St. Joseph's Convent Higher Secondary School, Sambalpur

St.Joseph's Convent Higher Secondary School,Sambalpur (SJC-SBP)

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Location
Sambalpur, Odisha
India
Coordinates 21°28′30″N 83°59′26″E / 21.47501°N 83.99046°E / 21.47501; 83.99046
Information
Type Private School
Established 11 February 1963 (1963-02-11)
Principal Sr. Anjana
Affiliations CISCE,New Delhi
Website www.sjcsambalpur.org

History

The School was founded at Sakhipada in Sambalpur, Odisha by the[1] Sisters of Saint Joseph's, Chambéry, India along with the late[2] Mr Banmali Babu, an eminent social activist in Western Odisha during 1963. The pioneer of the school was Sr. Mary Ann. The school celebrated its Golden Jubilee on 11 December 2012.

Campus

The school has a campus of 25 acres.The campus accommodates five separate blocks;each for Kindergarten, Primary school, Middle school, Junior High School and Senior Secondary school along with the administrative and staff block.

Facilities

The school provides adequate facilities for sports ad co-curricular activities. In April 2014, the school installed Smart Class room boards to enhance teaching methods with advanced audio-visual aid. CCTV Cameras are also installed to ensure security of students.

Curriculum

The School follows the ICSE and the ISC pattern of examinations, following the guidelines laid down by the[3] council.

Examinations conducted in the school are:-

Name of the Examination Weight Applicable for classes
Unit Tests 5/10/20/25 marks Classes I to VII
Quarterly Examination 50 marks Classes VIII to XII
Half Yearly Examination 50 marks Classes VI, VII, VIII, IX and XI
Annual School Examination 100 marks Classes I to IX, XI
Odisha and Chhattisgarh Association of ICSE Schools Model Examinations 70/80/100 marks Classes X and XII
CISCE Board Examinations 70/80/100 marks Classes X and XII

The school follows the pattern of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation Scheme laid down by NCERT in Junior and middle schools. Home Assignments, Note-Book Assessments, Projects, Aura-Oral tests, school attendance and Personal qualities are also summed up to evaluate a pupil's result for a particular academic year.

The school follows the package system. There are six days in each package. Each package has 8 classes/periods of 35 minutes, each. A package has 2 Leisure, Sports and Activities classes, 2 Value Education classes,1 SUPW and Drawing class, 1 Art education class and 1 Physical Education class along with individual classes for curricular subjects offered in a particular academic year, for every class.

Grading pattern is as follows:

School Grade Equivalent percentage of Marks Remarks Equivalent scale in CISCE
A1 90% and above EXCELLENT 1
A2 80% TO 89% VERY GOOD 2
B1 75% TO 79% GOOD 3
B2 70% TO 74% FAIR 3
C1 65% TO 69% FAIR 4
C2 60% TO 64% CREDIT 5
D1 50% TO 59% PASS 6
D2 40% TO 49% PASS 7
E BELOW 40% NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THE NEXT CLASS 8

Extracurricular activities

The school has a provision for Socially Useful Productive Work class where students are suggested to use their creativity in making arts and crafts. The school conducts the House Assembly on every Wednesday and mimes Club Assembly on every Thursday. The school has divided its students into four groups/houses, namely: Radhakrishnan House(Green House), Tagore House(Brown House), Aurobindo House (Blue House) and Gandhi House (Red House). Some of the celebrations and ceremonies that are held at the school are:

Serial Number Name of the Ceremony/Celebration Month
1 Republic Day Celebration with Flag Hoisting 26 January
2 Grandparents Day by students of Class IV August
3 Investiture's Ceremony April
4 Independence Day 15 August
5 Teachers' Day 5 September
6 Children's Day 14 November
7 Christmas Day Celebrations 2nd week of December

The School Annual Cultural Bonanza, Annual Athletic Meet, School Fete and Science Exhibitions are conducted alternatively, once in 3 years. Different school clubs like The Eco-club, Interaction Club(By Rotary Club) enable in students a sense of creativity, moral and social responsibility. Apart from that, various inter-house dance competitions, skit competitions,elocution,literary writing and debate competitions, patriotic singing competitions, General Knowledge tests and house assembly prayer services on special observation days are conducted to build up leadership qualities in a student.

School Parliamentary System

The School has its own parliamentary system for its smooth functioning. Students from Class 12 are nominated by committee of senior teachers headed by the principal for assigning them certain portfolios of the School Parliament such as Prime Minister, Head Boy/Girl, Discipline Minister, Education Minister, Sports and Traffic Minister and many more. Selected student from Class 11 are given deputy charge of the above portfolios. The House Boy and Girl Captains (amongst Class 10 students) and House Boy and Girl Vice Captains (amongst Class 9 students) are elected by the Students of Class 8,9 and 10 (High School Students). An Investiture Ceremony is being held (usually in July) in which they take their oath to serve the school.

Cabinet Meetings also takes place. This is headed by the Principal and attended by all the Cabinet Members, House Captains and Vice Captains, High School Teachers and sometimes Class Monitors of all classes. The meeting is held twice or thrice in a year and is held in the Hall.

Awards and recognition

Principals of the school

Name of the Principal Year of Start of service Year of End of service
Sr. Mary Ann 1963 1969
Sr. Ann Mary 1969 1969
Sr. Elizabeth 1969 1975
Sr. Ann Charlotte 1975 1976
Sr. Assunta 1976 1979
Sr. Audrey 1979 1982
Sr. Stanislaus 1982 1987
Sr. Damian 1987 1998
Sr. Maurice 1998 2013
Sr. Navya 2013 2014
Sr. Anjana 1 July 2014 Till Date

References

  1. ↑ http://www.sistersofsaintjoseph.org
  2. ↑ http://www.partyanalyst.com/candidateElectionResultsAction.action?candidateId=168812&canidateName=BANAMALI%20BABU%20PROFILE
  3. ↑ https://careers.cisce.org/common/web
  4. ↑ http://www.cisce.org

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