Pastoral Care at AVS

The children at AVS are nestled under the safe abode of Houses; a true testimony of Residential School experience. The eight Houses at AVS, borrow their names from the well-known tributaries of the mighty Brahmaputra, to attach the neighboring flavor of the North-East. Each department, Boys’ and Girls, are allotted four Houses each which are captained by the Housemasters or Housemistresses and the Matrons, administratively. The real pilots of the Houses are the House Captain and the Prefects who, in collaboration with the HSMs, run the daily operation of the Boarding system. The distinctive mark of a true House Spirit is the House Color, flaunted flamboyantly by the Brother-Sister Houses.

A miniature of cosmos, the AVS community boasts of their top-quality pastoral care department that, indeed, earns the School, the coveted, No-1 Co-educational Boarding School in the North East of India.

For pupils of classes 5 to 12 there are 8 boarding houses. Four of these are for boys and four of these are for girls. The houses are named after the tributaries of the Brahmaputra river and are clubbed together as brother and sister houses for inter house events.

Each house is under the care of two Housemasters or Housemistresses. Pupils of class 5 to 8 are under the purview of Housemistress/ Housemaster ‘B’ and pupils of class 9 to 12 are under the purview of Housemistress/ Housemaster ‘A’. There are tutors attached to the houses  who support the pastoral heads.

The Brother / Sister House combinations are:- 

In addition to the 8 boarding houses, the 9th house is ‘Tihu’ which houses pupils from Classes 5 to 8 (only girls).