June Newsletter


Our Strings of Hope Concert Tour featured in the Serenade Magazine - India’s first Western Classical Music online magazine. 

We featured in the May 2024 issue of the National Centre of the Performing Arts (NCPA) Mumbai’s magazine, OnStage in relation to the music exposure tour of six of our students in February. 


A quartet from the Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI) spent four days performing at assembly and giving masterclasses to over 30 selected students from Classes 7 to 10 and alumni. The impact was enhanced because our alumnus and member of the SOI, Sujan Chettri was part of the quartet. 

Four of our alumni musicians accompanied the Assistant Director Virgil Vihaan Sequeira to give a workshop on the cultural music of Kalimpong and environmental justice in the Hills at the Conscious Leadership Retreat of Vision & Opportunities for Youth & Community Engagement (VOYCE), Delhi, at Tieedi Forest Garden, Sonada. 

We bid farewell to our retiring support staff, Bhagat Singh Darjee. 


We celebrated World Environment Day by organising a Village Clean Up where each child carried at least one sack and picked up all litter on their way to school. Many of our students were found cleaning up their own and neighbours’ fields and also the streams. The House pile sizes were judged and points were awarded after a common reflection session to internalise the learnings and promise for action. 

Our Social Studies & EVS Team organised ‘Only Planet’ an Inter House Model United Nations in which our Class 10 students represented various countries and delivered very well-researched and assertive speeches in English on pressing global issues. 

We conducted the Term 1 Written Evaluations. 

The Summer Art Exhibition, HeArtfelt, was put up by the students and the Visual Arts Team. 

We bid Farewell to our outgoing Director, Fr. Paul D’Souza SJ and welcomed our new Director & Principal, Fr. Santy Mathew SJ, handing over the mission in a very symbolic ceremony with representation from all our teams. The full ceremony is on our YouTube Channel. 


Fr. Provincial visited the school and addressed students and staff, motivating everyone to work together for a bright future for our school.

We had our first teaching staff meeting with Fr. Santy before we closed for our Summer Break.

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