Sophia High School

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Sophia High School is a private school in Bangalore, India. The middle and high schools are girls only, while the primary school is co-education.

History

Sophia High School is located on a 10 acres (40,000 m²) land in central

In August 1948, when the

In 1972 the Society of the Sacred Heart reviewed their strategy in India, and handed off several local schools, including Sophia High School, to other Catholic groups, in order to focus on schools that needed funding and attention, especially in India's rural areas. Sophia High School was taken over by the School Sisters of Notre Dame.

Since then the school has grown significantly. The school's current enrollment is over 2,000 students. The school is not a religious organization and its students, who are chosen through a competitive interview process, are from many different ethnicities. The founding "white bungalow" still stands on campus and was remodeled in 1998.

The Times of India has called it one of Bangalore's "legendary" schools with "a historic past", and one of the city's "top schools" which, before the 1990s, "had identities that went beyond their names".^{[1] [2]}

Academics

Sophia High School prepares students for the 10th grade national

The ICSE (Class 10) program in the school offers subjects including English, science (physics, chemistry and biology), mathematics, Hindi, Kannada, French, history and civics, geography environmental studies and economic applications, computer applications, physical education and art as an elective.

The ISC (Class 12) program in the school offers three streams, namely science, commerce and humanities. In the science stream, the students must take English, physics and mathematics and can choose 2 other subjects from psychology, chemistry, economics, biology, computer science and elective English. In the commerce stream, the students must take English, commerce and accounts and can choose 2 other subjects from psychology, economics, computer science and elective English. In the humanities stream, the students must take English, political science and history and can choose 2 other subjects from psychology, economics, computer science and elective English.

Individual girls from the school performed in the top few students in Bangalore in ICSE and ISC examinations in 2018 and 2019.^[3][4]

The Sophia Opportunity School

Sophia's Opportunity School branch educates disabled children. This branch also undertakes social action outreach programs, such as work with a street children's home in Chamrajpet, interaction with the women inmates of Bangalore's Central Jail, a day in rural schools in the Bangalore metro and visits to aged and orphan homes in the area.

This part of the school was originally founded in 1972 for children with learning disabilities.^[5][6][7] Where possible, children attending the Opportunity School are mainstreamed back into the main school.^[7][8]

Buildings

There are five main buildings; Julie (pre-primary), Barat (primary), Cuvilly (middle school), Mater (seventh and eighth standard), Duchesne (high school) and the ISC block (+2). The Cuvilly building houses an auditorium. There is also a separate building for specially abled children, which is referred to as the Leans section.

Principals

Current principals:

• Sister Mary Alpana (from 2014),
• Sister Vishala (Primary)
• Sister Madhuja (Opportunity)

Former principals:

• Sister Mary Priscilla (from 2010)
• Sister Mary Aneeta (Primary)
• Sister Rosilin

Concerts

The school has held concerts to raise funds for the school or for charity.

• The King and I, 2002.
• Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
  , 2006, to raise funds for the construction of the Auditorium block of the school.
• Musical version of the Disney movie, Mulan, 2010, to raise money to build a school in rural Karnataka.
• Concert, The Alternative Snow White, 2013 to help fund the reconstruction of the Master building.^[9]
• Musical based on Hairspray, 2017.
• Musical based on “Mary Poppins”

The house system

Activities and competitions within the school are conducted in Houses. These are named after the founder members of the school, with Julie House changed from Deschene House after the Notre Dame Sisters took over from the Sacred Heart sisters.

• Andersson - Golden House
• Barat - Red House
• Bennett - Lavender House
• Julie - Green House

The Sophia High School Brass Band

The Sophia High School Brass Band includes 100-150 students from grade 5 to grade 12. The Brass Ensemble represents the School in various inter-school competitions.^{[citation needed]}

Charity work

The school helps teach the residents of the Angel orphanage, with students of the +2 section volunteering to help teach them after the normal working school hours.^[10] The school supports organizations like Help Age India, Global Cancer Concern India, and the Smile foundation. The school concert, a production of Mulan, was held to raise money to build a school in a rural area of Andhra Pradesh.^[when?]

Notable alumni

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• Justice B.V. Nagarathna, Judge, Supreme Court of India
• Dr Pratima Murthy, Director, NIMHANS, Bangalore

Athletes

• Nisha Millet, Olympic swimmer^[11]
• Shikha Tandon, Olympic swimmer^{[citation needed]}
• Khushi Dinesh, swimmer
• Jayawanti Shyam, basketball
• Sagarika Dayum, basketball
• Varsha Sanjeev, Snooker, billiards

Models and actors

• Deepika Padukone, actor and producer^[12]
• Kirtana Kumar, actor, director, film-maker and writer
• Vaishali Desai, model and actor^{[citation needed]}
• Nicole Faria, actor, model and beauty pageant winner^[13]
• Roshmitha Harimurthy, model and beauty pageant winner^[14]
• Sharmiela Mandre, actor and producer^{[citation needed]}
• Neha Shetty, actor^[15]
• Roopal Tyagi, choreographer and actor^[16]

See also

• List of schools in Bangalore

External links

• School history
• Sophia High School

References