Delhi Public School, Patna

Delhi Public School, Patna (or DPS Patna) is a school in Patna, Bihar, India. It was established in the year 1998. The school was established in collaboration between Delhi Public School Society and the Takshila Education Society. Delhi Public School, Patna is affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi. The motto of the school is "Service Before Self." DPS Patna features in the top 10 CBSE Schools of Patna.

Delhi Public School, Patna
Front View of DPS, Patna (Senior Wing)
Location
Patna

Bihar
Information
TypePublic, co-educational
MottoService Before Self
Established1998
PrincipalBinod
ClassesNursery - XII
Colour(s)White and Green
AffiliationCBSE
Websitedpspatna.com

Location

The school has 2 buildings in the city, one in Priyadarshi Nagar (the Junior Wing), Bailey Road, and the other in Danapur Cantonment (the Senior Wing). The Senior wing campus is located in Danapur Cantt, in village Chandmari.

Cultural events

The school hosts many cultural events under another organisation called "Spic Macay". These include the National School Intensive in December 2010, [1] and "Ninad" in October 2011.[2]The school hosts the football tournament called as Kickoff, basketball championship, Slam Dunk. The school also has conducts inter school chess championship and table tennis championship named Master Stroks and Top Spin respectively.

Notable alumni

Games and sports

Delhi Public School has many provisions for sports and games. It has a half Olympic-size swimming pool, a badminton arena, a lawn tennis hard court, a football pitch, a hockey ground, table tennis room and a basketball court. The School Has various sports clubs such as Football, Basketball etc. The school hosts many inter-school sports competitions for Patna's schools. These are "Kick-Off" (football tournament), "Slam-Dunk" (basketball tournament), "Top Spin" (table tennis), "Mastermove" (chess) and "Take Off" (athletics).

Online Classes During Pandemic

Delhi Public School Patna began its session of 2020-2021 with the theme "Constitution of India" in mid-April. However, due to lack of effective control on the students, who repeatedly disrupted classes by taking aliases, and inexperienced online educators, the classes weren't helpful. The school closed for the summer vacations soon. The school reopened on 10th June. Delhi Public School Patna is in minority of Indian schools because it uses Google Meet instead of Zoom to conduct classes which is not optimized for online classes. Google Meet has limitations on participants, it is easier for online trolls to infiltrate and it doesn't support useful features like annotations. However, once the school reopened, the situation seemed somewhat in control. The school held admission tests and took various direct admission on the basis of Board Examination. Thus, a healthy migration of students from various schools was observed. The school made co-curricular periods like yoga and exercise and student leadership program compulsory which was seen as a bad decision since the latter of these subjects wasn't tested and the prior was poorly equipped to test. Apart from that, these subjects took up valuable time of students which could be given to other compulsory subjects , where teachers are struggling to complete the syllabus, or could be omitted altogether for students' self study. The school has a very harsh online attendance policy which apart form being detrimental to students' eyesight, is also against the recent government suggestion for total screentime cap[3] . The school is expected to change this soon. The principal of the school decided that turning the camera on during class was necessary. This was in violation to right to privacy and was later made voluntary because many children didn't possess webcams. The online testing system that the school adopted is efficient. The school website is made in cooperation with Edunext Technologies which possessed in built-in quizzing functionalities that are better than, or at par with, most of the alternatives currently available. However, the support for subjective question-answers is poor and the tests are majorly Multiple Choice Question(MCQ) style.

References
  1. Times Of India (29 December 2010). "National School Intensive". The Times Of India. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
  2. Times Of India (23 October 2011). "Ninad". The Times Of India. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
  3. {{cite news | url=https://www.firstpost.com/india/from-limiting-screen-time-to-number-of-classes-per-day-hrd-ministry-issues-guidelines-for-online-education-8689841.html | title= Limiting Screentime | author = Firstpost


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