Address
Berhampore, Panchanantala, Boaliadanga. PO Murshidabad District, West Bengal 742102

Website
Website: www.stteresaberhampore.in
Mobile : 9932974647
Email : stspanchantala24ctc@gmail.com

School Motto
Towards a life sublime

St Teresa’s School, Berhampore, a Catholic English Medium Educational Institution for boys and girls, owned by Teresian Carmelite Sisters, was established in 2015. It is registered under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 with Registration No 80 in the year 1975-76 having its office in Asansol, West Bengal. It is a minority institution but provision is also made for the admission of children irrespective of caste and creed. The Teresian Carmelites are working in India and abroad through educational centres, orphanages and other charitable and promotional works.

The Present
As in 2020-21

School year
March to February

School timing

LKG & UKG
• 7.45am to 12.15pm

Std I to III
• 7.45am to 1.30pm

Vacations
• summer > May-June
• Autumnal > September-October
• Winter > December-January

FEES
School fees cover 12 calendar months. No reduction is made for holidays or broken periods. The school reserves the right to increase the fees at any time of the year if an increment is considered necessary.

ADMISSION FORMALITIES
Application for all classes invited on prescribed form
At the time of LKG admission original Birth Certificate is mandatory
Admission to other classes only against chance vacancies at the beginning

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
• Impart sound value based education
• Form habits of piety, virtue, discipline and self reliance
• Guide students to be dutiful and useful citizens of India
• Form sound spiritual, moral, social and physical outlook
• Method of education based on principles of conviction, loving kindness and faith in god.
• Seek to form the young into men and women of character, competence, conscience, compassion and commitment to foster uprightness in public life
• Instill sense of honesty, right judgement, generosity, sincerity and respect for others
• Steer love for nature and other aesthetic values

Facilities
• Computers
• Library – reading and lending
• Play ground
• Annual sports

The beginning

St Teresa of Avila, the teacher of prayer and the Doctor of the Church

St Teresa of Avila also called St Teresa of Jesus was born at Avila, Spain on 28 March 1515 in a very noble family of knights. As she grew up as a teenager in the boarding school of Augustinian nuns, she had the inspiration to follow the religious life. Overcoming all the objections from her family and friends, she entered the Carmel Convent in 1536. She is known for her teaching and writing. Her main works are Autobiography, Way of Perfection, Interior Castle etc. She is remembered as a woman of iron. With her daringness and profound spirit of true love she established 17 convents and 15 monasteries within just 21 years. She was truly a person of prayer and breathed her last in 1582. Forty years after her death in the year 1622 she was canonized and on 27 September 1970 she was named a Doctor of the Church by Pope Paul VI.

Servant of God Rev Mother Eliswa
13 February 1866: Rev Mother Eliswa from Verapoly, Kerala, India, founded the religious institute, the Congregation of Teresian Carmelite (CTC).

Rev Mother Eliswa, born on 15 October 1831, was the eldest of eight siblings from the wealthy and religious Vypassery Family of Ochanthuruth. She was the first nun from Kerala to establish the first convent in the state. The Congregation, under her, was given the task of teaching girls who had no means to pursue education. Her mission in life was to educate young girls and she set up St Joseph School for them at Varapuzha.
Mother Eliswa always meant what she said and did. She was purely motherly especially to the poor. She was a trend setter and she responded whole heartedly to the challenges of her liberative mission. Her daughters follow her mission facing the challenges of times. She breathed her last on 18 July 1913 at the Convent near Varapuzha School.

SCHOOL ANTHEM
Chorus:
St Teresa my Alma Mater
A blessed home of mine,
My dear school where I grow with time
Towards a life sublime.

St Teresa of Avila
We salute thee our patron
“God alone suffices”
Lends courage in every girl and boy
With determined determination
We Teresians stand united
In St Teresa’s garden
L’le flowers bask in love’s bliss (chorus)

Proud in Teresian hues
Pick we life’s values,
Under the blue sky bright
Learn we sins to fight.
Your glory we shall sing
Through life’s thick and thin,
Your flag will fly high
In the boundless sky.