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Celebrating Excellence in Education

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Ashwini Kulkarni, Founder and Director of City Pride Group of Schools, has been honored with the prestigious Brainfeed Exemplary Women in Education Award-2025.

This esteemed recognition is a testament to her unwavering dedication to transforming education and empowering young minds. Through her visionary leadership and innovative approach to learning, she has played a pivotal role in shaping the academic landscape of our institution.

Her passion, commitment, and pursuit of excellence in education continue to inspire us all.

We extend our heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Ashwini Kulkarni on this well-deserved recognition and express our deepest gratitude for her inspiring leadership and guidance.

City Pride Group of Schools is proud to celebrate this remarkable achievement!

 

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Konkani Bhasha Mandal's 'Petul' event’

The Konkani Bhasha Mandal, continuing its popular program “Petul,”  in for students, parents, and Konkani enthusiasts. The event is scheduled for December 14 by City Pride Group of  Schools, in Ga. Dee. Ma Auditorium, Nigdi. The program aims to bring together Konkani-speaking community and strengthen cultural ties.
Veteran actor Sameer Dharmadhikari will be the chief guest for the function. Ratnamala Diwkar, the President of Konkani Bhasha Mandal along with Dr. Ashwini Jambhekar -Kulkarni and Dr. Deepali Jambhekar-Sawai, the Directors of  City Pride Group of schools will be gracing the occasion. About 400 students of City Pride school will be participating in the event. 
 Do witness this unique program..

Maharashtra State Scholarship Exam 2023-24

Like every year city pride school students have performed very well with great marks. Total 9 of our students are in the CBSE state merit list.

In the 5th standard merit list,
Aarav Agarwal stood 4th.
Kushagra singhal 5th,
Arnav Oraskar and Athrav Potdar 7th
Ardhya Nikam and yuvraj Deshmukh 8th
Krittika Patra 9th.

Where as in 8th standard merit list Preksha Jain 9th rank
Vedant Afre 14th rank.

We are glad to announce our proud moment with all as our student Krittika Patra was felicitated by AP Commissioner yesterday for outstanding result in Maharashtra State Government Scholarship Examination 2023-24 at 9th Rank with 87.75% being among the top 10 meritious students in Pune district

City pride is a CBSE board school hence students are not included in the district merit list, but school has taken a lot of efforts and as a result there are as many as 76 students from our school, who have scored more marks than the pune zilla district cut off.

Students received guidance from Amita Pandit, Sneha Jain and Shanti Gram purohit.
Dr. Deepali Sawai, Dr.Ashwini Kulkarni,
Dr.Kanchan Deshpande, Suja Rajesh and Sumedha Phadke congratulated all the meritorious students.

6th CTiS 2024

We are very happy to share that under the guidance of our director Deepa madam our teachers Netre Kulkarni, Lubna Shaikh, Trupti Paradhe and an alumni of CPS Mihir Sawai have presented a paper on " Teaching maths through gamification" and Maths department teachers Lubna Shaikh, Manasi Parab, Hema Nair and Kiwi Sohni from all 3 schools presented a paper on " From Diagnotic to Competetive in Mathematics" using computational thinking strategies, in two days, 6th conference on Computational Thinking in Schools ,CTiS 2024 held at IISER.
This was a proud moment for all of us, when the participants appreciate the work they have done and presented.

One more gem added to the City Pride Crown

"Maharashtra's Top Dynamic School 2023"

Our school received " Maharashtra's Top Dynamic School 2023 " award from Education Today News Network.

Our Director Dr. Deepali Sawai accepted the award at the Educator's Summit on 4th October in Mumbai.

Our Honorable Director Dr. Ashwini Kulkarni Ma’am was conferred with a prestigious award as a Skill Bharat Samman 2023 in association with OLL and CNBC.

CTiS Conference 2023

The CTiS (Computational Thinking in Schools) conference is an annual event organised by the ACM, India (Association for Computing Machinery India) and the CSpathshala community. It aims to bring together teachers, educators and researchers to discuss issues of curriculum, pedagogy, policy and implementation, related to bringing computational thinking to schools.
The conference on Computational Thinking in Schools (CTiS2023) was organised on 7th and 8th July, 2023 at IISER, Pune in partnership with City Pride Group of Schools and SCTR’s PICT ACM Student Chapter (PASC).
Dr. Deepali Sawai, our director was the program co-chair for the conference.
The conference was conducted in hybrid mode where some of the speakers, presenters and participants attended the conference online.
The two-day CTiS conference brought together experts from the field of computer science, including Tim Bell from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Juraj Hromkovic & Regula Lacher from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, as keynote speakers.
This year, the teachers teaching Computer, Maths , Science and language also participated enthusiastically. This year 5 abstracts from City Pride Group of Schools got selected for the presentation, showcasing the effective implementation of computational thinking.
1. Mrs. Amruta Dike , Afrin Usmani (teachers from Nigdi branch and Mihir Sawai(Alumni of CPS, student of PICT, Pune) presented paper of - Unplugged Activity To Teach Concept Of Looping And Conditions Using Computational Thinking.
2. Mrs. Bhakti Mohale (Nigdi Branch) presented paper on – चला शिकूया खेळातून संस्कृत भाषेतील वाक्यरचना
3. Mrs. Divya Roy and Shweta Bhamre (Nigdi Branch) presented paper on – Play With The Ray To Understand The Ray Diagrams.
4. Manisha Shinde , Poonam Kandekr and Poonam More(Moshi Branch) – Teaching Computer Network Through Computational Thinking.
5. Dipalee Badigar (Ravet Branch) - Computational Thinking In Coding
Under the able guidance of Dr. Deepali Sawai, teachers shouldered the responsibility of organisation and publicity of the conference successfully.