Hiranandani Foundation School, Powai

Hiranandani Foundation School is situated in Powai, Mumbai. The school pursues the IB and IGSCE boards along with ICSE and ISC. It is an English medium school, with Hindi and Marathi also taught.

History

The Hiranandani Foundation School was established in 1990 in Hiranandani Gardens with a handful of students and now it has grown to 2,610 students. The school started up with ICSE and then ISC and IBDP were introduced.

Campus

The Hiranandani Foundation School at Powai includes two buildings. The old school building is four-storeyed and has two wings, as well as a playing field. The new school building was inaugurated on 13 June 2007, and is only used by the secondary section. The new school building is five storeyed and much larger than the other building. The new school was included for the students from ninth to twelfth for the first two years. The secondary section has been extended to eleventh standard in 2007–2008, and twelfth in 2009 and after.

Principals

• Dr. S. V. Krishnan
• Padma A. Vaswani
• Dr. S. V. Krishnan (till August 2008)
• Kalyani Patnaik

Houses

The houses are Alpha (Red), Beta (Deep Green), Delta (Fluorescent Blue) and Sigma (Medium Yellow).

Motto

The school's motto is "Mens sana in corpore sano" ("A Sound Mind in a Sound Body").

Events Celebrated

• Founder's Day (to celebrate the birthday of founder Dr LH Hiranandani)
• Independence Day
• Republic Day
• Children's Day
• Hindi Day (Hindi Diwas)
• U4ya (a school festival)
• Teachers Day
• Sports Day
• Annual Day
• Cross Country Marathon
• HFS MUN
• HFS Stock Exchange
• HFS Mindscape
• HFS Liga

See also

• List of schools in Mumbai

External links

• http://www.hiranandani.com/Hiranandani_School.aspx