Bhavan's Vidya Mandir, Girinagar


Bhavan's Vidya Mandir, Girinagar is a Senior Secondary School affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi. It is a part of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, a group of educational institutions and is situated in Girinagar, Ernakulam, Kerala, India.

History

Bhavan's Vidya Mandir, Girinagar was founded in 1977 on of land donated by the Cochin Shipyard in the heart of Kochi City.
The school functions under the purview of the Kochi Kendra of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, which runs 7 schools in Kochi. Apart from the main subjects taught, the school also has basketball and National Cadet Corps coaching after school timings, which generally runs on Mondays–Tuesdays 3:00–5:00 PM. The school got the Best School Award 2011 in India. The school has 1,600 students and 85 teachers.

Timings

The school has three terms for Classes 1–5—first term is June–August, second term September–December, third term January–March.
For classes 6–10 it has two terms—first term June–Early October, second term Mid-October–March, and closes in March.
The summer vacation lasts from April beginning to May end for Class 1–8 and Class 11. For Class 9, 10, and 12, April alone is the month of vacation and May marks the beginning of their classes.
The school timing is from 7.45am to 2.15pm for classes 1 to 12 and functions from Monday to Friday.

Academics

The school is open from Grade 1 to Grade 12 and the age group is from 6 years to 17 years. The school is divided into Primary , Secondary and Senior Secondary classes. Apart from the main subjects taught at school, the school also has basketball and NCC coachings after school timings.

Facilities

Classrooms are the best and favorite places of all children, from Class I to XII. The school does not just have a teacher standing in the corner of a classroom and dictating stuff which makes children sleep and the act of education boring. All classrooms of the school are equipped with a Superior Digital Technology now common to only a countable number of schools in Kerala. It is the Plasma TV. Bhavan's Girinagar was the first school to introduce it in the Kochi City of Kerala. The classes of the school now have the "TeachNext Education"—An All-India Company's Teaching Software installed in its Plasma TV, for all classes from Std. I to XII.
You can go to the official website of TeachNext:

Launching of the School Website

The school website was formally launched in June 2012.
The website URL is:

The PEACE Programme

The school has a yearly exchange programme called the PEACE with the students of The Judd School and Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School, Kent, England. This is an exchange programme in which nearly 30 students and five teachers are hosted by students and teachers of one of the member schools for approximately 3 weeks in an academic year; the next year, the students and teachers who hosted during the previous year travel to be hosted by those who visited them the previous year. This program was started in the year 1995 and has been very successful.

Subjects and Periods

The school has seven periods a day for Primaries and nine periods a day for Secondary, each consisting for around 40–45 minutes.

Academics

CLASS I to X

All subjects and languages are to be studied compulsorily unless said below.
GROUP 1
GROUP 2
Students can choose any one from these 5 sets.

Co-Curricular Studies

Co-curricular studies have been given utmost importance in the school. The school promotes al types of extra-curricular activities through periods given especially for them. All students must study all these fields compulsorily, unless otherwise indicated. Most of these fields apply only to Students of Class I-VIII, but some of these apply to everyone. They are indicated below.
Work Education course was embarked as a Co-Curricular, yet an assessed kind of activity in the school from the academic year 2011-2012 onward. Unlike the first year when it was introduced on a temporary basis, from the academic year 2012-2013 onward, specially trained staff for the job have been employed on a part-time basis in the school. This is a compulsory period for the students of Classes VI, VII, VIII, IX and X, the classes being for 2 hours on the First, Third and Fifth Saturdays of a month. The course teaches the following subjects for students of these classes, out of which ANY ONE section mus be opted for the entire academic year, by the student.

Principals

Hon. Secretary and Hon. Chairman of the School have resigned with effect April 2013.

Office Bearers

Besides, all Houses are headed by Captains, Vice Captains and Prefects.