Sardar Patel Vidyalaya | |
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Motto | विद्यैव धनमक्षयम् |
Established | 14 August 1957 |
Principal | Anuradha Joshi |
Faculty | 110 |
Grades | Nursery till 12th |
Number of students | 1650 |
Sardar Patel Vidyalaya (SPV) is an education school located in Lodhi Estate, New Delhi, India. The school is named after a leader of the Indian independence movement, and independent India's first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
It is a private school in India that employs Hindi as a medium of instruction in primary school. Though primarily subjects such as Math, science and social studies are taught in Hindi till class 5th, students are taught 'technical terms' which are the English counterparts of whatever they learnt.
Students are provided instruction in four languages. From 1st grade, it is Hindi medium. English is the medium of education from the Class VI onwards. From Class VI, students have to choose between Gujarati, Tamil, Bengali and Urdu as their fourth language. Hindi and Sanskrit are mandatory until Class VIII. In Class IX, students are asked to choose between Hindi and Sanskrit.