Boarding at PSSEMR School, Davangere
A day and residential school at Tolahunse, affiliated to CBSE. Here is where your child sleeps, how the day runs, and who is responsible for them.
PSSEMR is a day and residential school at Tolahunse, Davangere, affiliated to CBSE. Boarders live on campus in six boarding houses, follow a fixed routine from 5:30am to 10:15pm, eat five meals a day across seven dining halls, and are looked after by wardens, an on-campus health centre and a mentor teacher for every five students.
This page covers where your child sleeps, how the day runs, what they eat, who is responsible for them, and how you stay in touch.
Where boarders live
Six boarding houses — five for boys, one for girls. Rooms are shared, and each student has their own cot, cupboard and study table.
The houses are fumigated on a regular cycle, fitted with solar water heaters, and finished with quality sanitary ware.
Practical things that matter more than they sound
- Drinking water comes from taps on every floor, supplied by five purification plants, with a softener plant serving the whole campus.
- Power doesn’t go off. 24-hour backup on two diesel generators, with UPS where needed.
- Restrooms are inside the dormitories, so nobody crosses a dark campus at night.
A boarder’s day
The routine is the same every weekday, for residents and day scholars alike until the buses leave at 4pm.
| Time | What happens |
|---|---|
| 5:30am | Wake up |
| 5:45 – 6:30am | Jogging |
| 7:45 – 8:15am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 – 8:45am | Morning assembly |
| 8:50am – 3:40pm | Nine periods, short break at 10:10, lunch at 12:20 |
| 4:00 – 5:30pm | Sport, dance, music, art, theatre, NCC, Scouts and Guides, band, Olympiad, science and robotics |
| 6:00 – 8:00pm | Prep |
| 8:00 – 8:45pm | Dinner |
| 9:00 – 10:00pm | Remedial classes or homework |
| 10:15pm | Lights off |
Two hours of supervised prep every evening is why a boarder’s tuition is higher than a day scholar’s — it’s teaching time, not supervision. Day scholars can pay the difference and stay, arranging their own transport home.
The full routine, hour by hourFood
Five meals a day: breakfast, a mid-morning break, lunch, evening snacks and dinner, across seven dining halls.
The menu runs on a 14-day cycle, so no two weeks are the same — and it’s the actual operating menu, published in full rather than as a sample.
Fruit at the mid-morning break every single day. A green salad with lunch on ten of the fourteen days, with kosambari on two more. Chapathi at dinner on eleven. And a range that runs from ragi mudde and jowar roti to pav bhaji, pani puri and French fries.
Milk comes partly from the school’s own herd of more than 50 Gir cows. The store room is locked to everyone except the professional cooks.
The full menu and how the kitchen worksWho looks after your child
- Each boarding house is run by a warden and assistant wardens.
- A health centre on campus, staffed through the day by a qualified nurse, with every student’s health record kept and updated.
- A mentor teacher for every five students. The school calls it Snacks with Mentor — a teacher sits with the same five children regularly. A 1:5 pastoral ratio is unusual, and it means every child has one adult who knows them.
- A counsellor and a special educator on staff.
- More than 300 CCTV cameras, watched from a control room.
Staying in touch
Every boarder gets a phone call home each week, at no charge. It’s a listed line in the school’s own fee schedule, priced at zero.
You receive six kinds of report on a regular cycle — the daily class record, a daily activity report, a daily assembly report, remedial class reports, weekly reminders, and test schedules with results.
You’re also invited in. Weekly parent webinars and Coffee Morning with Parents, online and on campus. Questionnaires go out ahead of parent meetings and are routed to the right member of staff, so the person you need has already seen your question.
Laundry, uniforms and grooming
Clothes are collected and returned by the school laundry. A tailor on campus takes measurements and stitches uniforms — which is why you don’t buy uniforms separately. There’s a hair salon on site, and a shoe room in each house so footwear stays out of the dormitories.
Students from Class VIII upwards wash their own inner garments. It’s a small thing that tells you something real: independence here is a practice, not a line in a brochure.
What your child brings
A list of 43 items with quantities, and a list of what students may not bring — which covers phones, outside food and anything usable as a weapon.
The full packing list and restricted itemsWhat boarding costs
Boarding is charged annually, and the fee covers tuition, mess and hostel together rather than as separate lines. The figures for each board and class band, the payment schedule and the six concessions are all on the fees page, which states the year they apply to.
The full fee table and concessionsCommon questions
Can my child phone me?
Yes — a weekly call home, at no charge.
Are boys and girls housed separately?
Yes, in separate boarding houses — five for boys and one for girls.
What if my child falls ill at night?
There is a health centre on campus and a qualified nurse. Student care sets out what happens when a child is unwell, at what point you are called, and how medication is handled.
Student careCan day scholars stay for evening prep?
Yes — pay the difference in tuition and attend, arranging your own transport home.
Come and see it
The most useful thing you can do is visit while school is running — walk through a boarding house, look at a dining hall at lunchtime, and ask the warden whatever you like.