Barnes School
Both schools follow the ICSE curriculum and use the same shield as a badge or logo, Barnes in blue and Christ Church in green.
Richard Cobbe was appointed chaplain to the British East India Company factory at Bombay in colonial India, he founded, in 1718, a small free school where twelve poor boys were housed, clothed, fed and educated by one master.
Archdeacon George Barnes, realised that the charity school could not meet the needs of hundreds of children then without any education.
Plans, initiated by Sir Reginald Spence and Mr Haig-Brown, to move the boarding part of the schools away from Mumbai to the cooler and healthier Deccan Plateau began to take shape.
On 17 November 1923 Sir George Lloyd laid the foundation stone of Evans Hall.
It is still primarily a place where the poor Anglo-Indian children of the Anglican and other Protestant Churches can be given education.
The memory of founders and benefactors is preserved in the names of the buildings: Barnes, Candy, Spence, Haig-Brown, Lloyd.
Barnes has a campus of 265 acres (1.07 km2), has seven playing fields and an expanse of plains and forests surrounding it.
W. R. Coles, Principal from 1934 to 1968, wrote of Barnes during the war years: Those were the days of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany.
From a small peacetime garrison of two or three hundred, Devlali and the surrounding area eventually became an enormous Transit Camp holding at its maximum 70,000 men.
The Military Hospital expanded fivefold to deal with the mounting toll of wounded men sent back from the fighting areas.
Of the civilians from Rangoon and other Burmese towns who managed to escape by air or ship or by trekking over the mountains, some came to Barnes – children and adults.
So at Barnes we set to dig trenches, erect blast walls, learn First Aid and undergo training in ARP (Air Raid Precautions).
At any hour of the day or night the Headmaster could be seen, and heard, cycling around the compound, blowing on a whistle.
Professional artistes from the stage and screen, organised by a Government agency, ENSA, were sent around the big troop centres.
One night a week till the canteen finally closed down at the end of 1947 a team of the staff of Barnes used to run it, first preparing food, and then serving it.
Our class-work suffered inevitably from lack of proper staff and also from the booming of guns practising on the ranges throughout the day and night.
Unluckily for the candidates who hoped to be excused from taking the examination, fresh single papers were flown over and the printing was done in India.
The disastrous dock fire and explosion in Bombay brought orphans to the school.
Three boys were killed by the explosion of a mortar shell which had been found just outside the boundary and which they were investigating at the rear of Candy Block.
The motto, in Latin, Accepto robore susgam can be translated, "I shall arise with the strength I have received."
