Arts and Craft:

Art & Craft is an integral part of our curriculum and it helps the students explore the full spectrum of their creativity. We do not wish to push students to follow a path blindly, we wish for them to be able to identify their innate potential and pave a way that suits them and their special talent. Our extremely skilled teachers guide the students to perfect the technique of art while letting their unbridled creativity take the spotlight. Our visual arts and craft curriculum coaches’ students on various forms of indigenous folk art forms of India, contemporary art, art across a range of mediums including crayon, pastel, water colour, oil painting etc

Clay Art :

It helps improve eye/hand coordination and build both gross and fine motor skills, including the small muscles in hands and fingers. This helps with dexterity and is beneficial for children colouring, cutting and writing in a school setting. Clay play can be a very invigorating, yet soothing activity.

Dance:

Dance improves flexibility, coordination, balance, range of motion, stamina, muscle tone, strength and posture. But physical fitness is just one of many benefits of dance that can enhance your child’s life in so many ways.

Music:

Music ignites all areas of child development and skills for school readiness, including intellectual, social-emotional, motor, language, and overall literacy. It helps the body and the mind work together. Exposing children to music during early development helps them learn the sounds and meanings of words.

Theatre Art Club:

Performing arts are basically arts or skills that require a performance in front of a public audience. Examples are acting, singing and dancing. Other forms of the Performing Arts include opera, theatre, magic or illusion performances, mime, spoken word, recitation and public speaking. This club helps in finding the budding Actors, anchors, journalists, choreographers, etc. In sharpening their skills.

Students can choose their club based on their interest and what they would wish to pursue. Our Co-Curricular and Sports Clubs add the perfect condiment to enhance our student’s growth and learning experience and help them explore their protean talents.

Literary Club:

The perfect place for our literary enthusiasts to explore a language to its full extent. This club helps learners develop their skills at various activities like elocution, declamation, debates, JAMs, recitation, monologues, extempore etc.

Culinary Club:

For those who find their joy in eating and find food to be the perfect language of love, the culinary club is a befitting abode. This club helps students explore and create a range of delectable fireless dishes. Students are also coached to have a proper know-how about healthy meal planning and how to make smart nutrition choices.

Eco Club:

The Eco Club is a perfect place for the avid nature lovers. The students of this club are often given the responsibility to plant and tend for the school herb garden. This place becomes a perfect knowledge-sharing space when children mutually learn about and nurture their love for nature.

Creative Writing Club:

Students whose pen multitask as swords adept at driving a point home, or a time machine to transport even the most reluctant minds to a fantastical place, are perfectly suited for the Creative Writing Club. Students give wings to their flair for writing by learning about and exploring various genres of writing.

Community Service Activity Club:

For students who are staunchly committed to doing their part for the betterment for the society find themselves at home in this club. The CSA club of Vista encourages students to actively take part in activities that would bring about a positive change in the society. This in turn plays a pivotal role towards their personal growth, making them empathetic and humane.

Equality Club:

In partnership with Rubaroo, Hyderabad, the students of equality club get the chance to build their interpersonal skills as well as enhance their social awareness. A curated module of exercises and activity ensures that the students emerge as well-rounded, empathetic and a perfect embodiment of a progressive individual.

Gavel Club:

The students who view themselves as leaders and feel that they have a unique view on matters that could make a difference, are perfectly at home in this club. A part of the international Toastmasters club, the gavel club of Vista International School – styled as ‘The Ciceronian Squad of Vista’ – gives a chance to the students to build on their leadership skills through speaking, and collaboratively learn and grow as public speakers.

Students of Grade 8 JDO had their first interaction with their partner school in Rome, Italy on 11^th Ocotber, 2023. The students kick-started their first international collaboration project – First Impressions, where they introduced themselves to their partners through a slide deck.  This marks the propitious inception of another year of collaborative learning and growth.

Vista International School has commenced its journey of online exchange program for students with JDO Foundation.

The JDO Foundation is an educational non-profit foundation located in Littleton, Colorado – U.S, which facilitates global collaboration among partner schools to inspire creative and innovative collaborative learning that enables students to be accomplished, well-informed digital citizens.

JDO’s mission is to provide professional development for teachers and establish a long-term collaboration experience for students where they are trained to use technology innovatively and creatively in the classroom with their international peers.

The project facilitates 1:1 classroom collaboration of Vista International School with an international partner school on an annual basis for select students of Grade 6 and 7.

Students selected to be a part of this undertaking get the unique opportunity to widen their approach towards education and solidify their understanding and appreciation for cultures and thoughts starkly different from their own

This AY 22-23Global Partner Schools are:

• Grade 6 is collaborating with St. Ita’s Primary SchoolBelfast, N. Ireland
• Grade 7 is collaborating with Primary School, Lamia, Greece

Rhapsody

Vista International School has teamed up with Rhapsody to bring about a revolutionary approach towards Art Integrated learning. Rhapsody’s paradigm shifting pedagogy incorporates award-winning learning models that uses art-integrated exercises to maximize the creative potential of a child. While implementing the spirit and vision of NEP 2020, this programme is curated to enhance a student’s social-emotional learning skills. Rhapsody trainers take sessions with the students, implementing their curated curriculum, ushering the students into a new era of learning, centered on Creative Intelligence that combines Artistic Creativity (both visual and performing), Cognitive Creativity (facilitating creative thinking, alternative ways of approaching STEM and other subject learning), Collaborative Creativity (that builds their social skills), and Design and Innovation (implementing courses on Creative Coding, Design Thinking, among others).

Rhapsody’s outlook towards approaching ‘learning’ aligns seamlessly with Vista International School’s mission to imbibe 21^st century skills in students and this partnership has been more than fruitful to ensure that students experience the true ‘joy’ in learning.

Internships

Internships are veritable windows to the outside world that gives the students a glimpse of what awaits them once they have outgrown the school. Internships enables students to enhance their personal and interpersonal development by learning through real-world experience. By working to secure an internship of their choice, students are encouraged to develop expertise in fields that best suit their interests. VIS actively encourages the students to look pursue internship options to widen their horizon and be in a position to make an informed decision regarding their choice of career.

Collaboration with MANUU

Vista International School has forged a partnership with Maulana Azad National Urdu University to implement the visions put forth through NEP 2020 regarding integration of vocational education in secondary schools.

To help realize the full potential of India’s demographic dividend, NEP 2020 heavily focused on the need to integrate vocational education into the curriculum – an objective that is slated to be reached in a phased manner over the next decade. This move calls for secondary schools to collaborate with ITI’s, Polytechnics and local industries and set up skill labs for the same. Vista International School has partnered with MANUU to help the students achieve their full potential and reap the benefits of a well-rounded approach to education.

Metamorphosis

VIS has partnered with Metamorphosis to fuel the entrepreneurial fire in the minds of our young students. Metamorphosis is a program that seeks to make young students aware of their immense potential and empowers them with the right skill set to think, to create and to lead path-breaking innovations with their program. Through this program, students are encouraged to think beyond the mundane, and to push themselves out of their comfort zones to explore their full potential.

Makerspace

Vista International School has collaborated with ENTECRES Lab, to help students approach the concepts of science, particularly physics and engineering with a fresh hands-on approach. The unique program offered by ENTECRES lab helps the Vistaians cement their cognition on concepts that would probably not be much impactful had they been taught solely based on textbook content. This collaboration is a step towards helping the students approach any subject with a broader perspective that transcends the information contained between the covers of a textbook – a lesson that empowers them to be critical thinkers and unmatched problem solvers.

Work Education

Students are encouraged to explore their creative and artistic side and give wings to their aesthetic appeal by taking part in various programs under Work Education. Be it jewelry making, or art – Work Education gives an opportunity to the learners to explore beyond the rigid boundaries of academia and sharpen their creative acumen.

Students of Grades 1 and 3 of the IB wing, went to visit an orphanage – Cherish Home. This orphanage provides residence to 51 children – mostly girls – who find a caring abode there.

Students of Grade 3 connected this visit to supplement their learning of the unit of inquiry on child rights and responsibilities. Students of grade 1 connected this visit to the unit of inquiry on Family and Friends. Students conducted a donation drive for a week prior to this visit to collect grains, stationary, confectionary, toiletries etc to donate to the orphanage. Principal Ma’am personally contributed towards the dinner expenses for the children at the orphanage for that day.

Students spent a wonderful day laughing and playing with the girls at the orphanage – learning so much about the privilege they have and the responsibilities they should take to ensure they give back to the underprivileged.