Our High School Student Interns got to spend some time chatting with Katie Jo Walter, Director of Advancement and Alumni Relations, who joined Woodstock recently and will be leading all advancement efforts for the school. Read on to learn more about the chat that took place between Katie Jo and...
The Woodstock School leadership team’s ongoing alumni engagement and admissions outreach trips took a stop at Kathmandu, Nepal in the recent weeks. Nepal has always been an important region for Woodstock School with a very supportive and engaging alumni community. With almost 200 alumni from the region, our association with...
With travel restrictions easing in the region, we have been making the most of this opportunity to travel to different regions to meet with members of our community. Earlier this month, a team from Woodstock School visited Pune to host a series of events for our potential parent community and alumni...
Over these last weeks, so many good things have emerged from our Centre for Imagination (CFI), including two fantastic student-led events profiled below The CFI is Woodstock’s dedicated interdisciplinary space, which cuts across different areas of the academic curriculum and aspects of our enrichment programme. Embracing an interdisciplinary approach is one...
In more conventional times, last week would have been our Spring Break, marking the mid-point in the semester and a brief pause before the build-up to the final flourish of the academic year begins in earnest. This year we have set the break aside to maximise the opportunity of having...
Next Friday, it will be two years since we first had to close the campus to students and pivot to distance learning. The transition from the classroom to virtual spaces was immediate and exasperated by global uncertainty. The change in circumstances was also very apparent. Students and educators who were...
Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Ukraine as they suffer through an unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russia. We can only imagine the fear, terror, and uncertainty which so many are living though in the face of military violence. Speaking from Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday, NATO Secretary General...
This May, the first ever Woodstock Alumni Artist Residency will take place at Woodstock School's campus! The residency is a collaboration between Woodstock’s Centre for Imagination, Art Department, Alumni Department, and the Woodstock Artist Affinity Group, and is accepting applications from visual artists who are alumni or former staff of Woodstock...
Next weekend will mark another milestone for Woodstock School during the Covid-19 pandemic. When students arrive on Sunday, 27 February, it will be the third time we have reopened campus since March 2020. The difference this semester is that it is the first time we look forward to inviting all...
On Tuesday, 25 January, all our Middle Years Programme (MYP) students participated in a full-day Research Camp, specially designed to develop their research skills within both the Woodstock School and International Baccalaureate (IB) contexts. The ability to be effective and ethical researchers is one of the key academic skills we aim...
Glenn Conrad has been honoured as a Distinguished Alumnus of Woodstock School for a lifelong achievement in philanthropy and voluntary service. A 1968 graduate of Woodstock, Glenn arrived in India as a one year old child whose parents, a doctor and a nurse, began service at Dhamtary Christian Hospital in...
Ajai Thandi, Class of 2009, gave up his corporate career as an investment banker to co-found one of India’s most popular coffee brands, Sleepy Owl Coffee. In this interview, Ajai shares how Woodstock School’s holistic educational approach helped him develop strong self analysis and multi-dimensional thinking skills. He fondly remembers...
The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award is set to Woodstock in 2022. The Award is a non-formal education and learning framework operating in more than 130 countries and territories around the world, through which young people’s achievements outside of academia are recognised and celebrated. English teacher Mr Curt Farnham (pictured...
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...
