Principal’s Message
DEAR MONTFORTIAN
DEAR MONTFORTIANI extend a warm welcome to you as you embark on your academic journey at Montfort School, Guwahati, whether you are a returning student or a new entrant. Renowned for Inclusive Education, Montfort is a hub of learning, growth, and discovery offering you varied opportunities to challenge yourself. Education is not just about acquiring knowledge but developing critical thinking skills, fostering creativity, and nurturing a lifelong love for learning. Explore diverse academic subjects and cultivate your passions in various areas of life. As you navigate through your daily activities, seek support and guidance from our experienced and dedicated faculty, who are committed to helping and supporting you in your quest for learning and personal growth.
We understand that balancing academics, co-curricular activities, and personal well-being can be tough. Therefore, prioritizing self-care is essential to achieve success in all areas of life. Find time for rest, relaxation, and activities that bring you lasting joy. It is important to pray at all times. We are confident that you will excel academically and contribute positively to our School community. This diary provides you and your parents/guardians with essential information about our expectations of student behaviour. Adherence to the rules and regulations, recommendations, and suggestions in this diary is crucial. It is essential to follow the good traditions of Montfort School while being mindful that this diary is not a comprehensive statement of all policies and procedures. The School may form new policies, rules, and regulations that may be applicable in specific circumstances.
We highly encourage parents and guardians to actively participate in their child’s education. We suggest that you read and become familiar with the School’s rules, guidelines, expected behaviour, and conduct that is required and understand the consequences of not following these rules and regulations. Please note that ignorance of these policies is not an excuse. We advise you to check your child’s diary regularly to monitor their progress in School. Do not hesitate to bring specific concerns or issues regarding your child to our notice.
Welcome one and all!
Bro. Principal
About the School:
Montfort School, Guwahati, started on 20th January 1996, to impart sound moral, social, and physical education, so as to turn out, not only good and useful citizens, but men of high principles, culture and refinement. In the year 2003 the school started imparting education and training to children with disabilities.
The school follows CBSE Curriculum.
The school is run by The Organization known as the Institute of Montfort Brothers of St. Gabriel. We give importance to the total development of the young. We aim at developing the body, mind, and spirit to the greatest extent in every child. we focus on inclusive education, where the blind, the deaf, and the slow learners. Our students excel in games and spots, and co-curricular activities apart from the regular curriculum.
The academic year begins in April and ends in March. The medium of instruction is English and follows the CBSE syllabus. The School is a co-educational institution. It has attached hostels for Boys and Girls.
1. LOCATION
Montfort School is located at a distance of about 18 km from Guwahati railway station and 90 km away from Shillong by the side of G.S. Road.
2. OUR VISION
Montfortians aim to bring out responsible, Patriotic, Secular, and spiritual persons committed to the welfare of every human being. We strive to form persons who are dedicated to promoting justice, peace, and love in the World.
3. OUR MISSION
- To create visionaries for the nation.
- To bring out the innate talents and promote holistic growth in the children.
- To inculcate love of God and love for neighbor in every child.
- Our Motto: LEAD KINDLY LIGHT.
The Founder of Montfort School, Guwahati:
Rev. Bro. Martin Joseph SG, founded the School on 20th January 1996. Seeing the social environment, and the challenges many people faced in the areas, which included a high dropout rate among the youth, absence of adequate schools, poverty, remoteness of the place, etc, Bro, Joseph, felt the need to start a school to provide quality education to the people of Assam in general, and most importantly to the poor families who could not provide education to their children due to financial constraints and the absence of adequate schools in and around the area. With great zeal and enthusiasm, Bro. Joseph began the work with much difficulty. Despite the numerous challenges he faced, nothing could deter him from fulfilling his dream of constructing a school. With blood, sweat, and tears, the school construction was completed. Thanks to the unstinting and inexplicable work of Bro, Joseph, Montfort School was finally born. He was the first principal of the school.
Bro. Joseph belongs to the Society of Montfort Brothers of St. Garbiel. Till his last breath, he was committed to serving the people; providing quality education, empowering women and youth, and spreading the joy of the gospel to the people, in words and deeds. We are grateful to Bro, Joseph for all he had done for the school and the people living in and around the area. May he bless us from above.
Who we are?
“TOTAL EDUCATION’ WHICH IMPLIES A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO EDUCATION AND WHICH IS CONCERNED WITH THE TOTAL DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDIVIDUAL AS A PERSON, IS THE QUINTESSENCE OF MONTFORTIAN EDUCATION. IT AIMS AT DEVELOPING THE BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT TO THE GREAT EXTENT “.
Society of Montfort Brothers of St. Garbiel, who manage these institutions were found by St. Louis Marie De Montfort in France in 1705. Since then, it has spread to thirty countries and is engaged in the mission of education. ‘Education’ a very wide connection. The organization therefore caters to the educational needs of not only children and youth in normal academic school but also imparts technical education, educational of deaf, the dumb and the blind, the physically and mentally handicapped and engages in village uplift and social works especially among the down trodden and the marginalized. Montfortian education chooses for the total development of the young. They are helped to discover their God given talents and work towards their fullest development in order to place them at the service of the society. It seeks to enable the young to search for the truth by training them to analyse reality, from critical judgments, search for solutions and work out a synthesis.
History: Louis was born on January 31st, 1673, in BRITTANY, in a small town called Montfort situated in Northern part of France. He was baptised the following day and wisely entrusted for 2 years to a wet nurse known as Mother Andre. Meanwhile the whole family had shifted to a new property not far away.He spent the next ten years there. He proved helpful to his younger brothers and sisters and a comfort to his mother.From his early childhood he was attracted towards Mary the Mother of Jesus. Aged 12, he was sent to Rennes to study at a college run by Jesuits. Studious and intelligent, he topped all his classes. He did not blend well with his fellow students, his ways and life-styles being entirely different from them. He suffered much at their hands but he was in the good books of his professors.
Louis was 18 when he felt God was calling him to be a priest. He then took to the study of theology. At 19, help was promised towards his admission to St. Sulpice Seminary, in Paris. He bade farewell to his people and chose to walk the whole distance- 350 Km. On his way, he gave to one beggar whatever money he had; to another his clothing and then knelt down vowing never to own anything in this world for himself. He reached Paris exhausted and in rags. Times were hard in every respect and trials countless. Only his trust in God’s Providence enabled him to overcome them all. He was not understood by his superiors who tested the genuineness of his vocation harshly. Nevertheless, at the age of 27 he was ordained a priest on June 5th, 1700. During the next 16 years of his life, Louis(we shall now call him Montfort) preached a large number of missions in many parishes and dioceses. He was never a parish priest and only for short periods was he attached himself to a group or Institutions such as hospitals. He was strong, tall, daring, extremely zealous.
Shared his life, food, shelter with the poor,the sick and the beggars, ever at their service, taking at all times the whole Gospel both literally and in spirit. When invited for a dinner by his parents, he reached there with the beggars and poor people of the town. He insisted that he will sit at the banquet only with them.He would carry a dying man late at night and knock at the door of a missionary home and shout “Open to Jesus Christ.”
Rev. Bro. Maria Soosai, the former principal of Montfort School, was appointed as the new provincial of the society.
Montfort School, Guwahati; celebrates the 78th Independence Day
15th AUGUST, 2024
The Principals of the School
