Brigade School
Classes will start from June 2004

Admissions to the Brigade School, for the academic year 2004-2005, started in early December. Classes will commence from June 2004. The school is a collaboration between Brigade Foundation and Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Schools of Chennai.

The Brigade School is airy, spacious and modern, with landscaped gardens on both ground and terrace areas. Covering 70,000 sft of built-up area, the school is imaginatively designed, keeping the needs of a 21st century educational environment in firm focus.
Its location in Brigade Millennium gives it access, by special arrangement, to some facilities in the Woodrose Club, 3-acre park and MLR Convention Centre.

• A co-educational school
• CBSE syllabus
• Spacious classrooms
• Well-equipped labs
• Libraries
• Computer centre
• Language and Math labs
• Specially designed “fun-and-learn” classrooms for pre-school children
• Swimming, tennis, basketball, badminton, table tennis and a floodlit stadium
• Access to a 450-seat air-conditioned auditorium, with professionally equipped stage
• Classes from pre-KG to std 8
• Std 9 will commence from June 2005
• Std 10 from June 2006

or admission details and applications for teachers’
positions, visit www.brigadeschools.org

Kuvempu’s words become our school motto

We at Brigade believe that students should have firm roots in our land, our culture, our language and our ethos—while at the same time developing a wide world-view and an understanding of other cultures, religions and ways of thinking. Our logo and motto are reflections of that philosophy.

Our motto

‘ O nanna chetana, aagu nee aniketana’ O my spirit, transcend all boundaries

The school motto is taken from the first line of the poem “Aniketana”, written by the great Kannada poet Kuvempu in 1956. The poet is inspiring his spirit to break out of the narrow confines of home, religion and country, and to reach for the eternal and universal. This motto echoes the spirit of the school.

A household name wherever Kannada is spoken and read, Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa (K.V. Puttappa, 1904-1994) is revered as one of the great Kannada poets of the 20th century. He has written over 70 books including poetry, novels, essays and plays.

Our logo

Our logo is the visual translation of our motto.

• The bird, a seagull, represents the soaring spirit and intellectual freedom.
• The yellow square stands for energy, optimism and happiness.
• The fact that our motto is from a Kannada poem symbolises the need for rootedness. The script being in English represents a universal outlook.

“ ...to help shape the memory of
innumerable future Brigade School students.”
An interview with the architects of
Brigade School: Praxis, Bangalore

What kind of research went into the school design?
This being the second school that we were designing, we had prior experience in working on a similar program though on a smaller scale. At the very onset we knew we were designing an optimum environment not just for students but also for teachers and staff as well. A building that would integrate well with the surroundings of Brigade Millennium. We did a study of a number of existing schools in Bangalore, trying to assimilate what constitutes a modern school in Bangalore.

Were there many changes along the way? Why and what?
Initially we worked out a program of “a” higher secondary school, which later changed to accommodate PSBB’s specific schedules and needs. We worked out a generic timetable at the preliminary stage of design, which subsequently became more specific when PSBB’s activity list became clearer. The Brigade Engineering team with their past experience in construction, greatly contributed in a smooth transition between “idea and implementation” and were instrumental in maintaining the project on a tight schedule. The contractors at site M/s Lakshmi Nirmaan, also took up the building as a challenge and have been equal partners in the entire process.

What makes an ideal school environment?
A number of elements and ideas come together to create an ideal environment for a school. On various programmatic levels the school has been designed keeping in mind issues of safety and security. It’s a self-contained unit serving the needs of over 1600 students.

Of all the criteria of importance while designing the school, the one we gave most importance to was ‘memory’. Everyone carries within themselves a part of their schooling environment for the rest of their lives. It is a big responsibility to help shape the memory of innumerable future Brigade School students. In their lives all future references will have parallels based on the school they studied in.

Which feature in the school gives you the most satisfaction?
Most critical to the school is the surrounding area that is available for play and recreation. The school has access to facilities that contribute enormously to its environment. This sets it apart from almost all schools in and around Bangalore. The particular area that is of interest to us is the school library, which will accommodate both senior and junior sections and is envisaged as a very flexible space allowing for a multitude of different functions. The kindergartens open out into spaces allocated for play and effectively double the size of the classes. Individual play-lots for different age groups are clearly demarcated and landscape integrates all the diverse activities together. Landscaped terraces also form spill-over spaces from classrooms as further activity zones.