Mastermind School

Mastermind School is a school in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It offers English-medium education to students from play group age to grade 12, leading to the GCE O-Level and A-Level examinations, held under the University of London External System and the Edexcel examination board. The main buildings are located in Dhanmondi, with a branch in Uttara. As of 2007, the school's principal is Syed Fakhruddin Ahmed, who is also the senior physics teacher at the school. The school has over 3000 students, and 300 teaching staff. The school also has a Debating Society, Sports Club, a Newsletter Club and a Community Service Club. ^[1] It runs on the British Curriculum (GCE). It is a leading school of Dhaka City. The students of Mastermind have shown excellent progress, in home and abroad alike. As of August 2011, Mastermind School won "The Most Versatile School" award at the Biotechnology Fest, Hosted by City Montessory School, in Lucknow, India.

Mastermind School provides a wide range of extra-curricular activities, among which Debating and Community Service are the most popular. The school clubs are run by an executive committee, carefully selected for each club.

Every year the Mastermind Community Service Club (MMCSC) takes part in various charitable works, including charity food sales, paying regular visits at Ashiq Foundation (a rehabilitation centre for under-privileged cancer-affected children), collection of winter clothes for charity distribution, a blood donation camp, etc.

Mastermind Debating Society (MMDS) marks among the most successful school debate clubs in Dhaka and was recently ranked as the number one English school debate club of Bangladesh. On February 10, 2011, MMDS hosted a national championship within its own campus, with the participation of 48 teams. MMDS also participates in a range of various international debate competitions. In July 2011, Team Mastermind was ranked among the top-16 teams at the Asians Schools Debate Championship, at Seoul. As of August 2011, MMDS got the honourable mention for debate at CMS, Lucknow, for a Biotechnology festival. The year of 2011 saw MMDS reaching the Grand Finale of every domestic debate competition and having at least two of its debaters ranking among the top-5 national debaters at every tournament. The cost of both domestic and international competitions are entirely financed by the school itself.

Mastermind School is also immensely popular for hosting one of the largest school Pohela Boishakh Mela (Bengali New Year Festival) at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre and a spectacular graduation ceremony to bid farewell to its graduates at BICC on 14 and 13 April respectively, every year.

References

1. ^ The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 156