Welcome to Sri Aurobindo Institute of Education – Empowering the Child
Devotee members of Sri Aurobindo and the Divine Mother started this school in the year 1983 at BK Block, Sector II of Salt Lake City, Kolkata. Later the school was expanded at CL Block on two bighas of land. The new building is called Miranka (signifying the Mother’s Lap).
Now, the school is running in two buildings – one in BK Block and other in CL Block. It is an English medium co-educational school. Bengali and Hindi are compulsory subjects.
The school is recognized by the Education Department of Government of West Bengal and is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi.
“It is not brilliant students that we want, but living souls.”
THE MOTHER
Sri Aurobindo’s spiritual collaborator, the Mother, was born in Paris on 21st February 1878. Mirra, as the child was called, was spiritually conscious from her early childhood. She was a talented musician and an accomplished painter and participated in the stimulating artistic life of the turn-of-the-century Paris …
SRI AUROBINDO
Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on 15th August 1872 . At the age of seven he was sent to England where he attended St. Paul School, London, and then went on a Senior Classical Scholarship to King’s College, Cambridge. An ardent reader from his school days, his favourite subjects were English …
Miscellaneous Events
- Rabindra Jayanti on 25th Baisakh, the birthday of the nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
- Sri Aurobindo’s birthday, the Independence Day and the School Foundation Day on 15th August. The pre-primary and the primary sections celebrate the occasion on 14th August.
- Republic Day on 26th January.
- Saraswati Puja.
- The Mother’s Birth Anniversary on 21st February.
- The ‘School Exhibition’ exhibits the creative work of the students.
- The Annual Sports Day is held in December. Colourful and exuberant sporting events of the students captivate the attention of all on this day.
- The Annual Prize Distribution Day – prizes are distributed to students for academic excellence.
