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NILGIRIS GIRL SELECTED FOR STATE HOCKEY TOURNEY

BY P S SUNDAR

Ananya Rana, a class 12 student of Lawrence School, Lovedale, has been selected to play for Tamilnadu junior Girls’ Hockey team at the 5th Hockey India Junior Nationals to be held at Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, from May 5.

“She played for Hockey Nilgiris at the State level Trials held last month and underwent training at the 14-day camp in Chennai”, ‘Hockey Nilgiris’ President S Ananthakrishnan told me.

“Last year, Hockey Nilgiris sub junior girls team emerged Runner up at the State level Competition”, ‘Hockey Nilgiris’ Vice President Kamaljeet Kaur said.

‘Hockey Nilgiris’ Secretary Balamurugan led hockey enthusiasts in felicitating Ananya Rana.

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‘PARENTS’ HANDBOOK’ TO MONITOR CHILDREN ROUND-THE-CLOCK

BY P S SUNDAR

 ‘School Diary’ where teachers write about children’s performance and behaviour for parents’ knowledge is well known, but ‘Parents’ Handbook’ where parents write about their children for the teachers’ knowledge is little known.

This prevails at Gurukulam Matriculation School, Agalar, near Ooty.

“Children are in school only from 9.30 am to 4 pm but we care for their round-the-clock welfare.  So, we are successfully adopting ‘Parents’ Handbook’ in which parents are required to mark their children’s behaviour against 17 listed items daily.  These pertain to the time the children are with parents and include aspects like the time children wake up, whether they salute the parents, wash their hands after going to toilet and before eating, meditate, play in the open, reduce time spent watching TV, read books and newspapers, do homework and study for specific hours, take care of their uniform including polishing shoes and keep their environment clean”, school Correspondent N Arjjunan told me. 

“These are periodically reviewed with parents”, he said.  

“I visit many schools but had not come across ‘Parents’ handbook’ anywhere.  It is praiseworthy as the school caters to children from 20 villages. This is worthy of emulation”, students’ motivator Marabin Maindar Muthiah said after distributing prizes to students at the 8th Annual Day on the theme "Urchaagam '15". 

“We have been posting centum pass in Tenth standard public exam regularly.  Last year, our student A Miruthula emerged first in Nilgiris district scoring 494 out of 500”, school’s Managing Trustee Vasugi said.

Children staged variety entertainment programme. 

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‘FASHION DISPLAY’ EXHIBITS CREATIVITY

BY P S SUNDAR

 Professionalism escalated to a new fervour at the ‘fashion display’ of the students of Good Shepherd Finishing School, Ooty.

In all, 44 students, including foreigners, gave their best at the display titled ‘Ethnopastel’, under guidance from the school’s Principal  Elsamma Thomas and the Principal of Good Shepherd International School, Dr P C Thomas.

Five unique rounds provided opportunity to the students to exhibit their creativity.   The ‘Enswathe’ round highlighted draping dress, ‘Pastel’ Indian suits, ‘Ethnico’  saree/blouse, ‘Flora’, nature-linked dress and ‘trial’ non-wearable dress.

The dignitaries who witnessed this exceptional presentation included former Chief Secretary and state Information Commissioner K S Sripathi and former Nilgiris Collector V Selvaraj.