Sri Aurobindo Memorial School
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Sri Aurobindo Memorial School is a school situated in Bangalore
, India
. It was established in 1962 and is located in the Banashankari II stage in Bangalore-560070.
and Sri Aurobindo
, and the School received the Mother's blessings upon foundation. Mrs Pearson was the founding Principal of the School, and Mr Pearson was its Director of Studies. It was originally a primary school, having classes up to Standard 6. Indeed, this was so until the early 1970s, when Mr and Mrs Pearson left Bangalore for Australia.
Prior to that, between 1964 and 1966, Mr and Mrs Pearson took leave without pay from the School to live briefly in the United Kingdom, and at that time in order to ensure the continuity of the School, Mrs Pearson's father, Dr Santoshanand managed the day to day running of School as Interim Principal. Upon their return from the UK, Mrs Pearson resumed duties as School Principal, and Mr Pearson assisted in curriculum development. At about this time, the name of the School was changed to 'The New English School'.
Following the Pearsons' departure to Australia in 1971, Mrs Pearson's brother, Mr Sri Kumar Vasishtha was appointed Principal of the School. He managed the School until 1975, when his younger brother Mr Raj Vasishtha was appointed Administrator and his younger sister, Ms Aditi Vasishtha was appointed Principal. Shortly after these appointments were made, the name of the school was changed again, this time to 'Sri Aurobindo Memorial School', which is its present name. Today, the school is known for imparting quality education throughout Bangalore.
There is a meditation hall in the 1st floor of the Harmony Building which encompasses serenity and devotion. In the center of this room, lie the relics of Sri Aurobindo, brought to the school on relics day from the Pondicherry Ashram by Aditi and Raj Vasishtha in August 1997. The Relics are said to be a silver lock and some nails of Sri Aurobindo's which are contained in a silver casket enclosed by a sandalwood box. The relics are enshrined in a marble shrine.
, basketball
, volleyball
, table tennis
, kho kho
, throwball
, chess
, carrom
, cricket
and football are conducted annually. The school conducts karate
classes for students from classes 1 to 10 every morning. The school also sends students for different interschool competitions.
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
, 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...
. It was established in 1962 and is located in the Banashankari II stage in Bangalore-560070.
Curriculum
Sri Aurobindo Memorial School offers CBSE curriculum from nursery to 10th Standard and state only from 8th standard.History
Sri Aurobindo Memorial School was founded in 1962 and, like many institutions of its kind, had undergone many incarnations to reach its present situation. It started out as "The New School" in January 1962, and its location was near the Ashoka Pillar, near Lalbagh, Jayanagar 1st Block. The original founders of the School were Nathaniel and Espoir Pearson, who were both devotees of the MotherMirra Alfassa
-Early life:Mirra Alfassa was born in Paris in 1878, of a Turkish Jewish father, Maurice, and an Egyptian Jewish mother, Mathilde. She had an elder brother named Matteo. The family migrated to France the year before she was born. For the first eight years of her life she lived at 62 boulevard...
and Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo , born Aurobindo Ghosh or Ghose , was an Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. He joined the Indian movement for freedom from British rule and for a duration became one of its most important leaders, before developing his own vision of human progress...
, and the School received the Mother's blessings upon foundation. Mrs Pearson was the founding Principal of the School, and Mr Pearson was its Director of Studies. It was originally a primary school, having classes up to Standard 6. Indeed, this was so until the early 1970s, when Mr and Mrs Pearson left Bangalore for Australia.
Prior to that, between 1964 and 1966, Mr and Mrs Pearson took leave without pay from the School to live briefly in the United Kingdom, and at that time in order to ensure the continuity of the School, Mrs Pearson's father, Dr Santoshanand managed the day to day running of School as Interim Principal. Upon their return from the UK, Mrs Pearson resumed duties as School Principal, and Mr Pearson assisted in curriculum development. At about this time, the name of the School was changed to 'The New English School'.
Following the Pearsons' departure to Australia in 1971, Mrs Pearson's brother, Mr Sri Kumar Vasishtha was appointed Principal of the School. He managed the School until 1975, when his younger brother Mr Raj Vasishtha was appointed Administrator and his younger sister, Ms Aditi Vasishtha was appointed Principal. Shortly after these appointments were made, the name of the school was changed again, this time to 'Sri Aurobindo Memorial School', which is its present name. Today, the school is known for imparting quality education throughout Bangalore.
Prayer
The school puts a lot of emphasis on prayer and meditation. A day at school starts and ends with a prayer. The morning prayer, "Permit Sweet Mother" is sung after the Gayatri Mantra, a favorite of Sri Aurobindo's. (In the middle school, different morning prayers are sung on different days of the week.) A lunch prayer, "Annapurne Sadaapurne", is sung before the students go for lunch and all the students sing a "Thank You God" prayer at the end of the school day. In the evenings, "Make of us the hero warriors" is sung.There is a meditation hall in the 1st floor of the Harmony Building which encompasses serenity and devotion. In the center of this room, lie the relics of Sri Aurobindo, brought to the school on relics day from the Pondicherry Ashram by Aditi and Raj Vasishtha in August 1997. The Relics are said to be a silver lock and some nails of Sri Aurobindo's which are contained in a silver casket enclosed by a sandalwood box. The relics are enshrined in a marble shrine.
Sports Facilities
Events on athletics, shuttleShuttle
The original meaning of the word shuttle is the device used in weaving to carry the weft. By reference to the continual to-and-fro motion associated with that, the term was then applied in transportation and then in other spheres...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball 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...
, volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball 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 tennis
Table tennis
Table 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...
, kho kho
Kho Kho
Kho Kho is an Indian and Pakistani sport played by teams of twelve players who try to avoid being touched by members of the opposing team, only 9 players of the team enter the field...
, throwball
Throwball
Throwball is a non-contact ball sport played across a net between two teams of seven players on a rectangular court. Throwball is popular in Asia, especially on the Indian subcontinent, and was first played in India as a women's sport in Chennai during the 1940s. Like volleyball, the game's roots...
, chess
Chess
Chess 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...
, carrom
Carrom
Carrom is a family of tabletop games with gameplay that lies somewhere between billiards and table shuffleboard. Carrom is known by many names around the world, including carrum, couronne, carum, karam, karom, karum, fatta and finger billiards...
, cricket
Cricket
Cricket 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...
and football are conducted annually. The school conducts karate
Karate
is 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,...
classes for students from classes 1 to 10 every morning. The school also sends students for different interschool competitions.