School Life
The insititution follows the ICSE board of education, rather than the West Bengal State board. The medium of instruction is English, with Hindi/Bengali offered as second languages. There are two external examinations — at Class X level (ICSE) and Class XII (ISC). In all other years, students take internal examinations only.
Extra-curricular activities include debating, elocution and quizzing, and sports like football, swimming, cricket, hockey, athletics, basketball, boxing, and table tennis. There is also a Western-music orchestra and a pipes-and-drums band.
Teams representing the school compete with La Martinière Lucknow in the annual Inter-Martinière meet (held alternately in Calcutta and Lucknow) in football, swimming and debating for the boys and basketball, swimming and debate for the girls. The football and basketball matches are highly anticipated events, and are well-attended by Old Martinians, students and parents.
La Martinière for Boys' cricket and hockey teams participate in the local Calcutta school leagues. Athletics and boxing are primarily inter-house activities. The inter-house athletics and boxing finals receive a lot of attention, with the athletics events preceded by a military-style marchpast and Olympic-style oath-taking ceremony.
La Martinière for Girl's basketball and football teams also participate in school, state and national level leagues.
From 1985, La Martinière has been hosting "Karma Yatra", the largest inter-school festival in the city. The festival was arranged annually by the Interact Club of La Martinière.
Clubs include the Hindi Club- known as ‘Jyotsna’ in the Boys’ school and ‘Drishti’ in the Girls’ school, the Interact Club, the Quiz Club, the Expressions club, the Computer Club, the Nature Club, the Dramatics Club, the Heritage Club, etc. Other organizations are the Library Squad, the School Beautification Squad, DEAS and the NCC (Air and Army Wing). The Quiz Club, Debate Circle and Science Club in the girls school are also very active and members of said clubs periodically represent the school in inter-school events and competitions.
An annual yearbook, titled "The Chronicle", is published by the boys school. The annual yearbook or "school magazine" for the girls school is put together by an editorial board composed of students from class XI supervised by teachers. The name for the magazine changes annually as it is chosen by the editorial board of the given year.
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