No.9 , Vanivilas Road, V.V.Puram, Bangalore - 560 004, Karnataka, India.

 

                 

 

FACILITIES PROVIDED BY THE SCHOOL MANAGEMENT

1.      Computer Education is introduced to High School sections to keep pupils to face with the fast expanding technological world and the challenges of the 21st century.

2.      SCHOOL AWARDS : For regular attendance, neat uniform, good conduct, progress in class, prizes are given to pupils class-wise every year.

3.      CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES : Literary activities such as debate, drama, quiz, essay writing, TV, News reading, fine arts, yoga, suryanamaskar, sports, athletics and team games are taught.  Competitions conducted every year and prizes are awarded.

          Pupils are divided into houses and intra-mural competitions are conducted.  Leaders are chosen to help in maintaining discipline in the school.

            All the pupils should compulsorily participate in the competitions. 

4.      VOLUNTEERS SERVICE TRAINING: Volunteer Service Training provided during functions, excursions and other activities.

5.      EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: To induce leadership qualities, to kindle a sense of responsibility, to explore latent talents, to make good use of opportunities, and to redeem them from the boredom of class-room activities, pupils are given chance to participate in the following activities.

                        1.  Literacy club                           2.  Science-in-action

                        3.  Dramatics                               4.  Music club

                        5.  Fine arts club                          6.  Humanities club

                        7.  Eco-club                                8.  Quiz club

                        9.  Wall magazine                       10. Sports club.

6.      LIBRARY: Every pupil must become member of the school library.  There are 1) Class-room libraries where books are issued to pupils during library periods by the class-teachers.  2) General Central library: during leisure time pupils can enrich their knowledge by making use of this library.  Every pupil is expected to read at least 10 to 15 books during the term.  They must make a note in the diary, the names of books they have read. 

            Reading room facilities are also available for pupils to read newspapers and magazines.

 7.      CLASS MAGAZINES:  Every class is encouraged to bring out a class magazine with the contribution of articles in the form of essays, stories, riddles, poems, puzzles etc.,  The selected articles are published in the school magazine.

 8.      EDUCATIONAL TOURS & WEEK END CAMPS :  Pupils are taken out to various places of historical or geographical interest.  All pupils are expected to participate in these excursions whenever such excursions are arranged.  Nature camps during week-ends are organised for children.  They are provided opportunities to spend their week-ends amidst sylvan surroundings away from their homes.

            9.      SERVICE ACTIVITY: This is with a view to instill in the pupils a spirit
            of  service to the needy and develop a fellow-feeling amongst them.  They are   
            given chances to participate in the distribution of fruits and biscuits to inmates
           of  the orphanages and patients in hospitals, on 2nd October, being Gandhi
           Jayanthi and School Birthday.  

             Pupils will have an opportunity to take part in the following activities also:

            1.  Prayer                               2. Afternoon Lunch Prayer

            3. Daily news reading             4. Broadcasting

            5. News board.

 10.  CITIZENSHIP COURSE (Practical): Citizenship Course is provided at least twice a week.  Participation in this course is compulsory for every pupil.

 11.  NEWSPAPER READING (News Education):  To encourage pupils to read newspapers and keep abreast of current affairs and latest advances in several fields of human activity, one period a week is setr apart for news reading on Saturdays.  Pupils should bring any newspaper in English of any day of the week.  Pupil's performance is evaluated by allotting marks.

             NIE ( Newspaper in Education) is brought by Times of India, Students not     
             only subscribe for the paper but also increase their general knowledge and
             participate in different activities of NIE, as Dramatics, Quiz, Cartoon drawing
             etc., and get prizes.  Every week NIE conducts work shop to students on
             various subjects/topics which are enjoyed by all the students.

 12.  Audio, Visual facilities are provided to pupils as specified in the time table.  This includes 16mm films, videocassettes, over head projector, film strip projector multi media CD ROMs etc., to motivate them for better learning.

13.  Awareness in our rich culture is taught by celebrating all National and religious festivals.

 14.  FLAG-HOISTING : To provide necessary practical experience for students in flag-hoisting and dehoisting they are given training in this on specified days.

             15.  POSTAL SERVICE: To familarize pupils about the postal facilities and
              stationary available, they are provided with all the information required for
              layman.  They are also taken to post offices to show how they function. 

             16.  SELF-STUDY TIME-TABLE:   All pupils should prepare self-study
             (home-study) time-table and get them scrutinized by their class-teachers.
            
Parents should see that the pupils follow them at home and inculcate
             systematic study habits

            17.  CRAFT-EXHIBITION: To provide an opportunity for parents to see
             what their children have achieved in their creative and innovative activities, a
             display of pupil's products is arranged. Pupils should prepare weather charts
             every day and submit them to the class-teachers for scrutiny.  Pupils should
             maintain personal diary to record their day to day individual activities.

           18.  STUDENT'S SAFETY INSURANCE : To cover certain risks to which
            children are exposed to "Students' Safety Insurance" is introduced for which
             purpose each pupil has to pay an annual premium.

            19.  FIRST AID : First-Aid training  is compulsory for all High school pupils.
            
Special classes in first-aid will be conducted by trained teachers.

            20.  SCIENCE PRACTICALS:  Practicals are an integral part of science
            teaching.  So provision is made for science practicals for high school pupils.

            21.  GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT: We have a separate Geography
             Department with a large number of maps, charts, globes, video cassettes.
            
Students are required to use Atlas in Geography classes.

           22.  STUDENTS' QUESTION-PAPER : Pupil's are divided into two groups
           [class-wise and subject-wise] and are assigned the work of preparing their own 
           question papers in different subjects after group discussion with the guidance of 
           subject teachers.  About 20% of the questions from these papers will be 
           included in the question papers for the terminal examinations.

            23.  STUDENTS ASSESSED WORK-BOOK DISPLAY:  To enable the 
             parents to observe and know about the performance and progress of their
             children assessed work-books are displayed twice a year (September and
             March).

            24.  SPORTS AND LITERARY COMPETITIONS: All the pupils should
             compulsorily participate in sports and literary activities and take part in these
             competitions.  To train children to participate in sports competitions, weekend
            camps for team games are conducted.

25.  WRITING OF LETTERS DURING HOLIDAYS: To develop their communication abilities, students are required to write letters to their class-teachers during midterm and summer vacation for which purpose post-cards will be provided to them.

26.  To develop leadership qualities in pupils and enable them to appreciate the importance of service, Students' Service Club is started.  Every year it is democratically reconstituted by electing the office bearers such as the president, vice-president, joint secretary and class-representatives.  Voting is by secret ballot.

27.  Project work based on school curriculum is a group activity involving preparation of models, drawings collection of specimen and classification etc.,

28.  Sale of confectionery products are organised by the pupils during lunch break. 

29.  Annual Medical Examination is compulsory for all students.

BOOKS TO BE CARRIED TO SCHOOL: To reduce the load of books and prevent needless strain for their backbones, the pupils are advised to bring only the language and Mathematics text books according to the time-table. They can use the other text books on core subjects at home for self study. 

HOME-WORK : Home-work time-table is mentioned in the programme-of-work.  Pupils should do the exercises as per the date mentioned and submit the same to the concerned teacher the next day. Parents are requested to see that their children do the Home-assignments regularly for about 1 hour a day.

PRIVATE TUITIONS: Without the prior permission of the Principal no parent should engage a private tutor for any pupil.  This is to avoid needless confusion in the minds of children while learning a subject due to different methods of teaching adopted by different teachers.  In case private tuition is found absolutely necessary for some children, the Principal will advice the parents concerned suitably. 

INTERVIEWS: When students enter the worlds of work after the completion of education they have to face frequent interviews when they are required to impress upon the interviewer about their presence of mind, conversational ability and etiquette. To expose them to a stimulated situation we conduct frequent interviews.

PASSPORT: It has been planned to take pupils of high school to places of international importance outside India, in batches.  Hence, all the pupils are advised to obtain passport either through any travel agency or directly from passport office.  This will enable them to participate in tours outside the country when arranged.