The Hindu Inter School Quiz contest organised by National Insurance Company Limited was held on August 20, Monday in Madurai. As many as 232 teams representing various schools from the southern districts of Tamilnadu in the written preliminary round answered 25 questions to make it to the top six for the finals. Our students V. Sri Sivamurugan of class 12 and B. Selvamuthu Balaji of class 11 were one among the top six teams to sit on the hot seat. In the Finals right from the question one of first round to the last question of the Final round they led the show and bagged the first place at the fiercely competed event with 70 points above the first runner up. They have brought laurels to our school and the Tirunelveli city and represented the Madurai region in the National Finale held on August 31 in Kolkatta. To our surprise the organisers of the Quiz sponsored flight tickets to us for attending the National Finale.

The zonal level was conducted across 12 cities in India and the first place winner from all the 12 zones were present in kolkatta on 31^st August, 2018. The Semi Finals was conducted in two pools A and B. We were placed in Semi Final Pool A and battled with toppers of Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Vijayawada and Chennai. It was a neck to neck show and our students played very well and stood first in the Semi Finals and reached the Finals.

The first three places from Semi Finals Pool A and Pool B finally reached the National Finale, the most awaited moment of the day. Every team on the hot seat played very well and the buzzers were alarming continuously even before the questions were completed fully by the quiz master.  It almost looked like a battle between the master brains of India.  Other teams with us on stage were Kochi, Vijayawada, Bangalore, Coimbatore and Mumbai.  We were able to get the Third Place in the National Finale of this Quiz. The students were awarded a cash prize of Rs. 10,000 , Goodies and memorable flight trip to back home.

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In October Sri Jayendra had excellent performances in two T20 tournaments at Under 17 and Under 15 level

Sixteen schools entered Under 17 teams in a T 20 competition organised by V.V. Engineering College, Thisayanvillai.

The Jayendra pupils played professionally and reached the finals where they met Vikasa School, Tuticorin.

With a splendid performance, our players chased the target fixed by Vikasa and won the match after only 16 overs.

They were awarded the Trophy and a cash prize of Rs.5000.

The Pagada Sports Academy of Kovilpatti organized an Under 15,  T 20 Cricket Tournament. Eight teams from  Cricket Academies in Tirunelveli and Tuticorin districts took part.
Our Jayendra boys played consistently and with confidence throughout the tournament eventually reaching the finals where they played the team from the host academy Pagada.

We won the Trophy!

 Arshad Ahmad Khan of Class IX emerged as the Best Bowler and S.Aditya of class VIII was conferred with the ‘Man of the Match’ title.

Congratulations to all the players involved and to our Cricket Coaches Mr.Rajasekar and Mr.Karthik who have brought the teams to such a high standard.

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A zonal athletics meeting was organised at Anna Stadium in Tirunelveli at the end of August 2018.

Thirty two schools entered competitors for individual and team sports.

Our school makes a great effort to encourage both boys and girls to participate in a range of sports so we were able to field competitors in all the events. Our pupils took part with enthusiasm in track and field running distances from 100m to 3000m including relays and in high jump and long jump.

In the Boys Division, we clinched eight gold medals and one in the Girls division giving us 9 Gold, 7 Silver and 5 Bronze medals in total.

This made Sri Jayendra champions of the Zonal Athletics Meet 2018: we were awarded the  Championship Trophy and the Title.

Our Principal and Correspondent expressed their happiness over this victory. They congratulated the Physical Education Department Staff and Students for their hardworking, practice and dedication.

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In September 2018 The Majestic Cricket Club in Nellai organized an under 17 cricket tournament for the southern districts of Tamilnadu.

Eighteen teams from Madurai, Tuticorin and Tirunelveli districts gathered at the Majestic cricket ground in Palayamkottai for the knock out competition. Sri Jayendra entered two teams.

After some brilliant and exciting cricket the two teams to reach the final were Jayendra A and Jayendra B so we finished up playing ourselves in the battle for the trophy!

In the final Jayendra B were victorious despite being our junior side so they collected the trophy and a cash prize of Rs 25,000.

Jayendra A team had to be satisfied with a cash prize of Rs 15,000.

The Stars of the Tournament from our school were:

Dinesh Raj of Class 12 – Best Batsman

Arshad Ahmad Khan of class 9 –Best Bowler

Selva Harish of Class 11 – Player of the Tournament

The entire team and the Coach Mr.Rajasekar were appreciated by the Principal, Correspondent and the management for the Glorious Victory.

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On 25th August the Kindergarten department conducted a Fancy Dress competition for the tiny tots. From 9 am onwards Parents with their dressed up children started assembling in the Priory Hall. The parents were as excited as the children. The Lower Kindergarten children were dressed like flowers, vegetables, fruits or animals, whereas the UKG had many novel ideas such as Palm trees or Maggi Noodles.

It was a very colourful display enjoyed by all – especially the parents who believed it really helped their children’s confidence and allowed them to show off their talents.

The impartial and patient judges were Mrs. Lakshmi, Mrs. Vijaya Giftson and                      Mr. Muthuraj who did their work with much good humour.

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Sri Jayendra has had great performances in two recent Quiz competitions.

The Hindu Inter-School Quiz organised by National Insurance Company Limited was held on 20th August in Madurai.
232 teams took part representing schools from the southern districts of Tamilnadu. A written preliminary round of 25 questions was used to select the top six teams for the finals.
Our pupils V. SriSivamurugan and B. Selvamuthu Balaji  won through to  the top six. In the Finals these two led the show from the first question to the last and bagged the first place with 70 more points than the second team .

This astonishing performance has  brought laurels to our school and also to Tirunelveli city who will be representing the Madurai region in the National Finals to be held on August 31 in Kolkata.

Congratulations to them for this remarkable result.

Only two days earlier on August 18th Sri Jayendra were toppers of all zones at all levels in the Puranava Quiz 2018

Our team of M.J Sanjana and M.G. Indhu Varsha added another feather to Sri Jayendra’s cap.
Puranava Quiz  is an  Indian Heritage Quiz conducted by Global Organisation of Divinity (with the unassuming acronym GOD) in Tamilnadu
Teams from 20 zones are whittled down through several rounds to the best six who then take part in the Finals. Sanjana and  Indhu Varsha were among the six.

Their performance in the Finals was stunning: they answered every question correctly to come First.
They were rewarded with gold coins and gift hampers and since their  scores in the Preliminary rounds were the highest from all the zones they were given a special prize for being the Toppers of All Zones.

They have our heartiest congratulations and appreciation.

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Brad Hogg, the 47 year old Mercurial Chinaman bowler (left arm wrist off spin), who has got 320 wickets across all formats for Australia, visited our school on 10^th of July as  part of promoting Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL): he was to be commentator for the first time for TNPL the next day.

Our students were excited to receive an International Cricket player and gave him a warm welcome by vibrantly playing ‘Parai’ one of the oldest drums of India much featured in South Indian Culture. After a cheerful welcome speech by our Principal Mrs.Usha Raman, Mr.Hogg gave an inspirational address to the students.

Some boys performed Silambam the martial art of Tamilnadu.  He was carried away by their performance and finished up on the ground trying to perform Silamabam!

In the interactive session which followed our students asked many questions which he answered very interestingly and fully. When one of the students asked him ‘From whom you would like to get an autograph’?, he replied ‘Tom Cruise’! adding he found that an interesting question.

 After a dance performance depicting our Tamil Culture with Kavadi, Mayillattam and Poikaal Kuthirai Dance which he appreciated very much and was keen to be photographed with the dancers  we moved to our school cricket nets where he bowled at a few batsmen and encouraged our budding cricketers by signing autographs and giving them a few tips. It was a memorable visit.

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The Mill Hill School Visit

Since 2000, the year of the blooming of the partnership between Sri Jayendra and Mill Hill School, London, the visit of Millhillians in the month of June to our school gives an amazing start to every academic year. On 25^th of June a group of 23 students guided by 4 staff Ms. Sanchez, The Deputy Head of Mill Hill School, London, Mr.Steve, Ms.Hanna and Mr. Fritz. reached Sankarnagar. Our children and staff gave overwhelming welcome to all of them in the morning assembly welcoming and wishing them a good stay with an English song by our school choir.

Interactive sessions

With bubbling excitement our students of class 4 to 8 attended the English classes of the Mill Hill Students. The Millhillians were so kind and concern to our students and taught them through various rhymes, puzzles, games and other activities.

The Geography Staff Ms. Hannah and Maths staff Mr.Steve were keenly interested in knowing our syllabus and observed some of our classes too. They were so nice that they accepted to demonstrate some classes for us and that was really very useful to us.

Experiencing our culture

They loved and experienced our culture here with interest. Every evening the Millhillians had music session with our Music staff and Choir children. They learnt dance with our students. The Millhillians had an amzing experience of visiting Car Festival in Tirunelveli. They also enjoyed the Priory basket ball tournament, an inter school basket ball tournament organized in our school basket ball ground during their presence here.

They loved shopping in our town shops and our school staff accompanied them happily to Courtallam waterfall, Manappadu beach and other places.  During weekends they went to Kodaikkanal and Kanyakumari.

Thanksgiving Ceremony

On July 9, we organized a Thanks Giving Function to Millhillillains who are very close to our heart and special to us. It was a day of mixed emotions. On that day morning a Table Tennis Court in our school campus was inaugurated and dedicated to our school children.

Thanksgiving ceremony with the annual award prize distribution was started at 6 p.m. The ground became so colourful and lively, when the Millhillians entered the ground in Indian costume looking gorgeous.

Our Principal welcomed them wholeheartedly expressing the value our partnership. The school choir gave a wonderful performance with number of songs in different languages making the crowd vibrant. The Millhillians too joined with our choir for few songs.

Then the annual prize distribution for the toppers in the previous academic year started. This year we expressed our joy to the toppers in the board examinations by releasing a stamp in their name.

The highlight of the function was the phenominal dance performance by our students. The alumnae too joined the performance. The folk dances of different states of India like Ghoomer, Jhumar, Bhangra, Kavadi were performed professionally by our students with extraordinary skill and it was spectacular!!

A sumptuous dinner was arranged for all in the basket ball ground. The ground filled with joy, tears, goodbyes between us and the Millhillians.

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The Hindu Young World Quiz is India’s largest inter-school live quiz. This year the 18^th edition of the Quiz for the southern districts of Tamilnadu was held in Madurai on 22nd January. It was conducted by the eminent quiz master Mr.V.V.Ramanan.

Students from classes 7, 8 and 9 took part in the Senior category. In the Preliminary round 106 teams battled it out to win one of only six places the grand finale. A magnificent performance saw two teams from Sri Jayendra coming first and third and taking two of the hot seats on the stage: the other four teams were from Madurai schools.
We are proud to say that Sri Jayendra is the only school from Tirunelveli to reach the finals of this prestigious quiz each year for the last three years.

As well as such things as an audio/video round and an India-themed round, the teams also had an opportunity to identify a South Indian Actor whose face was hidden behind a matrix of 24 questions, each correct answer revealing a square.  In an exciting competition where the lead kept changing Nantha Balan & Mohamed Sameer eventually started to dominate answering all the questions thrown at them and additionally playing 8 buzzer questions at lightning speed. This took them to an unbeatable score of 185 points pushing  Jeevana School, Madurai into second place trailing 85 points behind.

Nivetha and Arun narayanan, the other Jayendran team in the finals also played well and reached  third place close behind Jeevana School

The teams in the final were awarded trophies, goodies, certificates and gift hampers  and additionally the overall winners, Nantha Balan and Mohammed Sameer of class 9, were each presented with bicycles.

Our Principal Mrs.Usha Raman congratulated our school quiz teams for achieving this great feat!

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