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.
Academics
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.
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