Bhaktivedant Model School (BMS)

Year of formation: 2011
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.bmspune.org/
Address: Bhaktivedanta Model School, Kondhwa-Katraj Bypass Road, Pune – 411048, Maharashtra, India
Mission:

The school, started by a group of enthusiastic volunteers to cater to the academic and spiritual needs of the children of its growing congregation uses unique styles of teaching in an eco-friendly environment. Teachers at the school are specially trained in the use of indigenous play-materials, special teaching methodologies such as learning-by-doing and several other innovative academic aspects that will emphasise character training and moral conduct in society at large.

The school recognises that children need to excel in academic learning in today’s competitive world. Spiritual learning is therefore combined with all-round excellence in different fields of academic learning to ensure that children live by the school’s motto: Character, Competence, Devotion.

Vision: “To nurture the next generations by sowing seeds of greatness in the soil of Vedic culture while remaining relevant to the world around.”

Mission: “We blend character with competence, spirituality with science, wisdom with technology.””

Activities:

Areas to focus apart from teaching:

Shastra Study and building character through practice of PanchaKosha.

Sports: We encourage Vedic harmless games and also have modern games.

Nature: All children know different types of plants, trees, birds, their sounds, flowers, their smell, pet and wild animals etc.

Health: By 10th, our aim is to make them very good in Yoga, Ayurveda. E.g. Surya namaskar and what to eat at what time and what should not be eaten after what and imbibe etiquettes for health. We teach them to make ‘Dinacharya’ and ‘Ritucharya’ – daily timetable and timetable as per the seasons.

Other Skills: leadership skills, human relationships, public speaking, interviewing skills