Admission to Greenwood High

Ekagra would turn three in December this year and would start going to Nursery from next academic session (June 2011 onwards). We had two options - we would let him continue in Eurokids and then look for his Lower KG (LKG, KG-I, K-I) admission in the following year. Second option was to send him to a big school that has classes from nursery to class XII.

Honestly speaking, first option was only my option. Gitika never liked that. Getting admission to nursery is the easiest. It's usually on first-come-first-serve basis. After nursery, getting admission is not that easy. I thought of the first option because it's cheaper :-). One more year at Eurokids would cost us Rs 32,000; whereas admission fees-cum-tuition fees in good school would cost us more than 1 lakh rupees. I thought about the first option because our industry was recession hit and salaries were hardly growing in last three years.

But finally I was convinced by Gitika's arguments that it's better if we send him to a good school from nursery onwards. Gitika visited all the following schools:

1. Greenwood High
2. VIBGYOR High 
3. Deens Academy
4. Gopalan International School
5. New Horizon Gurukul School
6. Inventure Academy 
7. Delhi Public School, Bangalore East

Deens and Gopalan International School are at about 3 to 4 km from our residence. VIBGYOR is at at 5km, Gurukool at about 9km, and both Greenwood & Inventure at about 14km while DPS is about 20km There are some other schools in our vicinity - e.g., Gopalan National School and Ryan International School. These two were not in our shortlisted schools and didn't visit these.

We liked Greenwood High compared to all the other schools. It follows ICSE and IGCSE syllabus. The school provides ample opportunities for extra-curricular activities. We felt that this is the right school for Ekagra's overall development. Greenwood has a pre-activity center at Whitefield also where they have Nursery, LKG, and UKG and then students naturally transition to the main campus at Vartur Road. But we thought of giving him admission to the main campus itself.

Greenwood has started the admission for next academic session from this month (September 2010). Finally we gave him admission on September 6th. On that day, we reached the school early morning at 8:15AM. We first met the principal Aloycius D'Mello and had a chat with him at his office.

Ekagra would start attending nursery classes from June 2011 at Greenwood High International School.