Student Life is an essential part of The Lyceum curriculum and the school seeks to inspire each student to realise his or her full potential and unique worth. As a result, a Lyceum education consists of far more than academic preparation and the conventional after-school endeavours.

STUDENT GOVERNANCE

The Prefect Body

The purpose is to inculcate leadership qualities in students and at the same time liaise between administration and students, for a smooth running of the institution.

House Captains

Two House Captains each lead the four Houses of Athens (Red), Corinthe (Green), Sparta (Blue) and Troy (Yellow) in the arena of Sports and ECC Activities. In-house competitions contribute towards House points and the best House is awarded a trophy at the end of the academic year.

Heads of Society

Each Extra Co-Curricular society/club is headed by a group of students who are responsible for monitoring the attendance and conduct of its respective members. They plan the functioning of their societies and motivate the members to participate actively in its implementation.

EXTRA CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES (ECC)

The Lyceum’s Extra Co-Curricular (ECC) framework engulfs a wide array of activities beyond the classroom and attempts to be as broad-based as possible, stretching across community service activities and sporting and creative projects.

The three broad categories of activities are:

Community Service

Creative Work

Community Service:

Home School

Home School is a project initiated by The Lyceum School and members are encouraged to educate children who do not have access to any education or are desirous of improving upon their education. Students recruit these children by going to their homes and encouraging them to attend the classes which are held four days a week from 2:00 – 3:30 PM on the school premises

Dar-ul-Sukoon

Students volunteer to go to the Dar-ul-Sukoon, a home for special children and adults. They help the children in their work, play with them and even feed them. The heads for this society are responsible for maintaining the attendance of its members and general discipline. The society visits the premises every Monday and Tuesday from 3:00 – 5:00 PM.

Dawood Habib Home

Dawood Habib Home is a Home for girls aged between 4 to 16 years. Only female students are members and visit the home every Saturday from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. They spend time with the children in order to improve their communication skills and increase their general knowledge. Every year member students help the children put up a play, encourage debate forums and declamation contests.

Society for the Rehabilitation of Special Children - SRSC (IDARA)

SRSC (Idara) is a project of the National Institute of Child Health (NICH), which arranges for the rehabilitation of special children and also educates them. Members of the SRSC attend the premises and assist the children there in their physiotherapy and teach them. Members attend the centre every Saturday from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM.

The Lyceum Greens (The Environment Society)

Student members learn to appreciate their surroundings and work towards creating a healthy environment around them. Beginning in their homes, the school and the neighbourhood, students promote an awareness of the mind towards creating a more positive atmosphere. The school currently has a paper recycling programme and all students are encouraged to participate and promote environmental consciousness.

“Pieces For Peace” Mosaic

Working in collaboration with CITY arts New York, students of the Lyceum Greens have worked through 4 seasons to create a public art mosaic covering a two hundred foot wall. The theme is peace, and their effort has built upon youth empowerment, and ownership of one's city. The students are the creative force and contribute towards all the steps required for the building of a mosaic. They have worked piece by piece for peace.

Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT)

Students volunteer their services for a week from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the SIUT (Civil Hospital) in the different departments of the hospital during the winter and summer vacations. They assist in inducting new patients, the rehabilitation of patients, filling in data forms, and spend time with the children in the wards. Upon completion of the required 30 hours of service the SIUT awards a certificate to the students for their efforts.

Creative Work

Iris

Iris (The Photography Society) involves a group of students who share a love for photography. The society invites anyone interested in photography to become a member, be they amateurs or experts. Members take part in photography workshops and have regular excursions to different sites such as a fishing village or several tea stalls. Competitions are held every year to award the best amateur photographer.

The Lyceum Adventure Club (LAC)

The LAC is a society which aims to foster youth leadership opportunities through the platform of wilderness outdoor activities. Students camp outdoors and are responsible for planning and setting up the camp site. Each trip includes day hikes, boat rides and/or sightseeing. Students are expected to work in a team, contribute to all aspects of the trip and adhere to our main policy of LEAVE NO TRACE in caring for the environment.

Lysias

Lysias (The Journalism Society) is involved in the publication of a school newsletter every term. The group collects a diversity of articles from members and anyone who is interested in contributing. These articles go through an editing process and are finally published in the form of a newsletter. The society teaches students the importance of deadlines and ethics in the world of journalism, as well as layout and design concepts.

The Creative Arts Society: Music, Art & Drama (M.A.D.)

The Creative Arts Society – lovingly nicknamed ‘MAD’ - meets the growing need of self-expression in our students. The objective of this society is to guide the students towards the value of discipline in creativity; how passion, if steered in the right direction, can lead to self-satisfaction as well as greater artistic achievements. It serves as a platform for those who wish to utilize their talents in liberal and dynamic arts from dramatics, dance, music and creative writing to painting, sculpture and other artistic pursuits. External and internal events such as exhibitions, musical evenings and theatre workshops are organized to assess talent among the students. The long-term goal of this society remains the furthering of the cause of creatively inclined youth for whom identity is synonymous with creativity.



Drama and Reader's Theatre

The Lyceum's Theatre season begins in August for the second years with theatre workshops, occasional in-house skit performances called ‘Spotlight' and auditions for the annual drama festival. The performances are held each term, the plays being in Urdu and English.

The play is a 20-25 day intensive project which begins with students being trained in scriptwriting, adaptation, direction, histrionics going through complete details of backstage production techniques. All this is delivered successfully as two full scale annual productions. The objective is to show the cast and the crew the rules and rewards of teamwork.

A bilingual Reader's Theatre is also held on campus. Students contribute and share texts of personal interest from their own writing or from sources of their choice, based on a contemporary, relevant theme. This project has room for extensive research on literary, political, artistic and historic sources. This is a unique program and is enthusiastically participated in every year.

Film/Art

Technology is oxygen to the students and an annual Film Festival is organized in which they submit short films. All entries are screened for content and then the chosen ones are viewed at an enjoyable evening followed by a question answer session. It is remarkable to see that all screenplays, shooting, editing and post production is handled independently by students. Some shorts are easily comparable to World Amateur standards. This is a great way to express teen issues and other social problems they may come across.

Lyterati

Lyterati (The Literary Society) invites and encourages students who are interested in poetry, fiction, drama and other forms of literary work. Weekly meetings feature reading and discussion of various works both in text and performance. Leading literary figures are also invited as Guest Speakers to enrich the minds of the students.

The Business Society

Students taking business related courses are bound to find this society interesting. The Business Corner provides members with the opportunity to offer goods and services for sale. Students also take the initiative to solicit sponsorships for the school magazine, The Oracle. Members also arrange guest speaker sessions with prominent speakers from the corporate world.


“The Business Games” is a competition that tests entrepreneurship and leadership skills. Teams of students are encouraged to represent a business idea of their own. The next step is to give this idea a formal shape in the form of presentation and further present the idea in front of a judging panel. The competition is open to students from all subjects.

The Oracle: The School Magazine

‘The Oracle is published annually by a selected editorial board. The magazine provides students with a forum for expression and reflection upon school life and the previous year. Sections of ‘The Oracle’ are dedicated to sports, creative writing, art, science, school life and photography.

The magazine is distributed among members of all staff and students towards the end of the school year and serves as a memento for each graduating class.

The Debating Society

Debates are held within school on a regular basis on topics of current and global interest. Apart from the annual inter-house debates, several informal sessions are organised throughout the year.

The Lyceum debating team/s also participates in several external debates including the prestigious English Speaking Union of Pakistan’s Public Speaking contest (ESU) and the Jinnah Society Competition. The Lyceum School also hosts an annual Interschool Debate for A level institutions every year.

The Lyceum Model United Nations (LYMUN)

LYMUN is a simulated United Nations conference based on the International Model United Nations forum hosted at leading institutions across the world at the secondary and post secondary level. Students act as delegates to assigned countries for specified UN committees. Topics of discussion draw from current global issues. After a rigorous period of training and research, delegates have the opportunity to caucus, debate publicly and propose and draw resolutions following stringent rules of procedure and conduct.

Pakistan’s first ever countrywide MUN Conference was held at LUMS (Lahore) in December 2004 (entitled LUMUN). The Lyceum returned with two best delegate awards. In 2006 The Lyceum School received the Best Delegate award in the international LUMUN which represented the largest student gathering in Pakistan and had participants from India, Germany and Portugal as well. In 2007 The Lyceum retained their title wining the Best Delegation for the second year running.

On an international level The Lyceum School participated in the Harvard University's World Model United Nations (WorldMUN) conference in Geneva, Switzerland in March 2007 and did the country proud by receiving 2 Best Diplomacy awards.

The Lyceum also won the Istanbul International MUN (IIMUN) in July 2007.

The Lyceum Rowing Team: LYROW

The Lyceum School joined the structured school rowing program at the Karachi Boat Club in February 2008. The school’s Rowing Society is relatively young but many students have taken up this greatly rewarding sport. With commitment and hard work, the School’s rowers have achieved a reasonably high standard and have been selected for participation in the Annual International School Regatta held by the Bengal Rowing Club, Kolkata (Calcutta) this summer. The Lyceum team came fourth and also won the Best Dressed Team (Boys).

In the Boat Club Summer Regatta, the girls won both the gold and silver in the indoor rowing event and the boys won gold in the doubles and silver in the fours. A remarkable achievement for the young team.

The Science and Art Exhibition

Each year the Final year students are given the opportunity to display their knowledge and talent in the field of Science and Art. Students carefully prepare projects and are judged in the categories of Chemistry, Physics and Biology. The Art students also display their work for appreciation and Lytech members demonstrate their technological skills in software development. In this manner creativity and innovation are encouraged amongst the student body

Lytech: The Computer Society

With the fast pace and ever-changing world of technology, Lytech provides an opportunity for members to enhance their computer skills, hear from professionals in the industry, and get some hands-on experience working with particular areas of interest.