Infrastructure/Facilities

POST-MODERN GLASS AND STEEL AIR CONDITIONED BUILDING

The St. John's Universal building is a purpose-built post-modern structure with an external glass facade. Every classroom in school as well as other enclosed spaces are air-conditioned to ensure that your children learn in a relaxed and comfortable environment.

SCHOOL HALL

The school hall is the jewel in the crown at St. John’s Universal School. It measures 4500 square feet and is located on the top floor. All performances in the school hall are brought to life by a cutting edge sound system. This school hall is also fully air conditioned.

MULTIPURPOSE ACTIVITY HALL

Aptly named, this space is more than 1400 square feet in size. It is fully air conditioned and is used for a wide variety of purposes including competitions, examinations and co-curricular activities.

SCHOOL TRANSPORT SYSTEM

The singular most important aspect of our school transport is that we have lady bus conductors. This ensures improved levels of safeguards and greater care. All our transport vehicles are maintained in peak condition for the maximum comfort of our students.

SMART CLASS AUDIO VISUAL DIGITAL SYSTEMS

We are the first group of educational institutions to employ Smart Class Systems in all our classrooms. Each classroom is equipped with 42 inch plasma screens. On these screens animated illustrations and interpretations of the studied topics are shown to the children.

COMPUTER AIDED EARLY LEARNING PROGRAMME

As part of our plan to equip our students for the future we use internationally acclaimed educational software. This enables our young ones to grasp reading and writing skills, maths and science at an early age. We have made adequate provisions so that every child will always have a dedicated laptop to work on.

LANGUAGE LABORATORY

Our Labs are equipped with special softwares, headphones and other audio equipments that aid in learning a language. Children also understand the nuances of pronunciation, intonation and clarity.

E LIBRARY

We have a set of laptops dedicated to the E-Library. This facility allows children internet browsing and educational CDs. To provide hassle free connectivity our premises is fully Wi-Fi enabled.

COMPUTER LABORATORIES

Our computer laboratory is the right place for children to become technologically savy. We have made adequate provisions so that every child will always have a dedicated computer to work on. Children use it to complete their assignments, projects and learn new applications.

SCIENCE LABORATORIES

To ensure undivided attention, we have separate laboratories for each of the three sciences i.e. Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Our laboratories will feature new age design.All students face the demonstration table as well as the projection screen.

LIBRARY
Our library will possess a wide collection of new and interesting books that are updated regularly.

All UEG schools are clearly the most technologically advanced organization of learning.

Our commitment to technology is more than just lip service - we consistently allocate a significant portion of our annual collections to technology investments.

Financial investments apart, we also impart adequate training to all students and teachers of the school so that these investments can actually be used productively.

The idea is to impart "holistic digital literacy" and inculcate digital tools as part of students' culture and lifestyle. Some of our successful technology developments are as follows:

SMART CLASSROOMS

All class rooms and other learning spaces have a 42" Plasma TV that is used by teachers for presentation of rich-media learning materials. Many classrooms also have interactive whiteboards (Smart Boards) that allow real-time annotation and lecture capture for future reference.

GOOGLE APPS

UEG is the first educational network in India to subscribe to the Google AppsTM suite for our schools.

a) Staff/students can have their own personalised home-page and email IDs on the school domain name.

b) The school management can blog and reach out to parents.

c) The school administration can publish all circulars, schedules and news items on the school website. Parents can subscribe to email alerts and feeds via the website to keep in touch with the latest happenings in the school.

EPHOTOS

All UEG schools provide an innovative and convenient service called ePhotos.

ePhotos helps parents view, share and print their child's latest school photos over the internet from the comfort of their homes, offices or nearest cyber cafes.

Apart from photo prints, parents can also order gift items like posters, t-shirts or mugs with their child's photos on them.

Photos or gift items can be shipped anywhere in the world. Photos can also be shared on popular social networks or through email easily.

LAPTOP LABS

Traditionally, computer labs are used by schools just to impart IT lectures. Our computer labs sport latest student-friendly laptops instead of old and bulky desktops. These laptops are mobile/portable and be carted around the various learning spaces with ease. This allows for interesting uses - for example, students can read a Wikipedia article about a frog's anatomy, while dissecting it in the Biology lab.

E LEARNING THROUGH MOODLE

Our schools have deployed the world's favourite learning management system, Moodle, to allow students to access a library of E learning resources based on the schools servers. Moodle can also be used for assignments, discussions and collaborative learning - particularly useful for secondary students.

NINTENDO WII

All UEG schools have adopted Nintendo Wii for providing "Virtual PE" and "Virtual Music" lessons for its students. The Nintendo Wii (pronounced "We") is a video game console that allows users to control a game using physical gestures using motion sensing technology. In effect, players have to actually swing their arms to hit a ball while playing virtual Tennis or to bang a drum while playing virtual music. The school provides virtual lessons in addition to real life sports and music classes. The console is systematically incorporated in the PE and music curriculum by means of detailed lesson plans and role plays.

MUSIC ROOM
Equipped with a wide assortment of musical instruments, the music room provides an encouraging ambience to students. In short, a truly ‘note’ worthy place.

DRAWING AND THEATER WORKSHOPS
to introduce our little ones to the world of performing arts we will have regular workshop to involve and engage the children.

SAFETY FIRST
On every floor fire extinguishers are installed. We intend to install a first grade fire fighting system with fire fighting tanks and hydrants. Furthermore, all our electrical switches are installed above the height of five feet to ensure the safety of our younger students. Fire drills will also be carried out for the students with the help of fire fighting professionals. As we strongly believe in an inclusive philosophy our facilities will be designed to meet the requirements of children with special needs. Our Disaster management educational plan intends to empower our students to handle unforeseen eventualities.

MEDICAL ROOM
In case of an unfortunate incident we have made plans to build a medical room for first aid purpose.

PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM

Our Public Address system is used to make announcements, signal commencement/end of important periods & emergency notifications.

SCHOOL CAFETERIA
As part of our policy we will not serve junk food or aerated drinks. Instead our aim is to serve healthy meals created by a nutritionist for our students. Our cafeteria will have open, semi-covered and covered seating. The canteen personnel are to be kept informed regularly by way of workshops on hygienic cooking methods conducted by a qualified doctor.

PLAY ZONE
This space has a wave slide, jungle gym, multi climbers and a plunge pool for the young ones. It is said that this space has the greatest numbers of smiles per square feet.

SPORTS

Sports and physical activity are an essential component of any educational endeavour. Following from our belief that every child has intrinsic potential, students are groomed to participate in sporting activities. We have tie-ups with reputed sports clubs and play grounds in our locality to provide our students essential physical opportunities. Inter-school competitions are treated with appropriate seriousness and students learn to make winning a part of their lives.