The Heritage School, Kolkata
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The Heritage School, Kolkata
, West Bengal
, India
, is a day-boarding school following the ICSE
/ISC syllabuses. It is an initiative of the Kalyan Bharti Trust.
The school has kindergarten through class XII, the Heritage Institute of Technology, The Heritage Academy and Suryakiran, an educational enterprise for underprivileged children.
The school has taken part in competitions like the Frank Antony Memorial All India Interschool Debate, The Bournvita
Quiz Contest, Maggi Quiz and other inter-school fests. The school has an Interact Club, and takes part in developmental schemes such as the Award Scheme for Young People. It has a two-tiered prefect body, including an elected Students' Council (a forum of elected representatives from each section).
The houses compete each year for the sports trophy, academic excellence trophy, co-curricular achievement trophy and the cock-house trophy.
pool, basketball
and tennis
courts, and a gymnasium. The building has an auditorium and an audio-visual room.
The Heritage School has six buildings:
Yoga
is compulsory up to class IX. The school prayer is "Atma Deepa Bhava".
, football, athletics, tennis
, basketball
, volleyball
, swimming
, rock climbing
, archery
and roller skating
. Indoor games include table tennis
, badminton
, chess
, carrom
, and multigym.
The Heritage has a regulation size football (soccer) field, 200 metre track, tennis
courts, basketball
courts, a swimming
pool and a multigym. The juniors have a recreation park which has equipment like swings, jungle gyms, see-saws, slides, rockers and sandpits.
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
, West Bengal
West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, is a day-boarding school following the ICSE
Indian Certificate of Secondary Education
The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education or ICSE examination is an examination conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, a private, non-governmental board of school education in India, for class 10, i.e., grade 10...
/ISC syllabuses. It is an initiative of the Kalyan Bharti Trust.
The school has kindergarten through class XII, the Heritage Institute of Technology, The Heritage Academy and Suryakiran, an educational enterprise for underprivileged children.
The school has taken part in competitions like the Frank Antony Memorial All India Interschool Debate, The Bournvita
Bournvita
Bournvita, previously called Bourn-vita, is the name of a brand of malted drinks sold in Europe and North America, as well as India, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Benin and Togo, and manufactured by Cadbury Plc. Bournvita was discontinued in the UK market in 2008...
Quiz Contest, Maggi Quiz and other inter-school fests. The school has an Interact Club, and takes part in developmental schemes such as the Award Scheme for Young People. It has a two-tiered prefect body, including an elected Students' Council (a forum of elected representatives from each section).
Houses
The four houses are:- Aryabhatt, blue, Indian mathematician;
- ChanakyaChanakyaChānakya was a teacher to the first Maurya Emperor Chandragupta , and the first Indian emperor generally considered to be the architect of his rise to power. Traditionally, Chanakya is also identified by the names Kautilya and VishnuGupta, who authored the ancient Indian political treatise...
, green, Chandragupta MauryaChandragupta MauryaChandragupta Maurya , was the founder of the Maurya Empire. Chandragupta succeeded in conquering most of the Indian subcontinent. Chandragupta is considered the first unifier of India and its first genuine emperor...
's advisor; - Dronacharya, red, the guru of the Pandavas;
- PatanjaliPatañjaliPatañjali is the compiler of the Yoga Sūtras, an important collection of aphorisms on Yoga practice. According to tradition, the same Patañjali was also the author of the Mahābhāṣya, a commentary on Kātyāyana's vārttikas on Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī as well as an unspecified work of medicine .In...
, yellow, the father of yogaYogaYoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on Supersoul...
.
The houses compete each year for the sports trophy, academic excellence trophy, co-curricular achievement trophy and the cock-house trophy.
Campus
The campus includes a football field, swimmingSwimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
pool, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
and tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
courts, and a gymnasium. The building has an auditorium and an audio-visual room.
The Heritage School has six buildings:
- Ankuran (Pre-Nursery to Nursery)
- Ankur (Class 1 to Class 3)
- Aarohan (Class 4 to Class 7)
- Utkarsh (Class 8 to Class 12)
- Abhivyakti (Activity Block)
- Heritage Institute of Technology
Yoga
Yoga
Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on Supersoul...
is compulsory up to class IX. The school prayer is "Atma Deepa Bhava".
Publications
- Heart Talk (Aarohan and Utkarsh quarterly English magazine)
- Heritage Times (biannual English magazine)
- Vrittant (annual English magazine)
- Udaan (Ankuran monthly English newsletter)
- Bartaa (monthly Bengali newsletter)
Sports
The outdoor games programme offers cricketCricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
, football, athletics, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
, rock climbing
Rock climbing
Rock climbing also lightly called 'The Gravity Game', is a sport in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route without falling...
, archery
Archery
Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow, from Latin arcus. Archery has historically been used for hunting and combat; in modern times, however, its main use is that of a recreational activity...
and roller skating
Roller skating
Roller skating is the traveling on smooth surfaces with roller skates. It is a form of recreation as well as a sport, and can also be a form of transportation. Skates generally come in two basic varieties: quad roller skates and inline skates or blades, though some have experimented with a...
. Indoor games include table tennis
Table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
, badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
, chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
, carrom
Carrom
Carrom is a family of tabletop games with gameplay that lies somewhere between billiards and table shuffleboard. Carrom is known by many names around the world, including carrum, couronne, carum, karam, karom, karum, fatta and finger billiards...
, and multigym.
The Heritage has a regulation size football (soccer) field, 200 metre track, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
courts, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
courts, a swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
pool and a multigym. The juniors have a recreation park which has equipment like swings, jungle gyms, see-saws, slides, rockers and sandpits.