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Founding director of Sunshine Worldwide School Deepak Khaitan on Tuesday said that the Goa-based school has joined the elite league of 5,000 educational institutions across the globe, which havw adopted the prestigious International Baccalaureate (IB) school curriculum.
The particular school, with the endorsement is now Goa’s first and among 300 schools in India, which include hallowed institutions like Mumbai’s Dhirubhai Ambani International School and Aditya Birla World Academy, besides G D Goenka World School in Sohna, Mercedes-Benz International School in Pune, and the Doon School in Dehradun, among others, which follow the prestigious IB curriculum.
Speaking at a press interaction about the process which Sunshine Worldwide School had to adopt to obtain the prestigious endorsement, Khaitan said that the authorisation process takes 2 years to 3 years where the school and faculty have to be onboard and align with the philosophy.
“We were able to complete the authorisation process within a year, as the school was already aligned to the philosophy and has been conducting its educational programme along similar lines,” he
added.
Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, IB aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people, who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. IB endorsed schools employ over 70,000 educators, who teach more than one million students worldwide.
Sunshine Worldwide School has now adopted IB’s prestigious Primary Years Programme (PYP) for children aged 3 years to 12 years in classes from nursery to class VI.
School principal Sindu Hemant, speaking on the occasion, said that the IB works closely with district, regional and national representatives to implement IB programmes and professional development in countries all over the world and is aligned with the Indian National Education Policy 2020, which is expected to be rolled out in Goa from the academic year 2021-22.
Sunshine Worldwide School was founded in June 2003 by the Khaitan family, to run a comprehensive academic facility with a difference, which children can relate to as a home away from home.
