Abd Sister Nivedita Academy

Located in the New Town area of Asansol, our academy is right in the middle of a developing neighborhood. It’s a school where we have kids coming in from all the nearby streets, and the atmosphere is usually quite lively. We have different classrooms for various grades, and the walls are covered with the usual student work and maps. The building itself is fairly standard for this part of West Bengal, with concrete floors and big windows to let in the air. Asansol can get quite humid, so we try to keep the rooms as airy as possible during the summer months. Our teachers are mostly local people who know the town well and have a lot of experience dealing with the kids here. We don't have a massive sports field, but we make use of the space we have for the students to play during their lunch hours. The school day follows a set pattern of prayers, classes, and then the rush to go home in the afternoon. We spend a lot of time organizing the registers and making sure the students are following their schedules. It’s an honest, working-class kind of school where we just focus on the basic education of the kids in New Town. There’s always a bit of a mess to clean up at the end of the day, but that is just part of running a school with so many active children around.