National Public School, Rajajinagar


National Public School is a school located in Bangalore, India, established in 1959 by K. P. Gopalkrishna and consisting of both primary and secondary schools. Its main campus is located on Chord Road, 5th block, Rajajinagar. The campus comprises four buildings which house the classrooms, labs and auditorium.

House system

Students are divided among four houses: Phoenix, Centaur, Pegasus, and Orion. The houses compete each year for two trophies, the Sports Cup awarded for athletics performance, and the House Cup awarded for other merits.

Facilities

The school has an auditorium, with another one under construction. The auditorium doubles as a sports facility.
The school has a senior and junior science laboratories, computer laboratory and audiovisual facility, among others.

Sport

Volleyball, basketball, football and throw-ball are the only permitted outdoor sports, along with badminton, handball and annual races.

School events

The school organizes a bi-annual inter-school competition. The competition, known as Napsonic, involves teams from only the sister schools competing to win prizes for events. To ensure fair play, the students of National Public School, Rajajinagar do not participate in the fests that the school usually sponsors.
Each year the school organizes a Graduation Day program to bid adieu to the graduating students, during the course of which students hold aloft lamps.
There are sports events conducted for classes 1 to 12 and kindergarten, in which the winners enjoy a crown-wearing ceremony, witnessed by the participating section.

Sister schools