Loyola School, Bhubaneswar

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Loyola School, Bhubaneswar
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Loyola School, Bhubaneswar
S.E. Railway Colony, Chandrasekharpur

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751023

India
Coordinates 20°18′26″N85°48′46″E / 20.30722°N 85.81278°E / 20.30722; 85.81278
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Type Private primary and secondary school
MottoTo Love and To Serve
Religious affiliation(s) Catholicism
Denomination Jesuit
Established2001;23 years ago (2001)
PrincipalFr A.Amaladoss,SJ
Teaching staff69
Grades K-12
Gender Co-educational
Enrollment3000+
Nickname Loyoleans
Accreditation Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ISC)
Website www.loyolabbsr.edu.in

Loyola School, Bhubaneswar, is a private Catholic primary and secondary school located in Bhubaneswar, in the state of Odisha, India. The co-educational, English-medium school was founded by the Jesuits in 2001. [1] [2]

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The current principal of the school is Fr A.Amaladoss,SJ

Academics

The curriculum includes English literature, English language, Hindi, Odia, history, geography, civics, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, commerce and accountancy, economics, computer science, socially useful productive work (such as class cleaning), environmental studies, value education, community building, moral sciences, and for Christians religious instruction. [3]

Houses

There are four houses: Ruby (red), Sapphire (blue), Emerald (green), and Topaz (yellow). Every Thursday the school conducts house assemblies separately at four places on the campus: at a small red stage, staff room, junior assembly ground, and the badminton court. The place allotted to a house is for two months, after which they rotate. Each week the students of a particular house look after the campus, to maintain discipline.

The students of the minding house are known as mentors. The houses have moderators, a captain, and a vice-captain from senior and junior year. [4] In alternate years a sports day and Parents' Nites are organized. The respective Parents' Nites for juniors and seniors are held in consecutive dates. Students undergo practice for a month or more to prepare for them.

Activities

Intramural, club activities take place on Tuesdays for juniors and no activities for seniors. These include yoga, karate, art and painting, clay modeling (only juniors), keyboard, chess, aerobics, modern dance, cricket, football, table tennis, lawn tennis, badminton, basketball (only seniors), French language (only seniors), singing (only seniors), traditional dance, English communications (only STD 4 & 5), and guitar (only juniors). [5]

The school has recently adopted bag-less day on Saturdays, i.e., Junior Students do not need to bring any books, whereas Seniors will only have two periods of teaching, The school has three clubs as of April 2024, namely Social Service club (only for 12th students) where everyone can donate, pulses, cereals, old books, clothes etc., There is also a literary club specializing in three languages, Hindi, Odia and English. These are just the clubs for seniors, there are also occasional workshops initiated by the Odisha Government.

Campus

Loyola School boasts a huge campus, comprising the main school, walkways, fields, various sports courts and a park for juniors, At the end of the field, is Loyola Odia School. The main specialty of the school grounds, is its Basket Ball court, with mats and high quality hoops ensuring a joyful match for any students present. The school also takes pride in its cricket training court adorned with mats and nets, it surely is a cricket enthusiast's place to be. The entire field acts as both a football field and a cricket pitch, senior students can take goalposts with the permission of sports teachers and pitch them wherever they want, as the goalposts have wheels attached to them. The volleyball and throwball court are well established with nets and chalk boundaries, The badminton Courts are situated in the quadrangle, i.e., an open space surrounded by the school buildings where assemblies and events are hosted.

There are a total of five labs, comprising the bio lab, chemistry lab, physics lab and a computer lab individually for seniors and juniors, There is a massive library with countless reference books, novels, biographies etc. There are various English rooms throughout the school for ease of access and various other rooms such as an AV room, music room, conference hall, old hall, new hall, and two exam halls. All the classrooms till class 7 are equipped with a smart board (not movie camera, actual 4k TV like devices, for notes, videos and equipped with WIFI), blackboard, and a soft board for drawings and articles to be displayed. Each month a class wins cleanliness award by keeping the class clean, regular inspections are also done to check the cleanliness.

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