Don Bosco School, Park Circus
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| Don Bosco School, Park Circus | |
| Location | |
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| 23, Darga Road, Kolkata |
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| Information | |
| Affiliation(s) | Salesians of Don Bosco |
| Principal | Siby Joseph Vadakel |
| Enrollment |
all-boys, c. 220 annually through interview |
| Students | c. 5000 |
| Type | Private |
| Grades | Upper Kindargarten to 12th grade |
| Motto | Virtus et Scientia (Virtue and Knowledge) |
| Color(s) | Sky blue and yellow |
| Established | 1958 |
| Vice Principal | John Sebastien Plathottam |
| Assistant Principal | Jose Puthenpurackal |
| Homepage | donboscoschoolkolkata.com |
Don Bosco School, Park Circus, situated at 23, Darga Road, Kolkata, is an all-boys, English medium school imparting education from first through twelth grade. Established in 1958, it is run by the Salesians of Don Bosco, which is a minority institution within the Catholic Church. The school operates under the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education board.
The motto of the institution is Virtus et Scientia, meaning Virtue and Knowledge in Latin.
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[edit] History
The school started functioning on 31 January 1958 and has been in continuous operatin for 50 years.
[edit] Houses
DBPC uses the house system to foster a sense of competition and belonging. The four houses are Savio (Red), Bosco (Blue), Francis (Yellow), and Rua (Green). All activities in the school are organized according to the houses.
[edit] Academics
The school is famous for its high academic standards.[citation needed] The students of the school regularly feature among the city and country toppers. In contrast to the other schools in the city where the toppers only do well in their respective board exams and lose out elsewhere, toppers from this school regularly get selected by the top institutes in the country in all fields: engineering, medical, arts, management, business, but specially the first.
[edit] Athletics
Don Bosco has a large number of sports played in the school, with separate coaching classes for each of them. The coaching classes are free for the players on the school team. The different sports are :
Basketball: This is probably the most popular sport in Don Bosco. There are two basketball courts, and the school U-19 team is ranked at No.6 out of all teams(state and school level) throughout India. A yearly tournament called the 'Bosco Challenge Shield' is held in October-November months and is the most popular tournament of Kolkata schools. Not surprisingly, Don Bosco has never lost the tournament in the last 26 years. No one will ever forget the NINJA team of the late 90's early 2001-02 period which went on an unbeaten streak for 3 straight years in all tournaments.
Cricket: Also a very popular sport, the cricket team is also highly talented and has won many awards for the school. The school team is one of the best in the city, and had even defeated club level players from England. Many players also play on the state teams and have been reported as the next sensations in papers.
Football: Football is very popular in the school. Over the past decade the football team has been pretty strong winning several Inter School Catholic Schools and Inter Anglo Indian Schools Tournaments. There used to be the Keventer Cup organized by the school. More recently, a yearly tournament is to be started in the school from 2007-2008 scholastic year.
Table-Tennis: Table-tennis is also a very popular sport in the school. Many individual awards have been won, and the table tennis team is regarded to be quite good.
Badminton:This sport is popular during winters and is one of the newer sports introduced in the school.
Besides these, there is a games room where students can play games like carrom and chess.
The school offers coaching classes for basketball, cricket, football, table tennis and karate.
Further facilities for indoor sports are under construction in the school campus.
[edit] Facilities
[edit] Groups and Associations
- Cyber Space Group (CSG) - The computer group of the school.
- Scouts
- Media & Cultural Group (MCG) - The group is responsible for organizing the various cultural events of the school at both inter-school and intra-school level
- Leadership Training Service (LTS)- The club helps students imbibe leadership qualities and actively participates in social services
- Young Christian Students (YCS) - A club for the Christian students of the school
- Interact Group - The group actively does social services and is a subsidiary of Rotary International
- Quiz Group - The group's membership comprises the avid quizzers of the school , and has been responsible for the school being regarded as one of the eternal favourites in the school quizzing circuit .
- Savio Group - The group is responsible for all sporting activities in school
- Philately Group - The stamp collector's group
- Science & Nature Group (SNG) - the group with an outlook to save the nature and utilise science for social occasions The club has an outlook to save the nature and apply science for social work
[edit] Famous Alumni/Former Students
- Samit Basu author of the GameWorld trilogy which includes the books The Simoqin Prophecies, The Manticore's Secret and The Unwaba Revelations.
- Arunava Sinha Internet guru and translator of Shankar's Chowringhee
- Neel Mukherjee UK-based critic and author of Past Continuous
- Shayan Munshi actor and model infamous for his role in the Jessica Lall murder case trial.
- Rakesh Gangwal, President , US Airways
- Amitava Ghosh, one of the scientists involved in the Mars Rover mission.
