Multi-tasking is rapidly being acknowledged as a necessary skill.

At the Doon School, our students learn very early to focus, prioritize and effectively juggle preparations for their upcoming class tests, train for soccer matches, and allocate time for the multimedia contest they have signed up for, as well as practise the sitar for the music competition!

Our students take pride in a job well done, however small it may be. The school provides a wealth of opportunities for extracurricular pursuits. Boys find their niche and at the same time enjoy exploring uncharted domains. In the process, without their being aware of it, a different aspect of their personality emerges and is honed.

Midterm

The term has a five-day break structured into the calendar. The entire school, including teachers, trek and camp at various predetermined routes chalked out in the Garhwal Himalayas. A love for nature, a deep seated concern for the environment and a yearning for adventure are often the rewards harvested during these bi-annual midterms.

The Doon School is largely responsible for pioneering the ‘midterm’ concept, which is today avidly followed by quality boarding schools in India.

Mountaineering

Tradition often sets the benchmark for the younger generation. Everest base camp expeditions and scaling peaks like Jogin III stoke the students’ desire to emulate their seniors and teachers. Selected boys are sent every year to the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) at Uttarkashi and the Institute of Skiing and Mountaineering at Gulmarg or Auli. The school takes pride in the fact that we were one of the first educational institutions, way back in the 1930s, that placed such activities at par with the academic curriculum.

In the 1930s and 1940s, staff and students mounted many of the first climbs in the region, going upto heights of over 20,000 ft.

Clubs and Societies

Those with special interests become active members of specific societies: The Debating Society, The Historical Circle, the Astronomical Society, The Scientific Society, The Nature Club, to name a few.

Doon pioneered the idea of an elected School Council consisting of students, teachers and the Headmaster. The School Council is a key administrative body that debates various issues concerning the daily lives of the students. An early initiation into the decision-making process indeed!