The Debating Society
Founded 1976. Meets Friday, motions posted Monday.
School life
More than a school
Four houses, eleven societies, a cross-country course along the southern Lalitpur ridge, and a magazine that has appeared every Chaitra since 1977.
Around campus
Life at Kanchenjunga Collegiate School
Through the year
The college calendar
Founder’s Day
The choir, the magazine, the prizes and the reading of the leavers, every Chaitra in the main hall.
Inter-house sports
Two days of athletics in Mangsir and the eight-kilometre cross-country along the southern ridge.
The Ashad exhibition
The Science Society opens the three laboratories and the observatory to the district.
The Friday debate
Motions posted Monday, argued Friday — every week since 1976.
Get involved
Societies of the college
The Literary Society
Publishes the college magazine each Chaitra, in Nepali and English.
The Science Society
Runs the observatory evenings and the Ashad exhibition.
The Choir
Sings at Founder’s Day, prize giving and the leavers’ service.
Athletics
Track, cross-country and the inter-house sports in Mangsir.
The Geographical Society
Field expeditions across the Bagmati valley and Shivapuri hills each Kartik.
Student voices
In their words
“I came in Grade 6 knowing nobody. By Ashad I was in Kumbhakarna house, on the debating side, and unable to walk across the quadrangle without being stopped.”
Proud moments
Honours of the college
- 2082 B.S.
Kathmandu Valley Interschool Debating Shield
Won for the fourth time in six years, arguing the opposition in the final.
- 2081 B.S.
First in Lalitpur district, SEE
Pema Sherpa, GPA 4.00.
- 2080 B.S.
National science olympiad medals
Two silver and one bronze in physics and chemistry.
- 2078 B.S.
Heritage schools award
For the restoration of the 1974 hall, funded entirely by alumni.