A brief history of the school
St. Francis De sales School is a private Roman Catholic English Medium School with co-education in Nimkheda, Maharashtra, India. The motto of our school is ‘Aim High. Situated near Mouda Tarsa Nimkheda Maharashtra, it had a humble beginning in the year 2004. After about ten years in 2014, it affiliated by CBSE and extended the affiliation till date.
The virtue of our patron St Francis de Sales is gentleness This reminds of the fact that St. Francis took the teachings of Jesus to a new level of understanding, similarly we aim to empower our children to excel in every sphere of their lives.
The school has four houses represented by the colours: Red, Blue Green and yellow into which each student is divided. The investiture ceremony every year appoints a new set of Student Council Members consisting of 20 members including the Head boy, head girl, vice head boy and vice head girl, house captains and various cabinet ministers who take up the responsibility to uphold the high values and standards of the school through various activities and duties assigned to them.
Campus
St. Francis De sales School, Nimkheda hosts spacious classrooms with large windows for ample light and air to flood in, an audio-visual smart learning is initiated through the E-learning boards installed in every classroom, a well-resourced library with a collection of wide range of books, an assembly Ground, AURO water coolers + purifiers to provide clean drinking water facilities to the children. A well-maintained basketball court, football ground, cricket pitch, table-tennis setup and well-equipped laboratory.
Co-Scholastic Activities
The school organises Sports Events, Inter-House Quiz Competitions, Extempore, Debate, Prepared Speech, Colour and Splash, Independence and Republic Day Celebrations as part the Co-Scholastic Activities for the all-round personality development of the students.
Community Service
To inculcate life skills amongst the students, we have started two drive by the name of ‘Swachata Abhiyan (Hygine awareness) & Poor deserving Community whereby we/students/teachers does road rallies every year. we provide medical aid necessity to people in the memory of Mother Theresa This is the awareness to the community about clean India and Developing India
Teacher Welfare and Development Programs
It is the need of the modern world to empower our learners with modern skills to able to deal with it and for that we teachers need to adopt our roles and techniques. St. Francis De sales School provides ample opportunities to the teachers to update and upgrade themselves with the 21st century teaching-learning skills through its eminent resource persons like:
Mrs. Raja Rajeswari — Freelance trainer from Spring Ahead Foundation Hyderabad, who focuses primarily on the following factors.
• Learners as Leaders: Under this skill even learners who are slower academically can also be given leadership with some simple tasks which focuses on their likings.
• Linking Text to Ignite Imagination: Under this skill role play, visualising a situation, writing short poem, dialogues with real and imaginary characters boost the creativity and imagination of the children.
Dr. Neelkanth — Consulting psychologist, freelance trainer, councillor and life coach. He has also done his Ph. D in Psychology. He focuses primarily on the following factors:
• To help students develop problem solving skills to be able to take their own decisions.
• De-addiction from behavioural disorders.
• St. Francis De sales School aims at imparting sound education for the all round development of each child who will be an asset to the country and honour to the family.
• At present the school functions with around 341 students and sufficient qualified teaching and non-teaching staff. It strives to provide quality education to the utmost satisfaction of the students and parents.