Solitaire Global Schools

Solitaire Global Schools (SGS) is a private Cambridge school in Hyderabad founded in 2017, with two branches in Attapur and Katedan; the Attapur branch, the original one, occupies a 3.5-acre campus. The Cambridge pathway runs from Nursery to Grade 12. Cambridge Early Years (Nursery to PP2, from age 3) covers seven areas of learning, from personal and social development to literacy, numeracy and the arts, with a teacher and a support assistant in every pre-primary classroom. Cambridge Primary covers Grades 1 to 5 through a cross-curricular, topic-based approach, followed by Cambridge Lower Secondary, Cambridge IGCSE examinations at the end of Grade 10 and AS and A Levels at the end of Grades 11 and 12, with career counselling and mentoring in the senior years. The school's 'Future Student Leaders' approach focuses on thinking, choosing, creating, communicating, caring and leading. Applicants sit a placement test, and the school runs AFS student exchanges with other schools.

The Attapur campus has a library, an auditorium, science laboratories and ICT laboratories, a cafeteria and a dedicated outdoor play area for pre-primary and primary children, which teachers use as an extension of the classroom. Sports facilities are extensive for a city school: a large open playing field, a cricket ground, a football court, basketball and volleyball courts, a skating rink and a swimming pool, and karate is also taught. Transport is available, and students can also turn to personal counselling. The smaller Katedan branch, opened in 2018 on a 40,000 sq ft site, offers a similar list of facilities.

Sport is part of the school day from the start: younger children swim, dance and play team games, and older students use the campus field and courts for cricket, football, basketball, volleyball, skating, swimming and karate. Beyond sport, SGS runs a Gavel Club for public speaking along with language, debate and drama clubs, and every student takes part in the school's traditions and annual events. Language labs help students practise communication in a relaxed, self-paced setting, and the AFS intercultural programme has brought visiting student groups from other Indian schools to Hyderabad.