Sports and co-curricular
The School has always excelled at the Inter School Athletic Meet placing itself within the first five. Infrastructure is available to practice Football, Volleyball, Basketball, Cricket, Hard Court Tennis, Throwball, Kho-Kho, Shuttle Badminton and Table Tennis. Skating, Cross Country, Field Events and Track Events are practiced by students which helps them in keeping physically fit. Chess is also taught and students take part in competition enabling them to be mentally fit.
The school offers a wide range of opportunities for Co-curricular activities. The students are trained for athletics, gymnastics and Mass P.T. Trained and professional personnel impart coaching in swimming, rifle shooting and the other field games.
CO-CURRICULAR AMENITIES
Golf
The School is an institutional member of the Ooty Gymkhana Club and those students who know to play the game are taken to the golf courses every Sunday afternoon.
Rifle shooting
The students have training in rifle shooting three days a week and the club takes part in the inter school, district and state championships. A qualified instructor gives training. The club is equipped with standard weapons and a rifle range.
Riding
The school has a Riding club with 30 riding horses with connected infrastructure like stables, practice ring, jump show facilities, riding instructors and the like.
Photography
The School has a photography club equipped with a processing room. Interested students are taught photography and the developing, fixing and printing process. The evolving field of digital designing is also incorporated in the curriculum.
Bands
The school has separate and independent brass and pipe bands and they steal the limelight during the Founder's Day celebrations and other important State functions in the District. These units are administered and trained by professional band masters who have retired from the Defence Services. The students learn to play these instruments from Class IV.
Music
The Music club which, in addition to training the students in Western and Indian classical Music, trains selected students to take the examinations of The Trinity Guildhall College of Music, London. The Music Department gives highly specialized training in piano, recorder, violin, classical guitar, the trumpet, the euphonium and other wind and wood instruments. The Music Department is updated and modernized every academic year. The department has its own symphony and concert bands.
Dance
The Dance Club imparts training in classical as well as folk dances of India. The students display their talent during Founder's day celebration and every year awards are distributed to the best dancer.
Swimming
We have one centrally heated swimming pool in the senior campus and one international standard swimming pool with all modern facilities in the junior campus. Each student is allotted ninety minutes of training per week. Qualified staff impart training to the students and maintain operational facilities. We do have separate lady / gent staff to teach the girls and boys.
Mountaineering
The Mountaineering Institute, the only one of its kind in South India has been set up at school and technical training is imparted to the students of Std IV to XI. The training is given by instructors from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi.
Gymnastic cum sports Complex
Both campuses have well-equipped gymnasiums, each with facilities for conducting Table tennis and shuttle badminton tournaments. They have the most modern gym and multi gym equipments.
Campus Publications
One of the primary concerns of the academic life at school is to train the students of the senior classes to bring out the Annual Publications, which do reflect the quality of academic life in the campus.
The Shepherdian which is an annual feature, provides the total picture of the academic year. The annual highlights the most important functions in the school’s calendar - the Founder’s Day Celebrations; the co-curricular competitions and sports and games. It gives the details of the academic achievements of outgoing batches of students who have taken the Council’s and the UCLES’s Examinations. The Annual is sent to all the parents and guardians of the school, and is always available at the school office and reception.
The Alumni association of the school, which is becoming active as the years go by is bringing its own annual newsletters, 'The Flock' and ‘Bleat’. These publications are designed and printed at the press located in Coimbatore and which is a unit of the school.
Sea cadet corps
The Ootacamund unit of the Sea Cadet Corps is very close to completing the two decades of its existence. The unit has parades at school on alternative days during the week and their outward-bound activity consists of trekking and boat pulling. The Unit has a strength of 150. Selected boy cadets of the unit attend the annual training camp at the Seamanship School, INS Venduruthy, Cochin Naval Base, Southern Naval Command, Cochin and Mumbai, every year.
Duke of Edinburgh award
The School has a unit of the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, which prepares the students for the awards of the bronze, the silver and the gold medals. As a part of this scheme the students trek to Mudumalai Wild life Sanctuary and Mukuruti National park.
Clubs
The Interact Club is patronized by the Rotary Club of the Nilgiris West and the Club undertakes welfare projects in the District. The Interactors take part in the afforestation programme and they distribute clothes to deserving people in the district.
Other clubs are also quite active at school.
The other Clubs are the Philately club, the Art Club, the Current Affairs Club, the Literary Club, the Kennel Club, the Computer Graphics Club, the Nature Club, the Crafts Club and the Interact Club.
