Senior Secondary School

Literary Club

The Literary Club provides students a take-off point to the work of Literature - English, Tamil, Hindi and Sanskrit. It creates opportunities to enhance their taste in reading, their sense of appreciation of literary expressions and their scope to emulate great literary figures through their works. The members also have opportunities to view outstanding plays and performances in the city. The club also conducts annual Inter-House Dramatics contest as well as a Literary Week involving various activities and presentation.

The Debating Club, a branch of LIterary Club of Bala Vidya Mandir prepares students to participate in debating competitions.

• For the second year in succession the team comprising of Abhinav.P, Tanmay.S, Prahlad.V, Krutika Sri Krishna, Deekshita.G and Prashanth.S made it to the final of Debating Matters held at British Council in November 2009.
• Siddharth and Sanchit have been selected to represent India in WSDC 2010 in Doha Qatar.

THE LITERARY CLUB ACTIVITIES

NOVEMBER 2012

INTER- HOUSE  ENGLISH  DRAMATICS

The  Inter-house  English  Dramatics of Bala  Vidya  Mandir  was held  on 7th of November  2012 in the Vidya Peet. The  four  houses  Kailash, Kanchenjunga, Nangaparbat  and  Neelkanth  put up different and very interesting
  performances.

The   participants  of  the  Kailash  house began with a play named “The Heavenly Excursion” which was based on a war  between good and evil. This was followed by a very different but equally  engrossing  fairy-tale based play by the  Neelkanth  house. Kanchenjunga staged a hilarious play based on the kidnapping of a young girl. The final performance by Nangaparbat  was about a hostage situation.

 The judges were  Harshavardhan  Ganesan , a leading  theatre  personality and Dileep Rangan, the founder  of the Vivekananda Theatre Society. Kanchenjunga’s play directed by Thaanush  of class XI  bagged the first prize , while Neelkanth  came second. Niranjan  and  Edhaya of class X  were adjudged the best actor and actress while Milan and Kavya of class X  were declared best supporting  actor and actress. All the participants acted with great enthusiasm and put up an excellent show for the audience. 

AUGUST 2012

INTERSCHOOL PRIMARY LITERARY COMPETITION

LITERARY EXTRAVAGANZA

Organised by the literary club, the interschool primary literary competition was held in our school on 18th August, 2012. The literary club of BVM has always been a platform to guide and empower the literary community of our school and this literary competition provided an opportunity for students of classes  3, 4 and 5 to display their literary talents. The various events that were held on this day included poetry recitation, storytelling in Hindi, English and Tamil. Poetry reading is a unique event of this competition. The story telling event was held for class 5 as part of the i.s.p.l.c. The  topics for English poetry recitation was ‘Joy’,  ‘Happiness in school’ was the topic for class 4 poetry reading, and the topic for class 5 story telling was ‘A tale that made you smile’.
 The BVM, Adyar Principal Mr.R.Rajendran inaugurated this competition at 9 AM. The judges for the various events held were Mrs.Neena Gopinath and Mrs.Geetha Balaji for storytelling, Mrs.Sharmily Vivekanand and Mrs.Nivedhitha Prabhakaran for poetry recitation, Dr.Nirmala Maran and Mrs.Shrividya Dhineshkumar for poetry reading. For the Tamil event, the judges  were, Thiru KS Ramanathan and Smt.Uma Rajagopalan. The topics for the Tamil Story telling was ‘Natpu’ and Hindi Poetry reading was friendship. 20 schools participated in this competition. The children were dressed in various attires and lent colour to the enthusiastic participation. Overall, the competition was a huge success and it created a platform to showcase the talents of these children- the artists of tomorrow.

SAMSKRUTHA DINA MAHOTHSAVAM

Teachings from Vedas and other scriptures on  ‘The Greatness of Sanskrit’ were taken and made into placards. Children held these placards on day one.(2.8.12) of celebrations. They also  wore badges  displaying ‘ jayathu samskritham’. Students spoke about the significance of Sanskrit Day being celebrated on Guru Pournima in Sanskrit and English.

Class III – V Std Vedic heritage children were given a worksheet  which had pictures of Dhanvantri Hayagriva, Saraswathi, Lakshmi and Durga.

Students of VI gave a brief information based on No.s 1 to 10

Class VII  shared how trigonometry is basically a Sanskrit  work and the word itself is derived from Sanskrit .

Class VIII spoke on the contribution of the great sages who not only meditated for years together but also made a  lot of inventions which were the base for the society to progress.

Class IX students read out an article from the  magazine in the assembly and helped other students  understand the nuances  of Sanskrit .

Class X students read out the day’s news in Sanskrit . Also the National pledge was taken in the Sanskrit language.