St. Peter's College, Agra

Infobox School
name = St. Peter's College


caption = St. Peter's College, Agra
location = Wazirpura Road, Agra,
Uttar Pradesh
country = IND
coordinates = Coord|27.19821|78.01250|format=dms
schoolboard = ISC (Class XII), ICSE (Class X)
principal = Rev. Fr. John Ferreira
viceprincipal = Rev. Fr. Roy Dolphus
school prime minister = Master Rohit Luthra
deputy prime minister = Master Madhur Bansal
secretary = Master Vaibhav Nigam
staff = 100+
type = All boy college
houses = St. Paul's (Red) St. Francis' (Blue) St. Lawrence (Green) St. Peter's (Yellow)
grades = 1-12
medium = English
campus size = 50 Acres approx.
campus type = Urban
hours_in_a_day = 6 Hours+20minutes
athletics = Cricket, Football, Track, Swimming, Basketball
motto = Palma non sine pulvere (Latin) (There is no success without hard work.)
publication = School Magazine
newspaper = The Peterian Chimes [cite web | title = SPC Publications | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/publications.htm]
founded = 1846
students = 3000
homepage = [http://www.stpetersagra.com www.stpetersagra.com]

St. Peter’s College, Agra is one of the oldest convent school in India. It is a Minority Anglo-Indian Christian Institution granted Minority Rights under Article 30 of the Indian Constitution. It is located in to the east of Paliwal Park and opposite the commercial district of Sanjay Place. The campus is approximately 50 acres and is one of the largest school campuses in AgraFact|date=December 2007. The school is accredited under the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education board for grade 10th and under the Indian School Certificate board for Grade 12. The school professes to follow a ten-point vision programme [cite web | title = SPC Mission and Vision | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/mission_and_vision.htm] and has been a prominent educational institution in Agra. In the 2006 ISC exams, Satyam Saxena, a student of the school ranked 1st in the country with 98.25% marks. [cite web | title = SPC Roll of Honour | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/isctop.htm]

ignificant dates in history of St. Peter's College

* 1841 : St. Peter's established.
* 1846 : St. Peter's moved to existing building; date taken as founding year of St. Peter's.
* 1870 : St. Peter's affiliated to Calcutta University. First Entrance Examination conducted. Title of "College" added.
* 1946 : St. Peter's College celebrates 100 years of its existence.
* 1963 : New block built. Presently hosts the middle section.
* 1963 : St. Peter's College adopts Indian Certificate of Secondary Education system.
* 1966 : Head of institution changed from "Rector" to "Principal".
* 1977 : St. Peter's College adopt the Indian School Certificate for Grade 12.
* 1984 : Boarding facility discontinued. St. Peter's College becomes full time day-scholar system of education.
* 1996 : St. Peter's College celebrates sesquicentennial anniversary for completing 150 years of existence.
* 2003 : Significant construction changes. 33 rooms, administrative block and Multipurpose hall constructed.
* 2006 : St. Peter's College celebrates post centennial anniversary for completing 160 years of existence. [cite web | title = SPC General History | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/general_history.htm]

Principals and Vice-Principals of St. Peter's College

Since its inception, the head of the College was known as the "Rector" it the College was a boarding school. Thereafter when the College was opened for day-scholars only, the name of the Head was changed to "Principal", a nomenclature which continues till date. The Principal is the whole-and-sole in charge for its running. He is assisted by a Vice Principal who generally looks after the affairs of the middle section (i.e. class 6 - 8) and a Head Mistress who generally looks after the primary section (i.e. class 1 - 5). The Rectors, Principals and Vice-Principals of St. Peter's College have been as under; [cite web | title = SPC Principals | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/principal_vectors.htm] [cite web | title = SPC Vice Principals | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/vice_principal.htm]

Rectors

Recent Principals

In the last two decades, the School has seen four Principals: Fr. George Paul (1990-1996), Fr. Dennis D'Souza (1996-2001), Fr. Mathew K. (2001-2007) and Fr. John Ferreira (2007-incumbent). While the School attained lots of local popularity under Fr. George Paul by swapping across most of the district and State level sports championships, Fr. Dennis D'Souza is accredited for the expansion of the school by the constructing a new cycle stand and building the swimming pool in the school and also giving shape to a number of new ideas which were built upon by his successors. It was also during his reign that the School completed 150 years of its existence (1996) and celebrated its sesquicentenary functions. It was a grandest event ever witnessed by the School with the programme running for over two months and organizing a number of State level championships, including a Carnival and a Science Exhibition which was inaugurated by then Union Minister for Science and Technology, Government of India.

Under Fr. Mathew K., the school saw the development of the new Junior wing, the replacement of the cycle stand with an auditorium. And the construction of a new, bigger cycle stand in place of the field across from the middle-school wing, informally called the C Field. The School also witnessed highly increased alumni relations, for example an alum of the school in the Defence Ministry donated a fighter jet and a tank to the school. The jet found its way to the center of the new cycle stand while the tank stands at the entry of the school. The school also went tech-savvy by teaching its students computers from the primary classes all the way to the 12th grade whereas earlier it was only compulsory between classes 5 - 10 and optional for those in classes 11 and 12. The current school website also went live under Fr. Mathew as with the school newspaper. [cite web | title = SPC Changes in Infrastructure | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/general_history.htm]

Fr. John Ferreira, after taking over from Fr. Mathew was quick with changes. Fr. Ferreria's focus on the health of students lead him to introduce full yoga sessions for the entire school during the daily assembly and nutritious food in the school canteens.

Activities

The College promotes various co-curricular and extracurricular activities. As an entire year engagement, it conducts election in the starting days of each academic session wherein the electees are invited to form a parliament type governance system with the Principal as the nominal head of the Parliament with the entire activities carried out by the elected students. The functionaries work in various official capacities such as the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Speaker of Assembly, various Ministerial positions, etc. [cite web | title = SPC Student Parliament | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/mps.htm] [cite web | title = SPC Student Government Minsters | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/cabinet.htm]

On the co-curricular front, the College organizes and participates in a number of activities. [cite web | title = SPC Activities | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/activities.htm] [cite web | title = SPC Recent events | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/recentevents.php] Other than the occasional participations, the College also organizes each year a Cultural Festival which takes place starts in late August and culminates in mid-September. It involves all the sections of the College (i.e. Primary: Class 1 - 5, Middle: Class 6 - 8; and Senior: Class 9 - 12) at their respective and also overall levels. Participants are judged by external evaluators and the winners are lauded for their efforts in various ways. A number of competitions take place in this week. Some of these are activities take the form of Debates,Quizzes, Elocution, Essay-writing, Paper-presentations,Plays and performances, Dancing, Singing, etc.

On the extracurricular front, the entire student section of the College is grouped into four "Houses"; namely, "St. Francis", "St. Lawrance", "St. Pauls", and "St. Peters". These houses are constituted for the purpose of promoting and conducting intra-College co-curricular and extracurricular competitions. Each of the House is headed by a "House Captain" whereas the Houses are together represented by the "College Captain", who is on a position analogous to the Prime Minster in the student Parliament. While the House Captains represent the Houses internally in the intra-College sports competitions, the College Captain, along with the Captains of the various individual sports teams, represent the College in inter-College competitions at district, state and national levels. [cite web | title = SPC House and other Captains | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/house_captain_vice_captain.htm] The College has it own Cricket [cite web | title = SPC Cricket Team | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/cricket.htm] , Basketball [cite web | title = SPC Basketball Team | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/basketball.htm] , Football [cite web | title = SPC Football Team | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/football.htm] , Hockey [cite web | title = SPC Hockey Team | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/hockey.htm] , Lawn Tennis [cite web | title = SPC Lawn Tennis Team | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/lawn_tenni.htm] , Table Tennis [cite web | title = SPC Table Tennis Team | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/table_tennis.htm] , Badminton [cite web | title = SPC Badminton Team | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/badminton.htm] , Handball [cite web | title = SPC Handball Team | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/hand_ball.htm] , Volleyball [cite web | title = SPC Volleyball Team | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/volley_ball.htm] , Dance Troupe [cite web | title = SPC Dance Troupe Team | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/dance_troupe.htm] , and Tug of war [cite web | title = SPC Tug of War Team | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/tug_o_war.htm] teams.

The month of October (and sometimes November) is devoted to Sports and outdoor field activity which involves a number of intra-College tournaments. The month begins with the trials and selections and culminates on what is termed as the Sports' Day, which is usually attended and addressed by a current or former national level sporting figure. Kapil Dev, Milkha Singh, Kiran Bedi have been the few dignitaries who have attended the Sports' Day in the previous years. [cite web | title = Dignitaries visiting SPC | url= http://www.stpetersagra.com/dignitories_visted.htm] The College also organizes various inter-Collegiate events. The most popular of these is the "Archbishop Athaide Memorial Football Tournament" which is now being organised for more than 40 years. Other tournaments include those on basketball, cricket, tennis, swimming, skating, athletics, etc.

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References

External links

* [http://www.stpetersagra.com/ Official website]