Don Bosco School, Liluah, Kolkata

Don Bosco School, located at 23, Darga Road, Park Circus in Kolkata at West Bengal has an affiliated with CISCE (Council for the Indian school certificate examination) and CVE (council for vocational education). The present principal of Don Bosco School is Father Bikash Mondol, and the entire school runs under him. Don Bosco School is complete Christian School for Catholic boys. It is a boy's boarding school. 

Don Bosco School is an English medium Anglo Indian school for Catholic boys. Also, non-catholic students can take admission in this school, that means it is open for all religions. Don Bosco School is managed and established by Salesians of Don Bosco. The institution wants to make its students independent and confident, and the primary function of this school is discipline and punctuality. Discipline and punctuality are given the utmost importance in Don Bosco School. 

Don Bosco School is one of the most leading and most reputed schools in Kolkata, and Don Bosco School is considered as the best school for boys. 

Don Bosco School's motto is 'Virtus et Scientia' which is written in Latin. Don Bosco School as being a complete Christian minority school that is why the classes of the Christian doctrine (catechism) are compulsory for the Christian students. And all other students are pleased to attend Moral science class which deals with fundamental moral values, ethics, and behaviour. After studying Moral science, students must imbibe these qualities such as honesty, sincerity, generosity, care, love and compassion. 

Don Bosco School has four significant houses in which the students are divided. Names of Don Bosco School's houses are as follows:

• Bosco
• Rua
• Savio
• Francis

Don Bosco School has a vast and beautiful campus. It consists of organised and spacious classrooms with heavenly windows for good light and air to come in the class. Every classroom of Don Bosco School have smartboards for smart teaching. 

Don Bosco School has a huge and beautiful auditorium with the excellent soundproof facility and 24 hours of electricity backup. Don Bosco School has organised a library with a good collection of books and DVDs of lessons. 

The school have clean and organised laboratories for subjects like physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics. 

Don Bosco School occupies a vast area for its playground. Games which are frequently played in the playground are cricket, Kho-Kho, karate etc. They have a great basketball court and indoor court for table tennis. 

Don Bosco School have classes from kindergarten till standard 12. The institution offers subjects like:

• English
• Bengali
• Hindi
• Mathematics
• Geography
• History
• Political science
• Science
• Economics
• Business Studies
• Accounts 
• Computer 

Don Bosco School also prepared the students for ISC ( Indian school certificate), an examination which conducted after completion of 12 grade. These are some of the streams that are offered at this level. Some of the streams are:

• Science stream: comprises of English, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. 
• Environmental science: Biology, Computer science and Economics 
• Commerce stream: comprises of English, Accounts, Mathematics, Economics, Business Studies and Computer Science 

Don Bosco School organises great and enthusiastic youth camps, activities and movements. They also organise different sports events, quiz events, cultural day function, independence day celebration a part of their co-curricular activities and movements for the all-round personality development and growth of the child.

Don Bosco School also offers a technical section to the students who are studying in Don Bosco School. The technical section was established in the year 1965, and this section provides job oriented training course in Mechanical Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunication engineering which prepares the boys for the following jobs and certificates.

1. Industrial training institute (ITI) 
2. Don Bosco Technical Institute diploma
3. The certificate of vocational education of the council for the Indian school certificate examination. 

Don Bosco School also offers a non-formal section that provides a concise duration job-based training program. The school also supplies free evening classes for the underprivileged children so that they can get job-based training and can work at someplace to earn money and to become a working person. 

Don Bosco School also have a students exchange program. Students from Don Bosco School went to different schools for a student exchange programme and students of a separate school visit the school to inspect and to learn and to interact with the students and the school staff and to learn about the school. Students from the UK have visited Don Bosco School as a student exchange programme every year. Students of Don Bosco School visit Germany for an intercultural language program since 2010. 

At the time of Rabindranath Tagore's Birthday, Don Bosco School organises several interaction events in Kolkata and the most important event that took place during this time is BOSCO FEST. This fest began with just two events which are Bosco beat (inter-school band event) and a jubilee quiz (inter-school quiz competition). Bosco Fest also has its website and app. Apart from this event, many several events took place throughout the year like Bosco MUN (Model United Nations), Bosco polemic and Bosco Bit. 

Some of the major facilities that Don Bosco School provided to its students. Some of the facilities are listed below:

• 24-hour wifi service
• Labs for physics, chemistry, biology and maths.
• Well resourced library
• Auditorium
• Playground
• Indoor courts
• Outdoor courts
• Well furnished classrooms
• Hygienic sanitation facilities
• Art and craft
• Dance room
• Music room
• Modern and technological computer labs
• AV room
• Gaming facilities
• Proper and healthy check-up
• Potable and safe drinking water
• Safe CCTV security facility

Don Bosco School also give extreme importance to sports to build a child's physical and mental health. Every boy is given a chance to participate in the sports in which they are interested, and they have the opportunity to represent their school at state, national and international level. Some of the sports which have been given emphasis and importance in Don Bosco school are:

• Basketball
• Table tennis
• Cricket
•  Volleyball 

In Don Bosco School some indoor games are also played, such as:

• Kho-Kho
• Karate
• Carom

• During the time of admission, Christians are given preference.
• At the time of admission, parent/ guardian are requested to fill the admission form with great accuracy. 
• After filling of the form, the form should be submitted to the admission staff.
• If the candidate is selected, then the name of the candidates are put up on the notice board.
• In rare cases, the entrance test is taken from the students.
• Admission can be made based on interview and previous class report card.
• Catholic students are required to submit their baptism certificate at the time of admission. 
• The candidate's interview is conducted along with the parents.
• Conduct record of a student plays a major role in the admission of class 10.
• Documents required at the time of admission are the original hospital discharge certificate, baptism certificate, letter from the parish priest, identity proof, transfer certificate, copy of a birth certificate, migration certificate and passport size photographs.

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