Financial assistance sought

Dear OC, Trust all of you are doing well. We at  OCA,India have received a communication  from Mr.Simon Weale,Director,Bishop Cotton School requesting  OCA, India to kindly come forward and help Mr. Rajiv Mehrotra,the Bursar at Bishop Cotton School. Mr.Mehrotra has been diagnosed with Cancer the treatment for which  is expected to cost approximately 40 lacs.This […]

BCS 2022 Cricket : UK tour

Message from Mr. Simon Weale / BCS Director: Dear Old Cottonians, Plans are now well advanced for a BCS U15 cricket tour to the UK this summer from 8th-21st June 2022. We are just waiting for our visas. We are hoping to bring 33 boys on tour and to play a series of matches against […]

Full School photo after 78 years!

Click here for : Link from BCS Instagram page Click here for : The 1944 photo and interesting comments [Both these photos can be clicked for larger views]

The True Essence Of Nature Conservation by Bittu Sahgal [BCS class of 1963]

Let’s get BCS to take the lead to start a Nature-focused, India-wide, public Schools Initiative. Sanctuary Nature Foundation could do this at no cost to the school, or to the kids. We already run Kids for Tigers a one-million-strong network that looks upon tigers, elephants, leopards and what have you as metaphors for all of […]

BCS 163rd Founder’s Day / Live Facebook Event

We would like to invite you to join our 163rd Founder’s Day Live Facebook Event, either online at our BCS Facebook page, or in person at our BCS Heritage Campus, Shimla.  The event is being held on 28 July at 2pm in the Irwin Hall, Bishop Cotton School, Shimla, HP.. We are welcoming our Old […]

BCS, looking sharp!

BCS, geared to produce the next gen of Leaders. From the Chandigarh Tribune publication of 2nd April earlier this year:

School Song played on the Organ

Dear All, I am forwarding, as an attachment, the School song recently played on the organ in the Chapel. It is nice and it is different. Warmly Vijay [Khurana]

Message from Mr. Simon Weale / Director BCS

Dear Old Cottonians, I thought I would update you with news of life at school. The best thing is that we have pupils back in school.  Having ‘locked down’ last March, we were allowed to welcome back senior students from mid-February. There are now just over three hundred boys on the campus from Class VI […]

Vivek [Bonnie] Bhasin visits BCS

We were very happy to welcome back Old Cottonian, Captain Vivek (Bonnie) Bhasin who visited BCS to pass on some of his style and Sharper Edge tips to the X & XII classes and staff. He put on a very entertaining show in the Irwin Hall which we’re sure will help Cottonians in the big […]