Christ Church Girls' Senior Secondary School

Christ Church Girls' Senior Secondary School is one of the major private schools in Jabalpur,Madhya Pradesh, India. It is an English medium school that is well known for its excellent educational priorities. The school currently has AbOUT 2000 students. At present, the school functions under the Church of North India, Jabalpur Diocese. The Rt. Rev. Dr. P.C.Singh, Bishop of Jabalpur Diocese is the Chairman.

School History

The Christ Church Girls' Senior Secondary School had its beginnings in the vestry of Christ Church in the year 1870 and was then known as Christ Church School. The school today is 138 years old .It was in 1869 that Rev. William Barker Drawbridge was appointed as the Chaplain of Christ Church. It was he who labored to fulfill a long felt need i.e. a School for European and Anglo-Indian children.

And so apparently the School began on June 1, 1870 in the vestry of Christ Church and moved to the present old School building in or around 1876 . As the schools remained closed for the summer , November 1, All Saints Day, became a convenient date to commemorate the Founder and all those who laboured for the building of the Christ Church Schools. It is now celebrated as the Founder's Day.

As the school continued to grow in number, a great need for more classrooms was felt by all. It was in January 1986 , that Bishop F.C.Jonathan, took over as the Chairman of the school's Governing Body. It was under his leadership and during the principalship of Mrs. W. Nair, that a master plan for the school was conceived called "The Education Expansion Programme". This was inaugurated by the then Governor of Madhya Pradesh Prof. K .M .Chandy.

In July 1991, the first phase of the development programme was completed with 21 classrooms and a library and a computer laboratory. The second phase of 12 classrooms and three science laboratory and another computer laboratory was completed in 1995 for the Secondary and Senior secondary classes. The third phase was completed in 2004 with 6 large classrooms for the kindergarten. In July 2006, five more classrooms were made for the Middle School Classes, one well equipped Mathematics Laboratory for the girls of Classes I to X, a Primary School Computer lab and a staff room.1

School Uniform

For primary school students (classes 1-5): From Monday to Friday the students are supposed to wear a white collared shirt, a navy blue tunic with four pleats in the front, a red knot tie, the house colour belt, white clean pair of socks and black shoes. The students also require to wear the school badge. On Saturdays however, they need to wear house colour t-shirts with a check-skirt that has four pleats in the front and white socks with white canvas shoes.

For elementary and senior class students (classes 6-12): From Monday to Friday they have the same uniform as primary classes do. However, on Saturdays they need to wear house colour t-shirts with white skirts that have four pleats in the front and three at the back. They also need to wear white socks with white canvas shoes.

School Teams

All the school students are given a house colour belt that represents their house. There are four houses - Darling (green house), Downing (blue house), Sinker (yellow house) and Levi (red house). Basically, these houses are the teams that play against each other within the school. When there is an interschool or national sport/game, the houses do not count, they play as a whole.

Principal

The current principal of the school is Mrs. Wendy Nair, who is also a former student of the school. She graduated from Hawabagh Women's College, Jabalpur doing her B.Sc with Chemistry, Zoology and Botany. She did her B.Ed from the same college. She did her Post Graduate Diploma from the State Institute of Science Education, Jabalpur with Botany as her main subject. She took her Masters Degree in Education. She was a keen athlete, Basketball and Hockey player at school & University level.

Her teaching career started as a High School Teacher in Biology in 1973. She was appointed the Vice Principal of the school in 1982 and was promoted to the post of the Principal on the first of May' 1984. She was also selected to visit the schools of partner Churches in the United Kingdom in August 1989 in a partnership exchange programme.

She has completed 35 years of service in our school. She has built up our school over the past 24 years, working as its Principal to improve the infrastructure and work for the academic excellence of the children, without neglecting all other curricular activities. She is specially interested in promoting Art & Craft and takes keen interest in all Work Experience activities in school. Sports and Games have a regular place in our school curriculum.

Vice Principal

The Vice Principal Mrs. Rebecca Maclure has done her entire schooling from Christ Church Senior Secondary School. She did her Bachelor's Degree from M.H College of Home Science and her Masters Degree ( English Literature ) also from the same College. She did her B.Ed from Hawabagh Women's College.

She joined as a Teacher in The Primary School. With her excellent skills in teaching and the opportunities awarded to her, she rose to post of a Post Graduate Teacher and Vice principal. She has been serving in this position for the past 21 years.

Mrs. Maclure teaches English to classes XI & XII and also helps in the administration of the school. She trains girls for debates, elocutions and oratory skills.

School Hostel

There are boarding and lodging facilities for girls over six years in age. For admission to the hostel, names have to be registered with the Principal/Hostel Superintendent by March every year . Admissions to the hostel are done only after students have passed the school admission test and have been admitted to the school. Withdrawal from the hostel automatically results in the withdrawal from the school.

The School Hostel accommodates 60 girls from Classes I to XII. It caters to the needs of girls and aims at helping them to experience corporate living, training them to be independent and accept responsibility and develop affective and regular study habits, discipline, leadership and service. The girls must abide by the Hostel rules and regulations.

The Hostel is situated in the School Campus and is administered by the Hostel Manager Mrs. Nora Singh and the Hostel Superintendent, Mrs. S. Ezekiel. They are assisted by a kind and able staff. It is a 'Home away from Home'.