School visit by Mrs & Mr Ravishankar

 8th March 2023

Mrs Mythili Ravishankar, our Committee Member, along with Mr Ravishankar, Mrs Vanitha (retd Commissioner IT) and Mr Vaidyalingam (retd Railways) visited school and spent time with our children.

Silambam - World record attempt by Gurukulam students

 01st Nov 2023

Our students  

Maya of Grade IX,  

Santhosh of Grade VI, 

& Minash of Grade III, 

have taken additional efforts to break a world record for practicing "Silamabam" (the Indian Stick fighting method) without taking a break for an hour.  

Our special kudos to the younger ones for the special effort and blessings will follow them to achieve more and more in the years to come.

Guests from Sweden

11th Jan 2023

 Guests from Sweden visited Gurukulam on 11th January 2023. The main object of the visit was to visit the "No fee schools" and understand its functioning. 

Mr. Arvind Vasu & Mrs. Aditi Vasu initiated this visit to Gurukulam.  Visitors appreciated the maintenance of the infrastructure, the cleanliness and the service provided by the school for the students like the quality education, food, books & notebooks and all the basic needs.  They have extended their special appreciation for maintaining the laboratories and the Library.

Pongal Celebration at Gurukulam

16th Jan 2023

Pongal celebration continues for over four days.  Gurukulam students celebrated the pongal festival in a grand manner. 

The celebration marks the importance of natural resources and a good harvest season.  

In a traditional way the celebration was begun with lighting of the lamp by our Ms. Sumathi, mother of the founder followed by a traditional welcome dance.  Students show cased their talents by presenting the Tamil folk dance.

House students prepared the sweet pongal, the Kabadi team performed their matches and young and energetic boys did the Uriyadi thiruvizha by closing their eyes.  

Debate in tamil was an ultimate .

 

Story telling sessions

1st Feb 2023. 

We at Gurukulam encourage the students to come on to the stage and deliver short stories among their groups to improve the level of communication.  Stories help us to understand others and ourselves. We feel empathy with the characters we encounter in stories. This ability to learn from stories is a skill that will help our students throughout their lives. In addition to academic goals, stories enrich lives and provide guidance to living.

Storytelling allows teachers to enter the lives of students as they're forming a sense of self- identity. It promotes a sense of community and belonging, enables relationship networking, allows participants to engage in sense-making, helps develop empathy and self-confidence, and facilitates learning. It gives us an opportunity to learn from another person's experience and it can shape, strengthen or challenge our opinions and values. When a story catches our attention and engages us, we are more likely to absorb the message and meaning within it than if the same message was presented simply in facts and figures.

The main aim of the session is to encourage the students to discuss and communicate well among the peer group, we encourage the participation of more students and they are being appreciated during the assembly time.