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School notes

NOTABLE EVENTS: (Clockwise from top left): Children performing at Yagappa School at Thanjavur. Students of Chinmaya Vidyalaya in Nagapattinam making a sculpture in sand. Students of Bharani Park Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Karur, who performed well at the State-level judo competition. Life skill programme for SC/ST students in progress at Ariyalur. Students of Aditya Birla Public School and Dharani Matriculation School, who performed well at the district-level karate competition. Kindergarten students attending multimedia educational programme at Ukkadai A. Viswanatha Thevar Matriculation School, Ammapet in Thanjavur district.

Annual Day celebrated

‘EUPHORIA-08’, the annual day of the Yagappa Matriculation School, Thanjavur, was held recently. S. Sudhakar was the chief guest and Mrs. Usharani Sudhakar distributed the prizes. The day was also celebrated as Parents’ Day and Saraswathi Kalyana Sundaram provided the feedback.

The coordinator of the school Francis Arul also spoke.

Competition

The management of Chinmaya Vidyalaya in Nagapattinam organised a competition for the students in making sculpture in sand in the school grounds on Saturday.

As many as 171 students from Standard V to X took part in the competition by forming 20 groups.

The students made several images of various sizes. One of the groups made the image of Goddess Parvati by spending about seven hours from morning till evening and won the appreciation of one and all. The school organised the competition for the students to motivate their talents in various fields.

Judo contest

The students of Bharani Park Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Karur, performed exceedingly well at the State-level judo competition. In the boys’ under-19 section, P. Prabhakaran won silver in 60-65kg weight category, while P. Rajkumar (65-71kg) and M. Viswanathan (71-80 kg) bagged a bronze each.

In the girls’ under-14 section, S. Solai secured a bronze medal in the 45-50kg weight category.

Principal C. Ramasubramanian, managing trustee S. Mohanarangan, physical education teachers Durai, Vinoth and Latha commended the students.

Students selected

The students of the Aditya Birla Public School (ABPS), Ariyalur and Dharani Matriculation School (DMS), Ariyalur, have been selected for the State-level karate competition after having performed well at the district-level Allan Thilak contest .

The joint executive president, Grasim Industries Limited, south fivision, S. Natarajan, and General Manager (HR), J. Settu, ABPS Principal G.G. Menon and DMS Principal B. Vijayalakshmi commended the students.

Parents’ day out

To enable the parents of Kindergarten students to see for themselves the day-to-day functioning of the classes and the progress of their children, Ukkadai A.Viswanatha Thevar Matriculation School at Ammapet in Thanjavur district introduced a programme called “Parents with their kids for a day in the school.”

Correspondent of the school Ukkadai Sriman V. Rajendra Kumar Thevar inaugurated the programme recently. witnessed the learning process and teaching methods of the school. Parents appreciated the multimedia educational programme. Similar exercise will be held for higher students also, the Principal of the school said.

Life skill programme

Life-skill programme for students belonging to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe was conducted under the aegis of ‘Sarva Siksha Abhiyan’ (SSA) at the West Panchayat Union Primary School near Ariyalur recently.

The Chief Educational Officer, SSA, Ranjini Devi, who inaugurated the programme, spoke on the objective of the scheme.

Training on in basic skills such as filling in the money order forms, the railway reservation booking slips and the deposit and withdrawal forms at banks was imparted to the students.

A total of 720 students belonging to SC/ST community have undergone the training, in batches, this year.

School commended

The Gurumoorthy Middle School near Mayiladuturai in Nagapattinam district celebrated its 48th annual day celebration recently. School correspondent T. S. Thiyagarajan who presided over the function explained the growth of the institution from its inception.

R. Raghupathy, Assistant Educational Officer and several dignitaries were honoured.

The educational authorities commended the school for effectively incorporating the new education scheme of ABL (activity-based learning) and ALM (active-learning methodology). S. Rajakumar, MLA of Mayiladuturai, V. Malathi, Headmistress of the school and others spoke.

School students performed cultural programmes.

Contributed by G. Srinivasan in Thanjavur, K. Subramanian in Nagapattinam,

M. Balaganessin and

G. Prasad in Tiruchi.

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