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Earth Call
The Telegraph, November 27, 2007 |
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The fruit of three months of labour culminated in a series of
exciting events on Friday, November 23. The whole of The Cambridge
School — right from the Kindergarten to Class XII — participated in
a global warming awareness programme initiated by the Indian Chamber
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The programme kicked off with an enthusiastic song-and-dance
performance by the neighbourhood children, along with students of
Classes XI and XII. This was followed by Classes V-VII providing
creative interpretation of the deterioration of the environment,
while students of Class IX conveyed their message and concerns
involving the many dangers via elocution and songs. Classes I to IV
took part in a walk to warn people about the dangers of global
warming.
A large portion of the learning experience was recorded on
innovative models and charts, displayed on the school boards and
tables. Concluding the programme were computer presentations made by
Classes VIII and X focusing on global warming worldwide, its adverse
effects and means of prevention in our city and daily lives. |
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Awareness spurs seat race: school adds classes
The Telegraph, February 21, 2005 |
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About 30,000 sq ft of space with
6,000 sq ft of playground area,
subject choices like journalism,
French, drama and music, separate
rooms for co-curricular activities,
20 students to a class, gym,
age-oriented libraries…Welcome to
The Cambridge School.
Affiliated to Cambridge University,
UK, the school started off in 2003
with Classes IX and XI. Last year,
it added Classes VIII, X and XII.
From June 13, it will add nursery to
Class VII, and admissions kick off
from February 21.
With a 50 per cent rejection rate on
applications just for the higher
classes (the school receives “10 to
15” admission applications per day),
the demand can only get higher,
feels founder and economics teacher
of the school Sarojesh Mukerjee.
“We deliberately chose a UK system,
because we didn’t want students to
be restricted to the Indian boards
of education. They are very
restrictive and regurgitative,” says Mukerjee.
“Also, there is a need for a school
like this in a city the size of
Calcutta, particularly for the
children of NRIs, who don’t fit into
the system here when they come from
abroad.” |
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The school isn’t the only one to
offer "O"
and "A"
levels in Calcutta, but it is the
first one to be affiliated to an
international university. There are
170 students in the school from all
around the world (the maximum
capacity) with the limit rising to
500 in June.
There are 25 teachers, some with
online training in the Cambridge
system. The syllabus is updated
every year, and all other activities
apart from academics are not
extracurricular, but co-curricular.
There are also special tutorials for
students who need it,
“to avoid the
tuition racket,” says
Mukerjee. |
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Nonda Chatterjee, former principal
of Calcutta International School
(CIS) and now principal of The
Cambridge School, feels that
awareness, and hence, the demand for
the British system is on the rise in
Calcutta, spurring parents towards
such schools. “Earlier, there was
only CIS. Now, there are others.”
The first batch of students who will
be passing out from the school this
year have already received offers
from universities in Georgia and
Boston, and London School of
Economics. “Uday Agarwal, a student
of our school, was the highest
scorer in SAT in India,” adds
Mukerjee.
The 10,000-sq-ft building that
houses the school now, on
Satyendranath Majumdar Sarani, near
the Ashutosh Mukherjee Road-Hazra
Road crossing, belongs to the
Mukerjee family and is on rent to
the school. To accommodate the
additional classes, the adjoining
building, measuring 20,000 ft with
6,000 sq ft of play area, has also
been rented out to the school by the
Mukerjees. |
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