The co-curricular clubs at an ICSE school in Gonda do more than fill the hours after lessons; at Yashmay World School they are where the all-round promise of a CISCE education is kept. As a co-educational school for Nursery to Class XII, set on a 25-acre campus in Gonda, Uttar Pradesh, we treat robotics, Model United Nations, performing arts, debate and coding as serious learning environments in their own right. Each club gives children a place to apply what they study, to lead, to make mistakes safely and to discover the interests that often shape a young person far beyond the syllabus.

Founded on 2 April 2017, Yashmay has built its co-curricular life around a simple conviction: confident, articulate, curious young people are made in the spaces between subjects as much as inside them. With a 1:9 teacher-to-student ratio, club work here can stay personal, with mentors who know each child and the room to stretch them.

Clubs that turn the ICSE syllabus into lived experience

A CISCE curriculum rewards depth, application and clear expression, and our clubs are designed to draw exactly those qualities out of children. Robotics and coding clubs sit naturally within a campus built for hands-on learning, with more than 40 laboratories giving students the equipment and space to design, build and refine real projects rather than only read about them. This emphasis on applied, technology-rich learning is part of why Yashmay has been recognised as the country's number one school for AI-Integrated Learning by the Education World Grand Jury for 2025-26.

Debate and Model United Nations clubs build the spoken and written articulacy that ISC and ICSE examiners look for. Children learn to research a position, anticipate counter-arguments, and speak with composure in front of an audience, while the performing arts develop discipline, collaboration and the courage to stand on a stage. Across all of these, the aim is the same: to let pupils practise the skills the examinations assess in settings that feel meaningful to them.

Taken together, our co-curricular clubs give children room to:

• Apply classroom concepts in robotics and coding projects using purpose-built laboratory facilities
• Develop research, reasoning and public-speaking skills through debate and Model United Nations
• Grow confidence, teamwork and creative expression in the performing arts
• Find and pursue individual interests with the close attention a 1:9 ratio allows

An all-round education, backed by a record of recognition

Strong academic outcomes and a rich club life are not in competition at Yashmay; they reinforce one another. In the ISC 2024 examinations one in three of our students scored above 90 per cent, and in ICSE 2024 seven in twelve did the same. We believe results of this kind come, in part, from children who are engaged, well-rounded and used to thinking for themselves, qualities that co-curricular clubs deliberately cultivate.

That balance has been noticed beyond our gates. Alongside the national recognition for AI-Integrated Learning, Yashmay was named the number one day-cum-boarding school in Gonda for 2024-25, and earlier featured among the Top 10 in India and second in Uttar Pradesh for Best Technology Integration in 2023-24, our third consecutive year of recognition. For parents weighing where their child will spend the formative years from Nursery to Class XII, this consistency speaks to a settled, dependable approach to all-round education.

Flexible school life that lets clubs flourish

Co-curricular involvement should suit the family as much as the child. Yashmay offers Day, Day-cum-Boarding and Full Residential options, so pupils can take part in clubs, sports and the wider co-curricular programme in the way that fits their home circumstances and their stage of growing up. Boarding and day-cum-boarding pupils, in particular, gain the unhurried evenings that let a rehearsal, a coding session or MUN preparation run its full course.

For families in Gonda and the surrounding Awadh region of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, including Basti, Bahraich, Balrampur, Gorakhpur and Faizabad and Ayodhya, a well-resourced co-curricular life close to home matters. The campus sits roughly 35 kilometres, or about 45 minutes, from Ayodhya and within reach of Lucknow, making it possible for a wide community to give their children the kind of clubs, mentorship and facilities that a thoughtful ICSE education deserves.