Mayo College Girls School

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Mayo College Girls' School, Ajmer, India
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Motto:	Let there be light
Established:	August 1, 1988
Type:	Private, Residential Girls'
Principal:	Mrs. Jamila Singh
Students:	756, Student-Teacher Ratio 1:9
Location:	Ajmer, India
Website:	www.mcgs.ac.in

Mayo College Girls' School is one of the most prestigious public schools / boarding schools located in Ajmer, Rajasthan (a state in India). It is a public school providing education exclusively for girls from Class IV to XII.

1 Overview
2 Activities
3 Some facts about the school
4 Notable alumni
5 Picture gallery
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
9 Notes

[edit] Overview

The academic period starts in April and ends in March. New students are admitted mainly in Class IV, V, VII and XI. The school is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE).

Mayo College Girls' School or MCGS follows the House System, with five dormitory-like houses, named, Sanyogita, Padmini, Meera, Karunawati and Charumati. These are named after princesses of Rajasthan. Additionally, there is holding house that houses students from Class IV and V. The house is supervised and maintained by House Mistresses and House Matrons.

After the final exams, a Midterm Educational Trip is organized which is mandatory for all students to attend. Students are taken to various parts of the country. Students also travel to different part of India and abroad to take part in competitions such as Indian Public School Conference (IPSC)^[1] events and Round Square Conferences. There are also student-exchange programmes with schools in the UK and Australia.

During the Annual Prize Giving, the School Captain is announced. Soon, she is joined by her team of captains consisting of the School Vice Captain, Games Captain, House Captains, House Vice Captains, House Prefects and various Society Presidents. There is also a Student Council that mediates between the student body and the teachers, while also suggesting ideas for the betterment of school. A few of the various awards are School Colors, Academic and Cultural Scholarships, Best All Rounder Award and sports Trophies. A tally of points from competitions round the year and conduct of students is done at the end, and the Best House Trophy is awarded. This means much to the students who spend a lot of time and energy trying to win points and good marks for the house while avoiding bad marks.

All festivals are celebrated in school, some being Holi, Lohri, Id, Saraswati Puja, Basant Panchami and Diwali. On Gandhi Jayanti, the school helpers are given some time off and students engage in shram daan which spans from cleaning to cooking. Inter house Competitions such as Swimming Meet, Art and Craft, Music and Dance, Computer Science, Cricket, Hockey and many others bring the best out of students.

Mayo College, Ajmer, India Coat of Arms designed by Lockwood Kipling.

[edit] Activities

The activities provided are Dances(Folk, Odissi, Kathak and Bharatnatyam) , Art, Craft, Indian Classical Vocal Music, Indian Classical Instruments (Sitar, Tabla, Harmonium, Violin), Western Vocal and Instrumental (Piano, Guitar, Violin, Drums, Congo), Pottery, Creative Writing, Dramatics, Nature Club, Computer related activities, Quizzing, Debating among many others. On Saturdays, a group of students go to an adopted village "Danta". An organization, Hateli was created to help the women in the area learn skills and sell their handicrafts. SUPW or Socially Useful Productive work sessions are also held. Students join Societies and often found new ones.

[edit] Some facts about the school

Students from the school refer to themselves as Mayoites.
Mrs. Jamila Singh has been the principal of the school since it has been founded.
The Dramatics Club is called The Sophocles Club. This was initited by the XII Std batch of 2002-2003. Luckily in this case the name stuck on.
The Student run newsletter was initiated by the XII Std batch of 2004-2005. The first edition was called Kitch and was not even a print out, it was made on chart paper and was completely hand written. The next four issues were the same format, after which they started using print outs instead. The newsletter is now run officially and is currently named Mayonnaise. The other suggestions were Mayo Times and Mayozine.
The most exciting column of the newsletter is the Over-Heard column.
Meera house was the first house to be made and contained the library as well as the mess back in 1988.
The "Mayo Cake" is made of Chocolate Horlicks and Marie biscuits (and sometimes coffee).
The student band in 2002 kept its name "The Troubadours." In 2003 the successors changed the name to "Fuge". Then in the year 2004 the student band this time over decided that the name would not be changed anymore and thus engraved the name onto the Drums. Ever since that day the school band has been called "THE TROUBADOURS." The batch of 2003-2004 then changed the name to "Psycedelics".
The first student to become an Army officer- Capt Loveleen Mann commissioned into the Judge Advocate General dept of the Indian Army.