A warm Woodstock School welcome to our new Head of Upper Years. Dr Arvindanabha Shukla is a passionate educator with more than 25 years of experience in a residential school setting, as Teacher, Tutor, Housemaster, Head of Department and Director of Sports and Outdoor Pursuits. Dr Shukla, pictured above centre...
Stage one - Foundation stones In November, a new art project began taking shape on the Woodstock campus. A joint collaboration between the Centre for Imagination, the Art Department, and the whole school community. This multi-phased project aimed to capture and make sense of the two years that we have just...
On Saturday, 11 December 2021, we witnessed the return of the Festival of Ideas, a Woodstock School institution which enables students to showcase their projects and talents to the wider community. The event is an initiative of the Centre for Imagination (CFI), Woodstock's dedicated interdisciplinary space, where students can pursue...
Saturday, 30 October, was Worldwide Woodstock Day, our annual celebration for everyone in the school community, wherever they are in the world. In a typical year, alumni gather together in far-flung places across the globe, to mark their time in the Himalayan foothills and celebrate their shared Woodstock experiences. There is...
Marking Indian Independence Day is always a special date in the school calendar, and a chance for us to gather as a whole community to remember those who fought for the nation’s freedom, and everything that has been achieved since. On Sunday, 15 August, we celebrated the start of India’s 75th year of independence...
Over the last week, as one surveys the hills surrounding us, tell-tale plumes of smoke have signalled forest fires burning through the tinder-dry Himalayan woodland. They are always a feature of this time of year, and thankfully they rarely get close enough to campus to be of concern, although close enough to have empathy...
How do you plan for an uncertain future during a time of rupture? Woodstock Principal Dr Craig Cook shares the challenges of strategic planning which has to imagine everything students will need to make a positive different to the world (or worlds) for the rest of their lives. Back in January,...
Mayar from the Class of 2021 is one of the winners of 'Painting Yemeni Perspectives', a competition to find the best work from the country's emerging artists. "I started a series of paintings that explores themes of dystopia, war, and religion, I wanted to express them in a parody-like surrealist/symbolic manner....
Distance learning hasn't put a stop to the school coming together to worship and celebrate, which has always been an important part of the Woodstock School life experience. The school had its third Chapel service of this academic year on Friday 6 November, with staff and students from grades two...
Like schools around the world, Woodstock has been thrust into a distance learning scenario during the COVID-19 pandemic. In organizing for online learning, we have sought to take our students' most important needs into account: the need for structure during a time when much of what was "normal" has been...
