EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 2009

EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 2009
This month has enjoyed more than other months because of the grand long 10 days Navarathry festival. Our school has already started preparing for the festival. Legends about the festival were narrated to children and dolls were taken out and cleaned by the staff and children. The festival commenced from 18.9.09.

18.9.09 – Today our school also observed Pitru pooja long with the public. Today is the important day in our nation to offer homage to our ancestors. So our school also remembered people who has dedicated for the growth of the oldest nation along with strong culture and traditions. Ghee lamp was lighted and ‘RAMA’ nama was chanted to seeks the blessings of ancestors.

Ganapathy pooja was done and Dolls were arranged in traditional Golu setting to start navarathry festival.

Notices and invitations were designed and given to schools around Sendurai village and villagers. The school has invited children and public for drawing, Kolam, Speech and Music competitions.

But unfortunately only 23 children from the whole village have presented their work. But the drawings were also not following the topics given. Many poor children have given the drawings in very old worn out papers and charts but we are accepting and rewarding these children for the true interest behind them.

It is very sad that the principals and staff members of many schools have never delivered the message about the competitions. This is the attitudes among most of the teachers. In this context we appreciated our schools staff for their dedication to initiate the child’s talent in creative work.

25.9.09 – Many children visited our school. They were explained about Golu and they explored our HOC and surprised with the Montessori materials. They presented their art work and 2 girls involved in Kolam designing. One girl alone sang a national song with true emotional expression. 2 girls came and delivered their speech. The topic was ‘’ how to improve the life standards of my village?’’
They gave the ideas like no to plastic, using toilets, water harvest and awareness about garbage.

We have decided to reward all these 23 children for their efforts. We told them that we never award first three places but we will tell them the best efforts. We told them that the effort and talent of every child differs. We also told them every effort of man will be recognized by Montessori school.

Ashram Matriculation school staff members have visited our school on 25.9.9 for the first time. Our teachers gave a very warm welcome and gave gifts also. They were introduced with the Madurai seed trust members and respected.

We have requested them to give the out puts about the students who leave us after 6 years and join for grade one class. They were surprised with the way and style we treat our staff members.

22.9.09 – MATHRU POOJA was celebrated to honor the mothers. Swathy’s mother drew floral designs and involved in our activities. Mothers blessed their children and teachers took part very well in organizing this festival.

Ms.Mallika has made her nephew Baby Narona who is 1.5 years old to join in our school.

23.9.09 – SCHOOL TRIP TO TEMPLE CITY
Today we went to Madurai as a school trip. We took a car and Mr.Nelson drove the car. We have to thank our student Basheeer’s father who has guided the driver in Madurai city and helped us.

We visited the famous old temple of Narashimar in Yaanai malai and then we went to Mrs.Priyakannan’s sister’s home where we had wonderful divine time. They have a very old temple with long history which is connected to Tamil history.

Teachers went to Meenakshi temple and shopping. By noon we had a delicious lunch prepared by the host. We left their home around by 5.30 P.M.

TRYING TO SEED OURSELF …
Today we made a visit to a non profitable trust like us which is called as MADURAI SEED TRUST owned by Mr.Karthik Bharathy. He is in this trust for the past 10 years serving for the students of all age group.
This trust is working in a place called KARUMBAALAI which is a slum part of Madurai city.
They are conducting successful after school activities. They are working in a team with 30 members who are young students. We got introduced with this trust by Mr.Pari Ganeshan who has married Mr.Mani’s sister.
We were given a very warm welcome. We were taken to few areas of their trust where we were greeted by children and got exposed to their activities also. This trust is planning with our foundation for few non profitable activities soon in Sendurai and Madurai.

TIME TO HONOR OUR STAFF
This was the day a big mass saw our work and greeted us out of Sendurai. We have made use of this occasion to honor our staff members for their selfish less efforts to uplift the life style of Sendurai children through the school.

We had a very nice time though it was raining and we reached Sendurai by 10 P.M.

25.9.09 – MADURAI SEED VISITED OUR SCHOOL AND OBSERVED CHILDREN’S WORK:
Today around 10 A.M, 30 members from Madurai Seed have visited our HOC. We need to thank Mrs.Usha and Mrs.Dhanamal for preparing good breakfast an dlunch for all these members.

Dr.Madeswaran explained the Montessori philosophy briefly to the Seed members and gave the directions to observe the children working in the environment. Though it was very crowd they admired the children’s every movement and realized the need for schooling for this particular age group.
After observing the HOC for 3 hours we had a very big circle time and gave away the gifts, greeting and enjoyed with sundal dish. Seed members gave away the biscuits and interacted with the children and by 12 P.M children left the school and we had a meeting.

EVALUATION BY THE PUBLIC MEMBERS:
Every member of the trust evaluated the activities of the children in our HOC nad appreciated the Montessori philosophy which is being implemented in a nice way by our teachers. This is very important in our school’s history because for the first time public is seeing our efforts and evaluating us. I feel very happy to appreciate our staff members for their efforts to uproot the Montessori philosophy.
We are giving the most important points observed by those members:

Children are well settled with inner order.
Children have cultivated self discipline by work.
Children respect every thing.
Mixed age group has cultivated good social skills.
Understanding the method of Dr.Montessori.
Many felt that they need to reduce their age to work in a Montessori school.
Good approach to English.
Child’s personality differs.

They all left by 3 P.M and after that we had a meeting with the trust founder and 2 of his members about future plans with our trust. We will be discussing the plans with Dr.Pradheepkumar and we will work after wards.

On October 2nd Seed trust will present a cultural program in our school.

27.9.09 – SARASWATHY POOJA was performed in HOC by Usha and Devi.

28.9.09 – VIJAYA DASAMI DAY for new amission and GURU pooja.