St. Xavier's School, Burdwan
http://www.sxs-bwn.org/
St Xavier’s Road, PO Sripalli,
Burdwan 713103, West Bengal, India
Email: contact@sxs-bwn.org
School Office: (0342) 2644882 / 2646846
SCHOOL MOTTO
TRUTH AND JUSTICETHE PRESENT
St Xavier’s School, Burdwan, is a co-educational English medium school conducted by the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Fathers). Affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination, New Delhi, it prepares students for the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) and Indian School Certificate (ISC) examinations. Both recognized by Universities all over the country.
OBJECTIVES
Aims at integral personal formation of the young; special efforts are made to:# help them become mature, spiritually-oriented persons of character
# encourage continually to strive for excellence in every field
# value and judiciously use their freedom
# clear and firm on principles and courageous in action
# unselfish in the service of their fellowmen
ADMISSION FORMALITIES
# Application forms for admission to Primary, Secondary and Higher Secondary available on dates announced on school notice board.
# New application is required for admission to class 11.
# Admission of St Xavier’s Burdwan students to class 11 is not automatic.
# School timing: KG to class 12: 7.20am to 12.45pm
# Saturday is the weekly holiday unless otherwise specified in School calendar.
# Lost working days due to unforeseen or forced holidays are made up on Saturdays.
# Academic year: April to March
TRANSPORT
# Bus service is provided at a provisional rate. Discontinuation not permitted after December.
Attendance
# Less than 75% not eligible for promotion or ICSE/ISC exams.
FUTURE VISION
Transform students into persons of competence, compassion, character and faith, in cooperation with teachers and parents, to build a better community. Goals set to appreciate the vision:
# provide an integral formation
# create agents of social change
# enable students to become men and women of action and reflection, rooted firmly in and inspired by the values of human dignity, equality, social justice and secularism
# create in students a sense of compassion for the weak and powerless in the society, love for all living creatures, and concern for the environment
# encourage students to do their best in curricular and co-curricular programmes leading towards fuller personal growth and transformation
# foster in them skills to live and work in harmony with those who differ from them in religion, caste, language, ethnicity, etc and in case of conflicts, to resolve or manage them constructively
# form them into spiritual leaders with a social conscience and with a sense of global solidarity
# promote deeper bond among staff with a common mission
# reach out to parents to share our vision of education
BEYOND ACADEMICS
# Dance / Drama
# Games and sports / Physical training
# Home Science
# Leadership Training Service (LTS)
# Music / singing / painting
# Nature Club
# Quiz Club / Science Club
# Scouts / Guides / Bulbul / Cubs
# Social service projects
# Writers’ Club
Subjects offered for ICSE
- English
- Hindi/Bengali (2nd language)
- History & Civics
- Geography
- Mathematics
- Science (Physics, Chemistry, Biology)
- Computer Applications / Economic Applications
- Internal exam: Socially useful productive work and community service (SUPW)
Subjects offered for ISC
- Science
- English
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Biology/Biotechnology
- Computer Science
- Commerce
- English
- Indian Language Bengali/Hindi
- Mathematics
- Accountancy
- Economics
- Commerce/Computer Science
- Humanities
- English
- Indian Language Bengali/Hindi
- History/Geography
- Political Science
- Economicsv
- Sociology/Computer Science
Functions and celebrations
- Children’s Day / Teachers’ Day
- Christmas Carol singing
- Edu Fest
- Feast of St Francis Xavier, Patron of the School
- Feast of St Ignatius of Loyola, Founder, Society of Jesus
- Forest Week
- Independence Day flag hoisting
- Investiture ceremony
- Rabindra Jayanti
- Xtasy Parents’ Day programme (primary)
Competitions
- Group dance / action song
- Hand writing / Recitation
- Annual Sports Day
- Inter House Elocution and Extempore
- Inter House Essay
- Inter House Football tournament
- Inter House Singing
- Quiz
FACILITIES FOR STUDENTS
- Hostel accommodation for Tribal boys only
- Railway concession to bona fide students only
- Library
- 4 Science labs (Phy Chem Bio & Biotechnology)
- Computer lab
- Playground
FACILITIES FOR TEACHERS
- Staffroom
- Computers
- Storage facilities for books and work-related materials
Gallery
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THE ORIGIN
- 1540 St Ignatius of Loyola founded Society of Jesus, a Christian Religious Order
- Active in the field of education it caters to:
- 1865 educational institutions in 65 countries
- 356 of them being secondary schools
- 98,000 teachers engaged in educational institutes
- (91,000 lay people from different religious communities and
- 6,314 members of Society of Jesus)
- 17,92,000 students educated in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka
- 153 High Schools,
- 38 University Colleges,
- 14 Technical Institutes and
- 5 other institutes
- 8,085 lay teachers educate
- 2,34,338 students from every social class, community and linguistic groups
- These are part of Catholic Church’s effort to share the country’s educational responsibility
TIMES GONE BY
- 1962 November, Burdwan Educational Trust founded a primary school named Modern School, with English as its medium of instruction, for better education of local children.
- 1964 January, Modern School handed over to Jesuit Fathers, transferred to its present location at Sripalli, under the new management and named St Xavier’s School.
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