The Diamond Jubilee High School for Boys recognizes the importance of a well-rounded education that extends beyond the classroom. Students at the School are therefore encouraged to pursue a wide range of intellectual, sporting and social activities. They participate in various inter-school activities such as elocution, debates, science exhibitions, creative writing and the arts. Students also participate in volleyball and boxing competitions.

The School Band
The School Band, with 25 students, plays at school functions, the annual Sports' Day and participates in various competitions. It is well known and much in demand. Students learn how to play the drums, flute, bugle and percussion instruments from our Band Master.

Elocution Competitions
In order to develop speaking skills among the students, annual elocution competitions are conducted in English, Hindi and Marathi for the students of all classes.

Visits And Excursions
Regular visits and field trips are arranged to places of educational interest in and around the city. These visits are related to classroom topics and help reinforce learning.

Scouting
Scouting is part of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) for Secondary students. It begins in Class 8 and continues to Class 10. Each class goes camping and hiking at least once a year. Outdoor activities include cooking, camp craft and campfires. Scouting is popular with students.

The School Gym
The school has a well equipped gym and has appointed a trained instructor for the current academic year. The students from Grade 8 to Grade 10 will avail of this facility.

Games And Sports
Various indoor games, including Table Tennis, Boxing and Chess and outdoor games like volleyball and cricket are organised by our physical educators. Students are encouraged to participate in these activities.

Special coaching is provided to train the boys in boxing and volleyball for inter-school competitions. The School's students have performed well in both sports at inter-school competitions, consistently reaching the finals in volleyball and even winning the championship a couple of times. In boxing, students have regularly won medals and championship trophies at state level competitions.

Art
The School encourages students to sit for an Elementary and Intermediate Grade Drawing Examination, held every October. This is an effort to cultivate and develop the latent talents of our children.

The students can join one or more of these clubs:

The Interact Club is open to students in the secondary section and is actively run by Ms Arjumand Sayed. It recently was awarded the Best Interact Club Bombay Downtown Award by the Rotary Club for outstanding activities during the last academic years.

The Science Club
It is comprised of students and science teachers from the secondary section and plans various scientific activities including quizzes, essay competitions and annual Ward-level Science Exhibitions.

The Ecology and Nature Clubs
The clubs work closely together to bring about environmental and ecological awareness amongst students. They organise cleanliness drives, tree planting days and an annual field trip to the Mahim Nature Park.

Hope (Annual School Magazine)
Students from Class 8 to 10 play a major editorial role in the publication of the magazine, including collating content, editing, designing and coordinating the printing process. Hope features contributions from pre-primary to young adults from Class 10.

Glimpses Of XB
This annual Class 10B production showcases the creative writing efforts of every student collated over the academic year. It also serves as a souvenir magazine and yearbook for the students of the class.

Photojournalism
Since 1998, students have undertaken photojournalism projects, as part of the Writing with Fun (WWF) workshop. Innocence Lost (a project on child labour) is accessible online.

The School was recently awarded a grant from the International Academic Partnership (IAP) Innovative Fund for outstanding Creative Writing projects and Photojournalism. The grant funds teh purchase of equipment, the WWF (Writing With Fun) workshops and the Photojournalism Projects which the school will run this coming academic year.

Under the same scheme, the School has won three prizes for the following projects in the year 2004-05:

• Language Improvement Programme for the School
  
  
• Scientifically Empowered And Empathic Discoverers (SEEDS) The project's objective is to inculcate a scientific temperament and spirit of enquiry amongst students over and above their regular prescribed syllabus.
  
  
• Social Awareness Project
  Several activities are undertaken to encourage an attitude of social consciousness and responsibility amongst students.