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BCS NOMENCLATURES
The Principal is called The
Headmaster
The Vice Principal is called The
Senior Master
The Financial Manager is called The
Bursar
The Head of the
Junior
School
is called Head:
Junior School
The Padre is called the Chaplain
The Schools student body is
divided into four Houses and those from among the Staff
that are put in charge of these Houses are called
Housemasters
Deans are called
Heads of Curriculum
The person in charge of the Middle
school is known as the Coordinator: Middle School.
All other teachers are formally
designated Assistant Masters / Teachers and are also known
as House Tutors.
The
Quartermaster is in charge of
the stores
The
Estate Supervisor is in charge
of the Estate and personnel
The
Caterer is in charge of the
food and nutrition
The classes are known as follows:
Junior School
III, IV, V.
Middle School:
VI, VII VIII or
Fourth Form
Main
School
: IX is known as Shell
X is known as
Fifth Form
XI is known as
Lower Sixth
Form
XII is known as
Upper Sixth Form
BUILDINGS AND
INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE SCHOOL:
The culvert
on the upper road to
the school from Khalini Chowk is called the
First
Bridge
.
The first gate to school
on this
road is called the First Gate and the next The Second Gate
The first building
on the right
of the second gate is the Estate Supervisor’s
cottage.
The building on the left of the 2nd
gate is called Linlithgow, and houses staff.
Next to this is the
Holy Trinity
Chapel , between them is the Canning Gate and next to
Canning Gate is the Lawrence Gate which can be identified
with the LSS crest bearing the legend “Be ready”. This
is to commemorate the Viceroy who laid the foundation
stone of the school at the present site.
Behind
Lawrence Gate, is the tennis
court and then the Middle School Block on
the right, to the First Flat.
Facing the
Main
School
building on the first floor are the dormitories. Rivaz
House is on the left, Ibbetson House on the
right of the Porch. The Porch separates the others,
Lefroy House is on the right of the Porch and Curzon House
behind it.
Opposite the Porch is the
War
Memorial and Museum with a cannon and an aircraft further
along. Behind the aircraft is the newly built Hawkes
Gym.
In front of the Porch is the
Fountain commemorating Sardar Sohan Singh.
Between Lefroy and the War
Memorial is an arched hedge with Honeysuckles entwined
with Banksia. This leads past a tiny rose garden to the
Headmaster’s Lodge and the Lady Willingdon Swimming
pool.
The
Main
School
classrooms and the School offices are at ground level.
Below the boarding houses the Dining Hall is recessed at
the back of the Porch.
Behind the Dining Hall and next to
the Chapel is Irwin Hall…. The main hall of the school.
Behind this is the Senior Master’s Lodge to the left of
which is the park and to its right Litster Hall and the
laboratories.
Below the
First flat is the main
games field called the Second Flat; the basket ball court
is off it on the old Gym site. Between the second and
third flats (second playing field) are the Bawa Squash
Courts and Shankar Hall for indoor badminton, visiting
team dorms and staff lounge.
Across the third flat is the
Remove
Building
commemorating Ronald and Zoe Hakim (Staff 69-86; HM:
87-94). This building houses Five dormitories for the
children of classes III- VIII.
The ground floor of this building
contains the
Junior
School.
Below the
Junior
School
is the Fourth Flat from which the new drive coming down
from the tennis court and past the infirmary and the gym
leads to Gate Number Three and through that to the
National Highway. Below this where used to be lush jungle and
khud,
buffalo pond, white temple etc. is now the suburb of New
Shimla.
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