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Corporation plans to develop ‘Schools of Excellence'

Wednesday, 30 June 2010 04:50 administrator
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The Hindu        30.06.2010

Corporation plans to develop ‘Schools of Excellence'

Meera Srinivasan

It has identified 10 schools to serve as model in every zone

Model schools will admit students from kindergarten to class XII

— Photo: M. Karunakaran

The Chennai Higher Secondary School, Thiruvanmiyur, is one of the schools being considered for development into a ‘School of Excellence.'

CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation has prepared a list of its schools that are likely to be developed into ‘Schools of Excellence'. They will serve as models for all Chennai Schools, run by the civic body.

List of schools

The 10 schools identified for consideration are Chennai Higher Secondary School, Appasamy Lane, Old Washermenpet; Chennai Girls Higher Secondary School, Madhavaram High Road, Perambur; Chennai Girls Higher Secondary School, Pulla Avenue, Shenoy Nagar; Chennai High School, V.P.Koil Street, Mylapore; Chennai Boys Higher Secondary School, Nungambakkam; Chennai Girls Higher Secondary School, Nungambakkam; Chennai Higher Secondary School, Puliyur; Chennai Boys Higher Secondary School, Saidapet; Chennai Girls Higher Secondary School, Saidapet; and Chennai Higher Secondary School, Thiruvanmiyur.

Series of initiatives

The civic body had announced a series of initiatives in its budget for 2010-11 to revamp its schools. The initiative to set up a model school as a school of excellence in every zone was also part of it.

According to Corporation Commissioner Rajesh Lakhoni, all Chennai schools in a particular zone would try and emulate the model schools in all respects.

“We are looking at both hardware and software. While hardware includes aspects such as furniture, a uniform colour of paint, furniture labs and libraries, the software looks at aspects such as number of teacher and class strength,” he told The Hindu on Monday.

Modalities of admission

The model schools would admit students from kindergarten to class XII. The modalities of admission and ther parameters will be presented to the Corporation Council at its next meeting for approval, he said.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 June 2010 04:52
 

City corporation schools do an encore

Thursday, 27 May 2010 06:03 administrator
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The New Indian Express     27.05.2010

City corporation schools do an encore

CHENNAI: Braving all odds to prove that the civic bodyrun schools can also bring in excellent results year after year, the Chennai school children have secured a pass percentage of 85.33 in the SSLC examinations.

Just like the previous year when the Chennai schools improved their performance by three percent to reach 82.5 per cent pass, students this year too proved their mettle and registered three per cent increase.

While three girls shared the first place among the Chennai schools' Class X results, a boy stood second and again two girls shared the third spot in bringing laurels to the 322yearold Chennai Corporation.

The top spot was shared by three girls - S Ashpunisha, student of Chennai Girls Higher Secondary School, Saidapet, K Sangeetha, student of Chennai Girls Higher Secondary School, Nungambakkam, and K Krithika, student of Chennai Girls Higher Secondary School, Pulla Avenue, Shenoy Nagar, with 487 marks out of 500.

While S Arumugam of Chennai Higher Secondary School, Thiruvanmiyur, garnered the second spot with 486 marks, Vasantha Kumari of Chennai Girls Higher Secondary School, Saidapet, and J Vishnupriya of Chennai Higher Secondary School, Maduvinkarai, shared third place with 483 marks.

Adding feather to its cap, three Chennai schools produced centum results this year against only one school last year.

In a statement, Mayor M Subramanian who was away on a foreign trip greeted the Chennai school toppers.

Last Updated on Thursday, 27 May 2010 06:05
 

Corporation school students shine

Thursday, 27 May 2010 04:13 administrator
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The Hindu      27.05.2010

Corporation school students shine

Staff Reporter

MADURAI: The SSLC results announced on Wednesday have seen a marginal decline in the pass percentage among Corporation Schools in the city.

A total of 2,698 students appeared for the examinations and 2,343 succeeded with an overall pass percentage of 87.

There was a marginal decline of two per cent as it stood at 89 per cent last year.

T. G. Vidhya of Ponmudiyar Corporation Girls Higher Secondary School has scored 485 marks to become topper among the Corporation schools in the district.

Her score has made her poor parents to decide to educate her further and feed her ambition to become a doctor with hard work. “My father is a weaver and he rarely gets a job these days and so it was my elder brother who had to discontinue studies and help us. Keeping this in mind, I concentrated hard to perform well,” said an emotional Vidhya.

With no private tuition and special care, she was able to perform greatly.

Three schools Maraimalai Adigalar Corporation High School, Corporation High School, Anuppanadi and Masathiyar Corporation Girls High School in the city got 100 per cent results.

Maraimalai Adigalar and Anuppanadi Schools have secured cent per cent results after they came under the Madurai Corporation's effort to provide special training with boarding facilities to marginalised students, said S. Sebastine, Commissioner, Madurai Corporation.

Continue higher studies

Heads of Corporation Schools have plans to make sure that the students who passed out make it to higher studies without any hindrance and teachers would be counselling them in this regard, he said. For the 357 students who have failed, efforts are on to sort out grey areas and help them become successful in the next month's examinations.

Following the success of special coaching with boarding facilities in increasing the confidence of students, Mr. Sebastine said that plans were there to include the expenses incurred under special provision in the revised corporation budget and extend them to plus two students.

T.G.Vidhya was followed by I. Selvalakshmi of Kasturba Gandhi Corporation Girls Higher Secondary School with 483 marks and R. Monica of E.V.R. Nagammai Corporation Girls Higher Secondary School and Leela (a) Ponmalar of Jai Gopal Garodia Corporation Girls Higher Secondary School shared third place with a score of 479 marks.

No tuitions

All the toppers wanted to become doctors and serve the society and none of them had opted for private tuitions.

Last Updated on Thursday, 27 May 2010 04:58
 
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