Curriculum

From the very inception, GPS offers primary school education. Subsequently, GPS adding one class every year to grow to the stature of a secondary school with classes from I to X. The school offers the National Curriculum recommended by NCERT and follows CBSE syllabus. Instruction is through the medium of English, with Oriya/Hindi as options for the 2nd language. We use a curriculum developed by the management specially designed to address the learners' need to have lessons that are more relevant, enjoyable, challenging and creative. Students will learn in multiple ways - working in groups, using discovery techniques, exploring learning centers in the classrooms and community resources. Overall, the curriculum aims to holistically develop the knowledge, skills and attitude of the child. Teachers at GPS use innovative and creative methods to incorporate value and life skills education in all school activities - academic, co-curricular and sports. Classes held every day of the week except Sundays and designated holidays. While the children are provided with regular homework to ensure that they keep up with their studies, every care is taken to see that they are not overburdened with work. The school will enforce strict punctuality. The teaching staff constantly strives to pay attention to the individual needs of the children without discriminating amongst them.

Extra Curricular Activities

At GPS, children are encouraged to develop inherent interests, and at the same time explore other activities. The emphasis lies in helping them to develop an all-round personality with equal importance for traditional values on one hand and the modern contemporary art form on the other. The students learn to work with their hands and minds gaining appreciation of artistic creation with music, casio, dance, Taekwondo, drama, elocution, literary competition, speech, debate, drawing, painting and sculpting etc.

Games & Sports

Children generally love sports and games. GPS promises excellent sports infrastructure with a ground for football, cricket, athletics, Basketball and throw ball courts including carom, chess and many more. It is through active sports and games, the children achieve physical fitness, improve concentration, learn about team work under the strict vigilance of experts and learn to accept both triumph and defeat with calmness. It helps each child to become a more gracious competitor, a more committed team player and a more confident person.

House System

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Examination

The new system of examination is introduced by CBSE from 2018 – 19. We followed the current system of examination as follows.

• STD-I & STD-II exam is held on their monthly evaluation process. Out of which best the performance will be taken into consideration, which will be of 20 marks and annual examination pen and paper exam = 50 marks.
• STD-III to STD-VII, follow the same pattern. There are two internal assessments of 10 marks each.
• The 1st internal assessment will be held in the month of July to August. Which will be of 20 marks and will be converted to 10 marks .Half yearly exam will be conducted in the month of Sept - Oct which will be of 80 marks similarly the 2nd internal assessment will be conducted in the month of January of 20 marks will be converted to 10 marks. The annual exam will be conducted in the month of Feb-March which will be of 80 marks.

   

  1	Oral	10Marks
  2	Dictation	10Marks
  3	Copy Correction/ Good Handwriting	10Marks
  4	Two best Months Test	20Marks
  		50 Marks
  5	Annual Examination( Written)	50 Marks
  	Total	100 Marks

  For Annual exam the syllabus will be as follows.

  Class III-VI: Annual exam portion    + 10% of half yearly portion.

  Class VII: Annual exam portion       + 20% of half yearly portion.

  Class VIII: Annual exam portion       + 30% of half yearly portion.

  The student has to score 33 marks both in internal assessment as well as in half yearly and annual exam to be declared as pass.

For class IX and X the system will be different:
• 1st internal assessment will be of 20 marks duration 45 minutes and 25%of the syllabus will be asked which will be held in the month OF July-August. This will be converted to out of 10marks.
• 2nd internal assessment will be of 40marks and duration 1.30hrs and 50% of the syllabus will be asked, which will be held in the month of Sep.-Oct. This will be converted to 10marks
• 3rd internal assessment(pre annual exam) will be of 60marks(for Std-IX) and 80(for Std.-X) marks , duration 2.15hrs and 75% of the syllabus will be asked, which will be held in the month of January. This will be converted to out of 10marks. Std-X will attended pre-mock in the month of Dec. Full portion in the month of January Mock Test.
• Annual exam will be of 80% marks will be conducted in the month of Feb-March where 100%syllabus be covered

  Out of three assessments average of best two will be considered for annual exam. The students has to secure maximum 33marks in both to be declared as promoted.

  • Copy maintenance 05marks
  • Project work or Lab activity marks are there which will be included in annual exam-05marks
  • Discipline mark is there
  • 75% attendance is a must for the child
• There will be four written examinations, namely pre Mid-term assessment (PA-I), Term assessment/ half yearly Examination, post Mid-Term Assessment (PA-II) and Annual Examination as mentioned in the syllabus.

  Pre Mid-term assessment and post Mid-term assessment carry 20 marks each as per the following

  i. Pen & Paper Test                    :10Marks(5 marks pen paper + 5marks quiz, Group discussion)

  ii. HW/CW (Portfolio)                  :05Marks

  iii. Subject Enrichment Activity   :05Marks

• Subject Enrichment Activities will include ASL, Speech, Dictation, Recitation, Lab-Activity, Role Playing, MCQ and VSQ Test, MaP Work, Chart making, Skill Tests, Project work etc.
• Half Yearly and Annual Examination will be of 80marks each in all the subject excepts GK[I-VII] and M,Sc,[I-V]
• It is mandatory for a student to appear all the tests and activities
• In case of sickness during tests or examination days , immediate information must be given to the principal with proper justification.
• The best performances of all the tests/ examination will be taken into consideration for promotion to the next higher class.
• The performances of a student in Scholastic and Co-Scholastic area will be reflected both in terms of marks and grades in the Report Card. A student has to secure minimum ‘D’ grade (33% marks) in all the subject under Scholastic and Co-Scholastic domain individually for promotion to the next higher class.
• Minimum 75% attendance is a pre-requisite criterion for promotion to the next higher class.
• Students obtaining grade E in any subject will have to appears improvement test and will get only one chance to obtain the qualifying marks/grade up to Std.-VIII.

  Grading system to be followed by the school

  Part-i: Scholastic Areas (8 point grading scale)

  Marks Range	92-100	81-90	71-80	61-70	51-60	41-50	33-40	32 & below
  Grade	A1	A2	B1	B2	C1	C2	D	E

  Subject we provide

  STD I - VIII

  English, Hindi, Odia, Mathematics, Science, Social Science, G.K (STD I - V), M.Sc (STD I - V), Drawing (STD I - VIII) and Computer.

  STD IX - X

  English, Hindi/Odia(Optional), Mathematics, Science, Social Science and Computer (voe) - 6^th optional.

Calendar and Holiday List

SL.NO	OCCASION	DATES	DAYS	NO OF DAYS
1	GOOD FRIDAY	4/2/2021	FRIDAY	1
2	MAHA VISUBA SANKRANTI	4/14/2021	WEDNES DAY	1
3	RAM NAVAMI	4/21/2021	WEDNES DAY	1
4	RATH YATRA	7/12/2021	MONDAY	1
5	ID-UL-JUHA	7/21/2021	WEDNES DAY	1
6	MUHARRAM	8/20/2021	FRIDAY	1
7	RAKSHA BANDHAN	8/22/2021	SUNDAY	0
8	JANMASTHAMI	8/30/2021	MONDAY	1
9	NUAKHAI	9/11/2021	SATURDAY	1
10	VISWAKARMA PUJA	9/17/2021	FRIDAY	1
11	MAHALAYA	10/6/2021	WEDNES DAY	1
12	DEEPAVALI	11/4/2021	THURSDAY	1
13	RAHSA PURNIMA	11/19/2021	FRIDAY	1
14	PROP.MOHAMMAD'S B'DAY	11/21/2021	SUNDAY	0
15	PRATHAMASTAMI	11/27/2021	SATURDAY	1
16	MAKAR SANKRANTI	1/14/2022	FRIDAY	1
17	MAHA SIVARATRI	3/1/2022	TUESDAY	1
18	HOLI	3/17/2022	THURSDAY	1
19		3/18/2022	FRIDAY
TOTAL				16

SL.NO	OBSERVATION DAY	DATES	DAYS
1	86th UTKAL DIWAS	4/1/2021	THURSDAY
2	75th INDEPENDENCE DAY	8/15/2021	SUNDAY
3	134th TEACHER'S DAY	9/5/2021	SUNDAY
4	GANESH PUJA	9/10/2021	FRIDAY
5	153rd GANDHI JAYANTI	10/2/2021	SATURDAY
6	CHILDREN'S DAY	11/14/2021	SUNDAY
7	126th NETAJI JAYANTI	1/23/2022	SUNDAY
8	73rd REPUBLIC DAY	1/26/2022	WEDNESDAY
9	SARASWATI PUJA	2/5/2022	SATURDAY
10	15th SCHOOL FOUNDATION DAY	3/23/2022	WEDNESDAY

SL.NO	OCCASION	DATES	NO OF DAYS
1	SUMMER VACATION	06/05/2021 TO 18/06/2021 School Reopens on 21/06/2021	39 DAYS EXCLUDING 7 SUNDAYS
2	PUJA VACATION	11/10/2021 TO 20/10/2021 School Reopens on 21/10/2021	9 DAYS EXCLUDING1 SUNDAY
3	WINTER VACATION	25/12/2021 TO 01/01/2022 School Reopens on 03/01/2022	7 DAYS EXCLUDING 2 SUNDAYS
TOTAL			55 DAYS EXCLUDING 10 SUNDAYS

School Uniform

UNIFORM AND DRESS CODE FOR STUDENTS

The boys and girls have to wear their regular uniform all he days [Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday] except PT day and Saturday. I-CARD must be wearing all the days. All boys from STD-I to STD-X will wear full pant throughout.

REGULAR UNIFORM

Boys:

• Bluish Grey full pant White half sleeve shirt
• Neck Tie
• Bluish grey shocks
• Black shoes with laces
• School belt

Girls:

• Bluish Grey skirt with tunic
• White half sleeve shirt
• Bluish grey slacks (V – X)
• Neck Tie
• Bluish grey shocks
• Black shoe
• School belt

PT UNIFORM for STD-II to STD-X [Only on Wednesday]

For both boys and Girls:

• Two strips both sides track pant (Blue Colour)
• White T-Shirt with stripped blue colour collar (Print GPS)
• White shoe with greyish blue shocks (with School name GPS)

HOUSE DAY UNIFORM for STD-II to STD-X [Only on Saturday]

• White full pant for boys
• White skirt for girls
• White slacks (STD V to X)
• Coloured T-Shirt(as per the houses)
• White shoe with white shocks (with School name GPS)

WINTER SEASON UNIFORM

Boys:

• Regular Uniform with Blazer [Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri]
• PT Uniform with jacket (blue with 2strips) [Wed]
• House Uniform with Blazer [Sat]

Girls:

• Regular Uniform with Blazer, full slacks (Blue & Gray) [Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri]
• PT Uniform with jacket (blue with 2strips) [Wed]
• House Uniform with Blazer, full white slacks [Sat]

N.B: Everyday uniform checking will be there. So, send your wards in neat and clean uniform with proper and normal haircut, dressed nail, polished shoes etc.

SCHOOL TIMINGS

GENERAL TIMING:

APRIL (SUMMER TIMING)
Arrival	(Prep-I to STD – X)	6.20am
	Prayer (inside classroom)	6.25am
	Class Hours	6.30am – 9:30am (for PREP to STD-I) 6.30am – 10:00am (for STD-II to STD-X)
	Gate will be closed at	6.30am sharp

JUNE - MARCH
Arrival	(Prep-I to STD – X)	7.25am
	Prayer (STD-II to STD-X)	7.30am – 7.45am
Departure	(Prep-I to STD – I )	12.10pm
	(STD-II to STD-X)	1.30pm
N.B: Gate will be closed at 7.30am sharp

SCHOOL BELLTIME

Class	Entry	Class	Exit
Prep-I to STD – V	Gate No. 1(7.25am)	Prep-I to STD – I	Gate No. 1(12.10Pm)
STD-VI to STD – X	Gate No. 2(7.25am)	STD-II to STD – V	Gate No. 1(1.30Pm)
		STD-VI to STD –X	Gate No. 2(1.30Pm)
Students coming by Cycle	Gate No.-1	Students going by Cycle	Gate No.-1

OFFICE TIMINGS:

Monday - Friday	8.00 A.M. to 2.00 P.M.
Saturday	8.00 A.M. to 12.00 Noon.