A team of four staff from our school: Mrs. Padma Ramesh; Mrs. Kalpana Nagarajan; Mr. Selvakumar and Mr. Vanchi Gopalakrishnan are visiting Mill Hill School, London to take part in our Educational Exchange Programme. They arrived in London on 01 March 2013 and will stay for nearly four weeks. This is the fifth group of teachers who have visited Mill Hill.

They left with great excitement and anticipation and we hope this was not dimmed when  they landed in England in temperatures only a degree or two above freezing point. The first two days were spent acclimatising and finding their feet. Bundled up in warm clothes supplied by Mill Hill they have already had a day in London and another visiting St Albans a few miles to the north.

We hope to hear news of their experiences at the school in the near future. We know they will find many things strange but they are assured of a very warm welcome which will make up for the very cold weather.

The Management, Staff and Students wish them to come back with cherishable memories.

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On 16 Feb 2013, the Rotary Club of Tirunelveli West organized the VISWAS QUIZ 2013 which is held in memory of the late Mr. Rm. K. Viswanathan. The quiz was held in the Priory Conference Centre for  Tirunelveli and Tuticorin District schools.

Mr. V.V. Ramanan of Hindu Young World fame conducted Viswas 2013. The audience were interested and inquisitive and the tempo of excitement was maintained throughout the show. Our school pupils Srinidhi and Kaushik of IX standard bagged the second place and another team, Ramakrishnan and Sri Ram Mahesh also of IX standard, were on stage in the final six but missed the third place very narrowly. Nevertheless a very pleasing performance. Congratulations to all four.

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A word of thanks is not enough for Miss Laura Clark from England, who was a voluntary teacher in our School for a month. With her skillful teaching, she created an enthusiastic environment for learning French among our higher secondary level students. With her dedicated efforts our school website was activated in the first week of February. Our students extended their thanks from the bottom of their heart and also expressed their wish for her come back.

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To celebrate their Silver Jubilee the Aravind Eye hospital in Tirunelveli organized an inter-school competition.  Forty schools entered XI standard candidates into each of four competitions: Oratorical, Science Quiz, Essay Writing and Poster Design. Astonishingly Sri Jayendra came first in two of these and second in the others.

S. Ganeshwar won the Oratorical competition, our team of M. Nowrin Fatima and B. Selva Ganesh came first in the Science Quiz, P. Faseena Beevi was second in Essay writing and G. Abisha Mary came second in Poster Design.  For students from a single school to take so many awards against so much competition is remarkable. Congratulations to all concerned.

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On  2^nd February the V standard had an outing to Thiruparappu Falls. Although there was much less water than normal there was sufficient for all the pupils to get suitably soaked and have a very enjoyable time. The children were delighted to find that when they had their picnic lunch by the river a number of elephants were there being bathed by their keepers. A charming sight!

Moving on to Thotti Paalam (Aqueduct) we were disappointed to find there was no water whatsoever flowing through the channel. This made the pupils realise the water situation in Tamil Nadu at the moment is indeed grave. Nevertheless we all enjoyed a walk across the aqueduct with its impressive views.

On the three hour return journey the teachers were of course exhausted but the children had sufficient energy to be very lively indeed for the entire time: the journey was enjoyed by everyone under the age twenty.

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Two XI Standard students: Nruhari Vishwanath S and Asoka R G pulled off a double triumph when they entered the apparatus they had designed and built to demonstrate energy transformations into two separate competitions and won prizes in both.

Their apparatus converted energy from a foot pressing on a rubber bag of water into electrical energy. Their knowledgeable and eloquent explanation of the energy transformations involved impressed the judges in both the District Level Science Exhibition organized by India Cements at Sankar School on 22^nd January, where they won first prize and also at the RECT Polytechnic Science Exhibition which was held a week later where they came second: an impressive performance from two impressive students.

Coming first in the Sankar Cements competition won  Rs.5,000 for the School. The second place at RECT Polytechnic gained the pair Rs.3,000 to share: a most welcome reward for their efforts.

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A musical tribute to Saint Thyagaraja, the greatest of South India’s music composers and an all time musical prodigy, was held on 27 January 2013. For the third year Dr. Sundar from Chennai and his Musical Forum visited the School to perform Carnatic music

The songs of delicate divinity, melodic beauty and high artistic sense, mesmerised the audience.

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We were proud to perform our dance “The National Integration Dance of India” on Republic Day in the Anna Stadium. The dance depicted various folk dances from different Indian states. The vibrant performance and the attractive, colourful costumes impressed the crowd and the District Collector who was in attendance. There was no doubt that amongst the many schools that performed, Jayendra stood out and many people expressed their appreciation.

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On Saturday 19th January the II Standard pupils went on a tour to visit the Winter Beverage factory and Five Falls waterfall at Courtallam. The tour of the juice factory was a great success as the children were all given samples to drink and  Mr. K. Alagusundaram, the Proprieter, generously gave each child a gift of a tiffin box and some stationary.

After a picnic lunch in  the Courtallam Eco Park playgrounds there was plenty of time to play before cooling off in the Five Falls waterfall. Actually the poor monsoon meant there was only one fall which was sufficient for all the children to enjoy themselves but not enough to dowse their spirits: they sang continuously on the coach all the way home.

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Five Falls

On Tuesday we held Samathuva Pongal at the School. This celebrates the apparent northern movement of the sun  from the Tropic of Capricorn to the Tropic of Cancer which heralds the onset of summer and the harvest. We were honoured to host a celebration  in collaboration with the International Association for Religious Freedom. The function was open to all irrespective of caste or creed and not only pupils and staff but many local villagers enjoyed the fun. Pongal was prepared (a rice dish) and consumed with relish. Pupils were amused to see their Principal and senior staff dancing with obvious delight.

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