Overview
Army Public School, Golconda, Hyderabad is an English medium coeducational day school established under the aegis of Army Welfare Education Society (AWES). It has an affiliation with the Central Board of Secondary Education Board(CBSE), New Delhi, and offers education from grade 1st through 12th.
The establishment aims to provide a conducive learning environment for children to develop scholastic abilities to pursue academic excellence and attain a competitive edge amongst contemporary peers.
Campus
The school infrastructure hosts spacious classrooms, well-equipped laboratories for physics, chemistry, biology and computer, a well-stocked library featuring a massive collection of books, reference materials, newspapers, periodicals, audio and visual materials, audiovisual facilities, and a multi-purpose hall.
Academics
Affiliated with CBSE Board, the school offers education from grade 1st through 12th.
The academic programmes are designed to free the learners' mind for an infinite range of possibilities enabling them to become the 21st-century learner.
Army Public School, Golconda enables children to exploit their inert potential in understanding concepts and build upon them in a student-friendly learning environment through a continuous and progressive evaluation system in academics and various co-curricular activities.
The school strictly follows the curriculum prescribed by the board and imparts knowledge to the student, keeping in mind the CBSE norms. Teachers at the school help the students to exploit their inert potential in understanding concepts. The school provides a calm, healthy, and student-friendly learning environment, which is tested through a continuous and progressive evaluation system.
After the class 10th board examinations, the students are counselled, and then they are allowed to choose the streams as per their interest. The streams available at APS are science, commerce, and humanities. Apart from the compulsory subjects, the students can choose any additional subject such as geography, IT or physical education. The school library has novels, fiction, non-fiction, and course-related books for all the classes, which any student can issue.
Achievement
Army Public School, Golconda, Hyderabad, is regarded as one of the leading schools in Hyderabad.
Extracurricular and Sports
The school believes that extracurricular activities are necessary for the students’ holistic and overall growth. APS Golconda offers a variety of opportunities to students to pursue their area of interest. There are many activities available at the school, such as physical education, yoga, literary clubs, nature clubs, heritage clubs, inter-house and inter-school competitions, debates, public speaking, etc. The teachers help the children to take part in these activities and help them flourish in them. The school aims to instil qualities like teamwork, discipline, punctuality, leadership in these activities, which will, in turn, help the students to face the real world in the future.
The school has employed professional coaches to train the students in various sports such as football, cricket, volleyball, basketball, table tennis, and lawn tennis. The school believes that the students should remain fit and believe that physical education is as important as classroom education.
NCC
Three students are selected from the school for the NIC camp by 5 Andhra Battalion, NCC Secundrabad. The NIC camp is one of the most popular camps in the NCC. The cadets at the camp are provided with both rigorous physical training and mental training regarding India.