Life At CGPS

Carmel Garden Public School enlists and guides the talents, energies and aspirations of students to higher levels of achievement through opportunities of leadership, constantly nurturing, improving and reforming personalities to take on larger roles at leadership.

Monitor System- Class Level
Nominated monitors for each class-division are entrusted with responsibilities of Discipline, Education, Health and Hygiene, and Traffic and Transport. This system provides opportunities for students at young ages to step up to positions of limited leadership. Emphasis is laid on maximum opportunity i.e. all children must be given opportunities at leadership as far as possible.

Prefectorial Board – Senior Classes
At the beginning of every academic year the Prefectorial Board is sworn in an elaborate investiture ceremony. Each cabinet’s term lasts for a year, after which the next team takes over.

A nominating committee consisting of the Director, Principal, Coordinators and respective class and subject teachers identifies a set of students to don the mantle of Prefects. The members of the Prefects’ Council work together as a team to uphold the rules and regulations of the school and help to maintain discipline. Through their work as prefects they learn the valuable lesson that with authority comes responsibilities and its associated challenges. The Prefects’ Council is the first step towards our goal of creating conscientious and responsible global citizens. They also shoulder the responsibility of organizing all cultural programmes and competitions held in the school. Being student representatives, the cabinet acts as an important link between the students and the school management.

The child has one intuitive aim: self development. He desperately wants to develop his resources, his ability to cope with a strange, complex world. He wants to do and see and learn for himself through his senses and not through the eyes of an adult. He becomes a full person. He is educated.”

Music is the language of the heart. No matter where you are from, or the culture you belong to, a good melody is something anyone can enjoy. In the words of Greek philosopher Plato, “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything”.

At Carmel Garden Public School we offer music education in two forms, i.e., through the school choir and piano lessons.

Currently, we have two choirs – the High School Choir and the Junior Choir. Students are trained to perform for all the important occasions in the school as well as lead out songs during the morning assembly. They are taught to sing in concord using various techniques and approaches as fit the need. They also learn to work as a team while having fun together. This year both choirs were part of the annual Christmas concert and they had a ball rehearsing for it.

Western Classical Piano Lessons are held as an After School Hours program for those students interested in the same. Classes are conducted weekly on a one-to-one basis where the student receives individual attention from the instructor. The greatest boon of these classes is that unlike most music courses, we teach children to read music staff notation, which in turn will help them eventually play any piece of music that is handed to them.

All in all, music education holds many benefits for the overall development of an individual. We strongly believe that parents must not discourage their children’s musical inclinations and desires.

The primary objective and intent of our schools is to awaken intelligence in the educator and the student. This has to be kept in the forefront of all activities in the school —academic or otherwise—both at the time of design and at the time of implementation of such activities. Educational trips that form a part of the school curriculum are very valuable as they provide the students the opportunity of learning through travel, especially to places that they may not otherwise get to visit. Apart from this, the trips also provide relief from the drudgery that academic study sometimes becomes, an opportunity for close interaction with peers that students enjoy so much, and a chance for the teacher to observe and interact with the student in a structure different from and more informal than the classroom.

The school exhibition that is held in Carmel Garden is a great platform for the kids to do things. The school takes utmost interest to organize exhibitions of such kind where the kids get some chance to showcase their talents. This is a good way to find out the talented ones who are there in the school and also to open a platform for the kids to show their talents. The school believes in the philosophy that it is not enough for the kids to learn the lessons from the textbooks, but they should be given adequate space and time for letting the inner talents get a platform to be showcased.