News About all the Despartments of The Doon School

November 9, 2013

Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall visits The Doon School boys’ programmes of women’s empowerment and community outreach

The boys and staff of The Doon School and underprivileged children from schools it supports welcomed HRH, The Duchess of Cornwall, to their ...

November 9, 2013

Founders 2013: a celebration of the [email protected]

The Founder’s 2013 celebration showcased [email protected] The programme included an exhibition of art featuring public examination ...

November 9, 2013

PT Awards

The following boys have been awarded their PT Jersey’s: Rishabh Chadda from Oberoi House Diviij Batra from Jaipur House Zahaan ...

November 9, 2013

Dance Colours

For the second time go to Agni Raj Singh in Hyderabad House

November 9, 2013

Drama Colours are awarded to:

Sachin Mehra from Hyderabad House Mihir Kiran from Kashmir House Jai Ahuja from Kashmir House Aashim Bansal from Kashmir House ...

November 9, 2013

Boys achieve their Colours

Congratulations to the school Music Captain Hamza Khan, from Jaipur House who has been awarded Music Colours. Hamza is a Hindustani Classica...

November 9, 2013

Dosco wins gold at Asian Championships 2013

Samarjit Singh won Gold at the U18 pistol shooting competition at the Asian Championships in Tehran on 20th October 2013. Samarjit faced fie...

November 9, 2013

Economics Society hosts economic advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

The school Economics Society hosted Dr Amir Khan on 21st October. Dr Khan is currently an economic advisor at the policy division of the Bil...

November 9, 2013

The Library Council hosts author Ashok Banker

The Library Council hosted a visit from internationally acclaimed author Ashok Banker on 12th October. He has been an author who began his c...

November 9, 2013

IPSC Arts Festival 2013

The school participated in the IPSC Visual Arts Festival 2013 held between 7th - 10th October. Seventeen schools, from all over India took p...

November 9, 2013

Boys perform at 1st CSCA National Level FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, October 2013

The school sent a team of keen chess players to this open tournament which featured nearly two hundred and fifty participants of all ages in...

November 9, 2013

IPSC Swimming Championship October 2013

The school participated in the twenty-eighth All India IPSC Swimming Competition from 8th- 10th October 2013. The junior relay team won silv...

November 9, 2013

U17 and U19 badminton teams wins bronze at IPSC

Congratulations to the teams who won bronze medals at the IPSC competition in October 2013. Atrey Guruprasad, from Kashmir House was decl...

November 9, 2013

School profile for university and college entrance 2013-2014

The school profile created for universities and colleges world-wide is now available and is being dispatched or uploaded as required from th...

November 9, 2013

Launch of the Careers Guide 2013-2014

The latest edition of this guide is available from the beginning of October 2013. Copies go to all boys, staff members and parents. How to F...

November 6, 2013

Doon becomes an ACT Centre October 2013

The ACT is a curriculum-based test testing boys in English, Mathematics, Reading and Science Reasoning. Since the ACT has a Science Reasonin...

November 6, 2013

The visiting speakers programme continues

The school welcomed two very different speakers at the end of October 2013. Dr Shashi Tharoor, an ex- diplomat at the UN and currently M...

November 6, 2013

IAYP Silver awards 2013

Congratulations go to the following boys: Yogesh Agarwwal from Oberoi House Samarth Juneta from Oberoi House Kunal Verma from Oberoi H...

November 6, 2013

Jaipur House wins the Inter- House Shanti Swaroop Science Essay Contest 2013

Congratulations to Jaipur House who has won the award this year.

November 6, 2013

Oberoi House wins Inter- House Chess Tournament 2013

Congratulations to Oberoi House for winning the junior and senior categories with 36 and 59 points respectively.

November 6, 2013

Junior English Inter- House Debates 2013

Congratulations to Tata House for winning the competition. Chaitanya Kediyal was judged the most promising speaker and Smayan Sahni the best...

November 6, 2013

78th Inter- House Athletics Competition Results 2013

Congratulations to: Hyderabad House for winning the Junior Cup and the House Cup. Tata House for winning the Medium Cup Jaipur House for win...

October 14, 2013

Chairman of the Board awarded Padma Bhushan

The school community was delighted by the announcement on Republic Day of one the President’s highest awards for civilians to The Doon Sc...

October 14, 2013

Third generation of the Khanna family elected School Captain, February 2011

The Khanna clan has produced a third generation School Captain at The Doon School. The current School Captain, Vihan Khanna from Hyderabad H...

October 14, 2013

Brian Lara plays for The Doon School against the IMA

As part of the IMA’s support to create funds for the devastation in Uttarkashi, caused by the floods in June, Brian Lara played with the s...

October 14, 2013

Staff member represents India at the Commonwealth Life Saving Championships in Canberra September 2013

Mrs Anez Katre, Head of the Teacher Training Centre at school, was part of the Indian team that represented the country in the Commonwealth ...

October 3, 2013

The Careers Department’s ongoing visits to Indian colleges

As part of the department’s ongoing commitment to providing informative and up to date guidance to boys, parent and staff, Mrs Pandey Head...

October 1, 2013

School mini-prospectus has arrived

The school is delighted to announce the arrival of the publication of its mini prospectus which was published at the end of August 2013. T...

September 30, 2013

WEBSITE MAINTENANCE

The school website is updated regularly, at least once a week. The house websites are conceptualized and boys make contributions by the boys...

September 30, 2013

WEATHER REPORTING

Climate change is a major issue in today’s world. Studying these trends also helps gain hands-on experience of various mathematical concep...

September 30, 2013

VIDEO CLUB

The Video Club is a more recent activity in the School and is associated with getting boys to hone their intellect and imagination in almost...

September 30, 2013

The International Award for Young People, India

Member: The Duke of Edinburgh's Award International Association. This award programme is the most adaptable and successful youth empowerment...

September 30, 2013

ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE

Screening movies on weekends for the entire school has been an activity where boys have been involved in deciding the movie and organizing t...

September 30, 2013

BOYS’ BANK AND TUCK SHOP

The Boys’ Bank is one of the oldest and most popular activities, with a large number of boys’ participating in it. Here the boys perform...

September 30, 2013

AUDIO – VISUAL SQUAD

This is one of the older activities in the School and was originally christened as the “Film Society” in the late 1970’s, which was re...

September 30, 2013

Yoga

Yoga is an ancient scientific discipline in India which is very useful to all boys in the modern world. Yoga in school is a compulsory subje...

September 30, 2013

PHOTOGRAPHY

A picture really is worth a thousand words. Photography is both a creative and a technical art form. The Doon School offers photography in ...

September 30, 2013

CYCLING

The pace and scale of environmental deterioration today calls for urgent social action, and cycling is a very effective way of countering th...

September 30, 2013

COOKING

‘Food’ is a magic word in Doon or indeed at any boarding school. The idea of the cooking STA emerged out of a School Council meeting in ...

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