Senior Wing (CBSE)
Senior Wing 9TH—12TH (CBSE)
Structure and Facilities
The Senior Wing comprising of Class 9th to 12th of Manu Vatika Day Boarding Senior Secondary Public School is housed in a separate building at its huge Complex. This enclosure is provided with a state of art and well-stocked library, specific rooms to cater the needs of different subjects being taught under the head of skill development like Music, Fine Arts, Examination Cell, Medical Room, Computer Room, sufficient audio-visual rooms, separate laboratories for Physics, Chemistry and Biology and a very well-structured Computer Lab with Over Head Projector. An open visitor’s lounge, a work space for teachers and a large staff-room are also part of the main Senior Wing Enclosure of the school buildings.
Learning Atmosphere & Curriculum upto class 10
Moving into class 9 in the senior school, entails a longer working day, and more organized study time for students, who, at this stage, are expected to become more independent in their learning. However, a close and supportive relationship continues to exist between students and teachers. To ensure continuity between teachers and students, teachers take students up from class 9th to class 12th in many subjects.
Further keeping in view of the vast scenario changed during the induction of NEP 2020 and with various changes in the policy of Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, the school is geared up with updated infrastructure and equipped with all latest modalities to meet the challenges and bring the students of this school and its surrounding areas to acquire both glory to school and fame to parents in the field of education and other cultural forum as well.
In the senior school, the educational programme shifts in its emphasis towards preparation of students in the syllabus for the CBSE (at the end of class 12) examinations. Students take an internally administered cumulative exam for the first time at the end of class 9.
The academic curriculum is balanced by arts and crafts, dramatics, sports and participation in a variety of clubs ranging from journalism, to astronomy and chess. Participation in other work of the centre such as afforestation, rural health, and rural education is also encouraged and organized. Students are also encouraged to research topics of their interest and present these at morning assemblies. Assemblies, student-council meetings and specially convened staff-student meetings are forums where discussion and debate over issues of concern in the school community or in the world are encouraged. Culture classes – intended to extend intellectual and emotional horizons of the students – remain an integral part of the timetable, right until class 12.
The Plus Two Programme
The last two years at MVS – classes 11 and 12 – form a separate programme for which admissions are open and students of class 10 need to apply as new candidates. Each student in the ‘plus two’ course selects four subjects in addition to English. These elective subjects are studied intensively for two years. The subject combinations are broadly divided between Science, Humanities and Commerce. Subjects offered are Mathematics Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science; English Core, History, Geography, Economics, Business Studies, Accountancy, Political Science, Physical Education, Music Vocal in the Hindustani style, Fine Arts, Hindi and Punjabi.
A General Studies Programme broadly focusing on environmental crisis, and its impact on human societies on food security and issues of poverty have been specially designed for this stage in students’ education.
Students in the ‘plus two’ programme are seen as ‘young adults’ and greater responsibility is expected of them in terms of understanding and sustaining the ethos of the school. They are encouraged to take on responsibilities, help in organization of events and participate constructively in discussions of school policies related to student life
Evaluation in the Senior School
Evaluation for all students in the senior school is based on a series of written assignments and tests, apart from project work and classroom observations. The reports contain comments and suggestions on formatted report forms, along with a qualitative achievement grade. The principal’s and house-parent’s reports (during Parent Teacher Interactive Sessions) also give an overall profile of the student’s growth, interests and involvements in life at school.
Other Facilities & Activities for Students
The school’s location in a serene and beautiful green belt of Punjab creating a natural, pollution-free environment for children to grow up in.
Bird-watching is a regular activity for interested students. The school houses an institute for bird studies and natural history that runs a correspondence course that is well-known all over the country.
The Arts and Crafts department is large, with facilities for teaching drawing and painting, batik and needlework, pottery and carpentry, design and construction of toys and models. Interaction between subject areas is actively fostered. Whereas all students have ample time for arts and crafts, fine art is also is a popular choice as a subject of study for the CBSE examinations.
Music and Dance are offered for interested and talented students. Vocal music in the Hindustani style, Veena, Violin and Mridangam lessons are given by well-qualified teachers. Bharatnatyam dance is taught along with folk dances of India. A piano teacher visits the school every fortnight to coach a limited number of students with the talent and the drive to work independently.
Short Arm Shooting Range is provided to students of the school to enhance and horn their skills in the field of shooting as we have already seen that Indians are making their mark in this field in the world and more and more students are now interested in this sport and taking up it on a professional scale.
Sports and Games – Sports is an integral part of a school Academic Calander and students often are interested in provision of having games period in their academic curriculum. Hence MVS in its own has superlative sports infrastructural facilities that includes three leveled fields and several courts. Major field games like Cricket and Football, as well as Throwball, basketball, Volleyball, Lawn Tennis and Badminton are taught and played. Besides these indoor games like Table Tennis, Boxing, Kick Boxing, Judo-Karate, Ty Kwando, Regular physical exercise is conducted in the morning, and annual athletics meet provides a focus for the development of athletic prowess and talent. Besides the above, our school does take part in inter school, inter district and state organized competitive sports, where our school has established a monotonous recognition of being a treasure of talent still plenty of allied challenges are additionally provided through coaching camps and invitations to outside teams for matches in various games. We also send a few teams to other schools for friendly matches. For the general awareness of all MVS has been constantly in the lime light of Punjab Sports Federation as it has been regularly winning more than 350 medals each year in the field of sports at State and National Well together which speaks volume of the sports infrastructure.
Future Developments
Following games facilities shall be provided to school students in the coming days. Grounds and other amenities for the school students are in progress and synthetic tracks and playing areas are being developed for Hockey, Fencing, Archery, Gymnastics and Rifle Shooting.
Gallery Senior Wing
