Jamnabai Narsee School

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Jamnabai Narsee School is a private school in the city of Mumbai, India. It was founded on January 17, 1971 and is managed by the Narsee Monjee Education Trust.The school building is unique in architecture with three clusters of hexagonal classrooms, each with a central foyer. It has a reputation as one of the most eminent schools in Bombay; a number of celebrities and film stars living in the Juhu area send their children to the school.

[edit] History

Jamnabai Narsee School founded on 17th January 1971, is established and managed, by the Narsee Monjee Educational Trust. It is a co-educational English medium School with an emphasis on a specific thrust in the field of education.

The education imparted aims at promoting the growth and integration of all the facets of the child's personality in an ambience of Indian Culture. The School is an Unaided Linguistic-Minority Institution, affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination-New Delhi, and to International Baccalaureate Organisation, Geneva preparing students for the Indian shi Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) Examination in Std 10 and the International Baccalaureate Diploma (IBDP) in Std 12.

The guiding principle of the school is “Let learning be a joy and teaching be a pleasure” where opportunities are provided leading to the process of self-improvement.

The motto of the school is “Knowledge is strength supreme”.

[edit] Timeline of events

  • 1971 Inauguration of the School - I.C.S.E and S.S.C. streams; Introduction of the House System; Starting of health Care Unit.
  • 1972 Inauguration of the Math Laboratory
  • 1974 Election of student council
  • 1978 First Issue
  • 1979 Inception of the Parent - Teacher Association
  • 1984 Inception of the Jamnabai Narsee Alumni Association; First issue of the directory of the graduating class titled SMRUTI
  • 1987 Celebration of the Centenary Year of Shri Narsee Monjee; Staring of the Narsee Monjee Inter- School Hindi Elocution
  • 1988 Inauguration of the Computer Section
  • 1991 Inauguration of the Social Studies Room
  • 1992 Hosting of the All India Conference of the Principals of ICSE Schools.
  • 1993 Inauguration of the Audio - Visual Room; Starting the 'CASCADE' festival by J.N.A.A.
  • 1996 Celebration of the Silver Jubilee Year
  • 1997 Establishment of the Reading Rooms in the Dixit Road Municipal School, Vile Parle (East) by the P.T.A
  • 1999 Starting of the Dyslexia Awareness Programme
  • 2000 Inauguration of the Life Enrichment Centre; Inauguration of Activity Centre for pre-school; Inauguration of Science Activity Centre

[edit] Facilities & Infrastructure

The School building has a unique architecture with three clusters of hexagonal class-rooms, each with a central foyer. It is constructed on a plot admeasuring 8,340 Sq.yards. The school is ideally located near the Jamnabai Narsee playground and the school compound has especially prepared courts for basketball, volleyball, throwball and handball to cater to the physical education programme of the school.

The building itsef has a total built-up area of 1,44,000 square feet and a carpet area of more than 1,17,000 square feet.

The building houses 72 classrooms each measuring 585 sq.ft. in area, for the students from nursery to Std.X. In addition to these, there are spacious rooms for academic activities such as the Technical Drawing Room, the Art Room, the Maths Laboratory, the Environmental Science room and rooms for Bharat Natyam, Kathak and folk dance, the sitar room, rooms for Indian and Western Music and a modern Computer Centre. The entire central area in the first floor is the arena for cultural activities. The well equipped Physics / Biology / Chemistry laboratories and the Science Activity Centre are on second floor. An air-conditioned audio-visual room of around 1200 sq.ft. area is situated on the third floor. The school hall with a mezzanine floor caters to the needs of an audience of 700.

The backbone of the school is the human resource - one hundred and seventy-five strong teaching faculty and support staff and another hundred karmacharis. Three thosand nine hundred students eagerly enter the portals of our school every morning. Every year approximately two hundred and ninety canditates are prepared and sent up for ICSE examinations. This number being the highest in Mumbai.

The physical plan of hexagonal classroom creates a synergy that is coincidence to an interactive play between the teacher and students. this make for efficient growth and development in not just academic learning but the all-round development of an individual, living in a world increasingly dominated by information and communicative abilities.

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