Vasant Vihar High School

Vasant Vihar High School and Jr College (VVHS)is a private, co-educational, day school located at Vasant Vihar in Thane, Maharashtra, India. The institution was established in 1990 by Goenka & Associates Educational Trust.

Overview

The school caters to pupils from kindergarten up to class 12 and the medium of instruction is English. The school is affiliated to the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary & Higher Secondary Education which conducts the SSC 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 school is affiliated to Thane Police School, a school for the children of police officers of the Thane Police Department to receive private school education. The board of trustees also govern Yashodham High School and Gokuldham High School, both also located in Mumbai.^[1][2]

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. The enrollment is 7500 students, from Std. I to XII.The school also has the pre-primary section.^[3]

Faculty

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

Student care

Vasant Vihar High School has a team of counsellors available to the students for guidance on academics, co-curriculars as well as 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 school buses, for students of all age groups (excluding students of junior college).^[5]

The School has nurtured and guided some well known athletes who have gone to represent the state at national level competitions.It helps students not only with the education but also gives them values which would 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 besides 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 also bagged other trophies such as the Bhandari Cricket Tournament Trophy and the Ghantali Cup. It has qualified for the All India Cricket Tournament (DSO) in multiple years.^[7]

Several athletes have qualified up to nationals. Students have won tournaments at various 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 and 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).
• Art and craft Room
• Music Room
• Audio-visual Rooms (five)
• Playground equipped with slides and swings for pre-primary section)

well equipped library with good sitting capacity of about50 students 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 was composed by eminent composer Loy Mendonsa of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy trio.

References

http://www.gaet.edu.in/vvhs/