Mastermind School
| Mastermind School | |
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| Location | |
| House#5, Road#12 (New) 31 (Old), Dhanmondi R/A,Dhaka., | |
| Information | |
| Type | Private Primary School (Play Group to 2nd Grade) Junior School (3rd Grade to 5th Grade) Senior School (6th Grade to 12th Grade) |
| Established | 1999 |
| Principal | Mr. S. F Ahmed |
| Website | http://www.mastermindschool.org/ |
Mastermind School is a school in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It offers English-medium education to students from play group age to grade 12, leading to the IGCSE and GCE A-Level examinations, held under the Edexcel examination board.
The main buildings are located in Dhanmondi, with a branch in Uttara.
The school's principal is Syed Fakhruddin Ahmed, who is also the senior physics teacher at the school. The school has over 3000 students, and 300 teaching staff. The school has a Debating Society, Sports Club, a Newsletter Club and a Community Service Club.[1][2] It runs on the British curriculum (GCE). In August 2011, Mastermind School won "The Most Versatile School" award at the Biotechnology Fest, Hosted by City Montessory School, in Lucknow, India.
Mastermind School provides extra-curricular activities of debating, community service and sports. The school clubs are run by an executive committee, selected for each club.
Every year the Mastermind Community Service Club takes part in charitable works, including charity food sales, paying visits at Ashiq Foundation (a rehabilitation centre for under-privileged cancer-affected children), collection of winter clothes for charity distribution, a blood donation camp, and art competition for autistic children.
Mastermind Debating Society
Mastermind Debating Society (MMDS) is the school debating club. On February 10, 2011, MMDS hosted a national championship within its campus, with the participation of 48 teams. MMDS also participates in international debate competitions. In July 2011, Team Mastermind was ranked among the top-16 teams at the Asians Schools Debate Championship, at Seoul.[citation needed] In August 2011, MMDS got an honourable mention for debate at CMS, Lucknow, for a Biotechnology festival.[citation needed]
2011 saw MMDS reaching the Grand Finale of every domestic debate competition and having at least two of its debaters ranking among the top-5 national debaters at every tournament.[citation needed]
Mastermind Sports Club
Mastermind Sports Club (MMSC) is the school's official sports club. In the past years, MMSC was fairly inactive, having participated in only 3 inter-school tournaments in the academic years 2008-2011.
In the 2011-2012 academic year,the new executive committee set out to change that. The club was then under the leadership of President Md. Mushfiqur Rahman, Vice-President Md. Alvi Rahman, General Secretary Mir Jamiur Rahman and Additional General Secretary Farhan Fuad Hasan.
The new executive committee worked very hard and by the end of the school year, MMSC had sent teams to 4 inter-school volleyball tournaments, 2 inter-school basketball tournaments and had hosted an intra-school badminton tournament.
After a very successful year, a new executive committee was elected as their predecessors moved on to university. In the early 2014 it was announced that Mastermind school will be having annual sports each year on January at the Dhanmondi Women's Complex.
Pohela Boishak Celebration
Mastermind School hosts one of the largest school Pohela Boishakh Mela (Bengali New Year Festival) at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre.
Graduation ceremony
Every year, Mastermind stages a graduation ceremony for its O' Level and A' Level graduates that takes place at BICC. The ceremony starts off with the Bangladeshi National Anthem followed by cultural programs. Syed Fakhruddin Ahmed, the chairman, hands off the certificates.
Uttara Branch
The Uttara branch of Mastermind was opened in 1999. In 2009, all the sections moved to a new building. Rawnak Latif is the admin head for the Uttara branch as well as O Levels. Khurshid Alam is the admin for A Levels section.