- Abbottabad Public School
Infobox_University
name = Abbottabad Public School
nickname = APS
Alumni = [http://www.abbottonians.org Alumni]
established = 1961
type =Public
president =
city =Abbottabad
state =North-West Frontier Province
country =Pakistan
students =
faculty =
motto = "Character is Destiny"
Alumni = [http://www.abbottonians.org Alumni]
website = [http://www.aps.edu.pk/ www.aps.edu.pk ]Abbottabad Public School, also commonly known as APS and Railway Public School, is a public, all boys,
boarding school for, 7th to 12th grade students, located inAbbottabad ,Pakistan . [ [http://www.aps.edu.pk/ Abbottabad Public School] ] APS is one of the best secondary and higher education schools in the region, both in academics as well as in extra curricular activities. APS follows the philosophy of the British boarding schools where academic rigour is balanced with a disciplined boarding life with activities ranging from intramural sports to debating and cultural events.History
Name
In 1957,
Pakistan Railways opened up a school outside Abbottabad on land donated bySardar Bahadur Khan , brother ofField Marshal Ayub Khan who was then thePresident of Pakistan . At that point, the school was called Railway Public School. But after just two years it was closed and then after a gap of one year, in April 1961, the school was renamed to Abbottabad Public School and was no more associated with Pakistan Railways leaving behind the building no alternate but to use it again as an educational institution.In 1986,
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq , the then President, re-named this institution as Abbottabad Public School & College. Later on, the school Board of Governors, in its meeting on July 20, 2002, decided to delete the words “and College” and give the institution its original name Abbottabad Public School. It is still more popularly known as APS and its alumni as [http://www.abbottonians.org/forums/ Abbottonians] .Location
The main campus is about 10 km outside Abbottabad on the road (Mansehra Road) that eventually becomes
Karakoram Highway . It covers an area of about 55 acres. The school is surrounded by deep natural crevices in almost a U-shape. The only non-crevice side faces a high mountain. Karakoram Highway passes between school and the mountain.Academics
Abbottabad Public School is a renowned academic institution in the area. It has attracted many students from all over Pakistan as well as other countries. Historically, APS students have performed excellently in both the tenth grade and twelfth grade Board examinations.
Boarding Houses
APS has seven main boarding houses in which all boarders reside. Usually, up to a hundred students can live in each of these houses, in different room capacity dormitories. Each of these houses has a House Master, a House Tutor and several student Prefects. The houses are:
* Iqbal House
* Jinnah House
* Liaquat House
* Sir Syed House
* Nishtar House
* Rehman House
* Sardar Bahadur House
* Sultan Tipu HouseThe day-scholar house is Rehman House, named after Mr M. A. Rehman, the first principal of APS.
Student Life
General Facilities
A beautiful mosque , one main dinning halls and a cafeteria, grocery store, general store, book store, barber shop, cobbler, washerman pit, and fruit shop are also part of the boarding facilities.
Common-Rooms
All the Houses have their own recreation rooms, called “common-rooms”, where residents play indoor games during their free time and on holidays even. Every common room is facilitated with Television, DVD, Table Tennis, Carom, Chess, draughts and scrabble.
Athletics
There is one football field, two hockey fields, one cricket field (combination of two hockey fields), four basket ball courts, one tennis court, one volley ball court and an outdoor swimming pool.
School Code of Honour
"I pledge my word of honour that, I shall do my duty to God, to my country, and to my fellow human beings and shall obey all rules and regulations of this Institution. I shall honour my parents, teachers and elders and be good to those who are younger than me. I shall do the best that I can to help all people who are old, poor, crippled or in distress. Everyday I shall do at least one good deed that will please a fellow human being without distinction of country, class, colour or creed. I shall try to make the College tradition "Discipline and Hardwork" and the College Motto "Character is Destiny" as part and parcel of my life."
Famous Alumni
*
Shaukat Aziz ,former PM Of Pakistan
*Shamoon Hashmi ,Famous TV Actor and Anchor.
*Major General (retd)Amir Faisal Alvi ,General Officer Commanding SSG group,Pak Army.
*Umer Asghar Khan (Late)former MNA, Federal Minister and leader of PPP.
*Waseem Afzal Khan (late) ,Former DIG kohat.
*Dr. Naveed Irfan Famous Consultant Psychiatrist of Asia.
*Ishrat Pasha ,IG Police,NWFP.
* Ahmad Mukhtar Defence Minister of Pakistan
* Ch. Ahmad Javed, CEO Servis shoes
* Naeem Qureshi, International journalist, broadcaster, t.v. script writer.
* Lt General Shafaatullah Shah Commander 4 Corps Mr Rehman Khan of GIC.References
Links
* [http://www.abbottonians.org/forums Home of the Abbottonians]
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