All Saints' College, Nainital Blogsite

All Saints' College started in July 1869, is an English Medium residential-cum-day girls' college under the management of the All Saints' College Society. The College is located at 1938 metres above sea level, in the picturesque town of Nainital in the Himalayas in Northern India.


The College aims at imparting a complete and quality education in the true sense of the word, not only by way of formidably high academic standards, but also by developing all faculties - intellectual, physical and spiritual.

The present Junior School building, which was originally the training college, was built in 1925. Again in 1945, on the departure of the Holy Family Sisters, the management was taken over by the All Saints' College Society, of which the Bishop of Agra Diocese (The Church of North India) is the Chairman.

This educational institution is an English Medium residential-cum-day girls' college under the management of the All Saints' College Society; registered under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860.

LOCATION & CLIMATE

The lure of the Himalayas is as old as the first human being to behold their majesty. For the people of the Indian Sub - continent the Himalayas have always been more than a mere geographical entity. We have peopled these mountains with our Gods and our legends, sieved our philosophy of life through the minds of men who went through the Himalayan experience while reaching out for Universal truths of creation.

Kumaon's glacial valleys and mountain peaks have time and again hypnotized travellers and climbers to conquer their heights. So distinct from the rest of the Himalayas, Kumaon still retains the relics of its pre-British era. The lake district of the mountains, Nainital's countryside unfolds a blue-green panorama of shimmering lakes - splashed with brightly coloured yachts, terraced slopes, emerald valleys and velvet downs.

Set over 1938 meters above sea level, Nainital rises up and around its large lake. The school is located on Ayarpata Hill, 6800 feet above sea level and about 600 feet above the Nainital lake and at a distance of about 2 kms. from Nainital town. The estate adjoining the grounds of Government House extends over thirty-six acres of forest-land; pasture-land, vegetable garden and orchards. The climate is bracing and the temperature variations are small. The pollution-free environment of this chaste abode far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife is ideal, not only for physical well-being but is exceedingly conducive for academic pursuits with all the advantages of being distanced from the distractions and adverse influences of city-life.

AIMS & OBJECTIVES

The College aims at imparting a complete and quality education in the true sense of the word, not only by way of formidably high academic standards, but also by developing all faculties - intellectual, physical and spiritual. Our endeavour is to enable students to develop an analytical mind, intellectual curiosity, morel integrity, a stong sense of values, a disciplined life style and a feeling of companionship among students that will transcend social, communal, religious and provincial prejudices. The College aims to develop the minds of the students and also their physique, their skills, their personality and leadership traits and create a sense of fellow feeling with their less fortunate peers. The college lays stress on practising true equality among all students irrespective of the financial status and background of their parents. In addition to the formal curriculum, there is also a hidden curriculum of unexpressed and usually unexamined ideas, values and behaviours that are communicated to students through informal means. A strong emphasis is laid on games, co-curricular activities, project work, etc. so as to relate education to real life experience and to take education beyond the confines of the calssroom, making it into a rich, simulating and creative experience.