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Academics

Learning beyondthe classroom.

A demanding international curriculum, paired with the things that make knowledge stick: real projects, real audiences and real consequences.

Nursery – Grade 128 disciplines18:1 ratio
03The journey

Four stages,one continuous arc.

Each stage is designed for the student it receives, and for the one it is about to send on. What changes between them is not the level of demand but the kind of independence we expect.

Project-based learning in every year groupResearch and academic writing from Grade 6One-to-one mentoring through Senior SchoolTechnology and AI literacy woven through subjects
  • Nursery – Grade 2 · Ages 3–7

    The first years are about wonder, language and belonging. Our Early Years programme is play-led and inquiry-driven, with literacy and numeracy built through stories, materials and questions children genuinely care about.

    • Inquiry-led play and structured literacy
    • Outdoor learning every day
    • Two educators in every classroom
    • Fine-motor, music and movement studios
    Early Years students working through a problem together
04Curriculum

Eight disciplines.One coherent education.

Nothing at Aurelia is taught in isolation. A question that begins in a physics lesson can end in the workshop, on stage, or in front of a panel — and our disciplines are structured to make those crossings easy.

A senior student working in the research commons

A globally benchmarked programme that keeps breadth for as long as possible and depth where it matters, assessed continuously rather than only at the end.

01

International Curriculum

Rigour with range

  • Concept-led units across all year groups
  • Bilingual pathways from Grade 3
  • Assessment for learning, not ranking
Mechanism detail from a Senior School engineering project

Mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology taught as investigative practice — hypothesis, apparatus, error, revision — in laboratories built for genuine experimentation.

02

STEM

Evidence and making

  • Six specialist laboratories
  • Olympiad and research pathways
  • Data science from Grade 9
The art studio with easels set for a life class

Studio practice in drawing, painting, ceramics, photography and digital media, with critique taken as seriously as production.

03

Arts

Seeing, then making

  • Open studio hours daily
  • Annual student exhibition
  • Visiting artist residencies
A set text open on a study desk before a humanities seminar

History, geography, economics and philosophy taught through primary sources, structured debate and writing that has to survive scrutiny.

04

Humanities

Argument and evidence

  • Source-based history from Grade 6
  • Model UN and debate programme
  • Extended essay in Grade 11
A student mapping a venture across the studio wall

Students identify a real problem, test it with real users, build something, and present to a panel that asks the questions investors would.

05

Entrepreneurship

From idea to venture

  • Venture studio elective
  • Mentors from industry
  • Annual Aurelia Pitch
Hardware detail from the computing laboratory bench

A structured programme in computational thinking, machine learning and — just as importantly — the ethics of building systems that make decisions about people.

06

Artificial Intelligence

Fluency and judgement

  • Python and applied ML from Grade 8
  • AI ethics seminars
  • Student-built assistive projects
Starting blocks on the Aurelia track

Physical literacy for every student and a competitive pathway for those who want it, coached with the same standards we hold in the classroom.

07

Sport

Discipline in the body

  • Athletics, football, basketball, cricket, swimming
  • Strength and conditioning suite
  • Inter-school circuit
The main auditorium during an orchestra rehearsal

Music, theatre and dance, taught towards performance. Every student stands in front of an audience at least once a year — and learns what that costs and gives.

08

Performing Arts

Nerve and craft

  • Orchestra, choir and ensembles
  • Two major productions annually
  • Black-box and main stage
8 disciplines
13Destinations

Where our students go.

Aurelia's counselling team works with families from Grade 9 onwards on course choice, applications and interviews across multiple systems.

United Kingdom & Europe
31%
North America
27%
India
24%
Asia-Pacific
18%
  • 01University of Oxford
  • 02Imperial College London
  • 03University of Toronto
  • 04University of British Columbia
  • 05National University of Singapore
  • 06University of Melbourne
  • 07University of California
  • 08ETH Zürich
  • 09University of Edinburgh
  • 10Delft University of Technology
  • 11Indian Institutes of Technology
  • 12Ashoka University

The institutions below are shown to illustrate the range a school of this profile guides students toward. They do not represent actual placements or any affiliation with Aurelia Global School, which is a fictional institution created for this concept website.

See a lessonin progress.

Reading a curriculum tells you what a school intends. Sitting at the back of a Grade 9 seminar tells you what it actually does.

Chandigarh • India · Weekday tours 09:30 and 14:00