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A working campus, not a showpiece
Old trees, a wide ground, and rooms that are used hard every day of the school year.
The grounds
Room to run
The school occupies an open site on T. H. Road, with the teaching block set back behind a courtyard and a broad sandy ground beyond it. Mature shade trees do most of the work that air-conditioning would otherwise have to do, and the ground is large enough to hold the whole school for the morning assembly — and, once a year, for the march past and mass drill of the Annual Sports Meet.
Classrooms are cross-ventilated, with windows on both sides and blackboards at the front. There is nothing elaborate about them. They are light, they are clean, and children can hear the teacher from the back row.
Science
Three laboratories, one per subject
Physics, Chemistry and Biology each have their own room and their own benches, so that a practical never has to be improvised in a classroom.
Physics laboratory
Optical benches, meters and measuring apparatus set out one set per group, so that students take their own readings rather than watch a demonstration.
Chemistry laboratory
Long benches with gas and water at each station, burettes and stands for volumetric work, and reagents stored under the teacher's control.
Biology laboratory
Microscopes, prepared slides, charts and anatomical models, with bench space for dissection and specimen work.
Laboratory safety. Goggles and aprons are worn for practicals. Chemicals are issued by the teacher and returned at the end of the period. Groups are kept small enough that an adult can see every bench at once.
Computing
The computer laboratory
A dedicated room of networked machines where each student has a keyboard in front of them for the duration of the period. Formal computing begins in the primary classes with keyboard familiarity and progresses through applications to the programming required by the State Board syllabus at the higher secondary stage.
Screen time is deliberately bounded. Younger children spend far more of their week with paper, chalk and their hands than with a monitor, and we think that is the right way round.
Around the school
The rest of the campus
Assembly hall
The indoor hall takes the whole senior school for seminars, guest talks, cultural programmes and the parents' meetings held each term.
Grotto & prayer space
A quiet corner of the courtyard where the school gathers on feast days. Prayer is offered to all and required of none.
Playing ground
Marked out for track events at sports time and used the rest of the year for games, drill practice and physical education periods.
School garden
Beds tended by the green club, where saplings raised by students are planted out and looked after through the year.
Assembly courtyard
Where the day begins: prayer, the pledge, the news of the day and whatever the school needs to hear together.
Entrance & office
The office sits by the gate, which is where enquiries, fee payments and parents arriving mid-day are attended to.
Care & safety
The arrangements parents ask about
The gate is attended through the school day and children are released only to a parent or a named guardian. Staff are present in the corridors and on the ground during intervals — under the Preventive System that presence is not supervision so much as the whole method.
First aid is available on the premises, and parents are telephoned at once if a child is unwell. Fire drills are held, and the school works to the safety requirements laid down for recognised schools in Tamil Nadu.
School transport and other arrangements vary from year to year with demand and routes. Please ask the office for what is running in the current academic year.
Walk through it yourself
Photographs only go so far. Telephone the office and come and see the place while it is working.