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Cathedral High School, Bangalore

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Type
  
Private School

Principal
  
Isabella Simon

Phone
  
080 2557 2656

Founded
  
1866

Established
  
1866

Number of students
  
LKG - 10 (ICSE)

Motto
  
Forward in Faith

Website
  
http://www.cathedralbangalore.com/

Address
  
63, Richmond Rd, Shanthala Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560025

The Cathedral High School (Bangalore), Karnataka, India, is a coeducational school, part of the Karnataka Central Diocese, Church of South India. It has classes from nursery up to standard ten, all on one 7-acre (28,000 m2) campus, located in the heart of Bangalore City.

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History

The institution was founded in 1866 by the Rev. S.T. Pettigrew, who also founded other institutions like the Bishop Cottons schools. It is affiliated to, and accredited by, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations(ICSE), New Delhi, only the grades after the tenth are affiliated to the state board.

Cultural and co-curricular programmes

  • Vibrations is an open inter-house event hosted by the school. It consists of drawing, painting, debate, quiz and musical events where students of all ages can showcase their talents. It also encourages computer skills.
  • Sports Day is an event that Cathedral hosts every year. Schools from Bangalore arrive to display their talents. Events such as football, basketball and cricket are played on the Cathedral grounds and courts.

    • Music

    Cathedral is one of Bangalore’s venues for music and performing arts. Artists performing include Hariprasad Chaurasia, S. P. Balasubramanyam, Usha Uthup, Ke Jun (of the Chinese Opera), the National Dance Company of Ireland, the Shillong International Chamber Choir, The Chariot, Petra (the Grammy award winning gospel rock band from the U.S.A.), ABBA revival group Björn Again, Grammy-nominee Enoch Fernando and Hariharan. A concert has been held by rock icons Deep Purple.

    List of Houses

  • Courpalias - Yellow
  • Pettigrew - Blue
  • Richmond - Red
  • Stracy - Green
  • Whistance - Purple

    • the school song.

    References

    Cathedral High School, Bangalore Wikipedia
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