Vice President, Er. Mrs. Naina Lakhanpal has been working on developing links with International schools. In this context, the school has been able to develop links with 3 International schools namely: Gartree Community School (UK) Instituto Compransivo Copertino (Italy) and Incheno Bunae Elementary School (South Korea).
These links are established to raise development issues and equip the partner schools with the skills and knowledge to become active global citizens, by carrying out cultural and curricular projects of Global Dimensions. She keeps attending workshops organised by British Council, Delhi, where the partner schools are exposed to different kinds of Global Dimension projects, which can be developed at school level.
The school is carrying out a project with Gartree Community School (UK). Under this project, various activities are undertaken by the school:

International education week was celebrated in HAPS from 17 November to 22 November 2008.
The aim was to provide the partner schools with more information of the Indian culture. During this week, various activities were conducted in the school. Among these are the Fancy Dress Show on Indian Regional Dresses, sharing of pictures with the international partner schools and exchange of questionnaires between the students of the partner schools. The questionnaires were based on the following themes :
Climate, Fruits and vegetables, Vegetation and wild life, Life Style, Sports & Festivals.

The students made pals with the students of Gartree Community School (U.K) by writing letters to them. In return, Gartree Community School students also sent replies. The aim of this project is to make the students familiar with the culture and life style of the other countries, and to enable them to explore and think critically.

In order to understand the diversity in language, commonly used Hindi language words and phrases were sent to the partner schools. The key to pronunciation was also mentioned in the document. This enabled them to have an acquaintance with our mother tongue.

Various power point projects were developed by the students under the heading : 'Festival Sustainability'. Through these projects, the partner schools were sent information on various Indian festivals. In return, the partner schools sent the detailed information on the festivals of their country. The students conducted a survey to find out, how the modes of celebrating the festivals have undergone a change. Both the school suggested each other the ways to educate the children on the essence of celebrating festivals. The schools took steps to make the children aware of the practices followed in the past to celebrate the festivals.

HAPS equipped the partner school with the information on Indian festivals through art work in the form of greeting cards. In return, the Bunae Elementary School sent their art work, to reciprocate for the same.

This institute desires to publish a web journal, with the aim to depict the culture of different countries. We sent the information related to the Indian festivals in English as well as in Hindi. In future, we aim to establish links with this school in order to educate our children about Italian language.
Through these International projects, we are currently developing our school activities around the broader International Perspective into the subject areas, that our students are studying at present.

Endeavour Executive Scholarship was awarded to Er. (Mrs) Himanshu Sharma Vice Principal by the department of Education Science & Training (DEST) Australia for 2008. She was invited to undertake a professional development programme in Australia. It consisted of a customized study of Australia education emphasizing on school based curriculum, assessment and reporting methods.

This was a six week comprehensive programme on school based assessment system in Australia council for Council for Educational Research (ACER) at Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Sydney.

The school is carrying out projects of Global Dimension with many international agencies.

1. HAPS is member of UNESCO associated project network since 2009.
2. There is a project in pipeline with UNESCO Aspranet for the following issues :
   1. Cultural diversity
   2. Sustainability
3. School is a member of life-link friendship Schools Sweden. Where the school’s number is 619 and the projects of our school are available on www.lofelink.org

In the pursuit for excellence and attaining international standards the school has developed links with international schools in order to raise development issues and equip the partner schools with the skills and knowledge to become active global citizens by carrying out cultural and curricular projects of Global Dimensions.

1. Gartree Community School (UK)
2. Instituto Compransivo Copertino (Italy)
3. Incheno Bunae Elementary School (South Korea)
4. St. Ives Primary School (UK)
5. Lenah Valley Primary School, Tasman.
6. Queen Elizaboth Community School (UK)
7. Wells Primary School, (UK)