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Bishop Cotton School, Shimla is the one of the oldest boarding schools in Asia, having been founded on 28th July 1859, by Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton. A scholar of Westminister, and a graduate of Cambridge it was the young Mr. Cotton who is spoken of as the 'the model young master' in Thomas Hughes' famous book 'Tom Brown's School Days' which gives an insight to school life at Rugby.
Bishop Cotton School, Shimla is a Christian school, and the ethos while secular in intent, is based on the basic tenets of Christianity. The students are from all parts of the country and several are from abroad, and so, all major religions are represented with the Chapel and serve as a unifying factor. Bishop Cotton is a 150-year-old school, quite steeped in tradition, where the discipline is hard and conditions Spartan.
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FACTS
The school opened for students on 15th March 1863. The school grew from strength to strength under the stewardship of the first Headmaster, Rev. Samuel Slater, who went on to serve Bishop Cotton School for twenty-two years. The first Indian boys permitted to join the school were Suren Tagore in 1881 and Vishnu Singh in 1883. The school is the current National air rifle shooting team champion and some of India's top golfers are from this school.
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ACADEMICS
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Accreditation
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Bishop Cotton is a boys' school affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (ISC). The academic year begins 1st March and ends on 1st December. Registrations close on 30th June of the year proceeding the year of entry.
The School designs and implements its own curriculum for classes III to VIII and tries to ensure that the boys and their teachers have as much flexibility as possible to foster mutual learning. While classes IX to XII have to follow the CISCE syllabi, a flexibility of methodology and learning systems is strongly encouraged so that learning by rote is completely negated.
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Trivia
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Bishop Cotton School is the first of its kind in this part of the world, to start the house system and the prefect system which were begun almost at the same time as they were developed in England. Academic related activities like drama, debating, elocution, public speaking, art and craft and music are rigorously encouraged with the boys competing in inter-school events. Community service and socially useful productive work are a part of the formal curriculum. The tennis and basketball courts at BCS are one of the best in India, installed by the Harrison Company.
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Contact Info
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Bishop Cotton School, Shimla
Pin - 171002
Simla (Shimla)
Himachal Pradesh
India
Phone: +91-177-2620880 [6 lines], 2620990
Fax: +91-177-2671360
Website: http://www.bishopcottonshimla.com
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