Jamnabai Narsee School

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Location
Jamnabai Narsee School
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Information
Affiliation(s)	Indian Certificate of Secondary Education, National Institute of Open Schooling, IB Diploma Programme International General Certificate of Secondary Education and Indian School Certificate
Area trustee	Narsee Monjee Educational Trust
Principal	J Vas
Type	Private School
Grades	Kindergarten - 12
Motto	'Vidya Param Balam' ('Knowledge is Strength Supreme')
Established	1971

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, as well as the country^{[citation needed]}. The school is attended by the children of numerous celebrities and film stars living in the adjacent suburb of Juhu^{[citation needed]}.

1 History
2 Timeline of events
3 Facilities & Infrastructure
4 Notable Alumni
5 External links
6 References

[edit] History

Jamnabai Narsee School was founded on 17th January 1971. It was established and managed by the Narsee Monjee Educational Trust. It is a co-educational, English medium school with an emphasis on choosing a specific area of thrust, in the latter years of schooling, within one's overall 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 Examinations-New Delhi, and to International Baccalaureate Organisation,^[1] Geneva preparing students for the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) Examination at the end of the 10th grade and the International Baccalaureate Diploma (IBDP) at the end of the 12th.

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 “Vidya Param Balam”, which translates as, "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
2005 Inauguration of IB Diploma Pragramme for Grade 11 and 12.
2006 Celebration of Coral Jubilee - 35 years; Change of school infrastructure; Addition of 5th & 6th floors; Starting the Resource Centre for handicapped students.
2007 Inauguration of the Activity Room; Inception of the International General Certificate of Secondary Education Programme -CHECKPOINT - Std 8; Inception of Std. 11 - ISC - Arts and Commerce Stream; Established the Rainwater Harvesting System.

[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 its human resource - one hundred and seventy-five strong teaching faculty and support staff, and another hundred karamacharis (sweepers and menial workers). Three thousand nine hundred students eagerly enter the portals of the school every morning. Every year approximately two hundred and ninety canditates are prepared and sent up for the ICSE examinations. This number being the highest in Mumbai.

The physical plan of the hexagonal classroom creates a synergy that is conducive to an interactive play between the teacher and students. This makes 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.