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IntroductionThe School is located in the District of Madurai, 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. Lakshmi Vidya SanghamLakshmi Vidya Sangham, named after Srimathi. Lakshmi Ammal, wife of T. V. Sundaram Iyengar 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 Various CommitteesThe 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 CouncilThe Student council 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[when?]. 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 activitiesThe 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 CentreA 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. The Skating GroundThe Roller skating 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. Sporting EventsThe 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. |
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Working of the SchoolThe School works in Two Shifts, commonly called as the FORENOON (FN) Shift and the AFTERNOON (AN) Shift. Forenoon ShiftThe 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 ShiftThe 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, Thirunagar, which has the highest population in the AN Shift bus service, SS Colony,Kalavasal etc.., LOSALOSA - Lakshmi Old Students Association,is the alumni association of TVS Matriculation Higher Secondary School. It has taken the role of conducting inter-school cultural and sports competitions amongst schools, from the city and around the state. The Cultural festival organized by LOSA is considered to be the grandest school cultural fest in Madurai which evokes participation from schools all across the state. The latest LOSA culturals was conducted between 10-12 July 2009. The next culturals will be conducted between the 16-18 July 2010 organised by 2007 passout students. A marathon was held to create social awareness on "female Infanticide" on first week of July 2010. A website was launched as a part of LOSA 2010 (LOSA WebSite).It will continue to grow and serve all alumni of the institution. InfrastructureCommodious buildings spread over fifteen acres (6.1 hectares) of land. The Lab facilities are believed to be one of the finest in the country 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. |
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