis, boxing, athletics, gymnastics, archery, taekwondo, golf and horse riding, each with its own coach.