Vasant Vihar High School

Vasant Vihar High School and Jr College (VVHS) is a private, co-educational, day school in Vasant Vihar in Thane, Maharashtra, India. The institution was established in 1990 by Goenka & Associates Educational Trust. It educates children from the age of three until they finish school. There is a junior college consisting of eleventh and twelfth standard in the school itself.

Overview

The school caters to pupils from kindergarten up to class 12 and the medium of instruction is English. It is affiliated to the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary & Higher Secondary Education which conducts the SSC it is now also turned into ICSC board examinations at the close of class 10 and the HSC examinations at the close of class 12. The junior college was started in 2002, with Commerce and Science streams.

The enrollment is 7500 students, from Std. I to XII. VVHS has a pre-primary section.[1]

VVHS is affiliated to Thane Police School, a school for the children of police officers of the Thane Police Department to receive private education. (The board of trustees also governs Yashodham High School and Gokuldham High School, both in Mumbai.[2][3])

History

Vasant Vihar High School was started in 1990 with 35 students in the Amrapali Shopping Arcade with four staff. Over the next two decades the school acquired six science laboratories, two computer laboratories, an auditorium, two libraries, three audio–visual rooms, art and craft rooms, and a music room.

Faculty

The school has a faculty of 150 teachers for all curricular subjects up to class 12. It has teachers for music, physical education, computer science, and other skills.[4]

Student care

Vasant Vihar High School has a team of counsellors for students for guidance on academics, co-curriculars, and personal issues. The school provides facilities for special children with disabilities ranging from cerebral palsy to dyslexia and other learning disorders. Special children receive extra care and attention, besides concessions like writers for school examinations.

The school provides buses for students (except junior college).[5]

VVHS has nurtured and guided some well-known athletes who have gone to represent the state at national level competitions. It helps students with the education and gives them values that help them in the real world.

Extracurriculars

The school has facilities for students to learn and develop skills and hobbies such as cricket, football, chess, table tennis, athletics, judo, Taekwondo, drawing, sketching, calligraphy, classical singing, classical Indian instruments, speech and drama, Vedic mathematics, and quiz clubs.[6]

Intra-school competitions based on speech and drama, art, music, dancing and quizzes are conducted. The school conducts annual inter-house tournaments for football, handball, chess, athletics, carrom and table tennis.

Awards and recognition

The school cricket and football teams have been victorious at the state level.

VVHS has bagged the Kelkar cricket trophy 12 times in the last 18 years (as of 2012). The school has bagged other trophies such as the Bhandari Cricket Tournament Trophy and the Ghantali Cup. It qualified for the All India Cricket Tournament (DSO) in multiple years.[7]

Several athletes have qualified up to nationals. Students have won tournaments at many levels, collecting the Mrudula trophy and many others. The school has had successes at table tennis, with students reaching the district and state qualifiers.

In chess, the school has won several tournaments with individual victories at the national, state, and district levels. These include tournaments like the Susheela Vaze Chess Inter-School Chess Team Championship and the Maharashtra State Chess Association.[8]

Students have secured medals in high jump, long jump, hurdles and sprints in the National School Games; the Athletics Federation of India, Andhra Pradesh; and the Maharashtra State Athletics Association.[9]

Infrastructure

The infrastructure of VVHS includes:[10]

  • Classrooms (more than 80)
  • Science Laboratories (six labs, two each of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology)
  • Computer Laboratories (two)
  • Auditorium with sound system, and projectors
  • Library (two)
    • Well equipped library with good sitting capacity of about 50 students
  • Art and Craft Room
  • Music Room
  • Audio-visual Rooms (five)
  • Playground equipped with slides and swings (for pre-primary section)

The sports facilities include:

  • Multi-purpose ground for football, cricket, badminton, volleyball, handball, and athletics
  • Table tennis tables (two)
  • Carrom boards tables (four)

School Song

"We are the children of VASANT VIHAR
The hope and the beacon of light,
A unified blend in us you’ll find,
Moulded as a cast of a kind,

We, the children of VASANT VIHAR
Are aglow with the fire to keep ahead,
By striving to make a better today,
So tomorrow might be our Best,

VASANT VIHAR VASANT VIHAR,
You gave us wings that we may fly,
‘V’ stands for VERITY, ‘V’ stands for VICTORY,
So help us lord that glory may be ours"

The school song is by eminent composer Loy Mendonsa of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy trio.

References

  1. ↑ "About The School". Vasant Vihar High School & Junior College. GAET. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  2. ↑ Gokuldham
  3. ↑ Yashodham
  4. ↑ "Teachers". Vasant Vihar High School & Junior College. GAET. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  5. ↑ School affiliated to ADAPT
  6. ↑ "Hobbyclass". Vasant Vihar High School & Junior College. GAET. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  7. ↑ "Ghantali cup". Vasant Vihar High School & Junior College. GAET. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  8. ↑ "Chess victory". Vasant Vihar High School & Junior College. GAET. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  9. ↑ "National games, AFI, MSAA". Vasant Vihar High School & Junior College. GAET. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  10. ↑ "Infrastructure". Vasant Vihar High School & Junior College. GAET. Retrieved 23 April 2012.

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