About Us

Way back in 1954, the then State Government took initiative for setting up of a Nursery School under Montessori system of Education. With the objective in view, three teachers namely Smt. Maya Chakraborty, Smt. Lalita Bose and Smt. Gita Datta were sent to Delhi for undergoing Montessori training. First batch of children were enrolled in July, 1954 and the school was provided with temporary accommodation in the old hostel of Maharani Tulshibati Girls H.S. School, located opposite to present Press-Club. In 1956 the school was shifted to its present location at Officers Qtrs.

At that time the Headmistress of the School was Smt. Sutapa Banerjee. Soon the Nursery School, Shishu Bihar became a centre of attraction. With a view to developing the school as a centre of excellence dedicated teachers were brought from different parts within and outside of the state. Among them the induction of Miss Arati Patra by Dr. G.N. Chatterjee, the then Director of Education and an eminent Educationist was a landmark. Miss Patra, with her outstanding qualities and devotion nurtured and developed Shishu Bihar from its infancy. Since children are as beautiful and sacred as flowers, she considered Shishu Bihar as garden full of blooming children.

At the initial stage Shishu Bihar was a small school with limited number of students and teachers just like a family. Students had no particular uniform as Miss Patra thought the school uniform was a binding, posing a hindrance to the all round development of little children. She looked upon them as coloured butterflies moving about here and there in the school premises. Much later in 1981 school uniform was introduced.