Think Inventure is perceived as being relaxed about discipline because they give students space to express themselves as individuals. Understand from friends that Inventure now has a more structured discipline policy including clearly laid out expectations and consequences (positive and not so positive!). They also conduct monthly benchmarking & parent teacher meetings for senior school. I suppose the size of their campus creates security concerns for parents – but kids are largely supervised – kids being kids will run around, no matter what the instructions, consequences etc. Kids do get hurt with or without supervision.. And yes the sound levels in Indian schools & the tolerance of the Indian students relative to expats / RNRI’s is different. As you said Bangalore has a variety of schools and each school offers something different. Happy that you have found the right fit.

Very good post and I believe this sort of reviews will help parents looking for admission to their kids. Wanted to check with you how is your experience with Primus after a year since your Big A started attending classes there ?

Your feedback will be of great help as I am in the same process of finding a right school for my son.

Thanks,

Raj

Unfortunately, my own experience with Neev was drastically different with their Koramangala branch. Teachers weren’t very involved and seemed overwhelmed with just 1/3 class size, you could see parents totally alienated during the first ‘initiation’ week, and the principal never even showed up most of the week. Many parents whom I met during that first week agree that Neev is way over-priced for the rather sub-par standard, at least in Koramangala.

Regards,
+ Vijay

We were relocating to Bangalore and went looking around ALL the schools in and around Sarjapur Road for admissions into LKG & 1 st Grades for our daughters. We landed in Primus by default – We had been to all the other schools (vibgyor, Gear, Greenwood etc etc ) and decided to take a look at one last school – Prakriya – off Sarjapur Road. They are supposedly good in academics but we found children of lower classes were being made to sit on extremely dirty and dust covered floors. We were heading back when we saw this neat building right next door – Primus Public School! Since it happened to be on the way , and much against my wife and children’s protestations (it was waaay past lunch time) we decided to just take a peek – a peek that lasted the next couple of hours!

The first thing that hit us was the palpable ‘happiness’ amongst the kids we saw. We were welcomed in and the coordinator Ms.Radha patiently explained everything to us. She took us around every part of the school. We met some teachers, saw their facilities. All of us immediately commented on how confident the children we saw were – they were not timid or hesitant to interact – and seemed extremely cheerful and full of life! We saw quite a few expatriate children there as well. The founder member Mr. Vasanth , who happened to be around, then spent the next hour with us telling us about the philosophy and the ideals behind the school. We found the fees extremely reasonable too (40k per year).

Where were the children ? – they had hit their beautifully manicured play ground within five mins of our arrival and were having a whale of a time – it almost seemed like they had made their ‘choice’. (They have lovely, fully manicured grounds, with football, basketball, throw ball, cricket nets and I forget what else)

Was there a choice? – NO! We paid up on the spot (no admission tests)! So did this other parent who was only accompanying us – her children were already in Greenwood High – she pulled them out and put them here! On the way out we met another couple who were pulling their children out of Greenwood high and into this school.

We subsequently (and very very coincidently) met a couple of other parents who we were acquainted with, who had pulled their children out of Ryan International – and had been studying in this school for over two years – they were singing paeans of the school.

Too early to comment about the academics – but the parents of existing students tell us that the children have fun learning! As far as we were concerned that is exactly what we were looking for!

Anyone looking for a school in and around Sarjapur Road – this school is WELL worth a visit!

This will be the school to watch out for in the future!

Rdgs
Menon!

Thanks for such nice compilation of the info. I appreciate it.

How do yo think about Primus School now.

Please let us know how you rate this school now as your kid must have completed a year by now.

We are planning a R2I this May and actively looking for good schools in B’lore.

Please advice us.

Thanks
Usha

I have two kids, eight and five. I am planing to send them to Primus Public school this year.
Could you please give me some feedback about the school?

Thanks,
Anu

robert@legalforest.com

Lpo is not a piece of cake as many people do think.

Thanks