“Health is Wealth” is one of the most popular saying we grew up listening to. Here at PICT, we would want to go a step ahead to say “Health is greater than wealth”.

Moving abroad can often be a very challenging time for students and parents alike. Around 3 lakh students from India go abroad every year for higher education (Economic Times). The process of flying overseas for higher studies, to a different country is certainly a tedious one. Apart from the immigration complexities, a student has to prepare for various exams to be merely eligible for getting into the college he/she aspires as well as understand the culture of education in the respective countries.

The good news is that, if planned well, moving abroad can be hugely beneficial to students. Studies show that expat children are more likely to develop into confident adults, with adaptable and advanced social skills. Thanks to their experience of moving to a different country, they are likely to cope better with change. They are also more attuned to and tolerant of multicultural differences - a useful skill in today’s diverse world.

We, at PICT Model School, prepare students for foreign education through our rich curriculum and the Cambridge English Certificate.
- Today more and more students are willing to opt for foreign universities and pursue their dream career. PICT Model School with holistic educational pedagogies aims to prepare your learners for whatever field they wish to pursue. We help our learners better understand their skills and interests, taking in consideration all the necessary factors before making a concrete decision.
- We arrange various workshops, informative speeches by educational experts to help our students gain insight on various career options. Our Counselor researches to find out different universities abroad, national and international entrance exams required to apply at those universities, their cutoffs, financial factors, the admission procedures, course duration and many other related elements to help the parents and learners with the process of admission.
- PICT has also been invested with the status of a Cambridge English School. The English curriculum has been tuned as per the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference) standards. With this status, learners are able to collaborate with other Cambridge English Schools across the world, hence making it easier for kids to crack International English based exams like GRE, TOEFL or IEFTL, required for foreign education.

With globalization, studying abroad can be a vital part of a well-rounded education. There are some obvious things which you should be aware of before your child plans to move, but you should be ready for more than just a language and culture barrier. With proper planning, studying abroad can be one of the best experiences of your child’s life.
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Having an education in their desired field can be a great start to their career. But having a degree is not enough. There are myriad of people in the society with degrees. Perhaps, what we need for our kids, is to add value to their education.

What are the options?
1. College Degree
A traditional three or four years college degree or diploma in their desired field will prepare the children for a wide range of careers. Opting for a degree or diploma depends on individual goals and interests. For example, if they are planning to pursue masters in a field, theyneed to have at least three or four years graduate degree, however if they want to study for a shorter duration a diploma or a certificate course maybe better.

2. Vocational courses
Vocational courses offer training for a wide variety of skilled careers. Depending on the passions and skills of a student, this pathway can be the most reliable solution for a job.

3. Internship or Job
An internship is a paid, on-the-job training, in which your child will learn the skills required for a job under a professional. Internships provide an individual with an opportunity to learn about many facets of a particular career. They’re also a great way to make contact and develop mentoring relationships. Internships can be pursued along with diploma courses.

4. Military
Joining armed forces allow many teens to discover their skills, serve the country, get job training and travel the world. This can be a good option for students who thrive on structure and physical activities.

5. Gap year
For some teens, taking a year off between high school and college can be beneficial. It gives them time to study their options, revaluate different fields and take an informed decision about what they want to pursue in life. Nevertheless, taking a year gap is always better than being disappointed about wrong career choice in the long run.

How does PICT help?
PICT has always rooted for holistic development and a successful future for our learners. We expose students to different professions since 8th grade through guest lectures or assembly talks. They are encouraged to analyze different fields, ask questions and identify their talents. This helps our students to recognize their skills and the careers which are suitable to pursue keeping their interests and abilities in mind. Hence, they are inspired to start planning and working towards their dream careers and goals from school level itself.

India has among the youngest population in the world, which means it can make a resourceful pool of manpower. A pre-requisite though is that it requires the right form of education, skills and employment. The concept of success has changed and so have the skills required to be successful in the 21st Century. The US Department of Labor states that “65 percent of children entering grade school this year are likely to encounter work profiles that are not even in existence by the time they graduate.”

The big question here is how do we prepare our children for jobs that are not even in existence yet? How do we make sure our children are stable and strong for an uncertain future that await?
Our job as leading educators is to equip children socially and emotionally and make them confident lifelong learners. This will help them to be completely ready to succeed in an ever-changing world.

Skill development at PICT:
We, at PICT, organize activities which facilitate children to realize their area of interest. Hands-on knowledge about these activities helps students gain confidence and they are further nurtured to excel in their field of interest.
The faculty roles are reversed; they are flipped around in a way that the teacher facilitates the overall learning of students rather than only distributing notes or dictating answers.
Holistic Learning for kids is all about the right mix of knowledge and skills. It helps in improving their abilities and enhancing the competencies. We, as educators certainly want Degrees and Diplomas for our learners to get well-paying, professionally satisfying jobs or to prepare them for meaningful self- employment. To successfully achieve this, we provide skill-based education in school with options to mix and match vocational skills with popular subjects within the scope of the prescribed curriculum.

Awareness about skills-based, solution-centric learning can bring about a positive shift in making students aware of the actual job scenario through real work environment in the industry. If they don’t learn early-on about how their formal education is going to help them get their dream job or the career they aspire for, they will never get an opportunity to realize their dreams. And, of course, skills are dynamic, we need to learn, unlearn and re-learn in order to upgrade our knowledge as technology changes and transforms the workplace requirements.

PICT ensures to oversee the development of all the domains in a child – cognitive, psychomotor and affective domain – the brain, the bodyand theheart. In this way, children will be equipped to deal with diverse situations of the demanding future.

My School 📑✐👧

PICT Model School is the best of schools,
Despite its strict rigor and rules.
The teachers are caring and kind,
Their teaching helps to improve my mind.
Yoga, badminton and basketball,
Games and sports are liked by all.
The classrooms are tidy and clean,
The snacks and meals are tasty yet lean.
I love to chat with my friend on the bus ride,
and watch the houses, trees and shops by the roadside.

In a globalizing world of limited resources and unlimited ingenuity, schools play a vital role in preparing students to meet the sustainability challenges of future. The imperatives of sustainability point not only to new course content, but also to new ways to teaching that content. As a project with relevance across the disciplines, sustainability presents a valuable paradigm for rethinking pedagogy.

Great poet William Butler Yeast once said, “Education should not be the filling of a pail but the lightning of a fire.”
Using innovative teaching methods to better serve students and teach them about the benefits of innovative thinking, does so much more than just “fill the pail.” It ignites a passion for learning and provides students with the tools they need to succeed in the future world of innovation.
This leads us to the question; What is the most important skill to teach our kids in schools? The answer: to build creative and innovative minds that can adapt and face unpredictable future challenges.

At PICT, we apply creative and innovative strategies in education with a particular focus on student’s basic education.
We adopt unique learning methodologies to empower our learners to think radically and develop a questioning power. We encourage students to explore, discover, ponder over and question what they have learn helping them understand the concepts in the most unadulterated form.

Here are some of the ways we introduce innovation in education:
1. Encourage children to find answers
Unlike the ordinary practice of directly giving away answers for questions, this method aims to encourage students to find answers on their own. It helps students to observe, imagine, judge and reason.

2. Use design thinking tools and methods
Design thinking methods unleash creativity and explore innovative solutions in the context of group discussion and brainstorming. These methods facilitate student involvement in solving problems hence boosting their thinking as well as self-confidence.

3. Focus on the key concepts
Providing knowledge in the form of facts orients student thinking while inhibiting creativity and ability to imagine. Focusing on key concepts helps the students to find solutions through exploring ideas and evaluating the best answers.

4. Role play
Students are encouraged to have their own version of characters they are portraying and enact them with the context of present times. Through role play, students get to learn about the various aspects of stage performance. This technique helps educators explore creativity and critical thinking in young learners.

5. Peer tutoring
Simply put, peer tutoring means one student teaching another fellow student. Research shows that peer learning helps the student doing the teaching as much as the student being taught. This is because it enables the tutors to clarify and deepen their own understanding while trying to teach their classmates.

Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page are successful examples of how adopting innovation in education can help in building creativity and better abilities in order to solve problems.

Someone has rightly said, “Sports are more than just games; they are about life, emotion, passion, and some of the greatest highs and lows that one can experience.” Over the years, academic learning and sports education have become complementary to each other. Experts in the education field believe that these two sides of the same coin are necessary for developing all-round personality of a child.
In pursuit of academic success, children sometimes need a break from the classroom and an opportunity to release the pent-up energy. While academic success is no small feat, students who participate in at least one extracurricular sports activity are proven to reap more benefits that those who do not. Engaging in sports activities each week helps improve students’ focus on school work, as well as help them lead happier, healthier lives.

Here are some of the benefits of engaging students in structured, after-school physical activities:
1. Physical strength and all-round development
Playing sports regularly not only develops a healthy body, but also better strength and co-ordination. Also, perspiration is a great way of releasing toxins from the body.
2. Academic performance
Studies show that students involved in physical activities perform better academically and maintain higher test scores. Sports provide a spirit of healthy competition that drives children to give extra effort.
3. Confidence
Any person good in one walk of life automatically gains confidence in others. So, if one is good at sports, it follows that their confidence will spill over to academics as well. With confidence on their side, they are motivated to give their best.
4. Mental and emotional benefits
Athletics not only have great physical benefits, but it also allows kids to improve mentally and emotionally. While the body exercise, the brain releases endorphine. From a biological point of view, students who are physically active are happier and have a constructive outlet through which they can relieve stress.
5. Leadership qualities and team spirit
A good sportsman always learns to obey the rules of the games and the commands of their superiors. Sports education trains the students to face defeat with a smile and maintain the humility even in victory. It is the healthiest means of refreshments and recreation.


At PICT, sports is a part of our academic programme. We have a customized sports curriculum to ensure holistic growth of our learners.

More and more parents and their offspring agree that they just can’t understand each other. This lack of understanding of social, moral, political, musical, sartorial or religious opinions leads to lack of acceptance, which is the primary reason why families break.

Shrinking families and widening communication gap is a big barrier to a child’s growth.
We at PICT make sure that both parents as well as the child take a step forward and bridge this gap with increased family time and engaging in meaningful daily conversations.

Here are a few pointers which can help bridge this ever-widening gap: 

We live in a society that places a high value on the profession and white-collar jobs, and that still considers blue-collar work lower status. It’s no surprise that parents want their children to pursue careers that will maintain or increase their status. In high socio-economic communities this is even more evident.

A few years ago, vocational courses were thought to be for people who did not have the aptitude to study in a school or college and thus, needed skills in a particular field, to gain employment. This bias against vocational education is dysfunctional. It is destructive to our children. They should have the opportunity to be trained in whatever skills their natural gifts and preferences lead them to, rather than more or less condemning them to jobs they’ll find meaningless.

This scenario, however, has completely changed today. Nowadays, people have realized the importance of vocational education and are opting for such courses, both online and offline, to gain skills related to a particular field so that their job prospect can improve.

Benefits of vocational education in school 

“Whether you are a parent or not, carving out time to turn off your devices, to disconnect from the wired world and engage with the real people who are all around you, is one of the best gifts you can give yourself and the people you love.”
– Alan Brown,entrepreneur, productivity coach

If you've ever wondered whether it's worth fighting with your child over the amount of time he/she spends in front of the TV, computer, or another screen, the answer, according to recent studies, is a resounding "yes." Reducing time with devices makes it more possible for families to actually spend time together interacting and talking to each other face-to-face and can give kids more time to go outside, get some exercise or read a book.

Recently, studies have shown that cutting down screen time can also have a positive effect on kids' physical, social, and behavioral well-being, and can even improve their academic performance.

Why limit the screen time?
Overuse of digital media and screens may put your child at a risk of:
1. Obesity
Excessive screen use or having TV in the bedroom can increase the risk of obesity. Teens who watch more than 5 hours of TV per day are 5 times more likely to be overweight than teens who watch 0-2 hours of TV. This is in part due to the fact that viewers are exposed to advertising for high-calorie foods. Viewers are also more likely to snack or overeat while watching screen media.

2. Sleep problems
Media use can interfere with sleep. Children and teens who spend more time with social media or who sleep with mobiles or I-pads in their rooms are at a greater risk for sleep problems. Exposure to light and simulating content from screens can delay or disrupt sleep.

3. Negative effect on school performance
Children and teens often use entertainment media simultaneously with school work. Such multitasking can have a negative impact on academic performance and grades.

4. Ceases creativity
Watching too much television takes away opportunity from your child to broaden his/her imagination and makes them dull and uninterested.

5. Being lazy and inactive
Sitting or lying in front of a screen the whole time makes children lethargic. Kids find it too comfortable to laze around in front of the TV instead of going out or playing a sport.

6. Expects things to always be perfect
Watching TV, your child believes that everything must entertain and you can change the channel if something doesn’t. They apply this in life as well and are disappointed at every point because they cannot control things here by merely changing the channel.

Not having control over what goes on in their life, children are often annoyed and consider life to not be fair. Because well everything turned out well for that fantasy story they saw on TV the other day. Anything not working out for them makes them feel defective and a failure.

Benefits of cutting down screen time
1. Better sleep
Poor sleep exacerbates symptoms of depression. Numerous studies have shown that blue light from a screen is harmful to sleep. By avoiding screens an hour before bed, your brain starts to relax, resulting in a better sleep.

2. Reduced anxiety and stress
Having a shut-down ritual and avoiding screens before bed, makes your child less prone to depression and anxiety and he/she is likely to be much happier.

3. Wake up more focused
The greatest benefit of avoiding screens an hour before bed is that you wake up more focused. If you’ve avoided screens before bed, you’ll be less compelled to turn on your devices first thing in the morning. When your child wakes up clear and focused, it becomes much easier to spend the early hours of their day on activities that add meaning to their life.

4. Better attention to other activities
When children are not glued to the television sets or video games, they can utilize that time for some other activities such as outdoor games, reading or even drawing or painting.

5. Better grades
Research shows that parental monitoring of kids’ media use leads to better performance in school as well as improved grades.

6. Enhances social skills
Kids spending most of the time in front of television lack social skills. Being outdoors, meeting new people in person and not online, allows your child to interact with the outside world which is extremely necessary for their adult relationships later in life.

7. Makes your child active mentally and physically.
Children who are not addicted to television, spend more time doing other stuff. Be it outdoor games, creative arts or reading a book. All these activities boost your child’s confidence and makes them active learners.

Monitoring screen time and content doesn't immediately lead to changes, but over time, there are a wide range of health and wellness benefits. Remind yourself that its worth the argument. Your child maybe one unhappy camper when his/her screen time is limited and monitored but remember, it’s worth the short term sacrifice.