Somerville School, Greater Noida
Somerville School, Gr.Noida,is a developing school, and boasts to be one of the best upcoming private schools in the National Capital Region. It is associated with the CBSE board of education. It was established in 1998 by the Lott Carey Baptist Mission in India.
The current principal is Mrs.Mary Thomas; past principals have included Ms.Helen Harrison and Mrs.Dorothy Ann Tressler. Presently, the Vice Principal is Mrs.Aparna Magee and the Headmistress is Mrs.Shefali Egberts.
The school building built on modern day frame work is equipped with rain water harvesting system and is also earth quake resistant. The beauty of the school is the inner quadrangle which is the venue for the morning assemblies.
The school motto is "Love One Another".
Houses
The students are divided into four houses. They are David (yellow), Solomon (red), Daniel (green) and Moses (blue). Competition between the houses takes place in the form of interhouse activities like quizzing, debating, athletics, music, and elocution.
Head Boy & Head Girl
The present Head Boy is Thambou Singh and the Head Girl is Namita Gupta.
Activities and awards
The school is host to 'Expressions', an inter school carnival held every November; where best of the schools from around NCR participate to prove their mettle in the field of art (English,music,painting,elocution).
Recently the school won the Roma Deb Rolling Trophy at Cambridge School, Gr. Noida which followed a tremendous effort at Image 2008 in Cambridge School, Noida. At Image 2008, the school won the 1st Prize in East Meets West (a music competition) and the 2nd Prize in a Group dance effort and two students came back with the third prize in a News Reporting Competition.
The School is also actively involved in sports and hosts the W.C Memorial Football Meet every year, which is supposed to be the most happening football tournament in Gr.Noida.
Annual Day 2008
Ali Baba - a muscial was the main event of the Annual Day Celebrations 2008. Based on The Famous tale from Alf Layla, the play was directed by Mrs. Rina Thadani, the then HOD of the English Department. Held at the Nelson Auditorium at Somerville School, Noida - the eye catching event marked with some splendid performances surely set the stage on fire. The role of Ali Baba was played by Sanjay Ahlawat (IX), while his brother, Kasim's role was played by Ritwik Mallik (IX). Fatima and Zubeida were played by Riya Garg and Arunima respectively. Shriya Garg too did A Wonderful job as Morgina. The brevity of the entire thing captivated the audience; so did the fact that all the dialogues said on stage were actually dubbed by narrators back stage.
There were performances by The INDIAN and the Western Music Choir and AR Rahman's famous composition 'Khwaja mere Khwaja' was the title track for the play.
CBSE Boards 2009
In the CBSE Examinations 2009, Arnesh Mazumdar top scored with 96% in the 10th standards while ex-headgirl, Arunima Singh topped with 92% in the 12th Boards.
Lott Carey Baptist Mission
The Lott Carey Baptist Mission in India, affiliated to the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, U.S.A., has been working among the Leprosy patients in and around Delhi by providing medical relief, training them for various jobs and providing education to their children from 1947 onwards. The Society was registered in November 1962. Over the years, these services have also been extended to other poor, needy and under-privileged people of the area. The Mission has also established and administers exemplary schools to provide value-based education to all children regardless of their caste, creed or religion. The Headquarters of the Mission in India is at 5, Ansari road, Daryaganj, New Delhi- 110 002.
Sister Schools
There are three other sister schools located all over NCR. Somerville School (Darya Ganj), Somerville School (Vasundhara Enclave) and Somerville School (Noida). These schools too have set unparalleled educational standards over the years.