Religious Life
Qirat & Na'at Competition
The school's annual Qirat and Na'at competition, held at the School Mosque, with boys from every house taking part.
Student Life
A day at APS runs on more than a timetable
Beyond lessons and games, APS runs on a rhythm of clubs, societies, competitions and gatherings that every boy is expected to take part in — not spectate.
Student Life at APS
Poetic Evening
The other half of the day
Character, built by taking part
The classroom is where the day begins at APS, but not where it ends. From the morning assembly through evening prep in house, boys move through a full second calendar of debate, music, sport, service and prayer — a calendar designed so that every boy finds a place in it.
The habit of standing up in front of a house, running a club, or looking after a younger boy is the habit APS most wants its students to leave with. It is what the school means by Character is Destiny.
A Year in Pictures
Student life at APS, in one place
A quick look through the debating floor, the poetic evenings, the Qirat competition, the art event, the assembly hall and the classroom — a year in the life of an APS boy.
Signature Events
Fixed points of the school year
Arts & Wellbeing
Art Competition — Mental Wellbeing
Creativity, expression and wellbeing came together at APS with an Art Competition on the theme of Mental Wellbeing at the Hockey Field.
Literary
Poetic Evenings
The school's literary evenings pair senior boys with the youngest — every voice on the stage, in Urdu and English, in front of the whole house.
Guest Session
Entrepreneurial Mindset — Mr. Shahid Qureshi
Mr. Shahid Qureshi addressed the school on building an entrepreneurial mindset — risk, resilience and turning an idea into a working venture — one of the guest sessions APS hosts through the year for its senior boys.
Debate
Bilingual Declamation
Inter‑house and inter‑school debate, declamation and Urdu / English literary contests run through the calendar — boys stand and defend their own arguments in front of their peers.
Inter‑House
Inter‑House Gala & House Cup
From the cricket pitch to the school pool, every side of school life is contested house against house, all pointing at the year‑end House Cup.
Languages
Chinese Language at APS
Abbottabad Public School has introduced Chinese Language classes for its students — opening a window onto one of the world's most spoken languages and its culture, alongside the boys' work in English and Urdu.
Societies & Clubs
The calendar around the classroom
Every term brings its own calendar of activity — always with a boy in charge of it.
Debate
Debate & Literary Society
Inter‑house and inter‑school debate, declamation, and Urdu and English literary events run through the school year.
Leadership
Prefect System
Senior boys in every house hold real responsibility for the boys below them — the beginning of leadership rather than the reward for it. Read more →
Religious Life
Islamic Studies & Nazra
Morning congregational prayer, Nazra classes in the school Mosque, and the school's annual Qirat and Na'at competitions.
Inter‑House
House Competitions
Music, drama, and general knowledge contests run alongside the sporting calendar year‑round — every side of school life contested house against house.
Arts
Art, Music & Drama
An art competition every year on a set theme, plus in‑house music and drama across the calendar, culminating in the House Cup.
Scouts
Scouting & Physical Training
Scouting is a working tradition at APS — camps in the hills, service days, and the small daily disciplines of the movement.
In House
Where the day settles
Beyond the classroom and the games field, the second half of the day is lived in house — the boys eat, pray, study and rest under one roof.
Wellbeing & Pastoral Care
A boy is known here
Every boy at APS is known — by his Housemaster, by his prefects, by the boys he eats with. Wellbeing at the school is not a poster on a wall; it is the fact that he never spends a day among strangers.
Guest sessions on adolescent psychology and mental wellbeing sit alongside the everyday work of the Housemasters and the 12‑bed Medical Centre — a deliberate, joined‑up approach to the six years a boy spends with us.
Fifty‑Five Acres
All of it, one campus.
Boarding houses, playing fields, classrooms, laboratories, mosque, mess, medical centre and the library — all inside one walled campus in the hills above the city.
Take Part, Don't Spectate
Every boy takes part
APS does not draw a line between the boys who "do" things and the boys who watch. The school year is designed so that everyone finds a place in it — on the debating floor, on the games field, in the choir, in the Photography Club, or at the editorial desk of a house paper.
The habit of taking part is one of the things the school most wants boys to leave with.