TVS Matriculation Higher Secondary School
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TVS Matriculation Hr. Sec. School was established in year the 1972 and functioned just with 40 students initially.It provides good education to the inhabitants of Madurai
and its surroundings.The curriculum
offered was changed from CBSE to Matriculation syllabus to fulfill the expectations of the parents. It is governed by an expert council named Lakshmi Vidya Sangham constituted by the elite descendants of the much celebrated veteran, founder of the TVS Group
T. V. Sundaram Iyengar
. The school has a strength of about 4,906 pupils,201 teaching staff and extra parent tutors. The school functions in two shifts for all the classes from the lower kinder garden to Std XII. There is also a separate nursery school
for the nursery children which is very near to the main campus.
, Tamil Nadu
, India
. The School follows the Matriculation Syllabus till standard X and follows state board syllabus for standard XII. The School is well known for its reputation as an excellent mentor of today's and tomorrow's experts in various fields. The Schools believes in Three Values namely "Punctuality", "Sharing" & "Respect". The School believes in Value Based Education and Extra Curricular Activities. The after-schooling placements for the TVS Students is very good and it is a fact that most of the students in government and government aided colleges like College of Engineering, Guindy
, Madras Institute of Technology
, PSG College of Technology
, Thiagarajar College of Engineering
, Madurai are TVS Students. It is also well known for getting state ranks, and the feat of getting State 1st has been twice.
is a registered society under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 and amended by Madras Act XXXIV of 1954 on June 6, 1964.The present TVS Matriculation Higher Secondary School, originally known as TVS LAKSHMI MARTICULATION HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL, was a "dream child of LVS". In the year 1972, this school was registered with just 40 students. Today TVS Matriculation Higher Secondary School boasts of 4,700 students. Shri. N. Sundram was the first correspondent and then in the year 1968, the correspondentship was held by Shri. K. Surya Narayanan. The curriculum offered was changed from CBSE to Matriculation Syllabus to fulfill the expectations
School Committee :
, which has the highest population in the AN Shift bus service, SS Colony,Kalavasal etc..,
City. The Forenoon Shift utilizes more than 75% of the bus service to areas past Periyar Bus Stand.
The School has a large bus bay to park the buses and this place is used for boarding the bus using students. The Bus Service is managed by a separate Committee headed by Mr.Kumaran. The buses are under contract from the provider named Senthamarai Agency, located near Tiruparankunram.The buses have one conductor each to conduct the proceedings of the bus.
and the school has a separate newly built block for the science labs but the ground floor which has the library
. The newly built block has a well equipped library
which has a number of books from a wide array of topics, the library is comparable to many well known colleges.The school also has e-pathshalas to teach the students more effectively. It is the first school in Madurai to introduce e-pathshalas, Using which teachers can show videos
, animations to the students from the classroom. There are nearly four e-pathshalas in the school campus.
TVSMHSS is one among the few schools in Madurai
to have a very good infrastructure. The Office block has the Principal's Cabin, Director's Cabin, the V.P.'s cabin and the office.
There are two main wings of classrooms near the office, the south wing and the north wing which have access by three fleets of staircases, each have one and both can be accessed by the main stair case. The south wing and north wing have two floors each. The south wing has the 10th and 9th standard classrooms respectively and the north wing has the 12th and 11th standard class rooms respectively.
The Other part of the campus has the craft hall building which has a single floor, the ground floor has the craft hall which is used to host many functions and student meetings. The first floor has the exam halls which are used to conduct the daily tests for classes X and XII, monthly tests for classes IX and XI. This floor has one e-pathshalas in EH 7.
The Block opposite to the craft hall has two floors, the ground floor has the EH (Old Chem Lab), Control room, Teachers Orientations Room and the EH1, the first floor has the Audio Visual Room, The ERP
Room, The Middle Level Staff room, and e-pathshalas, and EH 2. The Second floor has the 8th standard classrooms and EH3.
The Open Air Auditorium is an Open Air Stage used for hosting mega functions like the Annual Day, LOSA and other events like "Felicitating the Toppers",etc.., It is also used as a gymnasium used for the activity classes.
The New Building was built later and it has the middle level classes.The New building also has the Open Air Auditorium.
, Film Projector, Working Models, Preserved exhibits, e-pathsalas, The Audio Visual lab is one of the advanced in the state.
) up to X std. and Hr. Sec. (2 years after Std X) - State Govt curriculum. After 1982 CBSE was replaced with the Matriculation stream.
The Montessori
system is in place at the Preschool education
and Kindergarten
levels.
now SBC or Skill Based Curriculum developed by the TVS faculty is followed for the students of 1-8. It uses the Matriculation
books but the teaching method is entirely different.
System Of Assessment:
Classes I to III:
Children of classes I, II and III are not exposed to exams but they are assessed after each topic is introduced. The students are assessed on every topic based on their comprehending skills, reading skills, writing skills and analyzing skills through work sheets and activities. Grades are given according to their performance.
Classes IV to VIII:
The academic year comprises 4 cycle tests and 3 terminal examinations. The cycle test for classes IV & V is conducted on Tuesdays and for classes VI to VIII is conducted on Tuesdays & Thursdays the terminal examinations are held in the months of September (Quarterly),December (Half yearly) and March (Annual).
Classes IX and XI:
5 Monthly tests per year are conducted with 3 terminal examinations
for class XI - District wise common annual examination is conducted at the end of the year
For class IX the monthly test is computed for 40% marks and the scores of the three terminal examinations for 20% each.
Classes X and XII:
The system of Daily tests were introduced in the academic year 2008-09, in which it turned out successful and it is continued till date, but the system has been improvised year by year by increasing the number of tests and the way they are organised, they are usually conducted in the newly alloted exam halls ranging from EH 1 to EH 7, EH 1 to EH 3 were existing ones, while the rest were converted into exam halls from the old library, old chemistry lab, old middle level staff room and others. Approximately 12 tests are conducted per year with 2 terminal examinations
Two revision tests for class XII and three revision tests for class X are conducted
Board exams during March - April for X and XII.
activities and the extra curricular activities
include music
, Taekwondo
, Arts and crafts
, Clay modelling, yoga
, gymnastics
, Roller skating
, theatre arts
, classical dance
, school band and other sports like tennis
, football, basketball
, badminton
etc., The school always supports extra curricular activities
with involvement. The school is famous for its quizzing culture. Over the years, it has produced a bunch of talented quizzers and it has topped many THE HINDU
Young World Quizzes in the District and National levels.
Department called as PT
Department by the students is the department which takes care of the Physical education
in the school. The Physical Education Teachers (P.E.T) are the faculty of this department. All outdoor and indoor games preferred by students like volleyball
, basketball
, cricket
, football, throw ball, baseball
, chess
, carrom
etc., are encouraged. The playground has various courts like Basketball
court, Badminton
court, Throw ball court, volleyball
court, ball badminton
court, and the main part consists of the football cum hockey field. Field hockey
is not played anymore in the school, and it has been since 2005.
There are also various other courts which are separated from the main play ground such as the Tennis
Court which is present near the Science park and the Two Ball badminton
courts which can be converted from the Roller skating
ground (cemented quadrangle).
ground was the first of its kind in Madurai
District when it was started using, it is also known as the Cemented Quadrangle. The Skating ground is huge but the rink is small, the skating ground can also be used as Ball badminton
Courts. Many students actively participate in the skating classes which are conducted weekly, once every Sunday. In addition students of class 4-8 also attend the activity classes within the school hours.
The LVS Sports Meet is a mega sporting event in which whole of the Lakshmi Vidya Sangham Participates. In this the various schools of the group participates. The most successful school to win the over all trophy has been The TVS Higher Secondary School (Sundaram School). The LVS hosts various sporting displays from the primary to the higher level.
The Intra Murals is the competitions played between the different houses of two standards. The combinations are 7th std and 8th std ; 9th std and 10th std ; 11th and 12th std.
is a student body being run by the students for the welfare and improvement of the student community in the school. The Council is headed by the heads and vice-heads of the Shifts. The Student Council consists of the prefects of each class, active involvement is from class 8-12.Each class has two prefects, a boy and a girl. There are also various other monitors who are responsible for various things like electricity conservation, black board maintenance, furniture maintenance,etc.., These monitors come under the Prefects, but are not included in the hierarchy of the student council.The members of the student council are the representatives of the student community. They frame rules, principles,etc.., for their own community and implement it. The management has empowered the student council to bring in a prominent change in the school recently. The Vice Heads are nominated while they enter HSC 1st Year and they succeed their heads as heads when they enter HSC 2nd Year.
A 'Quality Circle', with teams of teachers and students, works on unearthing solutions for innumerable problems, besides identifying scope for further improvement. The QC teams have presented their case study at National & International conventions of QCFI and have bagged numerous awards.
Purpose : To organise training sessions for all the teachers of the school on various topics of academic interest for consistent academic reinforcement. Besides teaching, methodology courses and workshops are organised throughout the year on areas like attitudes, values, communication skills, reading habit etc. Probably the only centre of its kind functioning in a Matriculation Hr. Sec. School in the state.
Madurai
Madurai is the third largest city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It served as the capital city of the Pandyan Kingdom. It is the administrative headquarters of Madurai District and is famous for its temples built by Pandyan and...
and its surroundings.The curriculum
Curriculum
See also Syllabus.In formal education, a curriculum is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults...
offered was changed from CBSE to Matriculation syllabus to fulfill the expectations of the parents. It is governed by an expert council named Lakshmi Vidya Sangham constituted by the elite descendants of the much celebrated veteran, founder of the TVS Group
TVS group
TVS Group is an Indian diversified industrial conglomerate with its principal headquarters located in Chennai and Madurai. Almost all holdings of the group are private...
T. V. Sundaram Iyengar
T. V. Sundaram Iyengar
T. V. Sundaram Iyengar Thirukurungudi Venkagaruswamy, was an industrialist, the founder of TV Sundaram Iyengar and Sons group of companies, one of India's largest industrial conglomerates. With his humble beginning as a lawyer, he grew into one of the most successful industrialists of his time....
. The school has a strength of about 4,906 pupils,201 teaching staff and extra parent tutors. The school functions in two shifts for all the classes from the lower kinder garden to Std XII. There is also a separate nursery school
Nursery school
A nursery school is a school for children between the ages of one and five years, staffed by suitably qualified and other professionals who encourage and supervise educational play rather than simply providing childcare...
for the nursery children which is very near to the main campus.
Introduction
The School is located in the District of MaduraiMadurai
Madurai is the third largest city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It served as the capital city of the Pandyan Kingdom. It is the administrative headquarters of Madurai District and is famous for its temples built by Pandyan and...
, Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. The School follows the Matriculation Syllabus till standard X and follows state board syllabus for standard XII. The School is well known for its reputation as an excellent mentor of today's and tomorrow's experts in various fields. The Schools believes in Three Values namely "Punctuality", "Sharing" & "Respect". The School believes in Value Based Education and Extra Curricular Activities. The after-schooling placements for the TVS Students is very good and it is a fact that most of the students in government and government aided colleges like College of Engineering, Guindy
College of Engineering, Guindy
College of Engineering, Guindy in Chennai, India, is India's oldest engineering and technical institution, having been established in 1794. Today it is one of the four constituent colleges of Anna University, Chennai....
, Madras Institute of Technology
Madras Institute of Technology
The Madras Institute of Technology is an engineering institute located in Chromepet, Chennai , India. It is one of the four autonomous constituent colleges of Anna University. It was started in 1949 by Mr. C. Rajam as the first self-financing engineering institute in the country, and later it...
, PSG College of Technology
PSG College of Technology
PSG College of Technology is an autonomous, government aided institution, affiliated to Anna University. The college offers a total of 48 full time and part time programs in Science, Engineering and Management at Undergraduate & Postgraduate levels. The College was founded in 1951 by...
, Thiagarajar College of Engineering
Thiagarajar College of Engineering
Thiagarajar College of Engineering , Madurai, is an ISO 9001:2008 certified Autonomous institution located in Madurai, Tamilnadu, India. It is affiliated to Anna University, Chennai. It is one of the several educational and philanthropic institutions founded by Philanthropist and Industrialist...
, Madurai are TVS Students. It is also well known for getting state ranks, and the feat of getting State 1st has been twice.
Lakshmi Vidya Sangham
Lakshmi Vidya Sangham, named after Srimathi. Lakshmi Ammal, wife of T. V. Sundaram IyengarT. V. Sundaram Iyengar
T. V. Sundaram Iyengar Thirukurungudi Venkagaruswamy, was an industrialist, the founder of TV Sundaram Iyengar and Sons group of companies, one of India's largest industrial conglomerates. With his humble beginning as a lawyer, he grew into one of the most successful industrialists of his time....
is a registered society under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 and amended by Madras Act XXXIV of 1954 on June 6, 1964.The present TVS Matriculation Higher Secondary School, originally known as TVS LAKSHMI MARTICULATION HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL, was a "dream child of LVS". In the year 1972, this school was registered with just 40 students. Today TVS Matriculation Higher Secondary School boasts of 4,700 students. Shri. N. Sundram was the first correspondent and then in the year 1968, the correspondentship was held by Shri. K. Surya Narayanan. The curriculum offered was changed from CBSE to Matriculation Syllabus to fulfill the expectations
Committee Members
Executive Committee :- Shri. K. Ramesh-Member
- Shri. R. Haresh-Member
- Shri. R. Naresh-Member
- Shri. Ms. Shobhana Ramachandran-Secretary and Treasurer(Chairman, TVS Schools)
- Shri. K. Gopalan-Member
- Shri. V. Janakarajan-Member(Correspondent)
School Committee :
- Shri. R. Srinivasan- Chairman
- Shri. Mrs.Uma Ramesh-Secretary
Mission of the School
To Impart Sound Academics, expose to necessary skills, inculcate desirable values, instil Indian tradition and culture, build a team of committed, competent teachers and establish resources to equip them.Vision of Lakshmi Vidya Sangham
To build Confident, Competent and Compassionate Citizens through value based Quality Education.Working of the School
The School works in Two Shifts, commonly called as the FORENOON (FN) Shift and the AFTERNOON (AN) Shift.Forenoon Shift
The Forenoon Shift works between 7.00 AM and 12.20 PM. Students from the interior of the Madurai town and the other part of the city, past the vaigai river are enrolled in this shift to the most, for the reason that to avoid the peak hour traffic in the evening. The Bus fleet works mostly for this shift enabling this shift utilizing the bus service the most. almost 95 % of the fleet is used for transporting the FN Shift students.Afternoon Shift
The Afternoon Shift works between 12.40 and 6.00 PM. The Students residing near the School (TVS Nagar) and other nearby areas are enrolled in this shift to the most. The bus service is utilized only for less than 4 areas, ThirunagarThirunagar
Thirunagar is a panchayat town in Madurai district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.-Demographics and Layout:As of the 2001 India census, Thirunagar had a population of 15,549. Males constitute 49% of the population and females 51%. Thirunagar has an average literacy rate of 87%, higher than the...
, which has the highest population in the AN Shift bus service, SS Colony,Kalavasal etc..,
The School Campus-Gallery
Transport Facilities
More than 20 buses ply around the city, making it the largest school bus service in the MaduraiMadurai
Madurai is the third largest city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It served as the capital city of the Pandyan Kingdom. It is the administrative headquarters of Madurai District and is famous for its temples built by Pandyan and...
City. The Forenoon Shift utilizes more than 75% of the bus service to areas past Periyar Bus Stand.
The School has a large bus bay to park the buses and this place is used for boarding the bus using students. The Bus Service is managed by a separate Committee headed by Mr.Kumaran. The buses are under contract from the provider named Senthamarai Agency, located near Tiruparankunram.The buses have one conductor each to conduct the proceedings of the bus.
Infrastructure
Commodious buildings spread over fifteen acres (6.1 hectares) of land. The Lab facilities are believed to be one of the finest in the countryIndia
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
and the school has a separate newly built block for the science labs but the ground floor which has the library
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
. The newly built block has a well equipped library
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
which has a number of books from a wide array of topics, the library is comparable to many well known colleges.The school also has e-pathshalas to teach the students more effectively. It is the first school in Madurai to introduce e-pathshalas, Using which teachers can show videos
Motion graphics
Motion graphics are graphics that use video footage and/or animation technology to create the illusion of motion or rotation, graphics are usually combined with audio for use in multimedia projects. Motion graphics are usually displayed via electronic media technology, but may be displayed via...
, animations to the students from the classroom. There are nearly four e-pathshalas in the school campus.
TVSMHSS is one among the few schools in Madurai
Madurai
Madurai is the third largest city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It served as the capital city of the Pandyan Kingdom. It is the administrative headquarters of Madurai District and is famous for its temples built by Pandyan and...
to have a very good infrastructure. The Office block has the Principal's Cabin, Director's Cabin, the V.P.'s cabin and the office.
There are two main wings of classrooms near the office, the south wing and the north wing which have access by three fleets of staircases, each have one and both can be accessed by the main stair case. The south wing and north wing have two floors each. The south wing has the 10th and 9th standard classrooms respectively and the north wing has the 12th and 11th standard class rooms respectively.
The Other part of the campus has the craft hall building which has a single floor, the ground floor has the craft hall which is used to host many functions and student meetings. The first floor has the exam halls which are used to conduct the daily tests for classes X and XII, monthly tests for classes IX and XI. This floor has one e-pathshalas in EH 7.
The Block opposite to the craft hall has two floors, the ground floor has the EH (Old Chem Lab), Control room, Teachers Orientations Room and the EH1, the first floor has the Audio Visual Room, The ERP
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Room, The Middle Level Staff room, and e-pathshalas, and EH 2. The Second floor has the 8th standard classrooms and EH3.
The Open Air Auditorium is an Open Air Stage used for hosting mega functions like the Annual Day, LOSA and other events like "Felicitating the Toppers",etc.., It is also used as a gymnasium used for the activity classes.
The New Building was built later and it has the middle level classes.The New building also has the Open Air Auditorium.
Audio-Visual lab
The school is equipped with all teaching aids like TV, VCR, Slide Projector, OHP, LCDLCD projector
An LCD projector is a type of video projector for displaying video, images or computer data on a screen or other flat surface. It is a modern equivalent of the slide projector or overhead projector...
, Film Projector, Working Models, Preserved exhibits, e-pathsalas, The Audio Visual lab is one of the advanced in the state.
About the curriculum
The curriculum until the 1980s was CBSE (Central Board of Secondary EducationCentral Board of Secondary Education
The Central Board of Secondary Education is a Board of Education for public and private schools, under the Union Government of India.-History:...
) up to X std. and Hr. Sec. (2 years after Std X) - State Govt curriculum. After 1982 CBSE was replaced with the Matriculation stream.
The Montessori
Montessori method
Montessori education is an educational approach developed by Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori. Montessori education is practiced in an estimated 20,000 schools worldwide, serving children from birth to eighteen years old.-Overview:...
system is in place at the Preschool education
Preschool education
Preschool education is the provision of learning to children before the commencement of statutory and obligatory education, usually between the ages of zero and three or five, depending on the jurisdiction....
and Kindergarten
Kindergarten
A kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children. The term was created by Friedrich Fröbel for the play and activity institute that he created in 1837 in Bad Blankenburg as a social experience for children for their transition from home to school...
levels.
now SBC or Skill Based Curriculum developed by the TVS faculty is followed for the students of 1-8. It uses the Matriculation
Matriculation in India
In India, "matriculation" is a term commonly used to refer to the final year of high school, which ends at tenth standard and the qualification received on finishing the tenth standard of high school and passing the or the state board exams, commonly called "matriculation exams"...
books but the teaching method is entirely different.
System Of Assessment:
Classes I to III:
Children of classes I, II and III are not exposed to exams but they are assessed after each topic is introduced. The students are assessed on every topic based on their comprehending skills, reading skills, writing skills and analyzing skills through work sheets and activities. Grades are given according to their performance.
Classes IV to VIII:
The academic year comprises 4 cycle tests and 3 terminal examinations. The cycle test for classes IV & V is conducted on Tuesdays and for classes VI to VIII is conducted on Tuesdays & Thursdays the terminal examinations are held in the months of September (Quarterly),December (Half yearly) and March (Annual).
Classes IX and XI:
5 Monthly tests per year are conducted with 3 terminal examinations
for class XI - District wise common annual examination is conducted at the end of the year
For class IX the monthly test is computed for 40% marks and the scores of the three terminal examinations for 20% each.
Classes X and XII:
The system of Daily tests were introduced in the academic year 2008-09, in which it turned out successful and it is continued till date, but the system has been improvised year by year by increasing the number of tests and the way they are organised, they are usually conducted in the newly alloted exam halls ranging from EH 1 to EH 7, EH 1 to EH 3 were existing ones, while the rest were converted into exam halls from the old library, old chemistry lab, old middle level staff room and others. Approximately 12 tests are conducted per year with 2 terminal examinations
Two revision tests for class XII and three revision tests for class X are conducted
Board exams during March - April for X and XII.
The Extra Curricular Activities
The School believes in Extracurricular activityExtracurricular activity
Extracurricular activities are activities performed by students that fall outside the realm of the normal curriculum of school or university education...
activities and the extra curricular activities
Extracurricular activity
Extracurricular activities are activities performed by students that fall outside the realm of the normal curriculum of school or university education...
include music
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, Taekwondo
Taekwondo
Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. In Korean, tae means "to strike or break with foot"; kwon means "to strike or break with fist"; and do means "way", "method", or "path"...
, Arts and crafts
Arts and crafts
Arts and crafts comprise a whole host of activities and hobbies that are related to making things with one's hands and skill. These can be sub-divided into handicrafts or "traditional crafts" and "the rest"...
, Clay modelling, yoga
Yoga
Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on Supersoul...
, gymnastics
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
, Roller skating
Roller skating
Roller skating is the traveling on smooth surfaces with roller skates. It is a form of recreation as well as a sport, and can also be a form of transportation. Skates generally come in two basic varieties: quad roller skates and inline skates or blades, though some have experimented with a...
, theatre arts
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
, classical dance
Bharatanatyam
Bharata Natyam or Chadhir Attam, is a classical dance form from the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, practiced predominantly in modern times by women. The dance is usually accompanied by classical Carnatic music...
, school band and other sports like tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, football, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
etc., The school always supports extra curricular activities
Extracurricular activity
Extracurricular activities are activities performed by students that fall outside the realm of the normal curriculum of school or university education...
with involvement. The school is famous for its quizzing culture. Over the years, it has produced a bunch of talented quizzers and it has topped many THE HINDU
The Hindu
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Young World Quizzes in the District and National levels.
The Physical Education Department
The Physical educationPhysical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
Department called as PT
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
Department by the students is the department which takes care of the Physical education
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
in the school. The Physical Education Teachers (P.E.T) are the faculty of this department. All outdoor and indoor games preferred by students like volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
, football, throw ball, baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
, carrom
Carrom
Carrom is a family of tabletop games with gameplay that lies somewhere between billiards and table shuffleboard. Carrom is known by many names around the world, including carrum, couronne, carum, karam, karom, karum, fatta and finger billiards...
etc., are encouraged. The playground has various courts like Basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
court, Badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
court, Throw ball court, volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
court, ball badminton
Ball badminton
Ball badminton is a sport native to India. It is a racket game, played with a yellow ball made of wool, on a court of fixed dimensions divided by a net. The game was played as early as 1856 by the royal family in Tanjore, the capital of Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu, India. It enjoys the...
court, and the main part consists of the football cum hockey field. Field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
is not played anymore in the school, and it has been since 2005.
There are also various other courts which are separated from the main play ground such as the Tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
Court which is present near the Science park and the Two Ball badminton
Ball badminton
Ball badminton is a sport native to India. It is a racket game, played with a yellow ball made of wool, on a court of fixed dimensions divided by a net. The game was played as early as 1856 by the royal family in Tanjore, the capital of Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu, India. It enjoys the...
courts which can be converted from the Roller skating
Roller skating
Roller skating is the traveling on smooth surfaces with roller skates. It is a form of recreation as well as a sport, and can also be a form of transportation. Skates generally come in two basic varieties: quad roller skates and inline skates or blades, though some have experimented with a...
ground (cemented quadrangle).
The Skating Ground
The Roller skatingRoller skating
Roller skating is the traveling on smooth surfaces with roller skates. It is a form of recreation as well as a sport, and can also be a form of transportation. Skates generally come in two basic varieties: quad roller skates and inline skates or blades, though some have experimented with a...
ground was the first of its kind in Madurai
Madurai
Madurai is the third largest city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It served as the capital city of the Pandyan Kingdom. It is the administrative headquarters of Madurai District and is famous for its temples built by Pandyan and...
District when it was started using, it is also known as the Cemented Quadrangle. The Skating ground is huge but the rink is small, the skating ground can also be used as Ball badminton
Ball badminton
Ball badminton is a sport native to India. It is a racket game, played with a yellow ball made of wool, on a court of fixed dimensions divided by a net. The game was played as early as 1856 by the royal family in Tanjore, the capital of Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu, India. It enjoys the...
Courts. Many students actively participate in the skating classes which are conducted weekly, once every Sunday. In addition students of class 4-8 also attend the activity classes within the school hours.
Sporting Events
The school has a spacious playground where various sporting events are held throughout the year. The main events are LVS Sports Meet, LOSA Competitions, Lakshmi Trophy, Intra-Murals etc.,The LVS Sports Meet is a mega sporting event in which whole of the Lakshmi Vidya Sangham Participates. In this the various schools of the group participates. The most successful school to win the over all trophy has been The TVS Higher Secondary School (Sundaram School). The LVS hosts various sporting displays from the primary to the higher level.
The Intra Murals is the competitions played between the different houses of two standards. The combinations are 7th std and 8th std ; 9th std and 10th std ; 11th and 12th std.
Various Committees
The School has various committees functioning under the school management for the better management of the school. Various committees are The Discipline Committee, The Examination Committee, etc..,The Student Council
The Student councilStudent council
Student council is a curricular or extra-curricular activity for students within elementary and secondary schools around the world. Present in most public and private K-12 school systems across the United States, Canada and Australia these bodies are alternatively entitled student council, student...
is a student body being run by the students for the welfare and improvement of the student community in the school. The Council is headed by the heads and vice-heads of the Shifts. The Student Council consists of the prefects of each class, active involvement is from class 8-12.Each class has two prefects, a boy and a girl. There are also various other monitors who are responsible for various things like electricity conservation, black board maintenance, furniture maintenance,etc.., These monitors come under the Prefects, but are not included in the hierarchy of the student council.The members of the student council are the representatives of the student community. They frame rules, principles,etc.., for their own community and implement it. The management has empowered the student council to bring in a prominent change in the school recently. The Vice Heads are nominated while they enter HSC 1st Year and they succeed their heads as heads when they enter HSC 2nd Year.
Other activities
The computer is used effectively as a teaching tool right from Std I. A large number of educational CDs on a wide range of topics are made available for the students.A 'Quality Circle', with teams of teachers and students, works on unearthing solutions for innumerable problems, besides identifying scope for further improvement. The QC teams have presented their case study at National & International conventions of QCFI and have bagged numerous awards.
Teacher Training Centre
A full time Teacher Training Centre called LTTC (Laksmi Teacher Training Centre) is available.Purpose : To organise training sessions for all the teachers of the school on various topics of academic interest for consistent academic reinforcement. Besides teaching, methodology courses and workshops are organised throughout the year on areas like attitudes, values, communication skills, reading habit etc. Probably the only centre of its kind functioning in a Matriculation Hr. Sec. School in the state.