St. Mark's Senior Secondary Public School
| St. Mark's Senior Secondary Public School | |
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| Location | |
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A-Block Meera Bagh 110087 India  (Map) | |
| Information | |
| School type |
Independent School Day School |
| Motto | Loyalty, Truth and Honour |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Secular |
| Founded | 1990 |
| School district | West Delhi |
| Faculty | 150 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Age | 6 to 18 |
| Number of pupils | 3800 |
| Campus | 0.2 acres |
| Houses | 4 |
| Publication |
SMS News http://www.saintmarksschool.com/meerabagh/newsletters.html |
| Affiliation | CBSE |
| Telephone | +91-11-25262056, +91-11-25266056 |
| Website | Homepage |
St. Mark Senior Secondary Public School, Meera Bagh, is a co-educational English medium institution, inaugurated by the then Lt.Governor of Delhi, Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh on 20 April 1990. It has a strength of 4000 students.
Admissions
Admissions in SMS are mainly to Class 1 which are based on a system of points. Admission to other classes are based on availability of seats.
School motto
The school motto ’Loyalty,Truth and Honour’ conveys the school’s expectations from the students.
Curriculum and infrastructure
Recognized by the Delhi Administration, the school follows the CBSE Syllabus. It has laboratories, a library, computers, Audio-visual facilities, a play field for all the major games (cricket, football, basketbball), NCC & Scouts, hobby clubs, and co-curricular activities like camping and educational excursions.
In addition to the above, there is a Maths laboratory, and Resource Rooms for English, Hindi, Sanskrit and Psychology.
School activities and sports
Fairs, contests, sports, volunteer programs are organised regularly.The school also boasts of activity clubs like Inquisitive club,Eco Saviours Club,Wellness Club,Companimals Club,Bon Appetit Club,Heritage Club to name a few Nature and Social Service clubs meet regularly.The school also organises literary events to help polish the public speaking skills of the students.
Information
A student's idea of using human pulse beats to charge electronic devices like cellphones caught the fancy of Stanford University, which will partner with the National Innovation Foundation of India (NIF) to incubate and develop the concept. The student,Sarojini Mahajan, now in class 12, was a student of Class 9 when she first discussed the idea with her teacher in class and entered it for IGNITE ‘09, NIF’s ideas competition for schoolchildren across India.
A student's passion to preserve and protect Mother Earth won him the DLF Pramerica Community of Spirit Award 2011.Mani Makkar was awarded with a gold medal,a trophy,a cheque of Rs.50,000 and an all expenses paid trip to Washington.
Notable alumni
- Shikhar Dhawan - the Indian Cricket team opener and a player of Sunrisers Hyderabad.
- Karan Wahi - actor, anchor and model, Ranveer Sisodia of Remix, Dr. Siddhant "Sid" Modi of the popular show Dill Mill Gayye, supporting actor in Daawat-e-Ishq, and host of many Red Carpet events, Nach Baliye 5,6 and Indian Idol 2, etc.
- Barun Sobti - actor and model. Noted for the role of Arnav Singh Raizada in the StarPlus hit show, Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon??.
- Priyanka Bassi - actor. Notably played the role of Cadet Naina Singh Ahluwalia in SABTV series, 'Left Right Left'.