Welham Girls' School, Dehradun

Overview

A realisation of the vision of Miss H. S. Oliphant, Welham Girls’ School, Dehradun was promoted with the objective of offering equal educational opportunities to young Indian women in independent India. Affiliated with the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE), New Delhi, Welham Girls’ School offers contemporary boarding school education rooted in Indian culture and traditions to class VI-XII girls.

The Welham Girls’ community has grown from ten girls in 1957 to its current strength of 550 girls. The alumnae of the school have carved a niche for themselves globally and yet the spirit to ‘give and not count the cost’ remains unchanged.

Campus

Sited on a 12.5-acre meticulously landscaped campus, Welham Girls’ School hosts contemporary academic infrastructure including 29 classrooms equipped with ICT teaching-learning facilities, 10 state-of-the-art, well-equipped laboratories and a well stocked library, among others. The school promotes inquiry-based learning with the laboratories providing ample opportunities and space for conducting experiments and forming hypothesis and making inferences. Students use computers in the labs to extrapolate their observations.

Committed to the holistic development of students, the school management has invested generously in an enabling infrastructure for sports and co-curricular curricular education. The impressive sports infrastructure includes facilities for aerobics, athletics, badminton, basketball, chess, hockey, karate, lawn tennis, table tennis, swimming among others.

Academics

Affiliated with Delhi based CISCE, Welham Girls’ School follows a student-centred pedagogy and emphasises on providing a hands-on learning experience to the students through field trips, live experiments, cross-curricular blended learning, research work and presentations. The school curriculum is designed to equip children with creative and critical thinking skills within a holistic environment.

The school also follows flipped classroom teaching wherein the students are encouraged to study the theoretical concepts before-hand and use the time in classroom for discussion and to sharpen their insights. The flipped classroom intentionally shifts instruction to a learner-centred model in which class time explores topics in greater depth and creates meaningful learning opportunities, while educational technologies such as online videos are used to ‘deliver content’ outside of the classroom.

Extracurricular activities

Committed to the well rounded development of students, the school offers a rich menu of extracurricular activities including instrumental music (sitar, tabla, guitar, drums, piano), vocal music, debating, dramatics, pottery, quizzing, student exchange programmes, SUPW, MUN and interest clubs such French Club, Spanish Club, EVS Club, among others.

Head of Institute

Vibha Kapoor

General Information

Min Fee
675000

Max Fee
675000

Admission Age
10.5

Teacher Student Ratio
1:10

Library
Yes

Transportation
N/A

Student Mix
Girls

No of Students
548

Campus Size
12.5 acres

Labs
Yes

Internet Wi-Fi
Yes

Sports
Aerobics, athletics, badminton, basketball, chess, hockey, karate, lawn tennis, table tennis, swimming

Admission

Admissions are offered in classes VI, VII and XI only, subject to the availability of seats. The lower age limit is 10.5 years on April 1 of the year of admission in class VI. Similarly, correlation of age and class to which admission is sought is an essential requirement.

An application for registration is the first stage of the admission process. A registration fee must be sent along with the filled-in application form. A written entrance examination is conducted followed by a round of interaction for the shortlisted students.

Fees

(For academic session 2019-2020)

School Fees Rs. 6,75,000/-

Admission Fees Rs. 50,000/- (at the time of admission)

Security Deposit Rs. 3,37,500/- (refundable/adjustable)

Imprest Deposit Rs. 40,000/-

Uniform Deposit Rs. 20,000/-

Registration Fees Rs. 20,000/-

Achievement

In the 2019 class XII board examination (ISC), the class average was 91.9 percent and two students secured #3 all-India rank by securing an aggregate of 99.25 percent.

In the 2019 class X board exam (ICSE) examination, 70 out of 80 students secured an aggregate of 90 percent and above and the class average was 93.5 percent.

ICSE and ISC results 2020:

Here are some of the achievements that stand out:

In ISC exams, the first position has been secured by Janhvi Chandra (O/400) with 99.50%. She has scored 100 marks in three subjects. The class average in ISC is 94%. 65 out of 76 students have scored above 90% and no one achieved below 80%.
In ICSE exams, Krisha Khanna stands first with 98.6% with 100 marks in 4 out of 6 subjects. The class average for class 10 is 93.5%. 74 out of 82 students have got above 90%.

Welham Girls’ School Summary of Indian School Certificate Examination ISC – 2020 (Class XII)
	ENG	OLIT	MAT	PHY	CHE	BIO	ECO	PSY	ACC	COM	HIS	PSC	CTS	ART	HIN	EVS	GEO	H.SC	Over all
Highest Marks	99	96	100	99	98	98	100	100	100	97	100	100	99	93	99	97	100	100	99.50
Average Marks	91.8	95.0	90.2	94.9	88.3	95.2	89.9	96.2	89.3	90.8	93.4	98.9	97.6	91.7	97.0	90.0	97.2	97.0	94.01
Count of Maximum Marks	1	2	9	2	1	3	3	2	1	1	6	14	4	2	1	1	1	2	1
≥95%	21	2	30	11	5	8	12	23	5	7	13	19	8	0	2	4	5	5	38
90 – 95 %	34	2	9	4	4	1	18	4	11	9	1	1	1	5	1	1	1	2	27
85 – 90 %	19	0	6	0	4	1	9	2	1	3	3	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	7
80 – 85 %	2	0	2	1	4	0	5	0	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
75 – 80 %	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
70 – 75 %	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
< 70 %	0	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Total no. of students	76	4	56	16	18	10	49	29	22	22	20	20	9	6	3	7	6	7	76


Welham Girls’ School Summary of Indian Certificate of Secondary Education ICSE – 2020 (Class X)
	ENG	HIN	HCG	MAT	SCI	EVS	HOM	IND	CTA	IMH	Yoga	Art	FRE	PED	Over All
Highest Marks	93	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	99	98	98	100	99	98.60
Average Marks	85.0	95.9	96.0	90.4	90.1	97.2	97.6	97.2	96.6	93.5	97.3	92.9	97.3	98.3	93.5
Count of Maximum Marks	6	4	9	6	1	3	2	5	4	1	1	1	1	3	1
> 95%	0	62	65	32	28	11	19	13	14	2	3	1	3	4	29
90 – 95 %	12	15	11	22	22	0	0	0	7	6	0	8	1	0	45
85 – 90 %	37	4	5	14	5	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
80 – 85 %	23	1	0	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
75 – 80 %	7	0	0	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
70 – 75 %	3	0	1	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
< 70 %	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total Number of Students	82	82	82	82	70	12	19	14	21	8	3	9	4	4	82

Welham Girls’ School Achievements 2023-24

Academic:

Results and averages will be shared once the Council releases the ISC and ICSE results.

Co-curricular:

WGS received World Leading Schools Association’s Cross-Cultural Leadership Programme’s ‘School of the Year award’ and student distinctions. Notably, Welham Girls’ School distinguished itself as the only institution where all participating students successfully submitted high-quality projects, earning praise from Owen Moelwyn-Hughes, WLSA’s Director of Global Student Affairs and Tony Little, former Headmaster of Eton and President of WLSA. Four students out of the 5 bestowed with the highest honor, ‘Distinctions,’ were from Welham Girls’ School.
11 students participated in the online CCLP MINI-INDABA session organized by WLSA. The participants engaged in interactive discussions with students from across the globe, including countries like the USA, Japan, South Africa, and UAE.
Six students from Classes 8, 9 and 11, participated in an inter-school robotics competition organized by Maa Anandmayee Memorial School, in association with AFS India. The event featured 3 competitions – Robo Race, Line Follower, and a Science Exhibition. Our school won the overall Winner trophy.
Three students and teacher mentor represented Welham Girls’ School at the prestigious Green Your School grant 2023-2024. Team Welham was one of the top 5 runner up schools across India to have won the grant. The school shall implement the green ideas of the team in school with the grant money of Rs. 1.5 lakh.
Three students participated in the prestigious Young Creators League 2024 – Grand Exhibition in January. The team designed an innovative fire robot prototype, codenamed IT Elites .
Three students participated in the Reel to Real Competition as part of the tGelf Harmony 2023 event. The students made a 5-minute fiction film: Logged Out on the topic ‘The Sociology of Social Media’, The students were amongst the top 15 school teams in the national finals and were adjudicated the Second Runner’s Up.

Sports:

53 students participated in the 75^thDistrict Athletic Meet-2023 on 4^th and 5^th November, 2023. The team won 10 Gold medals, 21 Silver medals and 13 Bronze medals in the Meet. The team also won U-14, U-18 & U-20 Team Championship and brought home the Overall Trophy.
The school’s swimming team of 21 members participated in the CISCE Regional Swimming Competition at All Saints College Nainital on 1^st and 2^nd August,2023. A total of 7 Zones participated in competition and we took part in 54 events in all categories and bagged a total of 47 medals -17 Gold, 14 Silver & 16 Bronze.
The school’s contingent of 3 junior and 5 senior yoga students participated in the CISCE zonal Yoga competition and secured the third position in the UP & UK zone.
15 students from Welham Girls’ School participated in the FALCON – 1 Inter School Badminton Tournament 2023. The team put up a feisty game and won 21 medals and three trophies.
Aatree Maheshwari won a Silver Medal at the 3rd West Zone Karate Championship 2023 held in Goa. Aatree won the medal in the 59 kg, 16 to 17-year category.
Griva Balani of Class 7 won a silver medal in the 12 to 13 years – 45 kg category at the 18^th ISKU International Karate Cup, held in Gujarat. The event was of a global scale with over 600 delegates from 8 countries.
Class VII student, JheelRathore, won one Gold Medal in the Under-13 Individual category and one Bronze medal in the Under-19 Team event at the Uttarakhand State Squash Championship-2023.
A group of 12 students travelled to Japan to participate in the Round Square International Sports Collaboration (Basketball) Programme. The event was not a competition. However, it is important to note that our team won several matches against the Japanese school teams.

Extra-curricular:

Five students won top positions at the National Cooking Competition hosted by The Heritage School, Udaipur! The 5 students were among the top 15 finalists from across India. Shanvi Mittal won The Golden Chef Award and was the overall winner of the event. She was awarded a cheque of Rs. 10,000/- and a Gold medal.
10 students and the school swimming coach attended the Life Saving and First Aid Course organized by the Rashtriya Life Saving Society (RLSS) at The Doon School. Over the course of six days, the students learnt various lifeguarding skills such as performing CPR, lifting an injured patient, attending to various types of water emergencies and rescue drowning victims.
The school hosted the ‘Arangetram’ ceremony for two of its Class 12 students – Samriddhi and Meenal Goel – disciples of Smt. C.K. Rajalakshmi and Smt. Satyapriya Iyer.

Internationalism:

Over 15 international trips in the last year to countries such as Morocco, Tanzania, New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam, Japan, France, Romania, Kenya as part of Round Square conferences as well as cultural immersion programmes.
Four students attend Inter-Cultural Conference at Groton, USA.
Four students visited The Downe House, UK and The Groton School, USA, as part of the school exchange relationship between the two schools.
31 students represented Welham Girls’ School at the global round of the World Scholars’ Cup, held in London. The students returned enriched with learning, a lifetime of memories, and an impressive tally of medals – 94 Gold and 102 Silver medals.
In the last one, our students have participated in over 30 online and offline Round Square events.

Community Service

Welham Girls’ School co-hosted the 10th edition of the Nanhi Chhaan National School Essay Contest 2023 in September. The Nanhi Chhaan Foundation is a not-for-profit organization, set up with the objective of addressing the adverse gender ratio (and women’s empowerment), preservation of trees (and environment protection) and lack of inter-faith harmony (promote secularism and saving humanity).

The brainschild of three Welhamites, ‘Rooh’, a social service project was ideated, planned and executed in a collaboration manner with students of The Doon School and Welham Boys’ School. The project aimed at fostering a strong connection between the academic community and the local farming community, creating awareness about sustainable agriculture practices, and inculcating among the students a deep appreciation for nature and its processes.

10 students initiated Team Urja, a social service project inspired by Round Square ideals, where they visited AASRAA Girls Shelter Home. Our students interacted with the girls living in the shelter and engaged with them through craft and art-related activities such as Coffee Painting, quilling, crocheting, making friendship bands, and bead jewellery.

Collaboration with Bajaj Institute of Learning for the Deaf to teach Sign Language to WGS students.

Six students participated in the Round Square Event (Deoli Service Project) 2023 at Bharatpur, Rajasthan. The students participated in various activities such as constructing toilets for women, stool weaving, and painting the walls of the village school. They also carried out a cleanliness drive in Deoli village by collecting garbage from the streets and educating the villagers about the importance of sanitation and hygiene.

In the last one year, the school students raised a total of Rs. 3,03,892/- as part of several social service initiatives such as sale of recycled uniform, Oorja project, Zephyr project, bake sales, etc. The amount is reinvested for SUPW initiatives and donations to NGOs.