Tyndale Biscoe School

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Tyndale-Biscoe School(TBS)
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Tyndale Biscoe School Motto
"In All Things Be Men"
Location
Sheikh Bagh, Lal Chowk, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir
Information
Type Private School
Established 1880 certain
Founder Rev. John Hilton Knowles
Principal Dr. Parvez Samuel Kaul
Head of school Dr. Parvez Samuel Kaul
Campus Urban
Nickname "Biscoeits"
Rivals Burn Hall School & DPS
Affiliation Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education
Website Official Website

Tyndale Biscoe School is a boys school in Jammu and Kashmir in the heart of the summer capital Srinagar.[1] The school was founded in 1880 CE and is the oldest private school in Srinagar. The school was started by Christian missionaries and was named after Canon Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe (1863–1949).[2] It still has affiliations with the Church Mission Society.

History

In the late-nineteenth century, Jammu and Kashmir was an independent princely state, ruled by a Maharaja. The Maharaja often used the services of British and European experts.[3] Tyndale-Biscoe was appointed to the missionary school in Kashmir.

The school placed emphasis on physical activities – boxing, boating, football – which would stimulate senses of courage and physical fitness. The pupils also engaged in civic duties, such as firefighting, street-cleaning and in helping deal with flooding and cholera. There are annual visits to the leper colony of the valley where the students from all classes collect rations, blankets among other basic amenities and distribute the same within the poor and needy as a sign of goodwill. Two people who contributed significantly to the further development of the school were the late Eric Tyndale-Biscoe (the son of Tyndale-Biscoe), Pandit Niranjan Nath Fotadar the Headmaster in the 1940s, Principal JM Ray (1962- 1985) and Headmaster Master Sat Lal Razdan.

School organisation

Houses

File:Satlal Block.jpg
Satlal Block - Main Block

The school is divided into four houses, named after mountain peaks in the Kashmir valley:

  • Kolohai - Red,
  • Harmukh - Yellow,
  • Tatakuti - Blue,
  • Mahadev - Green.

Competitions between these houses are held. Points for different activities are thus allotted to the houses. The house scoring the most points at the end of the session is awarded the "Champion House Trophy".

Activities

The School is known in the valley to have an array of co-curricular activities. Tyndale Biscoe and Mallinson school was the first in the valley to have its well maintained swimming pool, with a state of the art technology, much of which has been imported from Europe.

Other activities include:

  • The Annual Cross Country Run
  • Summer Camps
  • The Mahadev Climb (Trek to a 3996m peak)
  • The Zabarwan Climb
  • Annual Excursions
  • Debates, Seminars etc.
  • Skiing Courses
  • The School has recently re-introduced NSS
  • Regatta
  • Round the boats, One mile, Dal Cross competition and Inter-house Football & Basketball matches
  • High Altitude Camps

To name a few.

NSS

The school is the only in the valley to have its NSS wing. The NSS wing is headed by Dr. Khwaja Irfan Ali of the +2 Department.

Sehal Masood and Munis Saleem under the supervision of Dr. Irfan Ali, reintroduced NSS in the School.[4]

The NSS department has been well received by the Staff and Administration alike. The unit plays an important role in the management of different events held in the School. Moreover, NSS conducts awareness programs, rallies, and social welfare campaigns. The NSS wing of the School thus after its Inception by the said candidates has been the front runner among all other Private institutions of the Valley and continues to impact the Socio-Cultural construct of the Student community. Recently(2015) few NSS volunteers from school organised a grand fundraising campaign for Flood victims of Kashmir entitled Taqdeer-e-Kashmir which aimed to raise funds for flood victims and to felicitate those young people who rescued flood hit people September(2015).

Departments

The school has five departments. The Activities of the departments are looked over by well experienced Head Of Departments.

All the Departments have well trained and educated teachers who look over the children and maintain contact with their Parents/Guardians.

Department Classes
Lower Primary Department. Nursery to II
Junior Department III to V
Middle Department VI to VIII
Senior Department IX and X
Higher Secondary (Science Stream only) XI and XII

Headmistress

Joyce Kaul

Alumni

  • Aamir-ul-shafi khan (IAS-2nd Topper 2016)[5]
  • Dr Farooq Abdullah

References

  1. ↑ Schools in Srinagar
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Rai, Mridu (2000). The question of religion in Kashmir: Sovereignty, Legitimacy and Rights, c. 1846-1947. Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University.
  4. ↑ Source: TBMES
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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