Credit: Himachal Tonite news – Shimla, April 27 Brigadier Rohit Dutta, Group Commander, NCC HQ, Himachal Pradesh, Shimla and Col. D.R. Gargey Commanding Officer, Seven HP NCC, Shimla, visited Bishop Cotton School of capital Shimla on Wednesday to review the NCC activities and participated in an inspirational dialogue program with the students. Students, teachers and...Read More

What’s it all about? International Golfer and Old Cottonian Jeev Milkha Singh said, recently of his time at BCS; “Boarding school life is a special phase. It teaches you to be independent, to fend for yourself and if you make a mistake you have to learn to correct it yourself. It also teaches you determination...Read More

The Lefroy House Night, which was held at the beginning of April, started with joke. The opening had loud crashes from backstage, muffled sounds and the presenters announcing that the show would be cancelled! But of course, it was Saturday April 1st, and therefore ‘April Fool’s’ day. It was a fabulous show filled with so...Read More

Continuing our tradition of supporting cultural activities, motor expeditions and sports activities in the Shimla hills, 31 Parallel recently got involved with the Old Cottonians’ Association (Himachal Chapter) Golf Tournament. Several prominent local players, bureaucrats, defence personnel and Bishop Cotton School, Shimla alumni participated in the tournament held in the idyllic Naldehra Golf Course, one...Read More

The Major R.K. Von Goldstein Memorial Cricket Tournament Bishop Cotton School (BCS) A-team has won the 20th Goldstein Cricket Trophy at the heritage campus in Shimla in a hard-fought battle against Yadavindra Public School, Patiala (YPS) Patiala.  Chief Guest at the event was Brigadier Rohit Dutta, Group Commander, HP who handed out the trophies. In a thrilling...Read More

We congratulate Old Cottonian Justice Tarlok Singh Chauhan on his appointment as officiating Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court. We welcomed Justice Chauhan back to be our Speech Day guest here at Bishop Cotton School in 2021. He quoted this valuable message to Cottonians: ‘There’s not a single winner on earth that took it...Read More

Brilliant BCS boys participated in four events at the Inter-School Cultural Festival ‘Capta Caelum’, hosted by Wynberg-Allen School, Mussoorie on the 15th of April. Twenty two other top schools participated in the festival and our Cottonians were recognised for their skills. *Abhimanyu K (Fifth Form) won a trophy for the ‘Best Script’ in the Stand...Read More

Valuable lessons in mother nature for the whole school Bishop Cotton School, Shimla (BCS), which is celebrating its 164th birthday this year, has just taken the entire school out on wildlife trips to seven different states around India. (Tour dates: April 4-11th April 2023). This year’s theme for the school trips was wildlife and conservation...Read More

This week saw the Bishop Cotton School’s Wall Climbing finals on the second flat after weeks of training with our mountaineering coaches. In a gripping event which had the audience gasping in awe our real-life Cottonian spider-men were an impressive sight. Well done to all the participants but especially the Ibbetson and Lefroy teams who...Read More

This week saw the Bishop Cotton School’s Wall Climbing finals on the second flat after weeks of training with our mountaineering coaches. In a gripping event which had the audience gasping in awe our real-life Cottonian spider-men were an impressive sight. Well done to all the participants but especially the Ibbetson and Lefroy teams who...Read More