The Mother's International School

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

The Mother's International School
More true, forever more true
Location
Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi, India
Information
Type	Secondary
Established	23 April 1956
Founder	Shri Surendra Nath Jauhar "Faquir"
Principal	Sangamitra Ghosh
Grades	1-12
Campus	Urban
Color(s)	White and Blue
Board	CBSE
Website	http://www.themis.in

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).

MIS Senior Building

It has laboratories and a library.

The institution benefits from the serene Ashram ambiance and 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. The school has now added a Pre-Primary Wing.

History

The school was founded on 23 April 1956 by 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 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 23 April 1956, it was this day that the school first opened.

When the school started out, a batch was 15 children, but today a batch has 180 students, divided into 5 sections of 35-45 students each. The school has three wings, the Pre-Primary, Primary and Secondary.

Enrollment

The school has a strength of about 2100 pupils with an average section size of 35 students. Each grade has five sections.

Academics

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.

Staff Members

Mathematics

  *Tarang Choudhary, Smita Gupta, Ritu Sharma,Deepti Mathur,Deepti Mahajan, Ruchi Khanna,Reema marwah*

Physics

  *Sharmila Banerjee, Sharmishtha Saanyal*

Chemistry

  *Nandini Dasgupta*

Biology

  *Veerinder Kaur, Anjali*

History

  *Harpal Bhalla, Annapoorni*

Economics

  *SK Nair, Rangana Sinha*

Geography

  *Ananya Roy, Anuradha Gupta,Kamla Menon*

Political Science

  *Jyoti Hirani*

Accounts, Business Studies

  * K. Anuradha Rao*

English

  *Swaroopa Sinha, Lata Hariharan, Milan Mala Sarin, Simranjeet Kaur, Pratibha Madan, Kalpana Bhatnagar, Vinny Sood*

Hindi

  *Santosh Kak, Poonam Juneja,Yogesh Sharma,Alka Joshi*

French

  *Anuradha Karkun, Ruchi Phuli*

Sanskrit

  *Sanjay Jha*

Computer Science

  *A.K. Das*

Informatics

  *Shweta Sharma*

Sports Department

• Senior - Nisha Gupta (football), Gulshant Rai (basketball), Darshana Bhandari (badminton).

Science

• Jyoti Nima,Neha Amar,Shalloo Monga,Vaishali Jha,Reema Marwaha*

Social Studies

• Neena Sethi,Vibha Raizada*

Students Council

juniors

• Members-Head boy-krishan,Head girl-Anushka garg mandal,Sports captain boy-Kanav Sharma,Sports captain girl-cheta bota gutter gutter

Seniors Head Boy- Bharat Subramaniam Head Girl- Laxita Mithal Cultural Secretary (Boy)- Gagandeep Sachdeva Cultural Secretary (Girl)- Pavithra Chari Sports Captain (Boy)- Srikant Mohan Sports Captain (Girl)- Sumedha Arun Students Coordinator (Boy)- Vedant Das Swain Students Coordinator (Girl)- Ojaswita Behl Students Coordinator (Boy)- Arunesh Karkun Students Coordinator (Girl) - Ojaswini Gul.

Extended Council

Aspiration House House Captain (Boy) - Vibhor Mathur, House Captain (Girl) - Pragnya Khanna, Sports Captain(Boy) - Uday Bachan,

Sports Captain (Girl) - Rashmi Shahu, Vice Captain (Boy) - charsi Sengar, Vice Captain (Girl) - Sejal Kumar, Vice Sports Captain (Boy) - Prateek Singh, Vice Sports Captain (Girl) - Tara Vidisha,

Truth House House Captain (Girl) - Ruhani Khanna, House Captain (Boy) - Deepto Mozumdar, Sports Captain (Boy) - Sumiran Dixit, Sports Captain (Girl) - Shruta Gopalan, Vice Captain (Boy) - Shiv Ghai, Vice Captain (Girl) - Tanushri Roy, Vice Sports Captain (Boy) - Rohan Ganguly, Vice Sports Captain (Girl) - Snigdha Dutta

Gratitude House House Captain (Boy) - Tanuj Sachdeva, House Captain (Girl) - Aditi Balakrishna, Sports Captain (Boy) - Abhinav Shankar, Vice Captain (Boy) - Piyush Gadi Vice Captain (Girl) - Sumedha Basu, Vice Sports Captain (Boy) - Jatin Chanana, Vice Sports Captain (Girl) - Tia Majumdar

Honesty House House Captain (Girl) - Avantika Viswanathan, House Captain (Boy) - Rohith Madhavan, Sports Captain (Boy)- Madhav Bhushan, Sports Captain (Girl) - Naina Kulkarni, Vice Captain (Boy) - Utkarsh Chaturvedi, Vice Captain (Girl) - Taneesha Sing, Vice Sports Captain (Boy) - Saptak uncle Chatterjee, Vice Sports Captain (Girl) - Sonakshi Garg

Perfection House House Captain (Boy) - Ananya Naithani, House Captain (Girl) - Avantika Aggarwal, Sports Captain (Boy) - Anmol Sarin, Sports Captain ( Girl) - Kuhu Joshi, Vice Captain (Boy) - Anirudh Ojha, Vice Captain (Girl) - Masooma Hussain, Sports Vice Captain (Boy) - Dhruv Dhandha, Sports Vice Captain (Girl) - Srishti Ghoshal,

Sincerity House House Captain (Boy) - Aman Bhardwaj, House Captain (Girl) - Anuttama Ghosh, Sports Captain (Boy) - Rachit Puri, Sports Captain (Girl) - Shilpi Chakravorty Vice Captain (Boy) - Sharanya Sahai Vice Captain (Girl) - Aishwarya Singh Sports Vice Captain (Boy) - Sanchit Saxena Sports Vice Captain (Girl) - Vineeta Arora

Facilities

• The Book Shop(situated in the school cafeteria)
• The Matri Service Store,
• The Sunlit Path
• The Library(situated on the second floor of the senior building)
• The Technology Center (MINET Lab)(situated on the the third floor of the senior building)
• The Hall Of Grace (succeeding the Hall Of Aspiration)

Extracurricular activities

These include art, craft, dance, sports, vocal and instrumental music.

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

It has featured three times in the Outlook C-Fore Best School Survey as the best school in Delhi and one of the top 10 in India^[1]. It has also been a participant and a winner at the Inter-School Maths Competition and many more other such competitions such as the Sri Srinivasa Ramanuja Maths competition.

The student/teacher ratio is approximately 1 teacher for every 35 students. Each year, inter-house competitions are held in the school, like the Bag drama, oral interpretation, Poem Festivals, and debates. The children also showcase their talents on the Talent Fiesta, held yearly on the 23rd of April,which is also the school foundation day.

A number of students go on to study in Indian institutes, like the IIM's, IITs,MAMC, AIIMS, BITS, NLS etc annually. Students have also made it to prestigious universities abroad such as Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Tech, Stanford University, University of California Berkeley, University of Sheffield, London School of Economics, Oxford, Cambridge, McGill University, Technical University of Munich etc. The Alumni is spread across the globe, from both side of the Pacific to either sides of the Atlantic. There is a wide web of international alumni network that can be garnered from by the current students in order to benefit their future careers.

The school's annual football tournament is the 'Surendra Nath Jauhar Tournament', in which many of Delhi's schools compete. The tournament, being a knockout competition, lasts for about 4 days. The school also hosts an annual computer symposium known as 'MINET'.

Sports

Track field

Track Field

The Track Field has a running track of 400m. There are two full basketball courts, three badminton courts, two volleyball courts, table tennis room with eight table tennis tables, sepak takraw nets and a football field. Every alternate year the sports section prepares an annual day function.

Quizzing

Awards to the quiz team include the Columban Open Quiz, the Bournvita Quiz, the HT Pace Quiz, and the Japan Quiz...

Computer Club

The school's computer club, MINET (MIS Information Network) maintains a school website, [1] . 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. This inter-school competition includes various events like Quiz, Web designing, Gaming, Group discussion, etc.

Publications

The school yearbook magazine is known as the "Navchetna".

See also

• Integral education

Image gallery

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  Senior Building

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  Building

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  Junior Playground

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  Football Field

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  Senior Building

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  Senior wing building

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  Track field

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  The road between the building and the Aspiration Hall

External links

• School website

References

1. ^ "Ranking of the finest schools in India : December 10, 2001 issue of the Outlook magazine". http://www.cfore.org/schools/schools.htm. 

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JQkcvMjAxMC8wOS8wNSNBcjAxMjAw