Tyndale Biscoe School
| Tyndale-Biscoe School (TBS) | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Sheikh Bagh, Lal Chowk, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir | |
| Information | |
| Type | Christian missionary(English Medium) |
| Motto | "In All Things Be Men" |
| Established | 1880 |
| Founder | Rev. John Hilton Knowles |
| Principal | Dr. Parvez Samuel Kaul |
| Head of school | Dr. Parvez Samuel Kaul |
| Gender | Boys only |
| Campus | Urban |
| Nickname | "Biscoeits" |
| Affiliation | Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education |
| Website | Official Website |
Tyndale Biscoe School is a boys school in Jammu and Kashmir in the heart of the summer capital Srinagar. The school was founded in 1880 CE and is the oldest school in Jammu and Kashmir. The school was started by Christian missionaries and was named after Canon Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe (1863–1949). It still has affiliations with the Church Mission Society.
In the late-nineteenth century, Jammu and Kashmir was an independent princely state, ruled by a Maharaja. The Maharaja often used the services of British and European experts. Tyndale-Biscoe was appointed to the missionary school in Kashmir.
The school placed emphasis on physical activities – boxing, boating, football – which would stimulate senses of courage and physical fitness. The pupils also engaged in civic duties, such as firefighting, street-cleaning and in helping deal with flooding and cholera. There are annual visits to the leper colony of the valley where the students from all classes collect rations, blankets among other basic amenities and distribute the same within the poor and needy as a sign of goodwill. Two people who contributed significantly to the further development of the school were the late Eric Tyndale-Biscoe (the son of Tyndale-Biscoe), Pandit Niranjan Nath Fotadar the Headmaster in the 1940s, Principal JM Ray (1962- 1985) and Headmaster Master Sat Lal Razdan.
Prominent teachers included Irene Petrie, TN Misri, TN Kaul, Shadi Lal Dhar, BN Mujoo, Rajinder Kaul, Mr Mughloo, Dr Mir
The school is divided into four houses, named after mountain peaks in the Kashmir valley and has name of four birds for four houses:
Competitions between these houses are held. Points for different activities are thus allotted to the houses. The house scoring the most points at the end of the session is awarded the "Champion House Trophy". These houses also have house games after school is off for half an hour on four days of a week
The School is known in the valley to have an array of co-curricular activities. Tyndale Biscoe and Mallinson school was the first in the valley to have its well maintained swimming pool, with a state of the art technology, much of which has been imported from Europe.
Other activities include:
To name a few.
The school is the only in the valley to have its NSS wing.
The NSS department has been well received by the Staff and Administration alike. The unit plays an important role in the management of different events held in the School. Moreover, NSS conducts awareness programs, rallies, and social welfare campaigns. The NSS wing of the School thus after its Inception by the said candidates has been the front runner among all other Private institutions of the Valley and continues to impact the Socio-Cultural construct of the Student community. Recently(2015) few NSS volunteers from school organised a grand fundraising campaign for Flood victims of Kashmir entitled Taqdeer-e-Kashmir which aimed to raise funds for flood victims and to felicitate those young people who rescued flood hit people September(2014).
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