The Mother's International School, New Delhi

Coordinates: 28°32′26″N 77°12′6″E / 28.54056°N 77.20167°E / 28.54056; 77.20167

The Mother's International School
MIS Senior Building More true, forever, more true
Location
Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Delhi Branch, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi - 110016
Information
Type	Secondary
Established	23 April 1956
Founder	Shri Surendra Nath Jauhar "Faquir"
Principal	Smt. Sanghamitra Ghosh
Grades	1-12
Campus	Urban
Color(s)	white, blue
Ranking	3rd in India
Website	www.themis.in

Sri Aurobindo

Family Rajnarayan Basu (Maternal grandfather) Manmohan Ghose (Elder brother) Barin Ghosh (Younger brother) Krishna Kumar Mitra (Maternal uncle)
Political career Anushilan Samiti Jugantar Partition of Bengal Alipore bomb case Jugantar Patrika Bande Mataram
Speeches and books Uttarpara Speech Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol Record of Yoga Mother's Agenda
Teachings Integral yoga Intermediate zone Supermind
Places Matrimandir Pondicherry
Communities Sri Aurobindo Ashram Auroville
Disciples The Mother Champaklal N.K. Gupta Amal Kiran Nirodbaran Pavitra M.P. Pandit P.K. Bhattacharya A.B. Purani D.K. Roy Satprem Indra Sen Kapali Shastri
Journals and Forums Arya Mother India Collaboration

The Mother's International School (MIS) is a public secondary school in New Delhi, India. It is an establishment of the Sri Aurobindo Education Society, an agency of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. 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).

In 2001, Outlook's "C-Fore Best School Survey" has ranked MIS as one of the top 10 schools in India, and the best school in Delhi.^[1]

The school shares a campus with other institutions including the alternative education school, Mirambika. Mirambika and The Mother's International often collaborate to celebrate certain events like Mirra Alfassa's birthday. The schools share the same sports ground on campus. The campus also hosts a bakery, iron-work unit, wood-work unit, candle-making and handmade paper unit, vocational training centre, and book store. The school also has a "Pre-Primary Wing" after the closing of Mira Nursery.

History

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi campus

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

The school's motto "More True, Forever More True" was given by the Mirra Alfassa, known as the Mother, 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 23 April 1956, it was this day that the school first opened.

When the school started out, a batch (or a grade) was of about 15 children, but today a batch has 180 students. The school has three wings, the Pre-Primary, Primary and Secondary. The pre-primary program of The Mother's International School replaced Mira Nursery, a pre-primary school it previously shared campus with.

Enrollment

The school has a student population of about 3,000 pupils with an average section size of 35-37 students. Each grade has five sections, A-E, aside from class 11, which has sections till F.

Academics

School Building

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.

MIS has been a participant in the Inter-School Maths Competition, the Sri Srinivasa Ramanujan Maths competition, and others.

For classes 1 and 2, there is only 1-3 teachers and they teach all the subjects; in the 3rd grade and above, there is a different teacher for each subject, with one class teacher. The student/teacher ratio is approximately 1 teacher for every 35 students.

In 2001, Outlook's "C-Fore Best School Survey" has ranked MIS as one of the top 10 schools in India, and the best school in Delhi.^[1]

Extracurricular activities

Extracurricular activities include art, craft, dance, sports, vocal and instrumental music.

The school is a member of SPIC MACAY, and has drama, quizzing, yoga, taekwondo, gymnastics, music (instrumental as well as vocal) and art groups. The school is a host to inter-school competitions.

Each year, inter-house competitions are held in the school, like the Bag drama, oral interpretation, poem festivals, and debates. The school also holds a talent show on the 23rd of April, which is also the school foundation day.

Computer club

The school's computer club, MINET (MIS Information Network) maintains the school website.^[2] The students have won prizes at computer and IT festivals in Delhi, and at the National Science Exhibition and International Olympiad in Informatics. The school computer club organizes an annual computer festival, in which most of the schools in Delhi participate.

Publications

The school has an annual magazine, Navchetna' ("new thoughts" in Hindi). The magazine contains poems and articles submitted by the students themselves.

Sports

Track field along with the football field

Sports the school participates in include track and field, basketball, badminton, volleyball, table tennis, sepak takraw, football, and quizzing.

References

1 2 "Ranking of the finest schools in India : December 10, 2001 issue of the Outlook magazine". Archived from the original on September 12, 2011.
↑ "MINET". MINET. The Mother's International School. Retrieved 2014-01-17.

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