ST. MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL, NEW COOCHBEHAR
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Our Vision
- We strongly believe that education is not mere preparation for life but is of life to live.
- We uphold that every child is endowed with certain unique gifts by the Creator.
- We are convinced of the total personality development of the child Physical, Mental, Aesthetic, Social and Spiritual dimensions.
- We affirm that learning is the chief priority of the school.
- We believe that the students’ self-esteem is enhanced by positive relationship and mutual respect among and between students and staff.
- We hold that there is a vital relationship among the school, community and parents.
- We hold that a highly self-motivated, self-disciplined and creative staff is indispensable in achieving our mission and goals.
Our Mission
Provide a highly stimulating, rewarding and enriching curriculum so that every child will find a certain degree of joy in learning.
Provide congenial, friendly, reassuring and conducive school atmosphere so as to enable the child “to live, to love, to learn and to imbibe a legacy”.
Implement a curriculum that is meticulously planned and rich in content.
Untiringly promote in our students a sense of neighbourhood so that they appreciate the role of the school as a vital community centre and foster in them a concern for all particularly the less privileged.
Inculcate a sense of concern and respect for nature so that they will not exploit it but hold in reverence.
Towards the achievement of our goals we will recruit, employ, develop and retain staff who will share and contribute to the realization of our vision.
General Information
St. Mary’s Higher Secondary School, is administered by the Religious Congregation of the Handmaids of Mary. The Congregation is founded by Fr. Edmund Harrison S. J. in 1944 has been active in the sphere of education throughout the country, ever since its foundation.
“Joyful Service” is the Motto, which impregnates every activity in the School.
St. Mary’s School is a catholic school recognized by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and affiliated to the Council for the India School Certificate Examination, New Delhi in 1995. It gives comprehensive education to students up to +2 level.
The goal of our Education is the integral development of persons especially the children and the women. Through our teaching we impart to our students genuine human values and form them to be responsible citizens. We help our students in developing their mental powers and aptitudes forming in them the ability to judge rightly, initiating them into their cultural heritage and preparing for professional life. We guide them in becoming responsible persons who themselves in a spirit of true freedom endowed with fortitude and endurance.
St. Mary’s School Coochbehar was founded by the Congregation of the Handmaids of Mary (Sisters) in 1986. It is registered as the “Snehadeepti Educational Society of St. Mary’s School”. St. Mary’s at Dinhata is a part of the Snehadeepti educational society. We consider the formation of character the first essential of any sound educational system. Therefore, great stress is laid on the inculcation of high ideals, moral rectitude and service to the community.
Aims and objectives
The Snehadeepti Educational Society of St. Mary’s School aims not only to form sound character and personality of the young students but also to train them to become dutiful and useful citizens of their motherland, India. The school forms the students to have piety, Compassion, virtue and discipline.
The school attaches great importance to a varied programme of activities outside the normal class routing. These are designed to develop important traits of character like honesty, self-confidence, co-operation and diligence and to promote latent talents of leadership and responsibility.
A good use of library facilities, study circles and clubs, debates, elocutions and quiz contests, dramatics, art and craft, drawings and painting competitions, games and athletics are also included in the curriculum to promote physical and cultural values among students and to encourage in them a spirit of healthy competition.
An inter-house athletic meet/cultural programme is held every year.
While members of the staff are always present to give advice and guidance, the fullest scope is given for initiative and leadership among the students themselves.
Keeping in mind the harmonious development of each pupil and the forming of a fully integrated person, the school also offers through the teachers a variety of hobbies to the students.