School Facilities

The school office is the controlling place for the working of the effective organisation of the total school programme. So it should be centrally located to serve as a good coordinating centre for the school. It should be as near to the Headmaster’s office as far as possible. There school office should be provided with necessary equipment such as type-writer, duplicators, rubber stamps, almirahs etc. This room should have adequate arrangement of the drinking water and attached bath-room and lavatory. The store-rooms of the school also be quite adjacent to the school office.

The class rooms should be tastefully decorated and the walls should be painted with different types of light colour.Proper ventilation of the classrooms is just as important as adequate lighting.The class-room should have a nice and pleasant look. The classroom should have sufficient number of doors, windows and ventilators to admit light and air from outside. The size and number of the windows should be decided on the basis of the size of the room. Each classroom should have essential equipment of desk and chairs for the pupils, wall black-board, a chair and a table for the teacher and a map stand.

Every school building should have a separate wing for library and reading room. The library room should be provided with adequate natural light and ventilation with satisfactory window shades and provision for needed artificial light. The library room should be “attractive, colourful and inviting”. The furniture, book shelves, tables, chairs, reading desks should be carefully designed with an eye to artistic effect as well as functional efficiency.

Every secondary school must possess well-equipped and well-planned laboratories for teaching science subjects. This arrangement will facilitate to use movable tables in one position for classwork and in another for laboratory. Built in cup-boards for storing the chemicals in a laboratory should be provided. The size of this room should be more spacious to accommodate all the laboratory equipment’s.

Therefore, enough area should be occupied for the playgrounds in order to provide maximum number of games to the students. Games and sports are the essential parts of the total education. So our school should essentially have a due provision for the playgrounds.

School records are indispensable for the successful functioning of the school administration. So every school should maintain certain records from which its origin, growth and development.These records help in reporting to parents regarding the progress, merits and short-coming of their children.

The subject-rooms helps economizing time, energy, when the equipment, apparatus and other teaching aids are not moved from one end of school to another. Besides the class-rooms, the school plant should have accommodation for teaching of some specific subjects like Science, Mathematics, and Arts.

In a Gyan Dhara Public Senior Secondary school, there should be a room for the headmaster. Site for this room should be carefully chosen. It should be easily accessible to faculties, teachers and staff-member.

This staff room is meant for the teachers to meet each other, to work together or individually. In this room teachers can rest in their vacant periods. The staff-room should have cup-boards in the wall, where the teachers may keep their class notes, examination papers and other things safe.

our school should have a big hall where assembly of the whole school may be possible. Here all the pupils assemble for general meetings, dramatics, lectures, exhibition and many other school activities for all the students whenever required by the headmaster. The hall should be properly furnished and well-decorated. It should have a suitable stage, a dias, mike and fans.