Viqarunnisa Noon School is an all-girls school in Bailey Road

Bailey Road

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, Dhaka

Dhaka

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, Bangladesh

Bangladesh

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; it has about 10,000 students and links with the history of the entire South Asian subcontinent

Subcontinent

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History

Viqarunnisa Noon School is one of the most renowned schools in Bangladesh. It has a glorious past. It was founded in 1952 by Begum Viqar-un-Nisa Noon

Viqar un Nisa Noon

Begum Viqar-un-Nisa, Lady Noon was the wife of the seventh Prime Minister of Pakistan, Feroz Khan Noon. By profession, Viqar Noon was a social worker. She was an Austrian by birth and origin, and was born as Victoria in July 1920. She married Sir Feroz Khan Noon in 1945...

, wife of Firoz Khan Noon, the then governor of East Pakistan

East Pakistan

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. Since then, the school has maintained its image as a prestigious educational institution.

Founder

Begum Viqar-un-Nisa Hossain Noon (nee Victoria) was Austrian by birth. Born in 1920, she married Sir Feroz Khan Noon

Feroz Khan Noon

Malik Sir Feroz Khan Noon, KCSI, KCIE, Kt was a politician from Pakistan.-Early life:Born on 18th of June 1893 at village Hamoka,tehsil Khushab, Punjab. He was educated at Aitchison College, Lahore....

 in 1945, who had been the Indian High Commissioner in England, and would later become the seventh Prime Minister of Pakistan

Prime Minister of Pakistan

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The Noons often participated in social work and Viqarunnisa Noon School was one of its projects; there is also a Noon Educational Foundation that funds Pakistani students to study in Oxford and Cambridge, alongside the Viqar un Nisa College for Women, Rawalpindi in Pakistan.

Branches

Viqarunnisa noon school has four branches. They are:

1. Bailey road branch (main branch)
2. Dhanmondi branch
3. Azimpur branch
4. Bashundhora Branch

It has a range of different prestigious clubs that arrange regular and eagerly awaited inter-school and inter-college competitions. The science club, debating club and environment club have been running for more than a decade. Every year the Boishakh

Boishakh

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i Mela is held at the school campus. A new club named Viqarunnisa Language Club has been opened. It also has an English mediam section from class 1-10 but it's inside the Baily Road Branch only.

Besides These activities students participate in different types of art competitions, different types of games like, football, badminton, handball and so on. Every year Viqarunnisa Noon School participate in display competition on 16th December(our national victory day)and tend to bring glory every year.

Every year in S.S.C result the students bring great achievements for the school.This year the school has achieved second position in combined.

See also

• Viqarunnisa University
  Viqarunnisa University
  Viqarunnisa University is a private University of Bangladesh. It was established in 2001. The University is situated in Bailey Road, Dhaka. Former member of the national parliament of Bangladesh and businessman Dr HBM Iqbal is the Chairman of the Viqarunnisa University Foundation...
  
  
• Viqarunnisa Noon College
  Viqarunnisa Noon College
  Viqarunnisa Noon College is a center for higher secondary education in Bailey Road, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was established in 1978. The college took the first place in the combined merit list of the Higher Secondary Certificate examinations and seven times in twelve years between 1994 and 2006...
  
  

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