Inter Faith Visits

22nd Aug 2017

The day was celebrated as the Inter-Faith day at school.

This yearly feature at school is for students to respect the many faiths and paths that is an integral part of our society.

Our children enjoy learning about various religions and celebrate all major festivals to understand and appreciate better the world we live in. 

As reported by our teacher Mr Lourdu Raj

On 22.08.2017 (Tuesday) morning, the students of Grades 6 and 7 were taken to places of worship in the neighbourhood, for an educational visit. It was done as a casual walk. We started around 9.00 am after the assembly. The pupils were accompanied by two teachers, Ms. Shajidha and Mr. Lourdu Raj.

At first, the children were led to the Hindu Temple named Kailasanathar temple. The kids went around the temple looking at the various sacred sculptures and architecture. Towards the end, we requested the priest of the shrine to share a bit of information about the temple. He did describe them about the year of construction, its specialities and about the various intentions with which the devotees visit the temples.

From there, we marched towards the Mosque. As soon as we reached the spot, we were welcomed by the in-charge of the mosque and he prayed over the kids and gave a brief explanation on the history of Islam and the tombs within. A few of the children took turns to clarify their doubts.

The march progressed to the Church from there. The children went around the church observing the stone edicts and the structural style of the Church; examining the statutes erected within and the interior design of it.

The students did appreciate the trip and learned certain religious values and the visible differences among the religions of their vicinity. They readily entered all the religious sacred places and observed them with piety and sanctity.

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From there, the children were brought back to the school safely by 10.15 am.

At the Temple

At the Mosque

At Church

Breakfast by MMLC4

21st Aug 2017

MMLC4 sponsored breakfast for the whole school!

Our children enjoyed Pongal with sambhar :-)

Independence Day Celebrations

15th Aug 2017

The 70th Independence Day was celebrated along with the "Indian Motorcycle Riders Group (IMRG)", Madras Mylapore Round Table 3 (MMRT3) and Madras Mylapore Ladies Circle 4 (MMLC4).

The IMRG made a grand entrance in their "Harley Davidsons", "Triumphs" and "Hayabusa" bikes! It was enthralling for the students to see all the bikes at school!

Capt Vivek Shanbhag ex Commodore RMYC, Mr Shiva Swamynathan Commodore Royal Madras Yacht Club (RMYC),  Retd Commodore Amar Mahadevan (exNOIC - Indian Navy) joined us as part of the IMRG group...

Distinguished Retd Commodore Amar Mahadevan (exNOIC - Indian Navy) hoisted the tricolours.

Prachi Shah, Chairperson MMLC4 along with other MMLC4 members gave away the prizes for the school competitions and brought gifts for all the children. 

The children put up a series of events to add to the colour and celebrations.

The celebrations of the historic day commenced around 8'o clock.

#  We had distinguished guests from IMRG, MMRT3 and MMLC4.

# The celebrations began with the school prayer led by the pupil's leader.

# The congregation was welcomed by Mr. D. Lourdu Raj.

# Then the tricolour National flag was hoisted by the Guest of Honour.

# A patriotic song was sung by a group of kids.

# It was followed by Speeches in Tamil and in English. English speech was from Yokeshwaran and the Tamil was delivered by Hemalatha of GradeVII.

# The next event was prize distribution to some of the winners, from the drawing and essay competitions conducted on the eve of Independence Day.

Chairperson Prachi Shah of MMLC4 and other members gave away prizes to a few selected winners.

# They also sponsored wooden exam pads to all our children.

# After the guests were sent off, we had a skit performed by Grade VI.

# After this, we had a tableau of national leaders (many acted from the primary)who spoke dialogues of the National leaders and cheered the crowd.

# A few notable ones were Rani Lakshmi, VeeraPandya Kattabomman, Dr. APJ, etc.

# Principal's address followed.

# The day was concluded with the National Anthem and distribution of sweets.

Many parents partook in the celebrations and enjoyed the performance of the kids and took snaps with them at the close of the programme.

# The programme was compered by Tamilselvi of Grade XII.

Jai Hind....   Vande Mataram...

Drawing competition for school

10th Aug 2017

The entire school participated in the drawing and colouring competitions.

From the vast number of entries, our teachers Mrs Shubha, Mrs Revathi, Mrs Rukshana, and Mrs Sajida selected the prize winning entries.

GURUKULAM A TRUST CHILDREN SCHOOL,

KOVALAM, CHENNAI- 603 112.

COLOURING COMPETITION –RESULTS

WINNERS   LIST

JUDGES: For Classes LKG, UKG & class I to V

Mrs.Subha, Mrs.Revathi, Mrs.Rukshana and Mrs.Sajidha

Criteria : Coluring, Creativity, Originality and Neatness

LKG & UKG

1^st Prize – Sandhiya  - UKG

2^nd Prize – Dhanshika - UKG

3^rd Prize – Thiviya Sri – LKG

CLASS – I & II

1^st Prize – Dharanya -  II

2^nd Prize – Sri Sai Ram  – I

3^rd Pprize – Arjun - I

CLASS – III  to  V

1^st Prize – Vishnu - V

2^nd Prize – Rajeswari .M  - IV

3^rd Prize –  Shobiya .M. – III

JUDGES: For Classes  VI to XII

Mr.C.Raj Kumar,Mr.Abdul , Mr. Sathya and Mrs.Subha

Criteria : Originality, Creativity, Relevant to topic, Clarity and Neatness

CLASS – VI  to  VIII

1^st Prize – Sureka - VIII

2^nd Prize – Yokeshwaran – VII

3^rd Prize – Karthigeyan – VI

CLASS – IX  & X

1^st Prize – Fathima  - IX

2^nd Prize –  Rahul & Prithika – IX

3^rd Prize –  Sanjay – X

CLASS – XI  &  XII

1^st Prize – Saira Banu – XII ‘A”

2^nd Prize – Pavithra - XI

3^rd Prize –  Vasanth  - XII ‘B”