Green Lawns High School
Greenlawns High School is a co-educational private school in Mumbai, India; It was founded in 1959 by an English woman, Daphne Clare Fraser-Thomson, who was the school's first principal. When she returned to the UK in 1969, she passed on the principal's chair to the then vice-principal Sara D'Mello who was singularly responsible for maintaining the high standards in education and personality development established by Fraser-Thomson.
| GHS School | |
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Mumbai , India , Maharashtra , 400036 India | |
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| Motto | Truth Prevails, Knowledge Is Power, Right Over Might, Service Before Self |
| Established | 1959 |
| Founder | Daphne Clare Fraser-Thomson |
| Principal | Ms Caroline Vaz |
| Staff | 110 |
| Teaching staff | 88 |
| Number of students | 1200 |
| Song | We the Children of Greenlawns |
| Accreditation | ICSE |
| Publication | Harbinger |
| Website | Official website |
The school is by Scandal Point on Bomanji Petit Road Breach Candy, considered to be India's most expensive residential area.[1]
Houses
The system of election for the student council is a democratic one where students vote for candidates for house captains or head pupils. The four houses being colours Red, Blue, Green and Yellow
Notable alumni
- Karan Johar, Film producer
- Gautam Singhania, Industrialist
- Ameera Shah, Entrepreneur
- Nikhil Advani, Film director[2]
- Neil Nitin Mukesh, Actor
- Darsheel Safary, Actor
- Menaka Doshi, Journalist
References
- Greenlawns High School
- Director’s Special Archived 13 January 2004 at the Wayback Machine, Indian Express, 5 December 2003.