BAF Shaheen College Chattogram

BAF Shaheen College Chattogram (Bengali: বিএএফ শাহীন কলেজ চট্টগ্রাম) is a school and college in Chattogram, Bangladesh. It is situated at Bangladesh Air Force base Zhahurul Haque. It is one of the seven BAF Shaheen Colleges operated by the Bangladesh Air Force.

BAF Shaheen College Chattogram
বিএএফ শাহীন কলেজ চট্টগ্রাম
BAF Shaheen College Chattogram front view
Location
Patenga Thana, Chattogram

Bangladesh
Coordinates22.2655°N 91.8149°E / 22.2655; 91.8149
Information
TypeSchool & College
Mottoশিক্ষা সংযম শৃংখলা
(Education- Restraint- Discipline)
Established1978 (1978)
School districtChattogram
PrincipalGroup Captain Wasim Mustaque,BPP, psc, GD(P)
Grades1 to 12
Education systemNCTB
CampusUrban
Color(s)Blue and Burlywood

  

SloganProud to be Blue
SportsFootball, cricket
MascotEagle (Shaheen)
Websitebafsc.edu.bd

History

BAF Shaheen College Chattogram was established in 1978 by the Bangladesh Air Force. It added a higher secondary section in the 1985–86 academic year. In 2006, English-medium instruction in the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) curriculum was introduced for classes 2 through 5.[1]

Campus
Front view
BAF shaheen College new build campus (left) and its teachers quarter (right).

The college is located in the Bangladesh Air Force's Jahurul Haque Base in Chattogram,[2] in the airport area of Patenga Thana.[3]

It has a playground fields on its front and in the east side. It has a new building of five stories that is combined with the old building. Every year an inter shaheen football competition is held here.

Classrooms and others

BAF Shaheen College Chattogram has projector enabled classrooms. All new classrooms now has projectors installed. CCTV runs all over the campus.

BAFSC has a library in its 2nd floor run by Liberian and his assistant. There are four types of labs in BAFSC.They are computer, physics, chemistry and biology for both college and school level students. Generally teachers run the labs and helps students to do practical lessons on their subjects.

Teaching and other activities

Academics
  • Science
  • Commerce
  • Arts

Teaching type

BAFSC teaches with both boys and girls together . There are different sections in each class. Every section is named after the big and notable rivers of Bangladesh like Padma, Meghna, Jamuna, Karnaphuli, Madumati, Tista, etc. There are two types of curriculum right now in BAFSC, Bangla and English (National) Curriculum.

Cultural activities

For enriching the co-curricular activities, various clubs like Debate club, Recitation club, Music club, Drawing club, Spoken club, Spelling club, Mathematics club, Drama club, Sports and games club, Science club, Computer club, Literary association, Fine arts club etc are available in this institution. Besides, to flourish the latent talent of every individual student, the college arranges “Inter House wall magazine competition” in every four months and every year Shaheen College Souvenir “Shaheen” is published regularly. The institution is devoted in building up honest, ideal and conscious citizens of the country. Also BAFSC arrange cultural programs on national occasions and school reasons. On national occasions like Victory day, Independence day, International Mother Language Day etc. Every year BAFSC also arranges annual prize giving ceremony after the annual sports day . Many high-ranking officers of Bangladesh Air Force always attend the celebrations.

References
  1. "History". BAF Shaheen College Chattogram. Archived from the original on 9 June 2015.
  2. "Location & Directions". BAF Shaheen College Chattogram. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  3. "school list". Secondary and higher secondary education board. Archived from the original on 2014-11-05. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
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