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Our Lady Queen Of The Missions School,Saltlake City,Kolkata is a higher secondary school located satellite township of Salt Lake City, Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. The school is an accredited examination centre for the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE).It wasstarted on 1st august 1946 with 5 students and today it has grown into a full-fledged ICSE & ISC School with its branch in Saltlake. The Foundation stone of the Our Lady Queen Of The Missions School in Saltlake was laid on 9th February 1997 and the school started functioning in 2001. Today it has grown into a full-fledged school,forming the destiny of more than 2000 girls in the city. The school is recognised by the Education Department of West Bengal and is affliated to CISCE Board,New Delhi

This School is run by the Sisters of THE CONGREGATION OF THE LADY OF THE MISSIONS, founded in Lyons,France by Euphraise Barbier on 25th December in 1861.Adèle-Euphrasie Barbier (known in religious life as Marie du Coeur de Jésus "Mary of the Heart of Jesus") was born on 4 January 1829, in Caen, France into an industrious lower middle class family. It was a family in which a strong Catholic faith was important, and as a young girl, Euphrasie appreciated her mother Jeanne's deep and vibrant faith, and its importance for their family. The example of her father Louis, a shoemaker, taught Euphrasie the importance of a job well done and honestly completed.Euphrasie was one of those who yearned to be a foreign missionary. This was not surprising as her father had been born in Guadeloupe, a French colony in the Caribbean Sea. No doubt the young Euphrasie would have been fascinated by stories of Guadeloupe. Furthermore French bishops from distant missions would speak in parishes about their work when they returned home. In 1848 Euphrasie entered a new missionary institute known as the Sisters of Calvary which had been established at Cuves some three years earlier. Euphrasie believed that this congregation would allow her to fulfil her hopes of becoming a foreign missionary. In 1851 she left for London. However, her hopes of being a foreign missionary were frustrated by the immediate and real apostolic needs that the increasing number of Irish Catholic immigrants fleeing from the horrors of the Irish potato famine meant.Euphrasie willingly involved herself in the life of the young congregation but she still yearned to be a foreign missionary. As the 1850s drew to a close, it was becoming clearer to Euphrasie through prayer and in dialogue with appropriate advisers that she should leave the Sisters of Calvary and return to France where the possibility of involvement with the Marist Fathers in their mission in Oceania looked promising.Thus in December 1861 a new congregation, Institute de Notre Dame des Missions was born in Lyon with the express but not exclusive aim of working in the foreign missions. As Euphrasie wrote: [The Sisters'] "special end is to aid humbly and to the best of their ability to extend the Kingdom of God in souls by devoting themselves to the instruction and Christian education of children and women, above all in infidel and non-Catholic countries" (Constitutions of the Daughters of Notre Dame des Missions #2).

Our Lady Queen Of The Missions School is a English medium, Girl's school catering for the upliftment of the girls irrespective of caste,creed and religion. Indian classical Dances, Music, Art and physical training are part of the school curriculum. Extra-curricular activities as Debate, Drama, Games, Quiz, Music, Arts etc are compulsory.

Address- 260A, HB block Sector III Salt Lake City, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, 700106, India Coordinates	22.573574°N 88.41689°E

School type	Girls Higher Secondary School Established	1861/12/25 Founded  	Euphrasie Barbier School board	ICSE and ISC Session	       April to March Principal	Sr. Shirley Sebastian Principal	Sr. Joicy Madissery Classes	       Nursery to 12 Hours in school day	Approx. 6hrs Classrooms	Big airy classes Houses	       4 houses Schol anthem   Queen of the Missions let its banner fly high Bless us we pray. O-lord we pray to you; With virtues dear to younand knowledge clear and true As students of this school we love it True We pledge before you the ideals of our youth The dreams of womanhood, we shall make true. As we gather on this day. In a very special way. We all sincerely say, Long live our School, Queen Of the Missions...

Uniform        Blue wrap skirts, white blouse without pocket,School tie, badge, Black Ballerina shoes, white socks. A navy blue cardigan with school emblem may be worn in winter.