Shiv Nadar School – Head Office
Address: IInd floor, Plot No. A-5, Sector – 24, Near Adobe System Building Noida – 201301
Phone: 0120-4164550
Mobile: +91 9205909974
In 2012, the Shiv Nadar Foundation made its foray into urban school education with a singular purpose – to breach and surpass the existing benchmarks in education, and to bring the finest learning experiences to students.
ABOUT US
Shiv Nadar School is an initiative of the Shiv Nadar Foundation in urban K12 private education to deliver educational excellence and nurture ethical, respectful, happy and purposeful citizens of society.
The School is progressive in its approach, follows an experiential pedagogy and integrates technology into its educational practices giving considerable curricular emphasis on Sports and Arts.
In 2012, the Shiv Nadar Foundation made its foray into K12 urban private school education with a singular purpose – to breach and surpass the existing benchmarks in education, and bring the finest learning experiences to students.
Swimming against the tide of conventional rote/textbook practices, we began with a handful of students and teachers in two schools (Noida and Gurgaon), and a carefully designed intent to be a space where holistic development was the norm, where lifelong learning was the ultimate goal, and where, through progressive, personalized learning methods, the student was the centre of all endeavours.
Learning at our schools is never linear; instead, students are immersed in the multidimensional and the experiential. They play, they perform, they experiment, they interact. They are encouraged towards value-led pursuits so that they comprehend their role in the larger context of community and the world. We integrate an experiential pedagogy and extensive use of technology into our educational practices. We place considerable curricular emphasis on sports and the arts. Our faculty is challenged and empowered to engage students in processes that help them develop self-esteem, self-discipline, cooperation, and the self-motivation necessary to be successful human beings.
Our thinking struck a chord with parents, and we found we had created a tribe of believers. Moving from strength to strength, we are now 3 schools (the Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad began in 2015) a 5000+ student, 900+ staff and 10,000+ parent strong community.
Students at the Shiv Nadar School are well-rounded individuals, enjoying academics, sports and the arts, and with high levels of emotional intelligence. Strong communication skills, social warmth, grit, compassion and adaptability are their hallmarks. They are curious and reflective learners, on a journey of self-discovery, but aware of local and global environments. They are confident and comfortable in their own skins. And most of all, they have an attitude of excellence. Such children are the leaders and change-makers of the future. And we, at the Shiv Nadar School, are proud to be their springboard to life.
OUR MISSION
At Shiv Nadar School, we will provide students an environment that challenges them into discovering their talent and skills. We will inspire the joy of learning by fostering a culture of creativity. Our students will be ethical, respectful, happy and purposeful citizens of society.
FOUNDER
Shiv Nadar is the Founder of HCL Group and the Shiv Nadar Foundation. He is also the Chairman Emeritus & Strategic Advisor to the Board of HCLTech, a $11.8 billion global organization with over 211,000 professionals operating from 52 countries.
Nadar is credited with being one of the pioneers of the computing and IT industry in India. Under his guidance HCL has continued to ride the waves of the changing IT landscape for over 45 years and remain at the forefront of every technological revolution since 1976. While HCL started off as a hardware organization, manufacturing the country’s first indigenous computers and introducing them to the Indian consumer, it eventually evolved into a more comprehensive software services organization. HCL is in fact one of the few global IT companies founded in the 1970s that remains in existence to date.
Throughout his career, Nadar always acknowledged that successful institution building is dependent on forging result-oriented partnerships and creating new knowledge. He steered HCL to create several valuable joint ventures and alliances that aided the organization’s emergence as a global technology enterprise. His pioneering spirit and belief in engineering and research shaped the course of the organization and is the reason that today HCL Technologies boasts one of the largest IT Engineering and R&D divisions in the world.
Nadar started his career as part of the elite DCM management trainee system. It was at DCM that he met the people with whom he later started HCL in a Delhi Barsati “akin to a garage startup” with a compelling vision that the microprocessor would change the world.
Nadar credits his success to the education and scholarships that he received during his early years. He has always maintained that access to quality education is the most potent tool of transformation and therefore, in 1994, he established the philanthropic – Shiv Nadar Foundation. The Foundation draws heavily on Nadar’s experience of building a world-class organization like HCL. It endeavors to create institutions of transformational education that will continue to influence and nurture the country’s youth for decades to come. To this effect, the Shiv Nadar Foundation has established six institutions covering the entire spectrum of education, which aim to address the issue of quality in education, create lasting partnerships and have a strong research orientation.
As of March 2022, Nadar has invested US$1.1 billion through the Foundation, impacting over 36,000 students directly. However, the Foundation’s ultimate aim is to nurture the next generation of leaders in the ideologies of symbiotic growth so that each of them may in turn aspire to affect a small change, creating a large multiplier effect. The impact of the Shiv Nadar Foundation institutions is today reflected in the aspirations of meritorious students who started their journeys from humble, geographically, remote backgrounds but are today pursuing their dreams in India as well as other countries.
In recognition of his pioneering role in business and philanthropy in India and across the globe, Nadar has received several honors and accolades, notable being the Padma Bhushan from the President of India in 2008.
Nadar is married to Kiran, an Asian Games medalist and internationally renowned bridge player. She is also one of the largest Indian Art collectors in the world.
SHIV NADAR FOUNDATION
The Foundation was conceived and created to work towards the creation of a more equitable, merit-based society by empowering individuals through transformational education, creativity, and art.
The Foundation has been in the service of education since the inception of the SSN Colleges, Chennai in 1996. Since then it has grown its offerings to develop an unparalleled presence in Indian education which spans from higher education to K-12 schools, rural education to urban education, boarding schools to day schools and both online and offline education.
Shiv Nadar School and SNF share an intimate relationship. The Foundation works closely with the school and enables us access to expertise in education beyond what would have been possible for a group of schools alone. Through its School of Education in the Shiv Nadar University, the Foundation will increase its impact on the educational landscape of India. This college will serve as the hub for research on educational outcomes and education of teachers themselves. This will allow Shiv Nadar School a unique advantage when it comes to teacher recruitment and curriculum development.
Information and photos taken from the site: shivnadarschool.edu.in