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Reading club - October 2024
On 23rd of October, the Reading club of Vidya Mandir invited Mrs.Hema Murali to conduct an interactive session, which was attended by 100 students. The session “Being an effective reader,writer and storyteller” ,began by exploring the benefits of reading and discovered the power of storytelling in making information memorable. Mrs.Hema shared a childhood story that still resonates with her, demonstrating the impact of simple yet well-told stories. Students learnt a handy technique for impromptu storytelling using their palm. Mrs Hema provided valuable tips on effective storytelling leaving a lasting impression on one's mind . Moving on to writing, students discovered the PIE acronym for crafting compelling stories: (P: Persuade ; I: Inform ; E: Entertain). Students also explored the steps to write a book and analyzed literature examples to identify authors' purposes to write a story. The session concluded with an uplifting song celebrating the joy of reading.
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Effervescence club - August 2024
On 8th of August, Effervescence club organized two exciting events, "Connexions" and "ChemToon. In the "Connexions" event, participants were challenged to identify the underlying chemistry concept by connecting a series of pictures. The "Chem Cartooning" event allowed members to tap into their artistic side on the topic “Chemistry in the Kitchen” through their informative cartoons.
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SPAM Club - August 2024
On the 10th August, members of SPAM attended a LecDem by Shri. Vytheeswar, a noted alumnus of our school and Smt. Hamsini Vytheeswar. It was an interesting and interactive session which made the students realise the importance of listening to various music compositions and yesteryear artists and the session emphasised on the importance of gamakas and threw light on the connect of human voice to Veena.
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Environment club- August 2024
The students of the environment club went on a lake safari to Jeeyar lake and Chappan kulam on the 3rd of August. During the guided trip, the members of the club learnt the importance of our local waterbodies, the impact of human activities on the waterbodies and how our little acts can have a ripple effect affecting the lives in ocean. During the trip the members also had to opportunity to throw seed balls along the bund to reinforce it with more vegetation in the years to come.
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Effervescence club - July 2024
On 22nd of July, the Effervescence club organized two engaging events "crossword" and "creative writing" that showcased the diverse talents of its members. The submissions of creative writing on the topic " The superhero element" were impressive, ranging from stories to poems about the beauty of various elements. Overall, both the events were well-received by the students and encouraged them to think outside the box and explore the artistic side of Chemistry.
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Reading Club - July 2024
On the 20th of July, the Reading Club of Vidya Mandir invited Mrs. Rekha Mahesh to lead an engaging session on the art of story telling for its members. The session began with a lively game of Chinese Whispers, following which Mrs. Mahesh delved into the evolution of storytelling, tracing its journey from ancient cave paintings all the way to contemporary books. She challenged students to create an acronym for the word "story" and tasked them with creating a bookmark using their acronym and then writing a short story, as well. The children enthusiastically embraced the activities, finding inspiration throughout the session.
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ASTRONOMY CLUB - July 2024
An activity was conducted on the 16th of July, 2024, by the Astronomy Club, for the students of Grade 6 of Vidya Mandir. They were given ten minutes to create a paper aeroplane of any shape or size of their liking. Once made, the paper aeroplane would be thrown by the student that made it, and the distance it covered was measured as the distance from the point it was thrown to the point the tip of the plane touched. The students enjoyed both the creative and competitive aspect of it, and the following are the students whose aeroplanes covered the furthest distance: In first place, Jadon of 6D with a distance of 14.3m; In second place, Abhinav of 6C with a distance of 13.85m; and in third place, A.K. Mohit of 6D with a distance of 11m.
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Math Club October 2023
About 19 of the Math Club members visited to Srinivasa Ramanujan Museum & Education centre, Chennai. In the museum there were many pictures of Srinivasa Ramanujan’s houses, his family members and the people who had aided him in his life. Also some interesting math facts and tricks that he had discovered were exhibited. There were also many letters that he had written to different people. There were also books on him and books of his theories. The students we divided ourselves into groups and did some interesting activities to prove some basic theorems. They explored lot of identities and theorems using the kits provided. Students were also asked to show the proofs of those mathematical results.
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Reading Club October 2023
An Art Integrated Reading Club Activity was conducted on 28.Oct 2023 . RSGeeta taught students to make folder which could be used for filing activity sheets. Students were then asked to choose their favourite character from the book and design the cover page for the folder. Students thoroughly enjoyed the activity and very happy to carry their own designed folder
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Career and College Guidance Cell - 2023
This Guidance Cell aims at providing students with information and guidance on the different career paths in life, based on past experiences and accounts of our school’s Alumni. The Cell meeting on Oct 7 had ten different people from a variety of conflicting jobs, careers, professions, and part-time gigs: a chef, vet, psychotherapist, architect, comedian, photographer, violinist, engineer, journalist, and a naturalist. The Alumni went 5 at a time, in a panel with a parent volunteer as a moderator. Students were given slips with questions to ask during the session. A great success, and we hope this Cell will continue to provide us with more advice in the future.
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Heritage Club - Field trip '23
Heritage Club students went for a field trip to Thiruvarur, followed by Thanjavur. The students had a guided tour of the UNESCO heritage site - Brihadeeswarar temple to understand the architectural style of Cholas. Students also visited the Gangaikonda temple and Dharasuram temple during the course of their visit.
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Heritage Club - September 2023
Class 9th and 10th grade students participated in several heritage quizzes and won prizes. In INTACH heritage quiz, our students were placed second and third respectively. In the Chennai quiz organized by the Chennai School, our school was placed second in the private schools category. It was about Chennai and Greater Chennai Corporation. VM placed runner's up position and won a cash prize of Rs.7000. Vidya Mandir school has also won the second place in VISTAS Velocity quiz’23 organised by the Vels Vidyashram with a cash prize of Rs.15000.
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MUN September 2023
Vidya Mandir students participated in several Model United Nations in the year 2023 like PSBBMUN, NPSMUN, SANMUN, CHINMUN, CHSVMUN, CVMUN and won several accolades like Verbal Mention, High Commendation and Best delegate and Best School Award.
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Environment Club- Tree Walk Aug 2023
Students of the environment club in our school were taken on a “tree walk” in the Indiranagar area, Adayar, on the 5th of Aug 2023. During the walk we observed 30 different tree species and learnt about their origin, history and ecological significance. We were also able to observe 12 different animal species that depended on these trees. From this engaging session, children not only learnt about the importance of trees in our neighbourhood, but also learned the importance of choosing the right tree to plant. They learnt the importance of planting native trees over the introduced varieties.
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Concurrence Club - August 2023
The first session of the Maths club or concurrence club was conducted on 3rd August, 2023. It was a quiz activity conducted by two alumni of our school Muralidhara Samarth and Sarang. The session started around 3.15 pm post school where members of the math’s club gathered in the math’s lab. They were divided into 6 groups of 4 to 5 members each. The quiz consisted of 3 rounds. The first round was multiple choice. Most of the questions were pattern-based sums which were confusing at first but were interesting to solve. The second round was general knowledge. This round introduced to many noteworthy mathematicians and their contributions to the subject. The third round was Dum charades. Five different math’s terms were written down in chits and one person would have to act out the term or give verbal hints as to what it could be. The game tested their skills in communication and knowledge of concepts. Overall, the activity was both engaging and enlightening. To some it served as a revision of old concepts and to others, it served as an introduction to topics that would be covered in future. The concurrence club members are looking forward to the next session.
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Art Club June 2023
Art Club has been teaching it's members fun activities in Arts and Crafts. Inko Centre Teenage Art and Design Contest was held on 15thJune 2023. Classes VIII to XII were allowed to participate. Forty students took part in the contest. Ten best paintings were selected and it's photograph was sent to Inko centre in jpg format.
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Reading club - July 2023
The first reading club session was conducted on 22nd July 2023 by Mrs. Yamini Selvakumar from Books Trail – an expert Book Reading Trainer & amp; who also runs a Library. She had an excellent interactive session with the students. The Trainer asked about 7 questions to which students replied based on which she gave tips- on how to read books, the selection of books suiting their interests, tastes, etc. She also gave valuable tips on how to build/construct a story and the writing skills involved in it. It was informative and great learning for the students who aspire and evince interest in reading and writing books.
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Art Club - July 2023
On Saturday, 8th July 2023 an activity, 'Sand Art' was conducted for Art club members. An instructor from Dakshina Chitra taught them this art. This was done by pouring coloured pigment and sand on chart surface which had a design on which fevicol was applied. 20 students participated in this event.
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Reading Club June 2023
National reading day was celebrated on June 19. On this day, the book “Our Imaginative Souls” was released which featured the Peter's mystical journey, a fantasy short story, written by SRIKANTA of 7B Our principal, Mrs. Shobha Raman, then recited the poem “I opened a BOOK” by Julia Donaldson and asked the students to read, gain knowledge and grow. Various activities were planned for the students to celebrate the reading day and week. Students assembled near the Ganesha Temple in the school sat in groups and read the book. Students also read about Pazhassi Raja, a true warrior king who fought the British and earned the title, Kerala Simhan. The students learned about the unsung hero and were asked to write about some inspiration from his life.
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LIBRARY WEEK 2022
This years library week competition was held in December for middle school students. Bookmark for class6, Book cover design for class 7, Poster design for class 8 was conducted. Emphasis was laid on Creativity, originality for the competition. The students participated enthusiastically.
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CONCURRENCE November 2022
On 19th November 2022, from 12pm-2pm, the members of the club had an opportunity to associate with the Wonderful Mathematics educator Mr. Sadagopan Rajesh who has been teaching Mathematics to all age groups from 10 years to IITians, motivating all with a variety of creative and designed courses. The day started with a screening of a few ppts of some students on mathematicians,which was followed by a demonstration of the models of Tesseract and a kaleidoscope to explain the symmetry and the 4th dimension by our 12 grade students Nila and Tanusha. Then Prizes and Certificates were distributed by the Chief guest to the members who won a few contests conducted earlier this year. Then Mr. sadagopan Rajesh spoke about a few real life problems with a title "Beautiful Mathematics".He explained how to approach problems,think differently to arrive at easy solutions. Children were listening keen and enjoyed every moment.
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Trekkers Club August 2022
On 27th August 2022, a team of excited trekkers from class 8, boarded the overnight train and reached Erode on 28th August 2022, and transited to the campsite, Anisha Organic Farm, near Martahalli, Chamraj Nagar District, Karnataka. After settling down at the campsite, post lunch the team went on a acclimatisation trek to the nearby hillock, which was thoroughly enjoyed.
On 29th August 2022, the team went to the Guru Seethapathy Betta hill, which is near Kollegal. The trekking was both enthralling and an exhausting experience for all the students.
On 30th August, the last day of the trekking where the students explored the campsite which was full of greenery and boarded the train and reached Chennai on the same day. -
Concurrence August 2022
Members were asked to submit a PowerPoint presentation on mathematicians. We received 20 PowerPoints on various mathematicians and their inventions. They were sent to the esteemed judges, our retired teachers Ms.Uma Nagarajan and Ms. Harikripa Kannan. They appreciated the involvement and effort of all our participants and selected the top 5 PowerPoints as prize winners.
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Concurrence and Astronomy club August 2022
On Saturday 13th August, a total of 47 members from Maths club and Astronomy club visited Birla Planetarium. The students were accompanied by VVM miss, HD miss, JTK miss and GSN sir. The students visited the Ramanujam museum wing, which contained a variety of information, facts and models of various mathematical and scientific concepts. Apart from this, they also had an opportunity to view many interesting biological specimens and learnt a lot about our solar system. The trip was extremely enjoyable and educational at the same time.
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Reading Club July 2022
On July 23 rd , 2022 Mrs. Akshaya Ravishankar of Crea-Shakthi conducted a workshop for 85 students on Stories, Stories everywhere - A 60 minutes workshop on story-based learning. Following the ice breaker session students were on their feet to play an interactive game to self-introduce themselves. Then students were divided into groups and were given pictures (7 wonders of the world) as a lead to imagine, create and write characters and build up the story after discussing with their team mates.
Once they were ready, the stories were shared and read by Mrs. Akshaya. The session concluded with Mrs. Akshaya explaining and joining the dots between reading, facts, real life experiences, fiction, imagination and creativity and based on these how a good story could be created. The session was full of enthusiastic children crating highly imaginative characters and story. The children thoroughly enjoyed the interactive workshop. -
Effervescence July 2022
Effervescence club started its activities for the academic year 2022 on 23rd July by conducting two events –Connexions and Model making. The competition was between the four blocks of the club. Two teams per block participated in both the events. Connexions based on concepts in chemistry was organized and conducted by VM alumni of 2022 batch in a very interesting manner. Topic for Model making was “Molecules” and was given to the students on spot. Students participated in both the events with great enthusiasm and experienced Art Integrated Learning of Chemistry.
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Environment Club July 2022
On July 16th the environment club members had the opportunity to walk through the Kotturpuram Urban Forest. This forest is developed by Nizhal foundation, an organisation which reclaimed what used to be a dump yard, and helped in the growth and preservation of plants there to make it an urban forest. During the walk, students learnt a lot of interesting facts about various trees, their uses, and how they had a key role in shaping our city and its culture- such as the Arjuna Tree that is a host to the Tussar silkworm, the Purasa maram that gives its name to “Purasaravakkam” and the Vagai maram, the flowers of which was used to garland the victorious king after war, giving meaning to saying “Vaagai sooda vaa”. Most importantly children learnt how they can contribute to nature by planting a few saplings, taking care of the trees on their street, or by spreading awareness.
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Art Club June 2022
Ice cream stick pen holder making workshop was held on Saturday 18th June 2022 in the arts room. Students made a base for sticking the Ice Cream sticks using a thick paper, glue was given to the students to stick the Ice Cream sticks on the base.
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Concurrence June 2022
The mathematics club “CONCURRENCE” organized a MATH QUIZ on 18th of June for its club members, which was conducted by SHASHANK KALYANARAMAN, ISHANI MUKHERJEE and ADITHYA SRIRAM, who are alumni of VM. The aim of the quiz was to make the students realize the beauty of mathematics, understand its role in enhancing our logical and critical thinking skills and also to appreciate the contribution of great mathematicians in the past. The quiz was executed as two rounds – a written preliminary round and the final round. A total of 16 teams consisting of 2 students each, participated in the preliminary round. Out of the 16 teams, 5 teams qualified for the finals. The final round consisted of interesting and challenging questions, riddles and rebuses. The audience as well as the teams thoroughly enjoyed the quiz and learnt a lot.
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Reading Club September 2021
Class 9 had a session on Creating a STORYBOARD and using it as a tool to organize ideas and create a story. The visual impact of the storyboard was discussed and activities were conducted. The online session of these activities were enjoyed by the students and encouraged them to continue reading during the pandemic
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Interact Club August 2021
The August month was very eventful for the Interact club. We conducted various activities for students of classes 9 - 11 including events on International youth day, Senior Citizens day (session with the residents of Akshaya Homes). We conducted sessions alongside organisations such as Sevalaya (Virtual tour to commemorate Aadi), Anubandham (An interactive session with students of Gowrin Special School), “End the stigma now” (A mental health awareness session, conducted by clinical psychologist Janani Vasanth). Holistically, we conducted the Photography Day event and had photographs and poems from various schools exhibited. Former teacher, Anuradha Prasad, presided over the Humanitarian day event involving an inter-school speech and quiz competition. We also conducted a blue cross virtual tour event along with Vidya Mandir Estancia; to which we invited general manager mr. Dawn Williams. We inaugurated our first long term project ‘Tech4all”, an initiative aimed at reaching out to children who require devices, reconnecting them to education and rejoicing in our contribution to society.
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Reading Club August 2021
Mrs. Jyotsna Natraj conducted a session on the Importance of reading and writing in shaping one's personality for Class 7 in the month of August. She spoke about how reading impacted her growing up years. The journey of 2 authors Christopher Paolini and LM Montgomery in becoming authors were discussed.A discussion on their books made the session interesting for the students.
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Commerce Club August 2021
On 6th August, Mr.Gokulraj from KEW Academy, a Chartered Accountant by profession, and teacher by passion addressed the gathering. The students were highly enthusiastic to know about the commerce field from him. His personal story inspired all the students and broke stereotypes about the CA course and gave the students a clear roadmap of the various career options available and emphasised them to take their own decisions. It was a great learning experience for the students.
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Concurrence July 2021
On 24th, the quiz titled BRAIN TEASERS was prepared and conducted for class 12 by some students of the same class. Our Alumnus A J Surya also joined the session to encourage students and discuss some techniques to create interesting quizzes. On 31st a quiz on LOGICAL REASONING was conducted for class 11 via alumnus Nanda H Krishna which enabled the students to prove their capabilities beyond the predicted syllabus.
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Reading Club July 2021
Reading club published the second edition of its newsletter "Book Worms" in the month of July. Click here for the Newsletter
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Effervescence July 2021
Effervescence Club, the Chemistry Club of Vidya Mandir, Mylapore started the activities for the academic year 2021-22 by conducting two online events each for classes 11 and 12. For Class 11, Graphite impression, a chemistry-based creative writing competition and Spin a Polymer, a story narrating competition was conducted by giving three chemistry-based terms to each participant with two minutes of preparation time and two minutes for narration. For Class 12, Lexichem – a combination of Chem Sudoku, Rebus, Anagram, crossword, and Brisk Effervescence, a science quiz was conducted.
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Environment Club July 2021
On the 14th of July, “Flying Colours” a presentation about 10 birds covering their habitat and other special features was done by Dr. Uma Balasubramanyam for class 8. The main objective of this activity was to teach the students the importance of conserving nature and also to get them started on “Birding”. The Presentation was enjoyed by all the students. For class 9, a presentation was conducted by members of YNN( Young Naturalists Network) – Ms. Smriti Mahesh (alumnus-2019-20), Mr. Aditya Ramakrishnan ( alumnus-2019-20), Ms. Ekadh Ranganath, and Ms. Anooja. It included pictures of varied species of birds, insects, arachnids, reptiles, centipedes, and millipedes in the VM campus. It was very informative and kindled the interest of many students. The main objective was to throw light on the importance of Bio Diversity.
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Commerce Club July 2021
The first ever online commerce club activity was held on Saturday, 31st July. Ms. Kavitha Deendayalan, a lawyer with over 15 years of experience held a fascinating discussion on a variety of topics such as the Constitution of India, the Preamble, Article 14 and 15 in the Constitution of India, socio-economic justice, and various case laws that she had personally taken up.
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Heritage Club July 2021
Heritage Club flagged off its activities in class 6 and 8 for this academic year with a colourful and vibrant presentation on Indian Culture and Heritage, covering aspects from our traditions, customs, yoga, medicine to dance forms, music and arts. Besides the students participated in INTACH poster making competitions on the occasions of World Yoga Day and World Environment Day enthusiastically. Students of Class 8 will be attending a workshop on FILMIT – a video making event organised by INTACH in August.
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Reading Club June 2021
On account of National Reading Month (June 19- July 18) , a newsletter was launched by the Reading club. Essay writing, poster designing and bookmark making activities are planned for classes 6 to 10. Primary had week long activities. Classes 1 and 2 had activities related to reading and classes 3 to 5 had 'Reading Quiz'.
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Concurrence June 2021
A PPT on the topic “Clocks and Calendars” was presented to class 10. History of clocks and calendars, various tricks to solve problems on mirror image and water image of clocks, and days and dates of calendars were discussed. A session titled “Fun with Numbers” was conducted for class 9 which included interesting facts, riddles, and amazing tricks to find results on some numbers.
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SPAM June 2021
We hosted 'The Great Masters Series' program created by SPICMACAY on the evening of 5/6/2021. This series is about great teachers of the music world remembered fondly by their student. We were fortunate to have Dr. S. Sowmya recall the traits of her guru Dr. S. Ramanathan, followed by a Q &A session by our inquisitive students. The 350 strong VM participants also enjoyed a combination of some famous songs rendered by the great master and rare photographs of his life. In all it was a great learning experience us for students and look forward for more such in the future. Click here for the video
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MUN June 2021
VM MUN Club members participated in the Chettinad Hari Shree Vidyalayam MUN organised on 19th and 20th June and won several awards. VM MUN Team was adjudged the best delegation at the event by the Secretariat of the CHSVMUN.
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MUN May 2021
The Vidya Mandir Model United Nations was conducted on 28th and 29thMay’21 for the students of classes 9 and 10 through an online platform.
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MUN April 2021
On the 24th and 25th of April 2021, our school attended our first MUN of the calendar year- Amity University (Rajasthan) Model United Nations - through an online platform. Saaransh of class 11 winning a special mention along with a cash prize of 3000 rupees.