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Syllabus exhibition at Kodungaiyur

Staff Reporter

CHENNAI: Characters and events in textbooks were brought alive at the syllabus exhibition hosted by students of Sri Sayee Vivekananda Vidyalaya Matriculation School at Kodungaiyur on Thursday.

A colourful India map, drawn by students, filled up vast spaces of the school ground and greeted visitors. What was special was that fenugreek plants marked the map's boundary. A student said the seeds were sown few days ago and were watered till it grew along the map's boundary.

Innovative presentation

At the other end of the school ground, students innovatively exhibited the status of the Kodungaiyur canal, located behind the school.

The canal's status twenty years ago and its present condition was depicted with two cement structures — one with fresh water and live fishes and another with twigs and garbage.

While the kindergarten section featured models from what they learnt, maths exhibits were drawn from theorems.

Awareness

Awareness about the hazards of junk food and kinds of pollution was spread through the exhibition.

While an enactment of a small episode from the Gita by primary students took many by surprise, the experiment to test hardness of water enlightened the visiting students.

It was sheer delight to have primary children describe the models in the Hindi and Sanskrit sections.

School correspondent T.S. Thyagarajan said the three-day exhibition had visitors from neighbouring schools. Started four years ago, the school has about 350 students, mostly from economically backward classes.

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