Welcome to Loreto Day School, Bow Bazar

Mary Ward, an English woman, founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM) to serve the church, “through education and other works congruous to the times”. This Religious order, now spread through the world, engages itself in many works...
Loreto Day School, Bowbazar was established in 1844 on the 8th of December. It was known as St. Francis Xavier Convent. It was originally a small private school owned by Mr. and Mrs. Cooper.

Achivements

CONCORD 2023

CONCORD 2023 was held in Calcutta Boy's School on 25th & 26th of July. Many schools participated. There were 40 categories including offstage & onstage events. There were both group performances & individual events. There were prelims & were judged by different celebrities. Finals were held at Kalamandir on 27th July. There was also guest performance after prize distribution. Our school won 3rd prize for two categories - Instrumental & Eastern music.

The Frank Anthony Memorial...

“Scared is what you are feeling. Bravery is what you are doing.” The mere perception of public speaking against numerous schools around the world shakes the very soul inside our body. To overcome that fear, to let the hope instilled in us overrule the anxiety we conceal, is what the students of our school had performed that day. Our school, Loreto Day School Bowbazar, took part in an important competition. The 18th of August 2023 was an extremely memorable day for the students as they gained significant lesson from the event: The Frank Anthony Memorials All-India Inter School Debate Competition, Stage 2. Sharp at 9am the students planted their feet to the grounds of La Martiniere For Girls, where the event was going to be held. The hospitality of the people in that school easened the anxiety for a moment. The students were led to the library of the school, climbing through wooden stairs and an air of thrill, which seemed to follow ever since they had stepped there. The students arrived at the library and completed the registration procedure. There were 14 schools in all, including ours. Recalling a few names; there was La Martiniere for Boys, St.Francis Xaviers, St.Stephens, Loreto Convent Asansol, St.James, etc. The topic was announced at 10 am sharp and prior to that teachers were taken to the Main Hall where the event would take place. The topic for the competition was the following: “Social media has affected human values”. Simple and classy are the perfect words to describe the topic. The students brainstormed as they could. The students were given one hour to prepare. As the clock struck 11, the students were whisked away by the volunteers to the Main Hall, where the debate was supposed to be held. The students placed their bags on the table and quietly sat in their respective seats. Our team number was 12. The event began. The rules were announced, so was the topic. The room held an air of enthusiasm. One by one, every team came up to give their speech. Some teams left us speechless. Sanjukta Nath, went up to speak for the motion and Kritika Joshi spoke against the motion. After every team was done speaking, the results were announced. The anticipation we felt was ethereal. The awards for the best speakers were given out, three in total, and at last, the winning team was called. The competition helped students to improve themselves and added a newfound lesson in the diaries of their hearts. It was truly an inspiring event.

Memory of Quaestio 2023

Loreto Day School, Bowbazar had participated in Quaestio 2023, an inter-school quiz competition, organized by Birla High School on August 9, 2023 in Vidya Mandir auditorium. Niranjana Mazumder from Class 4, Prateeti Halder and Aadya Singhania from Class 5 represented the Junior Section of Loreto Bowbazar. The programme was hosted by quiz master Barry Philiph Antunis.The contest comprised several rounds including general, audio, visual, grand connect, brain teaser and buzzer round. It was a great learning experience for the children. All the participants received certificates and gift hampers. Birla High School emerged as the winner; Garden High School and DPS Megacity were the first and the second runners up respectively.

Symposium 2023

The Loreto House Fest (Symposium) was held on 4th and 5th August 2023. The Program started with the opening ceremony followed by the variety of events. Our school participated in Inkspire (Creative writing), Imagination station (decoration of a board), Dance, street play , Pondering policies ( debate). Our school also participated in the non-competitive event, Basketball. There were 12 participating schools. Our school won 1st position in Inkspire (Joshita Mal) and Imagination Station. The program ended with closing ceremony where the Rainbow girls performed on ASHA (HOPE). It was a great experience.

Xavo Christi 2023

The event “Xavo Christi” was a remarkable celebration of talent and creativity among students. YCS students from classes 9 to 12 from our school had participated in the various events at St. Xaviers Collegiate School, Park Street on 31st July 2023. The programme started by an opening ceremony. The theme for the fest was "Pathway to God ". Loreto Day School Bowbazar won the Best School award (runner up). The students had secured the 1st position in the quiz competition and 2nd place for the solo singing and debate. It was indeed a proud moment for all of us. The programme ended with prize distribution and the closing ceremony.

St. Agnes Model United Nat...

St Agnes' Model United Nations 2023 has been the 4th SAMUN event. A three-day long session, it started from 20th July, 2023 and ended with the closing ceremony and award distribution on 22nd July, 2023. Our school participated in- UNHRC, UNSC, IPC, IPJ, UNGA, IEAE, Arab League and House of Commons. To start with the UNHRC committee, our school represented Canada and Australia in the United Nations Human Rights Councl committee and the agenda was Accosting the humanitarian predicament in Haiti with special emphasis on gang violence and climate crisis. It was a unique experience and it helped the students become a better public speaker. Following was the UNSC committee where there was double delegation and our school represented Taiwan. The committee discussions were based on geopolitics, and the debates focussed on Protrected conflicts in the GUAM area. The delegates enjoyed the committee discussions. Coming up next is the INTERNATIONAL PRESS that consisted of IPJ and IPC. In IPC, students were asked to make caricatures of one of the delegates. They were also asked to be the caricaturists of the Hindu Times and the Korea Times. The IPJ members of our school were given the portfolios as China Daily and Korea Times where the delegates, being young journalists, had visited various other committees and took interview. Both of these committees had debates on the second day of SAMUN. The UNGA committee had meticulous analysis and discussion which aided an improvement in decision making and negotiation. Our school was allowed the portfolio of Australia and Japan and the debates went on keeping in mind the agenda that was based on the circumvention of sanctions and unilateral and extraterritorial coercive economic measures as a means of political and economic compulsion. IAEA was another one where the students of our school participated representing Nepal. It's agenda was based on addressing the issue of nucdear proliferation in North Korea. Delegates actively took part in the formal and informal debates. ARAB LEAGUE was also one of the committees that our school took part in and was assigned Egypt as the portfolio. The main agenda for this committee was "Developing strategies to strengthen cooperation in diversifying their economies with special emphasis on sports and tourism industry". All the members actively participated in the GSL, moderated caucus and unmoderated caucus. The committee prepared 4 action plans and all 4 of them were accepted. HOUSE OF COMMOMS, as per the participants, was truly a wonderful committee. As the delegates delved deeper into the issue they got to learn a lot from it. Steve Barcley and Michael Gove were the personalities our school was assigned. The first day was just an introductory session. The main debates started from the second day and it was really worthit. The Joint Speakers and the technical executives were very cooperative and understanding. To concude, it was a session where awards did not matter, what mattered was the learning experience which will forever remain Instilled in our hearts. On 8th of August, 2023 students received their participation certificates and certificates for special mention. i) Sharanya Chaudhury represented the committee Arab League won High Commendation. ii) Sushrita Hazra participated in the committee International Press- Caricature won Best Delegate, iii) Avipsha Bhattacharya representing as a reporter for China Daily participated in the committee International Press - Journalism won Best Reporting team iv) Srijita Chatterjee and Syeda Shama Azmi representing Taiwan participated in the committee United Nations Security Council won Special Mention.

Laudato Si

One day workshop on "Laudato Si" goals was organised by St Joseph's College,Bowbazar on 18th July 2023.Four senior section students from Loreto Bowbazar participated in the workshop.The workshop emphasised on the 7 goals of Laudato Si. The students brainstormed on what could be done by them to save our common home "The Earth" and how to respond to the Cry of the Earth and Cry of the poor to mention a few. Each student participating were given a certificate and and assigned responsibilities of becoming a Green Crusader in their own little world around them.

Morpheus Fest 2023

The Morpheus Fest was held this year at the Southcity International School on 15th and 16th of July respectively. There were different events on the above days. Our students participated on both the days in different events. They participated in Basketball, Tug of War, Football, Western and Eastern dance, Western band, vlogging, cooking etc. Our students begged two prizes; one for Western dance and one for vlogging. Western dance came third whereas vlogging came second.

Felicitation by Sanmarg Hi...

Felicitation by Sanmarg Hindi newspaper Few students of our school ICSE and ISC batch 2023 were felicitated by Sanmarg Hindi newspaper for getting Excellence result in Hindi .The names are from ICSE Yashi Singh, Vidya Marina Munda, Wania Sahid Afreen Nisha, Sristi Jaiswal and Sudisha Pal and from ISC - Sarah Madiah Zarifi, Rashi Kothari, Afeefah Salim , Hrishika Biswas and Maria Muzzamil . Sarah Madiha Zarifi of our school who passed ISC 2023 with her excellent result in Hindi this year has proved . That anything can be achieved if you try. Students from many schools applied for Hindi Gaurav Samman in the Ram Avatar Hindi Pratibha Samman competition organized by Sanmarg newspaper. And the steps were the First round essay writing, and then interviewing someone related to Hindi, then making a short video and then giving a small test on Google meet platform with the advisor of Sanmarg. Crossing all these rounds, excellent marks in Hindi and activities related to Hindi were taken into consideration and in this way our school's Sarah was able to make her place to the semi-final round among 8 students successfully.

Excellence Awards 2023 org...

On 15th July 2023, All India Marwari Mahila Samity organised an award ceremony in collaboration with Biswamitra newspaper, where they felicitated students of class 10 & 12 of session 2022-2023 who secured 98% and above in their board examination. From our school Rudrashmi Biswas and Rishita Chatterjee received certificate and medals. The ceremony started at 11:00 am and ended at 12:30 pm.

Felicitation Ceremony for ...

Topper in ICSE 2023 - Rudrashmi Biswas and Topper in ISC 2023 -Tanushree Mukherjee were felicitated in the school auditorium of St James School by the Principal MS P.Bagchi on 11th July 2023. This event was organized by Anglo Indian association. Many schools participated in the event. Anglo Indian Students scoring 85% and above from different schools were also felicitated during this event.

Frank Anthony Memorial Int...

On 10th July 2023, there was Frank Anthony Memorial Inter-School Debate Competition 2023 at National Gems Higher Secondary School. The participants from our school were Yasha Ambreen (class 12 Humanities) , Krittika Mondal (class 11 Humanities) . The students got award and Certificate for second runner up in best speaker category and Certificate for winning team in category 1, stage 1.

Felicitation of ICSE and I...

Topper in ICSE & ISC 2023:ISC Toppers- Archita Saha, Sarah Madiha Zarifi, Anushka Ghosh of XII-Science and Tanushree Mukherjee, Aanandi Chakraborty, Rudrani Sen of XII-Humanities; ICSE Toppers - Rudrashmi Biswas, Rishita Chatterji , Asmita Das were felicitated by Prabhat Khabar, Hindi newspaper at National library on 1st July 2023. Ms. L. Wadhwani, our teacher also awarded with “Guru Samaan” for her contribution.

Van Mahotxav 2023

On 30th July 2023, the children were to reach the Host school St. Xavier’s Collegiate School at 7:45 am for registration. The events began from 8:30 am. Our children Aabhishree Maiti of Class II-A in Fancy dress and Devanshi Burman of Class V-A participated in farm to table event. For fancy dress the participant spoke about bio fuel and how basic items could be used to make the bio fuel. There were altogether 10 participating schools. The event concluded with the prize distribution and a vote of thanks. The principal of the host school congratulated all the participating schools and wished them luck.

Bosco Chritz 2023

On June 24th our school had participated in the Bosco Chriz that was held at Don Bosco Park Circus. Students from classes 6 to 12 had participated in the Bosco Stringz, Chriz Cardz and Chriz Treasurez. We reached the venue at 7:30 a.m. for the registration followed by mass and different competitions between prestigious schools. The theme for the fest was ‘’As the yeast in today’s Human family’’. Different schools participated and displayed their talent and creativity in the true spirit of Christianity. Our school won the best school award and the students came Second in the Chriz cardz and Chriz Treasurez. They were accompanied by two teachers Mr D.Bor and Ms. E. Tseng.

IIHM Cooking Competition 2023

In the month of April the 1st round of IIHM junior chef, and Young chef took place in our school. The chefs from IIHM Institute came to judge the students. The following week results were declared. 7 to 8 girls were selected from Junior and from Young chefs. On 9th May 2023, the semi-finals of the Junior Chef and young chef took place in the IIHM Institute premises. The girls went there and took part in the competition. 1 girl was selected for Junior Chef and one girl was selected for the Young chef Finals that is Radhya Kapoor and Samia Feroz respectively. On 12th May 2023, both the girls reported to IIHM premises for the finals. They were both awarded with a certificate.

The Neil O'Brien DI Open Q...

The prestigious Quiz Competition Neil O’Brien DI Open Quiz 2023 for the Errol Cowper Trophy was held on 12th May, 2023 at Dalhousie Club. The event was organised by the club authority inviting many schools and other teams as well. The quiz was conducted veteran quiz masters Mr. Shouvik Guha & Mr. Andrew Scolt. Four girls named Yasha Ambreen (XII-Humanities), Krittika Mondal (XI-Humanities), Sreerupa Banerjee (XII-Science), Yashi Singh (XI-Science) participated in the quiz. The entire program was quite enriching and conversant for student. Young erudite minds were encouraged to apply their knowledge and also became aware about many new notions. The students got to meet Mr.Derek O’ Brien who delivered a very insightful and stimulating speech for all who were present. I thank our principal Mrs P.Bagchi for providing such opportunity to the students and give me the chance to be a part of this event.

Principal Desk

Mrs. Purbita Bagchi ( Principal )

Welcome to Loreto Day School, Bowbazar – “Where Faith and Knowledge meet. We provide a nurturing an inclusive learning environment that fosters holistic development of our students. Our dedicated staff strives to create an atmosphere where students can explore their potential, embrace challenges and become life-long learners. Let the core values of Mary Ward empower our students to become responsible global citizens.