May Day celebrations St.Mary’s School Mt. Abu

How many of you celebrate May Day. Well I went to good ole SMS and found the boys busy as bees doing chores that normally would never be done at home. Even the teaching staff were there putting an all out effort at helping the boys. Now one might wonder what I’m getting at well it’s like this every year the working staff in all fields like the chief cooks, bottle washers, carpenters and overseers, etc get a holiday and go on a picnic as a bonus, this year they have gone to” Sundamata” a place close to Revdar . The teaching staff and school borders take over their jobs for the day.


Groups of boys along with the class teachers and Brothers busy themselves with brooms, pitchforks, dustbins and mops. The work is very well distributed among all present on the premises. One group takes over the kitchen, and prepares the food for the boys, the working staff and the workers. Another group busy themselves in cleaning up the premises, the compounds and the playing fields. The dormitory in charge the sisters and Sir Ivo get the boys to sweep and swab and get the junior and senior dormitories spic and span. I took a liberal walk through the school and I tell you it sure was a wonderful feeling to see the place so clean and well organized. The senior dorm was literally shining with Ivor and his class X boys having done an astonishing job.

I’m posting some pictures of the various activities that I happened to witness. The boys and staff who partake in this ritual every year learn the value of humility, teamwork and that no work is menial. This enables students and staff to build healthy and lifelong relationships with each other, and experience close accountability. Three Cheers to the Marians !!

The Group of Students and staff inthe kitchen

Lunch time serving the students

Boys helping out

Mopping the senior dorm

Missed most of the action this the fag end of the cleaning

Sir Ivo n the class X boys n a shining dorm

For once no toe jam stench

Relaxing after a job well done

Thats the way aha aha

In action small dorm

Are the brooms accounted for?

Class X boy in action

Relaxing

Here take this I'm done

Punished outside the ref

Its more fun posing it takes our mind of lunch

When will you have lunch? After all have finished, we are punished for

Yapping too much

Recent ex-students at the back

Lower Kodhra dam /school dam

Only 25 feet remaining

Hey look carefully  Gunda Pitch exposed