Thursday, 20 February 2020

Bishop Cotton School, Shimla

Bishop Cotton School is the oldest boys boarding school located in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. The school was founded on 28 July 1859 by Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton. This boarding school was opened for students on 15th March 1863. In the beginning, only 35 boys were admitted, and the school incremented its vigour to 65 students by the year 1864. It is affiliated to the CISCE, New Delhi, an all-India Board. The Council administers two public examinations – The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) at the cessation of Class X and, The Indian School Certificate (ISC) at the cessation of Class XII.
The school actively emboldens co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. Debating and elocution are astronomically popular where the school trains and polishes students in public verbalizing. Drama and other stage activities are performed every year and the whole student body participates in inter-house competitions, besides a host of other programs on stage. Students are withal trained in operating and maintaining sound and light equipment.
The Nature Club, Meteorological Club, Ingenious Inscribing Club, Middle Scholastic Book Reading Club, Automobile Club, and The Quizzing Club withal contributes to developing varied intrigues in the students.
The outward-bound activities of the school are mountaineering, rock climbing, obstruction course, NCC, tours, and treks.  The school is withal part of the International Awards for Puerile People awarded by the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme.
Over the years the school has developed infrastructure for several games and sports like Cricket, Hockey, Soccer, and Swimming is played seasonally and tennis, squash, table-tennis, badminton, basketball, volleyball.  Athletics, gymnastics and physical training are popular among the boys.  Boxing and marathon running are sports that visually perceive the participation of every single medically fit boy of the school.
The school has huge ground playing fields, a shooting range, a gymnasium and facilities for indoor sports. The coaches are specialists, trained and national-level players who supervise, coach and train the boys for excellence and guide them to triumphs at tournaments.
Each sporting season organizes an inter-house and then an inter-school tournament attended by the best teams of the region. The program not only develops the physical stamina, coordination, and skills of the students but additionally develops team spirit, honourable sportsmanship, victoriously triumphing with humility and losing with dignity. 

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