Don Bosco High & Technical School, Liluah
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Don Bosco School Liluah, or DBL, is an all-boys
, English medium school covering lower kindergarten
through grade twelve. Located in Liluah
, India
, the school was established in 1937, and is run by the Salesians of Don Bosco
S.D.B. which is a minority institution within the Catholic Church.
The school operates under the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations
(CISCE) and hence the students of 10th standard take Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) Examinations
and those of the 12th standard take Indian School Certificate (ISC) Examinations
.
The school uses the house system
to foster a sense of competition and belonging. The four houses are named after Salesian saints, viz. Rua
(red), Savio
(green), Magone (yellow) and Vecchi (blue). Most activities in the school are organized according to the houses.
St. John Bosco, popularly known as Don Bosco, is the patron saint of the school.
The motto of the school is "Virtus et Labor".
The school has been awarded the "School of the Year" award by The Telegraph Education Foundation, Kolkata, (all schools of West Bengal are a part of which) in 2007,2010 and again in 2011.
School Awards for The Best Academic Performance By a School (ICSE,ISC)" in 2007, 2010 and also in 2011.
Over the past years, DBL has grown to be one of the best performing schools in Academics, in Kolkata.
The ICSE and ISC results of last 5 years:
.............................ICSE....................
Year...Total Candidates...School Average...>90% scores
2011...........195...............84.75...............66
2010...........176...............84.92...............59
2009...........184...............86.22...............62
2008...........192...............84.67...............55
2007...........197...............85.08...............64
.............................ISC....................
Year....Total Candidates...School Average...>90% scores
2011...........162................88.36.................80
2010...........172................88.36.................94
2009...........166................86.02.................56
2008...........175................86.44.................76
2007...........152................84.07.................34
The school was winner of "The Telegraph School Awards for The School With Best Extra-Curricular Performance" in 2008 and 2009.
There are inter-class, inter-house and inter-club competitions and tournaments in fields ranging from quizzing to dancing, music to sporting events, debating to painting
.
The Social Forest and gardens with scores of plants and trees decorate the school environment.
The school has a Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit
and emergency power generator capable of running the entire school.
The school library
has reference books, magazines and story-books.
The A/V Room is the place where classes are held in multimedia
format.
The school has eight laboratories for Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer, Geography, History, Mathematics and Language.
There are badminton, volleyball and basketball courts, and table tennis boards. Sports gear is available from the Games Room for the recreation of the students during recess, after school hours and on holidays. Students make use of it to play chess, carom, volleyball, basketball, football, cricket, and badminton.
The school band practices in the Music Room.
The school auditorium
with a capacity for more than 1500 heads, is the second largest exclusive school auditorium in the state.
The school has a 250-seater air-conditioned Examination Hall
, which also doubles as another multimedia class-hall.
The teaching community is also divided and alloted one of the four houses each. The relays, specially the "Grand Relay", are the most awaited events. Prizes are given to houses for best show in "March Past", "Tug-of-War", "Tunnel Ball", "Grand Relay" and the "Overall Winners". Vecchi (blue) house was the champion in 2009.
Fancy dress competitions are held for all classes where kids of junior classes mostly, don the dresses of Spiderman to bin-Laden, Jesus to Satan, newly-wed bride to meek old man.
Stalls are put up by every section of every class. These stalls conduct games and sell food stuffs. For this, coupons are used which can be bought from locations around the school. The money collected is used for the functioning of the Free Night School for the poor children of the locality and to buy books for them.
The Boscotsav is a two day extravaganza, with many schools across Howrah, Kolkata, Hooghly and 24-Parganas, taking part in it. Around 50 events are conducted, including Western and Eastern Music, Western and Eastern Dance, Quiz, Debate, Unconventional Music, Painting, Science Exhibition, Art and Crafts, Carom, Chess, Photography, Gaming, Just-A-Minute (JAM), War of RJs, and Tug-o-War.
Sports events include :
The theme of Boscotsav is Meliora Cogito... I strive for the Best...
For more details visit
http://boscotsav11.donboscoliluah.org
Don Bosco Liluah is a participant in inter-school fests like Bosco Fest (@ Don Bosco, Park Circus), Bosco XpreZns (@ Don Bosco, Bandel), Chiaros Quro (@ Our Lady Queen of the Missions School, Salt Lake), Auxilamarylis (@ Auxilium Convent School, Dum Dum), Horlicks Wiz'kids, Josephstyna (@ St. Joseph's College, Bowbazaar).
Courses offered :
Don Bosco Technical Department has a machine shop with machines imported from Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the UK, as well as machinery from tool manufacturers from within India.
Fr. Joseph Pathickal the Rector and Mr. Soumen Mark James along with ten other teachers take care of the students in the night school. A few students after finishing their night school join the NIOS for their 10th and 12th standards.
Church was blessed in December 1937 by Archbishop
F. Perier to serve the European and Anglo - Indian Catholics of Liluah Railway colony. Now the Adivasis from Chotanagpur form the majority. In 1950 the village of Joypur was given over to Liluah. A new church was built and blessed on December 8, 1985 to replace the old.
In 1986 Hind Motors, Uttarpara and Konnagar, were added to the parish
. on August 14, 1994, a new Mass center at Bhattanagar was inaugurated and a new chapel was blessed by Archbshop Henry D’ Souza to server the Christan community of that area. on August 15, 2001, Holy Family Sisters joined the parish at Bhattanagar in order to further the family apostolate through family visits and education.
Chandamari close to Belur Station is evolving into a Mass Centre. In December 2003 the foundation stone which was blessed by His Holiness Pope John Paul II
was laid for the Divine Mercy Church. The church was blessed in February 2005.
Don Bosco Mirpara offers job oriented non-formal education especially for the school drop outs, and has an aspirantate. At Bhattanagar, Don Bosco Ashalayam has three homes for the orphaned boys and the Sisters Adorers have a home for the homeless girls. All of these are under the Don Bosco Liluah Church Parish.
Single-sex education
Single-sex education, also known as single-gender education, is the practice of conducting education where male and female students attend separate classes or in separate buildings or schools. The practice was predominant before the mid-twentieth century, particularly in secondary education and...
, English medium school covering lower kindergarten
Kindergarten
A kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children. The term was created by Friedrich Fröbel for the play and activity institute that he created in 1837 in Bad Blankenburg as a social experience for children for their transition from home to school...
through grade twelve. Located in Liluah
Liluah
Liluah is a neighbourhood of Bally municipality in Howrah district, West Bengal, India. It has a railway junction, which is the first station after Howrah on the Eastern Railway .-Location:...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, the school was established in 1937, and is run by the Salesians of Don Bosco
Salesians of Don Bosco
The Salesians of Don Bosco is a Roman Catholic religious order founded in the late nineteenth century by Saint John Bosco in an attempt, through works of charity, to care for the young and poor children of the industrial revolution...
S.D.B. which is a minority institution within the Catholic Church.
The school operates under the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations
Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations
The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations is a private, non-governmental board of school education in India. It conducts two examinations in India: the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education and the Indian School Certificate...
(CISCE) and hence the students of 10th standard take Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) Examinations
Indian Certificate of Secondary Education
The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education or ICSE examination is an examination conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, a private, non-governmental board of school education in India, for class 10, i.e., grade 10...
and those of the 12th standard take Indian School Certificate (ISC) Examinations
Indian School Certificate
The Indian School Certificate is an examination conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations for Grade 11, i.e., year 11, until 1976....
.
The school uses the house system
House system
The house system is a traditional feature of British schools, and schools in the Commonwealth. Historically, it was associated with established public schools, where a 'house' refers to a boarding house or dormitory of a boarding school...
to foster a sense of competition and belonging. The four houses are named after Salesian saints, viz. Rua
Michael Rua
Blessed Michael Rua was an Italian Catholic activist, a friend of Don Bosco and co-founder and first Rector Major of the Salesians.The last of nine children, he entered Don Bosco’s Oratory in 1852...
(red), Savio
Dominic Savio
Dominic Savio was an Italian adolescent student of Saint John Bosco. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died at the age of 14, possibly from pleurisy....
(green), Magone (yellow) and Vecchi (blue). Most activities in the school are organized according to the houses.
St. John Bosco, popularly known as Don Bosco, is the patron saint of the school.
The motto of the school is "Virtus et Labor".
The school has been awarded the "School of the Year" award by The Telegraph Education Foundation, Kolkata, (all schools of West Bengal are a part of which) in 2007,2010 and again in 2011.
History
- On 22 March 1928, Mgr. Mathias, the Salesian Provincial, signed the deed and acquired the land for a professional school at Liluah. On 24 May 1930 the factory sheds of Parry’s Engineering Works were purchased for the school buildings.
- On 8 December 1937, Don Bosco Technical School and the first parish church dedicated to St. John Bosco in India, was officially blessed and inaugurated in Liluah by Mgr. Ferdinand Perier SJ (the Archbishop of Calcutta) to serve the European and Anglo-Indian Catholics of Liluah Railway Colony.
- In January 1938 the first boy, Bonnie Morris, was admitted.
- In April 1939 the technical school started with 13 boys, under the direction of Brothers Capretti and Priolo.
- From December 1942 to December 1946, Don Bosco Liluah was requisitioned by the Government of India for the use of the army during the Second World War so the school was closed for four years.
- Don Bosco School Liluah was recognized by the Government In August 1948. In 1954 the first batch of students appeared for the Senior Cambridge Exams (ICSE and ISC did not exist then).
- The first Past Pupils Day was held In October 1955.
- In July 1958 the auditorium was inaugurated.
- In May 1959, the first batch of technical students appeared for the City and Guilds (London) exams.
- In November 1959 the main four storey building was blessed and inaugurated by the Archbishop of Calcutta in the presence of 125 dignitaries. The SE wing or the KG wing of our school was a two storey building from 1959. It was converted into a four storey building in 1977 and the ISC section started classes in that wing from January 1977.
- In January 1977 the Free Night School was started, to cater to the needs of the poor children of the locality.
- The First Inter Schools cultural and co-curricular festival (the first Bosco Blow Up) was held on September 1977, with seven schools taking part.
- Don Bosco Self Employment was started in August 1978 for the young men of the locality who are school drop-outs to enable them to learn a trade and earn their livelihood. As the self employment grew in size Don Bosco Mirpara came into existence in August 1988. Today it catersg to the needs of hundreds of youth, both male and female.
- The parish church was blessed in December 1984 by Rev. Fr. K.A. Joseph, the Provincial in the presence of Rev. Fr. Mariano Uguet, who did a lot of the work in acquiring and setting up the institution and Rev. Fr. Attilio Colussi, the first Rector. Now the Adivasis from Chotanagpur form the majority. At present there are 450 Catholic families with 2500 members. A computer Centre was set up in December 1986.
- On 1 August 1996, the CVE exams commenced for the first time in India, Liluah with 17 students. In December 1996 the north-eastern four storey building was commissioned for the boarding.
- A new auditorium became functional from December 2002.
- The old technical school building which became operational in February 1950 was constructed and remodelled in 1998.
- In February 2010, the second floor of the Technical School building was inaugurated by Rev. Fr Maria Arokia, Regional Salesian Superior of South Asia. The floor has an air conditioned multi-purpose hall, laboratories, and rooms for subjects like History, Geography, and Mathematics.
- In 1997, DBL celebrated its Diamond JubileeDiamond JubileeA Diamond Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 60th anniversary in the case of a person or a 75th anniversary in the case of an event.- Thailand :...
, when a grand function was hosted which was presided by the Governor of West BengalGovernor of West BengalThe Governor of West Bengal is a nominal head and representative of the President of India in the state of West Bengal. The Governor is appointed by the President for a term of five years. H.E. Mayankote Kelath Narayanan is the current governor...
Shri K. V. Raghunatha ReddyK. V. Raghunatha ReddyK. V. Raghunatha Reddy was an Indian politician. He served as Governor of Tripura , the Governor of West Bengal and the Governor of Orissa . He also worked as union labour minister.-References:...
.
- The method of education followed in the school is the Preventive System, taught and practised by St. John Bosco. It is based on Reason, Religion and Loving kindness.
Academic achievements
The school has been awarded "The TelegraphThe Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...
School Awards for The Best Academic Performance By a School (ICSE,ISC)" in 2007, 2010 and also in 2011.
Over the past years, DBL has grown to be one of the best performing schools in Academics, in Kolkata.
The ICSE and ISC results of last 5 years:
.............................ICSE....................
Year...Total Candidates...School Average...>90% scores
2011...........195...............84.75...............66
2010...........176...............84.92...............59
2009...........184...............86.22...............62
2008...........192...............84.67...............55
2007...........197...............85.08...............64
.............................ISC....................
Year....Total Candidates...School Average...>90% scores
2011...........162................88.36.................80
2010...........172................88.36.................94
2009...........166................86.02.................56
2008...........175................86.44.................76
2007...........152................84.07.................34
Extra-curricular
- The Quizzing Team of DBL has had podium finishes in quizzes like JacoIZ @ St. James School, Kolkata, Jubilee Quiz @Don Bosco School, Park CircusDon Bosco School, Park CircusDon Bosco School, Park Circus, located at 23, Darga Road, Kolkata, India, is an all-boys English medium school imparting education from first through twelfth grade. Established in 1958, it is run by the Salesians of Don Bosco, which is a minority institution within the Catholic Church...
, Bosco Quizzard @ DBL, LimcaLimcaLimca is a lemon and lime flavoured carbonated soft drink made primarily in India and certain parts of the U.S.In 1992, when the Indian government allowed Coca-Cola to return for operations, at the same time as it admitted Pepsi for the first time, Coca-Cola bought local soft-drink brands, from...
Book of Records Quiz, HorlicksHorlicksHorlicks is the name of a company and of a malted milk hot drink. It is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline in the United Kingdom, South Africa, New Zealand, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Jamaica, and under licence in the Philippines and Malaysia....
' Wiz Kids, Auxi-Fire @ Auxilium Convent School Dumdum, Quiz@ Don Bosco Bandel, Quiz @ St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary SchoolSt. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary SchoolSt. John's Diocesan Girls' H S School, , is situated in the city of Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was established in 1894. Standing on the crossing of Sarat Bose Road and Elgin Road in South Kolkata.-Overview:The school is one of the oldest girl's schools of Kolkata...
, TCSTata Consultancy ServicesTata Consultancy Services Limited is a global IT services, business solutions and outsourcing company headquartered in Mumbai, India. It is the largest provider of information technology in Asia and second largest provider of business process outsourcing services in India...
IT-wiz, Q-WIZ @ Chairos Quro, TERRA Quiz @ TERI – The Energy and Resources Institute, and the Puffin Starmark Quiz. A student has been the National Champion at the Philatelic Quiz at @ INDIPEX 2011Indipex 2011Indipex 2011 was organized by India Post, Government of India in collaboration with the Philatelic Congress of India under the patronage of the Federation Internationale de Philatelie and the auspices of the Federation of Inter-Asian Philately .The World Philatelic Exhibition was held at Halls No...
World Philatelic Exhibition held in New Delhi, organised by India Post. The prize was Rs. 50,000.
- The Debating Team finished runners up in Debating Matters India conducted in association with The British CouncilBritish CouncilThe British Council is a United Kingdom-based organisation specialising in international educational and cultural opportunities. It is registered as a charity both in England and Wales, and in Scotland...
, in its first edition. The school has performed well in all the Model United Nations (MUN) meets attended by it and adjudged "Best Delegation" in both the MUNs attended by it last year in 2009 at La Martiniere CalcuttaLa Martiniere CalcuttaLa Martiniere Calcutta comprises two separate private schools in Kolkata, India. The schools were established in accordance with the will of Major General Claude Martin in 1836. They are day schools although they both have a small number of boarders...
and St. James School, Kolkata.
- Sports available include basketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, cricketCricketCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
, football, volleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, table tennisTable tennisTable tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
. There are coaching facilities for the former three. The trained karateKarateis a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was developed from indigenous fighting methods called and Chinese kenpō. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands. Grappling, locks,...
troupe of DBL has won laurels on the international circuit.
- The football team is champion in the district level besides attaining podium finish in the inter-school football tournament (Bosco Goalie) hosted by the school itself as well as being the champions in SavioSavioSavio can mean:* Savio , an Italian river* Savio, sector of Kerava town in Finland, and a railway station located in the sector* Savio, Buenos Aires, a settlement in Escobar Partido, Argentina...
Football Cup (organised by Don Bosco School, Park CircusDon Bosco School, Park CircusDon Bosco School, Park Circus, located at 23, Darga Road, Kolkata, India, is an all-boys English medium school imparting education from first through twelfth grade. Established in 1958, it is run by the Salesians of Don Bosco, which is a minority institution within the Catholic Church...
), attended by the best schools of Kolkata.
- The chessChessChess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
team has reached podium finishes in state-level and inter-school level competitions and meets.
- The school's "Unconventional Music" group create music from buckets, pans, containers, test-tubes, etc.
There are inter-class, inter-house and inter-club competitions and tournaments in fields ranging from quizzing to dancing, music to sporting events, debating to painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
.
Youth clubs and their mottos
- Dramatic ClubClubA club is an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal. A service club, for example, exists for voluntary or charitable activities; there are clubs devoted to hobbies and sports, social activities clubs, political and religious clubs, and so forth.- History...
- Actions speak louder than words - Friends Youth Group - Change the world through love
- Leadership Training Service (LTS) Group - For God and country
- Literary Club - Endeavouring towards excellence in erudite expression
- MusicMusicMusic is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
Club - Heal the world through music - QuizQuizA quiz is a form of game or mind sport in which the players attempt to answer questions correctly. In some countries, a quiz is also a brief assessment used in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, and/or skills.Quizzes are usually scored in points and many...
Club - Cia Cempre Inquizzitive (I am inquisitive]) - ScienceScienceScience is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
Club - Finding an Einstein in You - Scouts Troop - Be prepared!
- SPACE BYTE Club - Socially Positive And Caring Existence Binding You and Technology Everlastingly
- Sports Club - Fair play and sportsmanship
- Young Christian Students (YCS) Youth Group
- Yes! NatureNatureNature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general...
Club - Let's make our environment greener and cleaner - Media and Cultural Club
- Bosco Boys
Facilities
Don Bosco School, Liluah, has a school building (G+3), with two playing fields.The Social Forest and gardens with scores of plants and trees decorate the school environment.
The school has a Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit
Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit
A reverse osmosis water purification unit is a portable, self-contained water treatment plant. Designed for military use, it can provide potable water from nearly any water source. There are many models in use by the United States armed forces and the Canadian Forces...
and emergency power generator capable of running the entire school.
The school library
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
has reference books, magazines and story-books.
The A/V Room is the place where classes are held in multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
format.
The school has eight laboratories for Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer, Geography, History, Mathematics and Language.
There are badminton, volleyball and basketball courts, and table tennis boards. Sports gear is available from the Games Room for the recreation of the students during recess, after school hours and on holidays. Students make use of it to play chess, carom, volleyball, basketball, football, cricket, and badminton.
The school band practices in the Music Room.
The school auditorium
Auditorium
An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances at venues such as theatres. For movie theaters, the number of auditoriums is expressed as the number of screens.- Etymology :...
with a capacity for more than 1500 heads, is the second largest exclusive school auditorium in the state.
The school has a 250-seater air-conditioned Examination Hall
Hall
In architecture, a hall is fundamentally a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age, a mead hall was such a simple building and was the residence of a lord and his retainers...
, which also doubles as another multimedia class-hall.
List of Past Rectors and Principals
- 1937-39 Fr. A. Colussi
- 1940-40 Fr. M. Ferarrio
- 1940-41 Fr. T. Lopez
- 1941-49 Fr. L. Buri
- 1950-51 Fr. J. Bacchiarello
- 1952-56 Fr. A. Buccieri
- 1956-62 Fr. M. Uguet
- 1962-65 Fr. R. Stroscio
- 1965-67 Fr. P.J. Sheehy
- 1967-70 Fr. R. Maiques
- 1970-76 Fr. A.J. Sebastian
- 1976-79 Fr. P.P. Varkey
- 1979-85 Fr. C.A. Joseph
- 1985-91 Fr. B. Fernandes
- 1991-95 Fr. J. Manippadeth
- 1995-00 Fr. D. Kachira
- 2000-05 Fr. C.J. George
- 2005-11 Fr. J. Pathickal
- 2011-till date Rector -Fr. T. Biji Principal-Bro. P.A. Jose
Sports Day
Sports Day alternates between the junior and senior school every other year, in December. All track and field competitions are conducted, with drills and dances performed by classes in between sporting events. March Past and Drill display practices are done for over a month after which Heats are conducted over 2 days. On the final day, the day of grand finale, all parents and well-wishers are invited to witness the event. Senior IAS, WBCS and IPS officers and sports personalities are invited to be Chief Guests and Guests of Honour for this event.The teaching community is also divided and alloted one of the four houses each. The relays, specially the "Grand Relay", are the most awaited events. Prizes are given to houses for best show in "March Past", "Tug-of-War", "Tunnel Ball", "Grand Relay" and the "Overall Winners". Vecchi (blue) house was the champion in 2009.
Rector's and Parents Day
It is conducted every year, alternating between the junior and senior school every other year. This is the Annual Function of the school which is held every December, spanning over two days for the Juniors and for one day for Seniors. Students participate in musical and dance events. Skits are put up in English, Hindi and Bengali. Recitations are done.Teacher's Day
For Teacher's Day snacks are provided to every student. Then, after paying tribute to the teachers in individual classes, students, led by the class 12s, perform items on-stage in the form of a variety entertainment. After this on-stage celebration, volleyball, basketball and football matches are conducted between the male teachers and students. While this is going on, the lady teachers take on the students in a battle of "Antakshari". The celebrations end with a lunch for the teachers.May Day
The non-teaching staff of the school are honored with thunderous applauses, standing ovations, an on-stage variety entertainment and gifts from the students. This celebration ends with a serving of lunch.Children's Day
For Children's Day a fete is organised. The event is open to everybody, belonging to the school or not. All members of the extended family of Don Bosco Liluah, friends and well-wishers are invited.Fancy dress competitions are held for all classes where kids of junior classes mostly, don the dresses of Spiderman to bin-Laden, Jesus to Satan, newly-wed bride to meek old man.
Stalls are put up by every section of every class. These stalls conduct games and sell food stuffs. For this, coupons are used which can be bought from locations around the school. The money collected is used for the functioning of the Free Night School for the poor children of the locality and to buy books for them.
Mural
Other events held are Inaugural Ceremony and Orientation Programs at the beginning of every academic year, Rabindrajayanti Celebrations, Annual Award Ceremony, Excursions, Picnics, Independence Day and Republic Day, Christmas Celebrations, Foundation Day, and Farewell for Class 12.Inter-School Fests
- Don Bosco Liluah organises the annual Inter School Fest, "Boscotsav".
The Boscotsav is a two day extravaganza, with many schools across Howrah, Kolkata, Hooghly and 24-Parganas, taking part in it. Around 50 events are conducted, including Western and Eastern Music, Western and Eastern Dance, Quiz, Debate, Unconventional Music, Painting, Science Exhibition, Art and Crafts, Carom, Chess, Photography, Gaming, Just-A-Minute (JAM), War of RJs, and Tug-o-War.
Sports events include :
- Bosco Goalie: Football
- Bosco Ping-Pong: Table TennisTable tennisTable tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
(earlier, Jeet Memorial Table Tennis Championship used to be held separately).
The theme of Boscotsav is Meliora Cogito... I strive for the Best...
- DBL Sports Club organizes an annual Twenty20 CricketCricketCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
Championship, The Millennium Cup, participated by the best cricketing schools from Kolkata and Howrah.
For more details visit
http://boscotsav11.donboscoliluah.org
Don Bosco Liluah is a participant in inter-school fests like Bosco Fest (@ Don Bosco, Park Circus), Bosco XpreZns (@ Don Bosco, Bandel), Chiaros Quro (@ Our Lady Queen of the Missions School, Salt Lake), Auxilamarylis (@ Auxilium Convent School, Dum Dum), Horlicks Wiz'kids, Josephstyna (@ St. Joseph's College, Bowbazaar).
Annual magazine "The Canvas"
The Canvas is a collection of sketch, prose, poetry and accounts, created by the authors and artists of the school. It shows photographs that record school life, and acts as a remembrance of groups, clubs and teams. A section is dedicated to the high achievers in curricular and co-curricular spheres.Technical Section
Established in 1937,Don Bosco Technical School, Liluah is an English medium Anglo-Indian institution run by the Salesians of Don Bosco.Courses offered :
- NCVT Trades: turner, fitter and machinist conducted by The National Council for Vocational training, DGE&T, Ministry of Labour, Govt. of India, New Delhi.
- Certificate of Vocational/Education conducted by The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi.
- Technician Certificate in Applied Mechanical Engineering conducted by The City and Guilds of London Institute, UK.
- Mechanical Engineering Technician (Institute's Diploma)
- Auto - CAD: part of the Mechanical Engineering Technician Curriculum and offered as a 3 months course to external candidates with knowledge of engineering drawing.
- CNC Programming: part of the Mechanical EngineeringMechanical engineeringMechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
Technician Curriculum and offered as a 60 hour course to external candidates with working experience on conventional lathe and milling machines. - Training in Medical Transcription: course duration: 4 months.
- Embroidery, dressmaking and knitting (for girls only): course duration: 1 year
Don Bosco Technical Department has a machine shop with machines imported from Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the UK, as well as machinery from tool manufacturers from within India.
- Don Bosco Technical School has joined hands with SiemensSiemensSiemens may refer toSiemens, a German family name carried by generations of telecommunications industrialists, including:* Werner von Siemens , inventor, founder of Siemens AG...
in a new venture of education in technical expertise.
Night School and other Services
- Don Bosco Night School was started in 1976 by a group of past pupils. The school educates under-privileged children of the locality. Academic and Value education are mainly taught.
Fr. Joseph Pathickal the Rector and Mr. Soumen Mark James along with ten other teachers take care of the students in the night school. A few students after finishing their night school join the NIOS for their 10th and 12th standards.
- Under the Adult Education project, uneducated adults receive education and are made literate.
- The school is a centre of NIOSNiosNios may refer to:*National Institute of Open Schooling, Board of Education for school level in India *Nios embedded processor*Nios II*Lake Nyos, a crater lake in the Northwest Province of Cameroon in Africa...
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- The free Medical Unit is run by the Past Pupil's Association. The poor people of the locality are treated for free by doctors and also given free medicines every Sunday. Hundreds of desperate people get help from this unit every week. Students of the school help in this by contributing during the "Medicine Drives".
Church
St. John BoscoJohn Bosco
John Bosco , was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer of the 19th century, who put into practice the convictions of his religion, dedicating his life to the betterment and education of street children, juvenile delinquents, and other disadvantaged youth and employing teaching methods...
Church was blessed in December 1937 by Archbishop
Archbishop
An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...
F. Perier to serve the European and Anglo - Indian Catholics of Liluah Railway colony. Now the Adivasis from Chotanagpur form the majority. In 1950 the village of Joypur was given over to Liluah. A new church was built and blessed on December 8, 1985 to replace the old.
In 1986 Hind Motors, Uttarpara and Konnagar, were added to the parish
Parish
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. on August 14, 1994, a new Mass center at Bhattanagar was inaugurated and a new chapel was blessed by Archbshop Henry D’ Souza to server the Christan community of that area. on August 15, 2001, Holy Family Sisters joined the parish at Bhattanagar in order to further the family apostolate through family visits and education.
Chandamari close to Belur Station is evolving into a Mass Centre. In December 2003 the foundation stone which was blessed by His Holiness Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II
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was laid for the Divine Mercy Church. The church was blessed in February 2005.
Don Bosco Mirpara offers job oriented non-formal education especially for the school drop outs, and has an aspirantate. At Bhattanagar, Don Bosco Ashalayam has three homes for the orphaned boys and the Sisters Adorers have a home for the homeless girls. All of these are under the Don Bosco Liluah Church Parish.
Notable alumni
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- winner 2008 STAR Voice of India 2STAR Voice of India 2Star Voice of India 2 is an Indian Television singing competition. Star Voice of India 2 premiered on 18 July 2008. It Stands for Second Season of Gajendra Singh's previous Show Star Voice of India. This season replaces all old judges with three new judges... - Babul SupriyoBabul SupriyoBabul Supriyo is an Indian playback singer. He calls himself a clone of Kumar Sanu.He was born Supriya Baral, and spent his early childhood, and even graduated from university with that name. He would change his first name's spelling from Supriya to Supriyo as the former signified a female name,...
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