Himalaya International Model School (HIMS)

Himalaya International Model Higher Secondary School (HIMS) has web site http://www.himsschool.com.
The postal address is Narayantar, Jorpati (near Boudha), Kathmandu.

HIMS is a private school which from the beginning offered classes from nursery to Class X. Later on the school upgraded to the 10+2 stage.

The school offers full boarding and day boarding to its students.

The motto of the school is: "Inspiring a sense of universal responsibility".

Some details taken from the prospectus:

- Teacher-students ratio is kept at 1:30, on average,

- Teachers and other staff of HIMS are not allowed to use corporal punishment,

- Free tuition for students who have failed in the exams is arranged after the usual class hours,

- The school manages to have a minimum of 200 actual teaching days in an academic session. Friday is a half and Saturday is a full holiday. There is nearly one month Dashain/Tihar holidays, one month winter holidays and 12 to 15 days summer holidays.

- Class hours are:
in summer: 09:00 - 16:15 (March 1 - October 31)
in winter: 09:30 - 16:05 (November 1 - February 28)

- HIMS offers optional Tibetan classes,

- Cultural education (music/dance, painting, excursions) and sports,

- HIMS has a modest but well maintained library and also subscribes to some of the leading dailies and periodicals,

- there is a swimming pool,

- HIMS as its own bakery,

- A bus service for day-boarders.

The following is taken from the foreword by headmistress Mrs. Jait Rai in the prospectus: "I firmly belief that education fails if it produces only a successful person. Education must endeavour to make a student a good human being and a responsible and contributing citizen".

From the annual school magazine 2005 - 2006

Here you find the fee structure for attending HIMS as a boarder and as a day-boarder. A disappointment is that you have to pay more than half the total for a year at the start of the academic year.