The Mother's International School

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The Mother's International School
More true, forever more true
Location
Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi, 110016
India
Information
Principal (yet to be announced)
Type Secondary
Grades 1-12
Color(s) White and Blue
Established 23 April 1956
Board CBSE
Homepage [1]
The Mother's International School senior building
The Mother's International School senior building

The Mother's International School is located on Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi. It is an establishment of the Sri Aurobindo Education Society, an agency of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. In fact, it shares its campus with the New Delhi branch of the Ashram. The school is an English-medium co-educational institution affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). It is one of the most prestigious institutions in India.[citation needed] . It was voted the best school in Delhi by the Outlook Magazine (http://www.cfore.org/schools/schools_02.htm) and the "brightest" in the country.[citation needed]

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[edit] History

The school was founded on 23rd April 1956 by Shri Surendra Nath Jauhar "Faquir", with the blessings of The Mother, Mirra Alfassa, a renowned spiritualist, the spiritual partner and collaborator of Sri Aurobindo.

The school's motto "More True, Forever More True" was given by the Mother herself and the school's emblem portrays a bird in flight rising towards heaven. When asked about the date of the school's opening, the Mother replied "23456". And as the only possible date was 23rd April 1956, it was this day that the school first opened[citation needed].

When the school started out, a whole batch would have not more than 15 children, but today, a batch has 180 students, divided into 5 sections of 35-36 students each. The school has two wings, the Primary Wing, and the Senior Wing.

[edit] Aims

The school strives to create an awakening of cultural and spiritual values in accordance with the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. It has its own distinctive ethos. It aims at building an integrated personality by attempting to harmonize the different elements that constitute the individual - body, thoughts, feelings, instinct and impulses, aspiration and seeking. The very environment of the school is such that the student will automatically become an all rounder. there is a marked difference in the students of M.I.S. and students of any other school. We believe in making the child as mild as possible, who thinks well at times of difficulty.. and believes in achieving his or her goals. The aim is not to treat children in a harsh manner, but to make the child realize facts by self realization. We don't want to be termed as a school that is fancy. All we want is that our children grow up to be people who will make use of their lives in a positive way and help others making their way to success. Children are like flowers they bloom when they are given adequate sunlight and water, but die out if not nourished. We believe every child has a potential and it is us who have to fish it out. We have to give them enough for them to give the world. Knowledge, books, and the things that constitute academics are not the only focus. The mother's international school has done extremely well in the field of sports and will continue to because of the hard work that our students put in. It gives us great pride while talking about our children. They have done a lot for the school, worked hard day in and day out, and yet managed to perform well in academics. Therefore the students of The Mother's International School are termed as The Mother's Blossoms.

[edit] Environment

The school has a strength of about 2500 pupils with an average class size of 35 students. Each grade has five sections. The school provides ample scope for the all-round personality development of students. It has well-equipped laboratories in its different departments where stress is laid on understanding and appreciation of the subject rather than memorising for an exam-based system alone. It has a vast library where students can find books relating to various topics.

The school has its own stadium sized (400 metres) running track with appropriate training facilities for Athletics, Football, Basketball, Volleyball, Badminton, Table Tennis, Sepak Takraw among others. These activities help in developing the child's personality. There is an auditorium with a HALL OF GRACE for the functions held by the school.

The institution benefits from the serene Ashram ambiance and mutual interaction with the other institutions on the same campus, which include the alternative education school Mirambika, the pre-school Mira Nursery, and the Matri Karuna Vidyalaya. The campus also hosts a bakery, iron-work unit, wood-work unit, candle-making and handmade paper unit, vocational training centre, book store, and an organic vegetable farm.

[edit] Subjects, Activities and Achievements

The school teaches four languages: English, Hindi, Sanskrit and French. It also teaches Mathematics, Science and Social Studies till Class 10. There are three main streams for study beyond Class 10: Science, Commerce and Humanities.

The school also places emphasis on co-curricular activities such as art, craft, dance, sports, vocal and instrumental music.

Culturally, the school is a hub of activities. Being a member of SPIC MACAY, the School has active Drama, Quizzing, Yoga, Taekwondo, Gymnastics, Music (instrumental as well as vocal) and Art Groups apart from others. The school is continually a host to various inter-school as well as intra-school competitions.

The school has had a great record in the past years, with achievements ranging from academics to sports and co-curricular activities. It is one of the foremost in education in Delhi and has featured thrice in the Outlook C-Fore Best School Survey as the best school in Delhi and one of the top 10 in India[citation needed]. It has also been a regular participant and a frequent winner at the inter-school Aryabhatta Maths Competition.

A major plus point of the school is the small student to teacher ratio (1 teacher for every 35 students)[citation needed]. Therefore, each child gets a lot of individual attention. Each year, inter-house competitions are held in the school, like the Bag Drama, Oral Interpretation, Poem Festivals, debates etc. The children also get to showcase their talents on the Talent Fiesta, held yearly on the 23rd of April.

The school has regularly produced geniuses, going on to study in India's most prestigious institutes, like the BITS, IITs, AIIMS, NLS etc. The healthy competition these students encounter at the school level ensures that there is no problem in adapting to the competitive conditions in such institutes.

Besides a brilliant record in academics, the school's students have done exceedingly well in extra curricular activities. The school quiz team is one the most formidable ones in the country. It has won many accolades for the school. Past laurels of the team include the Columban Open Quiz, the Bournvita Quiz, the HT Pace Quiz, the Japan Quiz etc. The school has also been winning the zonal sports competitions in Delhi. The teams of Basketball, Football, Table Tennis, Badminton, Sepak Takraw etc have been winning for a very long time. The school's computer club, MINET ( MIS Information Network) maintains a full fledged school website, www.themisonlin.org. These students also regularly win prizes at computer and IT festivals held all over Delhi. The computers department has produced many brilliant minds, winning awards at the national and even international level in competitions like the National Science Exhibition and International Olympiad in Informatics.

The school also hosts a prestigious football tournament every year, better known as the 'Surendra Nath Jauhar Tournament', in which many of Delhi's finest schools compete. The tournament, being a knockout competition, lasts for about almost a week, and the team winning the finals is proclaimed the winner, and is awarded the trophy.

[edit] Staff members

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  • Honest producer - Mrs Indu Pillay
  • Principal - (yet to be announced)
  • Vice Principal - Mr Harpal Bhalla
  • Head stress - Mrs Sanghamitra Ghosh

[edit] Primary Wing

  • Science - Veena Ramkiran, Jayashree
  • Maths - Uma Puri, Sushma, Veena Yadav, Shaily Dogra (class 3,4,5 but only takes maths lab activity for class 4,5)
  • English - Archana, Renu, Neethu, Sumita
  • Social Sciences - Vineeta Yadav, Jayashree, Sarita Singh
  • Hindi - Yogesh, , Sangeeta, Chitra
  • Sports - Deepti, Preeti, Heera
  • Sanskrit (Class 3 onwards) - Shalini
  • Computers - Sarika, Pallavi
  • Younger Kids' Class Teachers - (class 1 has 2 teachers) Gauri, Shivani Khazanchi, Charu Bandhu, Vineeta Prakash, Avantika Mathur, Jyotika Singh, Paromita, Ivy Chakravarty, Meera Khanna, Rajani Deepkumar.
  • Substitute teachers - Radha, Nagajyoti, Jyoti Bhatnagar
  • Art and craft - Namrita, Shaloo, Shimita

[edit] Senior Wing

  • Science - P L Shekhar, Shubra Dabas, Veerinder Kaur, Madhulika Bahadur, Shalini Bhardwaj, Sharmila Bannerjee, Sharmistha Sanyal, Rajalakshmi, Nandani Dasgupta, Rashu Bhalla, Florence, Lata Srinivasan, Shobhita Johari etc.
  • English - Flavia D'Souza, Pratibha Madan, Simranjeet Kaur, Milan Mala Sarin, Avinder Ghura, Deboshmita Mukherjee, Lata Hariharan
  • Maths - Smita Gupta, Ritu Sharma, Ramina Kumar, Deepti Mathur, Rinku Uppal, Archana Chugh, Shweta Sharma, Tarang Chowdhary
  • Social Sciences -Anuradha Gupta, Vibha Raizada , Dr. Kamala Menon, Neena Sethi, Annapoorni V, Jyoti Hirani
  • Physics - Shalini Bhardwaj, Sharmila Bannerjee, Sharmistha Sanyal
  • Chemistry - Rajalakshmi, Nandani Dasgupta, Rashu Bhalla, Florence Joseph
  • Biology - Lata Srinivasan, Shobhita Johari, Veerinder Kaur, P.L. Shekhar, Madulika Bahadur
  • Computers - Shweta Sharma, A.K. Dash
  • Hindi - Poonam Juneja, Lalita Pandey, Suman Bedi, Santosh Kak
  • Sanskrit - Sanjay Jha, Shalini
  • Football - Nisha
  • Badminton - Darshana Bhandari
  • Table Tennis - Gulshan Rai, Prashanth Bhambri
  • Basketball - Gulshan Rai, Mr. Rawal
  • French - Anuradha Karkun , Ruchi Phulli
  • Music - Ms. Rita Chatterjee , Tushar Pahari , Sujeet , Fateh Singh, Pt Barun Pal
  • Accountancy- Anuradha Rao
  • Business Studies- Anuradha Rao
  • Economics- Mrs. Shobhana Nair, Mrs. Rangana, Mrs Maharukh Singh

[edit] Images

Senior Building

Building

Junior Playground

Football Field

Senior Building

Senior wing building

track field

the road between the building and the Aspiration Hall

[edit] See also

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[edit] Nursury

The Mother's International School has now added The Mira Nursury School.