The school admits only
female students and is predominantly taught by female teachers. The school teaches from the
Preschool level to the
higher secondary (10 + 2) and is affiliated under the
WBBSE and
WBCHSE. The medium of instruction is
English although
Bengali and
Hindi are also taught as first languages beside English. Pre-primary, Primary, Secondary and Higher Secondary section starts class at the same time in the morning, five days a week, with the first two sections having an earlier finish than the rest.
Motto and emblem The school motto is
The Good Retain The Better Follow , as illustrated in the school's emblem. This is printed on all school dresses, sweaters, blazers, Physical Education, and athletic uniforms as well as school diaries, bags, note book covers and other articles.
Prayer and anthem Before starting classes students pray the
Lord's Prayer in the assembly. The school anthem is
Make Me a Channel of Your Peace which is the hymn version of "
Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace", adapted by Sebastian Temple.
Campus The campus of the school is a mixture of natural beauty along with old
British buildings and new buildings. It has separate playgrounds for students of
nursery classes and other senior classes. Inside the campus there is a park, three play grounds, a basketball court and seven buildings in a lush green surrounding. The school has a small
chapel inside one of the buildings.
Facilities The school's facilities includes seven laboratories - Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Nutrition, Home Management and Home Nursing, Junior School Computer, Senior School Computer labs. The school has an LCD projector in the library for audio-visual aid to teaching as well as for showing films to the junior students. There is also the
United Bank of India -St. John's Diocesan School branch, transport (23 buses), uniform and stationery, booth, tea and coffee booth, school canteen, and a Fulbright Scholar Exchange Programme.
Library The school library called
‘Dio Bibliothique’ has a
seating capacity of 200 students and has a collection of over 35,000 books and subscribes to periodicals and dailies.
Music Room - Conference Hall The school Music and Audio-Visual room known as '
La Sale Diphony’ is also used for conference and seminars. Piano, organ, keyboard, Octapad, guitar and drums are the instruments which are taught in the school.
Calendar The
Summer vacation,
Durga Puja, and
Winter or
Christmas vacations are given and the sessions usually starts for Lower Nursery to Class X - Feb through January and for Class XI and XII July through June.
Celebrations Independence day is celebrated every year on 15 August in the school premises and so is
Christmas,
Teacher's Day,
Children's Day,
St. John's Day,
Panchishe Boishakh and
Baishe Srabon – the birth and death anniversaries respectively of
Rabindranath Tagore,
Diocesan Education Mission Fete,
World AIDS day,
Winter Carnival,
Diotornie, Melior (Annual School Fest) and other special days of the school.
Uniform The school uniform contains the school emblem and is of two sets - one for daily use and another for physical education or sports days. There are separate uniforms for daily use for the students of pre-primary section, primary section, secondary section, and higher secondary section..
Events The school organizes academic prize distribution ceremony, sports, exhibitions, educational excursions or trips, school fests, conferences, academic and artistic programmes,
Christmas Party, Farewell Party (for the leaving batches of 12th grades) and publishes a school magazine every year .
Magazine The annual magazine of the school known as '
Papyrus' is published every year highlighting the literary talents and other achievements of the students and the school along with its events.
Houses and colors The four houses were formally known as Lily (blue), Rose (pink), Lotus (green), and Pansy (yellow) Currently the four
houses and their colors are: •
Angelina Margaret Hoare - Pink •
Sister Mary Victoria - Blue •
Sister Hilda Francis - Green •
Beena Das - Yellow Green House Pink House Blue House Yellow House ==Social services==