Frank Anthony Public School

The Frank Anthony Public School (FAPS)is situated in Halasuru

About FAPS

Founded by Mr. Frank Anthony on December 22, 1967, the school believes in treating each student as an individual entity who needs to be nurtured and moulded with care, to be groomed to become responsible citizens. Our students are encouraged to define their own destinies and uphold the school motto - "Courage is Destiny".

The Frank Anthony Public School, Bangalore, which opened on 9 January, 1967 is designed to the latest educational standards and has four floors. The building houses large and excellently equipped laboratory cum lecture rooms for Physics, Chemistry and Biology, a computer laboratory, a library with a special section for audio-visual teaching aids and spacious class rooms.

The Kindergarten halls have been planned in accordance with the latest educational trends, and provide space in the class area for nature work, art and craft, reading, projects and play. The school grounds are large enough to provide a 200 metre running track, a football-cum-hockey field, basket ball and throw ball courts and a well maintained cricket pitch.

The medium of instruction is English. In addition, pupils will be required to study two of the following languages - Kannada, Hindi or Sanskrit as a 2nd language and 3rd language.

The course of study, schemes of work and textbooks are those leading to the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (I.C.S.E) and the Indian School Certificate (I.S.C) Examinations taken in Standards X and XII respectively.

The Founder

After the mantle of office of the Anglo-Indian community fell on Mr. Frank Anthony in 1942, the burden on his shoulders did not impede the lightness of his step. In those pioneering days his community had to find its place and identity in the Indian Sun. What Mr. Anthony with his characteristic dexterity and dynamism had done to accomplish this, is now part of history.

Mr. Frank Anthony was a member of the Constituent Assembly and will always be remembered for his protean personality-prolific writer and resourceful speaker, keen debater and eminent jurist; brilliant academician and erudite educationist, and above all Member of Parliament. What he had done for the cause of Anglo-Indian Education and the eminence of English will forever remain his magnum opus. Under his guidance the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi, has for years been and continues to be one of the most prestigious Examining Boards in the Country.

The richest legacy he leaves behind are the three Public Schools that bear his name.

On 2 December 1993 this venerable octogenarian died in the nation's capital.

The School Staff

The Principal

Mr. Christopher Anthony Browne, M.A., B.Sc, B.Ed was appointed Principal in May 1994.

During his teaching career, he has taught a wide range of subjects. From Mathematics to Computer Science and from Structure of Modern Governments to Bible Knowledge. Incidentally, Mr. Browne was instrumental in setting up the Computer Science Lab at FAPS and was first in the school to teach Computer Science as the sixth subject for ICSE.

Head Of Academics

Mr. Keith Boye took over as Headmaster in April 2004. He teaches mathematics in the school. Earlier, Mr. Boye was a member of the FAPS Bangalore staff for many years till he went to Calcutta as Headmaster of FAPS Calcutta.

Headmistress

Mrs Lynn Cabral is presently the Headmistress of the Frank Anthony Public School, Bangalore. Mrs Cabral has been a member of the teaching staff of FAPS, Bangalore for many years.

Facilities

Website [http://www.fapsian.com Fapsian]

EducationalThe school provides instructions in English Language and Literature, Kannada, Hindi, Sanskrit, Elementary Mathematics, Additional Mathematics, General Science, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, History, Environmental Education and Socially Useful Productive Work (S.U.P.W).

The school provides students with fully equipped laboratories for Physics, Computers, Chemistry as well as Biology. Students are completely trained to handle lab equipment as per their curriculum.

In Classes XI and XII two streams are offered viz., Science and Commerce. The School also houses a Library that maintains reference books, encyclopaedias, suitable newspapers, magazines and periodicals. It also has a well-equipped audio-visual section with an overhead projector, TV and VCR. Children are encouraged to make full use of the library both in School and during the vacations.

Co-curricular Activities

The school also provides for lots of activities outside the classroom.

The school is completely equipped for outdoor activities such as Physical Training and Sports. The School grounds have a basketball court, a football field, a volleyball court as well as a well maintained cricket pitch. There are regular games periods in the students time tables to ensure all-round development of the child.

Other activities include Dramatics, Debating, Elocution, Declamation as well as Quizzing. Students have the opportunity to compete in inter-house or inter-school events.

In addition to these activities, FAPS also provides National Cadet Corps (Army Wing) Training for seniors. Juniors can enter the Scouts & Guides, Cubs or Bulbuls.

Faps Brass Band & Choir

The FAPS Brass Band came into being as a small ensemble of twelve students in 1988. Since then it has grown and blossomed under the able guidance of its Conductor - V Narayanaswamy, into a well knit and reputed band.

This talented group of young musicians has repeatedly won accolades and prizes at inter-school competitions. It has also performed at various schools and at inter-school concerts. The band's repertoire covers a wide range from marches and hymns to contemporary music. The Band has played at Sunday Mass at Marthoma Church, at the function for the second anniversary of the volvo in Bangalore and on All India Radio.

In recent years, the band has started going carol playing to the Home for the Aged. At the world festival of sacred music organised by the Tibet House and Foundation for the universal Responsibility His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, the band was a group to watch. Artistes from all around the world came down to perform at this memorable event. The band also played at the inauguration and closing ceremonies of the Karnataka State Hockey Association Meet.

The Band and the Choir are part of the morning FAPS assembly. The Band has been an integral part of our Annual Athletic Meet and the Speech Day. The Choir performs at the Valedictory Function and Speech Day.

Sports

FAPS has a long history of success in the sports field as well as a lot of importance is given to sports as a method of building one's personality. The School provides training in cricket, football, hockey, basketball, throwball, volleyball and athletics. Besides these sports FAPS students also take part in swimming, tennis and badminton. The school has started training in karate as well.

School Clubs

"The Interact Club"

The Interact Club, affiliated to the Rotary Club of Bangalore, Indiranagar has been active in our school for a number of years. The objective of all Interact Clubs is to promote interaction among children. The Interact Club of the Frank Anthony Public School has a student body consisting of eight office bearers : a president and a treasurer who are elected, a vice-president and secretary who are chosen by the President and four directors.

Like last year, the Interact club started off by conducting a newspaper drive throughout the school in which we collected Rs 3000. Presently, the club is are collecting rice from the students of standards 10 and 11 which will be given away to orphanages. Our greatest task this year will be to organise the FAPS fest "Expressions" and taking part in various charity runs and also to play an active part in helping the poor.

"The Pen And Ink Club"

The Pen and Ink club is dedicated towards providing opportunities to 'closet writers' and allowing them to display hitherto unseen talent. We have held essay writing competitions and spelling bees for standards 6,7 and 8. Members of the Pen and Ink club also compiled Courage 2004-2005 and Courage 2005-2006, the annual school magazine. Both were very valuable learning experiences, for the students worked hard relentlessly on every single page - editing text, pictures, fonts and clipart, to bring out the school magazine.

"Quiz Club"

Quizzing is an activity that arouses the curiosity of today's youth. It is a hobby that has always been entertaining and absorbing to a student. It is also very exciting and keeps one's adrenaline levels high all the time. The foundation of our Quiz Club is based on the curiosity to seek knowledge.

The Quiz Club endeavours to bring the students from classes six to ten, and apply ourselves in nurturing this hobby in them. The members of the Quiz Club, especially the juniors have responded positively and their attitude towards quizzing has and will continue to be a source of inspiration for us.

The Club holds regular meeting for its members to increase the boundaries of their knowledge with regards to various topics. This year we have also started a 'Question of the week' with prizes sponsored by Mr.Hart. The questions set for this contest are sure to tickle a student's curiosity. The aim of this contest is to provide the students with an incentive to do some research at home, so as to sharpen their knowledge.

The members are given ample opportunities to showcase their talents. There are hordes and hordes of inter-school quizzes organised every year to keep a quizzer busy all year round. Apart from these there are literary fests which include quizzing as one of its events. IT-quizzes, Sports quizzes and Science quizzes even allow the students to specialize in one or two topics.

However the most daunting task of the FAPS Quiz Club is to organize the T.E.Alan Memorial Quiz or 'Quizmatazz'. 'Quizmatazz' is a general knowledge quiz held annually. 'Quizmatazz' calls upon the best brains of Bangalore to participate in this entertaining Quiz. It is eagerly awaited by all quiz buffs, all over Bangalore city. It is one of the few quizzes that include a high level of competition.

"The Literary Club"

The Litt Cub was formed during the beginning of the academic year 1995/96. This was a time of fierce inter school literary and cultural competition in Bangalore between the ICSE institutions. Several popular “fests” were held between the months of June to October the most famous being “Cascades” organized by the then Bal Bhavan club. The Frank Antony Public School team almost always stood in the top three places of these events producing some of the finest public speakers and musicians. Almost every quiz finals featured a FAPS entrant and never did a personality show occur without a FAPS participant. Seeing the need to identify and nurture talent with the school the then head of the English department Mr. Harry Rodrick provided the much needed inspiration and encouragement to form a Litt Club to carry forward the school’s growing excellence in this area of inter school academic and literary competition. The club takes care of all literary activities in the school. This club coordinates all the inter-school fests which the school takes part in. All organisational matters related to registering the school for these inter-school fests are handled exclusively by the members themselves.

"The Computer Club"

The Computer Club of the Frank Anthony Public School was started in October 1999 with the main objective of promoting computers and programming in FAPS. Since then the Computer Club has done extremely well in creating young software developers and quizzers. The members of the club have bagged many prizes in various competitions related to Computers and IT. The computer club also created this official website of FAPS.

With the modernisation of the computer lab with Celerons and Pentium 4's, the club hopes to conduct various Inter-class and Inter-School quizzes and Software Development competitions this year.

Notable FAPites

Lara Dutta, Indian actress, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and the 2000 Miss Universe
Pankaj Advani, World Champion amateur player of snooker and English billiards from India.
Anaitha Nair, Indian actress known for playing the role of Aliya Bose, a member of the Indian women's national hockey team, in the sports-oriented movie Chak De India (2007)
Deepika Govind, Fashion Designer
Vidisha Pavate, Super Model
Ashish Ballal, India's ace hockey goalkeeper. An Arjuna Awardee in 1996; Bangkok Asian Games Gold Medalist in 1998 and silver medallist in the 1994 Asian Games held at Hiroshima, Japan. Member of the Indian team at the Barcelona Olympic Games held in 1992. Captain of the Indian Airlines Hockey Team
Abbas Khan, Tamil Film actor
Rohit Barker, Ex Channel VJ, Radio Jockey, Socialist
Pashmeena Barker nee Nowroji, Model
Russell VanBuerle, Celebrated Indian Body Tattooist
Garima Kumar, Headlines Today Journalist
Barrington Rowland, Karnataka Cricket Player, debuted with a century