Don Bosco School, Park Circus, Kolkata

Don Bosco School is located at 23, Darga Road, Park Circus in Kolkata at West Bengal. Don Bosco School is 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. Don Bosco School is a boy's boarding school. Don Bosco School is an English medium Anglo Indian school for Catholic boys, and also non-catholic students can take admission in this school. Don Bosco School is open for all such religions. Don Bosco School is managed and established by Salesians of Don Bosco. Don Bosco School wants to make its students independent and confident, and the main 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 basically written in Latin. 

Don Bosco School is an independent type of school, and Don Bosco School is in White, Grey, Blue, Yellow and Azure in colour. 

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 Houses

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

• Bosco
• Rua
• Savio
• Francis

Infrastructure 

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. Each and every classroom of Don Bosco School have smartboards for smart teaching. 

Don Bosco School has a huge and beautiful auditorium with an 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. Don Bosco School have clean and organised laboratories for subjects like physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics. 

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

Academics

Don Bosco School have classes from kindergarten till standard 12. Don Bosco School offers subjects like English, Bengali, Hindi, Mathematics, Geography, History, Political science, Science, Economics, Business Studies, Accounts and Computer to the students. 

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 as follows:

• 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. Don Bosco School also organises 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 department 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 by the Council for Indian School Certificate Examination. 

Don Bosco School also offers a non-formal section that offers a concise job-based training program. Don Bosco 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 Student Exchange Program

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 different school visit Don Bosco 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 a number of interaction events in Kolkata and the most important event that took place during this time is BOSCO FEST. This fest basically began with just two events which are Bosco beat (inter-school band event) and a jubilee quiz (inter-school quiz competition). The Bosco Fest also has its own 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.

Other facilities

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

Sports

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