Students of Chennai schools might soon find their classroom
activities and projects, the subjects of household chatter. In an
attempt to make the most of the best practices in Chennai schools and
achievements of its students, the Chennai Corporation has decided to
have periodical newsletters exclusively on the schools.

The
initiative taken up by the Education Department of the Chennai
Corporation is an attempt to ensure that model practices and events in
the schools do not die down within the classroom walls, but are emulated
by other schools and education experts. It will also provide a forum
for the students to bring out their unique projects, achievements in
competitions and their contributions in various fields into the public
domain.

The initiative is being launched by the Corporation with
the assistance of Everest Edusys and Solutions Private Limited which has
been providing the QED Science Galleries in the Corporation Schools.
“We hope to bring out the first edition of the newsletter soon after
Pongal. A small editorial team will take up the input from all the
schools and put it together in the paper. The publication and
distribution will be done by the Chennai Corporation,” sad the Vice
President of the Business Development of Everest Edusys and Solutions,
Uma Mahesh.

According to the tentative pattern, the newsletter
will have four pages and will be bilingual, with Tamil and English. One
page will have photo feature meanwhile the others too will have many
pictures and less test so that parents and others from any background is
easily able to comprehend the text.

Officials said that the
target was publish the newsletters at least on a fortnightly basis. “We
hope that through the students it will reach the parents and the public
also. This will require around a 1 lakh copies of the newsletter. We
hope to bring it out at least once fortnight,” said a senior official
with the Chennai Corporation’s Education department.

The Chennai
Corporation will soon have six more school science galleries in the
city, bringing it a total of 10 science galleries in the city and to one
science gallery per zone. These are to be opened within this academic
year.