# Campus School, GBPUA&T

Campus School is a co-ed school located in the university campus of Pantnagar district Udham Singh Nagar, previously district Nainital Uttarakhand. It was established in 1970 by the collaboration of Sisters of Notre Dame and Pantnagar University and is currently managed by a committee of management with the Vice Chancellor as Patron. The Notre Dame sisters came to India in 1947 and have since then established several schools in the North. The school, affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education, caters mostly to the children of people working in academic institutions in the Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology. The first batch of High School passed out in 1977 and 10+2 in 1986. Many students of the school have gone on to elite institutions such as IITs, IIMs, NID [National Institute of Design]NITIE( National Institute of Industrial Engineering), IRMA, AIIMS (Delhi), AFMC (Pune), NDA/CDS, JIPMER, Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), etc. and have also gone abroad through GRE/TOEFL for higher education. The school yearly conducts book fairs, annual day function, national festival celebrations, birth and death anniversaries of great personalities and much more. The faculty is experienced and most have a PhD and few also have done specialisations in their respective subjects. Few of them are Dr. Prachi Pareek, Dr. Bhuwan Chandra Pathak, Dr. D N Pandey, Dr. Rashmi Verma, Dr. Renu Panwar, Dr. Pradeep Kumar Joshi, Dr. A K Tyagi and others. With Mrs. Shweta S. Budhani along with Mrs. Jaspreet Kaur Arora, Mrs. Puspa Pathak and Mr. Ravindra Kumar Tewari having done their specialisations in Organic chemistry, Hindi and Mathematics respectively. The school is represented in various national and international quiz competitions like Bournvita Quiz Contest and its students have also won many scholarships such as NTSE, Mathematics Olympiad,Gk Olympiad, International English Olympiad etc. Also, there are well-developed science practical labs that is, for physics, chemistry and biology separately, and 2-3 practicals take place weekly. Also for subjects like geography and maths. The school also consists of a well furnished library with more than 12 thousand books. The school has a double storied building and a huge playground. A new Multi-Purpose Hall has been constructed and this was established on 2 October 2014. The alumni of the school are based across the world and doing well professionally and personally. They are strong pillars of the community in their respective regions and contribute constructively to society. The school establishes an environment in which the character and personality of students grows steadily to maturity in all aspects of life, spiritual (faith in God and Prayerfulness), moral (family spirit, optimism, punctuality, sincerity self-sacrifice etc.), social (patriotism, courage, recognition of their respective responsibilities etc.), intellectual (ongoing quest for knowledge, accuracy, speed and memory) and physical (personal hygiene sports and athletic skills, physical exercises of yoga, drills and dance).
A paper factory (Century Pulp and Paper) in the nearby town of Lalkuan also sends quite a few children to this school. The school also caters to children from nearby towns such as Rudrapur, Kichcha, Baheri, Nagla, Lalkuan, and Haldwani.
The first principal of the school was Sr Laurette, who had come down from Ohio, US. She was followed by Sr Mary Vimala and Sr Mary Vijaya. The Sisters of Notre Dame handed over administrative control of the school to Joseph John in 1984. The school currently has Dr. B.C. Pathak as principal. The school shows excellent results in board examinations with none below than 99 and 98 percentile.

## School Song

Here is the Campus School's song sung often at events and assembly:
O Join together campus students one and all
To build a new and bright tomorrow for our land
With study play and earnest work we'll do our best
Let us together now march forward hand in hand.
Amidst the flowers fruit, and fields of Pantnagar
We think and learn and search and serve each other
With Courage and grace the honour of our school uphold
We will be makers of this school destiny.
In campus school we are one happy family
No matter poor or rich we work in unity
By knowledge gained we dare to shape our destiny
We will be makers of our country's history.
All the challenges that comes we dare to face
Our love and care we'd like to share with every race
From day to day we probe into life's mystery
We will be makers of our country's history