FROM THE HEAD OF INSTITUTION DESK
Our school Chandernagore Kanailal Vidyamandir (French Section) is situated at the heart of the town Chandernagore a Corporation city and former French colony located 35 kilometers (22 mi) north of Kolkata, in West Bengal, India. In the year of 1862, Jesuit missionary Father Maglower Barthe established a school named ‘Ecole de Sainte Marie’ (St. Mary’s Institution) in the French colony of Chandernagore – a beautiful hamlet by the river Ganges in Bengal Province in India. Bengali and French languages used to be taught there and at the end of the course student used to appear in ‘Certificat d’Etude Primaire Elémentaire’ (C.E.P.E.). Except Bengali language, the medium of instruction for all other subjects was French and the curriculum used to be in line with the same followed in France.
In the year of 1901, once again, the school was renamed ‘Collège Dupleix’ after famous ruler of colonial France and the first Governor of Chandernagore Joseph François Dupleix.
On 17th of May, 1948 the school was renamed ‘Kanailal Vidyamandir’ after the great revolutionary and martyr Kanailal Dutta, the son of the soil, who was also a student of this school. In the year 1952 a complete autonomous French section was formed and it had Sasankasekhar Boral as its first independent Director, who was the Assistant Director of the undivided administration of the school. Ever since Chandernagore became an integral part of West Bengal on 2nd of October, 1954, the school was being governed by West Bengal State Government. In 1955, once the Chandernagore Municipal Act came into being, the administration of the school was transferred to the Chandernagore Municipal Corporation. The school, affiliated to West Bengal board of Secondary Education, currently managed and maintained by the Education Committee of the Chandernagore Municipal Corporation.
Our school Chandernagore Kanailal Vidyamandir (French Section) is a govt. sponsored school imparting teaching learning process from Class I to Class X. Most probably this is the only school in West Bengal where French is a compulsory third language for class V to VIII.
The school was upgraded to a secondary school in the year 2013 and the results of Madhyamik Pariksha is good. At present this school building was declared as a heritage building by the West Bengal heritage commission. The infrastructure of the school are listed below:-
The School having a three stories building with concrete roof.
- 10 numbers of class rooms with all furniture, ceiling fan and tube light.
- School having smart class room with 10 computers with one LCD projector under ICT project.
- Computer training room with sufficient computer.
- Dining hall for students where around 80 – 90 students can accommodated at a time.
- School having its own audio system at every corner of the school.
- School having one auditorium (open on three side) of 250 accommodation in the ground floor.
- School having its own musical band system.
- 10 kVA roof top solar plant installed by WBREDA.
The numbers of students is increased gradually. As the school building is very old some class rooms are no so spacious.
STRENGTHS OF A HEAD:
- We have well educated, dynamic, energetic and motivated staffs
- Helpful dynamic school management committee
- Cultured, educated and helpful guardians
- School situated at the heart of town Chandernagore from where we can access easily.
- Heritage building of school
- Well maintained and decorated ICT classroom for students.
- Sound system in the School premises.
- Our school is full of students that don’t just understand “much,” but rather know what’s worth understanding.
- Our school have a well improved community it is embedded within and serves.
- Our teachers can adapt quickly with human needs and technology change.
- Our school produces student that not only read and write, but choose to a good school sees itself.
- Our school is always on and never closed. (It is not a factory.)
- Our staffs make certain that every single student and family feels welcome and understood on equal terms.
- Full of students that not only ask great questions, but do so with great frequency and ferocity.
- We understand the difference between broken thinking and broken implementation.
- We don’t make empty promises, create noble-but-misleading mission statements, or mislead parents and community-members with edu-jargon. It is authentic and transparent.
- Our school values ours teachers and administrators and parents as agents of student success.
- Teachers favours personalized learning over differentiated learning.
- Teacher teaches thought, not content.
- School is Lived in the Present Tense
- School is a Workshop for Inventors
- Our School is an Intimate Community Where Children Find Unconditional Acceptance
- Our School is a Thoughtful Place that Honors the Thinking and the work of Teachers and Students
- Our School is a Place Where People Make a Difference
- Our school produces students that know themselves in their own context, one that they know and choose. This includes culture, community, language, and profession.
- Our students have personal and specific hope for the future that they can articulate and believe in and share with others.
- We can produces students that can empathize, critique, protect, love, inspire, make, design, restore, and understand almost anything–and then do so as a matter of habit.
- School is more concerned with cultural practices than pedagogical practices–students and families than other schools or the educational status quo.
- Our students are creative, empowered, and connected, and cause unpredictable change themselves.
- Students can think critically–about issues of human interest, curiosity, artistry, craft, legacy, husbandry, agriculture, and more–and then do so.