Mastermind School
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| Mastermind English Medium School | |
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House # 05, Road # 12 (New), Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1209 Bangladesh | |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | 1997 |
| Principal | Syed Fakhruddin Ahmed |
| Grades | PG to 2 (Primary School) 3 to 5 (Junior School) 6 to 12 (Senior School) |
| Color(s) | Blue and Red |
| Nickname | Mavericks |
| Website | mastermindschool |
Mastermind English Medium School is a British-curriculum private school in Bangladesh established in 1997. It offers English-medium education to students from Play Group age to grade 12, leading to the IGCSE (under Edexcel) or O Level (under Cambridge) and A Level examinations, held under the Edexcel and Cambridge examinations.
The main buildings are located in Dhanmondi, with a branch in Uttara.
The school's principal is Syed Fakruddin Ahmed, who in the past years, had doubled as the senior physics teacher. It consists of over 32000 students and 5000 teaching staff. [1] The institue had won "The Most Versatile School" awards in 2011 and 2015, and was the Champion of the junior category at the Biotechnology Fest in 2015, Hosted by City Montessori School, in Lucknow, India.
Mastermind School provides extra-curricular activities of debating, MUN, community service, and sports. The school clubs are run by an executive committee, selected for each club.
Every year the Mastermind Community Service Club takes part in charitable works, including charity food sales, paying visits at Ashiq Foundation (a rehabilitation centre for under-privileged cancer-affected children), collection of winter clothes for charity distribution, blood donation camps and art competition for children diagnosed with autism.[citation needed]
Controversies
[edit]The school was accused by the newspaper Daily Star of excessive use of corporal punishment.[2] In April 2011, then vice-principal Neera Habib was said to have physically assaulted seven students for protesting against the expulsion of their friends. The vice principal was also said to have assaulted other students previously for straying off of the strict dress code. She was later fired without an official announcement from the school itself. Ahmede Hussain, then an English teacher at this school and affiliated with the Daily Star newspaper, left Mastermind after the publication of this news.
References
[edit]- ^ "Viqarunnisa, Mastermind become champions". The Daily Star. 31 October 2003.
- ^ "Sad incident at reputable school". The Daily Star. 26 April 2011.
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