Hans RajModel School is a co-educational private school in Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi, India, which provides education to pupils from kindergarten through the 12th grade. The school is located in the suburbs of West Delhi and is spread across 8 acres of lush green lawns. The kindergarten division is located in a separate 1.5-acre campus designed specifically to cater to the needs of young kids. The school has been consistently ranked as one of the trendsetting schools of Delhi.
History
Following along the ideals of the religious and social reformer, Swami Dayanand Saraswati and to impart knowledge in combination with that of the Vedas, the school was founded in the year 1966 by the D.A.V. College Managing Committee in New Delhi. Honouring the principles of Mahatma Hansraj, the school is a part of the 900+ schools and colleges managed by D.A.V. College Managing Committee in India and overseas. The founder principal of the school was Mr. Tilak Raj Gupta, a renowned educationalist mostly remembered for his innovative scheme of imparting free education to children of various sections of the society in the year 1984 for which he has also conferred the lifetime achievement by the National Progressive Schools’ Conference, India. In June 2010, the school was awarded the Science Intellect Trophy award by the Science Olympiad Foundation. Then principal of the school Dr. Rita Rajen Kumar was also conferred with the Best Principal award for the continued support rendered towards popularisation of Science, Maths and IT. Mrs. Heemal Handu Bhat is the current Principal of the school.
Vanasthali
Environmental conservation is a part of the school curriculum. A site adjacent to the school has been converted into a children's forest with a garden of Good-Will International in which students and dignitaries have planted around 4000 trees.
Educational approach
Facilities include computer-aided education, audiovisual aids, multimedia systems, L.C.D Projectors. Internet technologies are being included in the classrooms in partnership with 'Classteacher.com' which is providing a virtual school service under which teachers, parents and students of class X and XII can come together on a single platform using their individual passwords. There is online availability of lesson plans, homework assignments, examination schedules, results, attendance record, school notice, and digital library services.
Hobbies and activities
There are 45 activities and hobbies organised in the Senior School and 22 in the Junior School in the fields of science, art and culture. Activities include computing, swimming, skating, yoga, taekwondo, music and dance.
Quality centre
The quality centre takes up student-based projects aimed at their betterment in coordination with the India Quality Foundation. The current project focuses on student of classes VI - VIII who are either not doing well in academics or in non-scholastic activities. Counselling sessions are held with these students.
House system
The school has 11 houses, with each being headed by a House-warden who is assisted by a group of teachers and prefects.
Extra curricular
Anubhuti
Anubhuti is a club for creative and talented students, teachers and parents who wish to appreciate and promote India's cultural heritage in art, music, dance, drama, painting and sculpture. Exposure is provided through interactions with artists, dancers and instrumentalists along with organisation of exhibitions and performances. The club was inaugurated by Col. Bikram Singh, Director, Military Operations in 1999. Mrs. Anita Sharma, P.G.T. Mathematics, is the teacher in charge of Anubhuti. A talk was delivered by Dr. V.K. Srivastav, Prof. of Mathematics, Delhi University in 1999, on the role of teachers in controlling ill effects of media on young minds.
Swimming
The school has a swimming pool with change rooms and a visiting gallery to accommodate 400 viewers.
Sports Academy
There is a skating rink, cricket & football ground, tennis grounds, gymnasium, taekwondo rink, junior and senior department basketball courts aside from a swimming pool. There are evening classes for the sports academy. Hansraj students have been winning at national as well international level in many sports including table tennis, lawn tennis, skating, cricket, basketball, gymnastics, handball, golf etc.
IT
More than 60 of the teachers from the school's Senior Secondary Department have been trained as Computer Professionals in a training course conducted by Intel. Four of the teachers who attended the Advanced Course conducted by Intel are now qualified to train other teachers. The school has recently also adopted the digital classroom of Classteacher Learning Systems.
Multimedia lab
The Multimedia lab of the school has Pentium III microprocessors, one maths lab and a teacher resource centre. Teachers made a PowerPoint presentation about the CBSE syllabus. A virtual school has been created on the internet with the help of Classteacher Learning Systems, which gives the syllabus, homework assignments, extra assignments, and sample papers for weak and bright students. Parents can view students attendance or marks obtained in examinations.
Notable Alumni
, tennis player and bronze-medalist at the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakarta is an alumnus of the school. 2008 Beijing Olympic participant Neha Aggarwal, another table-tennis player is also an alumnus of the school. Indian stand-up comedian Amit Tandon also graduated from the school in the year 1993. Indian television actresses Shraddha Arya and Aditi Sharma are also graduates of Hansraj Model School.
