ABOUT OUR SCHOOL
Established in 2004, the school is owned and managed by SIDDHARTHA FOUNDATION, KOLLAM. We commenced our classes on June 02nd 2004. As on this day, we have completed 281 days (which includes 190 working days) and even the schedule for our Annual Examinations and subsequent programmes, were already announced. Our institution is developing, and the classes are proposed, up to +2 level. The school is spread across 7 acres of land, blessed with scenic splendour. As on this day, we have 194 students on roll, 16 teaching staff and 08 supporting staff. We have a double storied building, with spacious class rooms, computer room and activity rooms for various activities. The construction of the newly proposed 4 storied building will begin in August 2005. The plan and the sketch were approved by the management and the approvals from other offices are in progress. A budget of Rs. 54 Lakhs is estimated for the construction of the new block and I am pleased to announce that an amount of rupees 20 Lakhs is already sanctioned to meet the initial expenses of the construction.

OUR OBJECTIVE
Our main objective is to provide, top quality CBSE education, to the children of common people, with nominal fee structure. We admit all the children, without any discrimination of caste, colour or creed to all classes. We are committed to produce the best results in both curricular and co-curricular activities and encourage our students towards excellence.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
The complete information of the staff and the students are available at the finger tip of the principal with the help of latest information technologies like Computer. This helps the principal to know the child in depth like personal information, academic performance, health, living standards etc. Each and every visit of the parents are recorded at the time of the meeting which will be redirected to the concerned teacher for remedy

CLASSIFICATION
The school is classified into 3 sections - The Pre-KG, KG and the Primary School. The Pre-KG and KG is under the control of the Headmistress Mrs. Shailaja Mohan assisted by Miss. Shani Imamudeen, Mrs. Sanitha Kumari and Miss. Divya

ACADEMICS
We emphasize the all round excellence of our students. To foster their needs, we supplement our teaching through audio-visual aids, worksheets, projects and assignments. Our system of promotion is based on academic merit, comprehensive and continuous evaluation as directed and recommended by the CBSE. All our teachers are committed, experienced and highly qualified. The student teacher ratio of our school is 12:1. Constant meetings and refresher courses help the teachers to enhance quality teaching and it further helps the students to develop self learning.

REMEDIAL TEACHING
All the students who are found weak in different subjects are given remedial coaching in the concerned subjects on all regular working days. This special coaching helps the students to improve their academic standard.

COMPUTER LABORATORY
The school has a well equipped Computer lab with half a dozen computers. The computer education is free for children from LKG to Class 2. From class 3 onwards, a nominal fee is charged for the computer education. Our Consultant is the famous course and curriculum designer, COMPUGEN, who are pioneers in the computer education field for the last 10 years

SCHOOL NEWS LETTER
The school is bringing out a News Letter “The Wings”, to bring out all the important news and events of our school, for the information of the students and parents. The news letter also brings out articles, paintings and drawings of our children.

COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH
Being a CBSE school, and as per the directions from the CBSE, New Delhi, the classes are to be handled only in English except the Malayalam and Hindi language classes. Having felt the need to improve the standard of English of all our children, we have introduced the ‘Communicative English’. Two periods per week per class are allotted exclusively for improving the standard of English. A qualified teacher is appointed exclusively for the same.

SCHOOL TRANSPORT SYSTEM
Transport facility is one of the major issues in the educational field. To provide our education facilities to all the students including outstation students, we are operating the school transport up to a radius of 15 kilometers. At present we have 2 mini buses and we are planning to buy 3 more new buses to meet the above requirement.

CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
We foster and promote the overall fitness of our students through various indoor and outdoor activities. Indoor activities include Art, Music, Literary Activities, Youth Festival, Health and Physical Education etc. Out door activities include Athletics, Sports and Games etc.

HOUSE ACTIVITIES
The students are grouped in four Houses namely Jasmine, Lilly, Lotus and Rose House. Each house is headed by team leaders called House Patrons, Associate House Patrons, House Captains, House Vice-Captains and House Prefects.
All the group competitions were conducted house wise and to encourage maximum participation, all individual competitions were held class wise. Altogether a number of 446 trophies were distributed to the children of our school where as the strength is just 180.

CLUB ACTIVITIES
The school has 04 active clubs. Each club is led by a teacher of the concerned department. The Arts club is led by Miss Rekha M.R, the Science Club by Mrs Deepa Pradeep, the Crafts Club by Mrs. Najuma Beegum and the Music Club by Mrs. Sindu Mohan.

SCHOOL ASSEMBLY
The School assembly is unique for its variety and procedures. The assembly formalities are different from a typical school. The special formalities include, question of the day, word of the day, do you know? etc. in addition to other normal assembly formalities. The school assembly provides ample opportunity for each and every student to take part in it, by assigning responsibilities to all the classes from 1 to 5. The assembly in charge is Mr. C.V Rajesh who is the coordinator of the co-curricular activities.

CLASS ROOM CLEANLINESS
The cleanliness of each classroom is inspected by a team of teachers and an ever rolling trophy is awarded every Monday to the winning class. The competitions are held in three categories – Category 1 (Classes LKG and UKG), Category 2 (Classes 1 and 2), and Category 3 (Classes 3, 4 and 5). The best class is adjudged by a panel of judges and an ever rolling trophy is awarded for the best class of the academic year. The teacher in-charge of the class room cleanliness inspection is Mrs. Radhamony.

STUDENTS’ CLASS ROOM PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
We do not have any corporal punishment in the school. Instead the performance of each student in a class is evaluated by all the teachers who are teaching in that class. A “Star” (*) is awarded for the merit and “Stripe” (/) for the demerit. This Star/Stripe or merit/demerit system has encouraged the effort of the students in scoring marks and even for their excellent behaviour.

HANDWRITING IMPROVEMENT AND NEWSPAPER READING
Different from other schools, we have allotted 15 minutes for copywriting English in the classroom itself from classes 1 to 5 every day before the class begins which is the most effective and rare practice. This is in addition to the normal copy writing to be carried at home. This copy writing practice really improves the handwriting skill of all our children.
The ‘Newspaper reading’ is another special feature of our school only. A Malayalam and English newspaper is circulated among the children of class 4 and 5 for reading. After their reading, the teacher discusses the main headlines and other important news events. Mrs. Sulabha is in charge of this peculiar mission.

INTERACTION WITH PARENTS
The Open House System enables the parents to have an active and creative exchange of ideas with the principal, class teachers and subject teachers before and after each and every examination. A parent must have visited the faculties at least 10 times since the beginning of the school. This enhances a proper communication between the parents and the teachers to take remedial measures and ensures the progress of every child.

THE INVESTITURE CEREMONY
The Investiture Ceremony of the School Prefect’s Council was held on 20 Aug 2004.
Shri. Rajeevan Unnithan, Asst Education Officer, Pathanamthitta inducted the badges for all the office bearers. The 14 member, School Prefects’ Council sworn in and assumed the office as School Leaders, House Captains, House Vice-Captains and House Prefects. The House Flags were also handed over to the concerned House Patrons by the guest.

THE ONAM CELEBRATIONS
We celebrated the Onam in its traditional and colourful manner. All our children brought variety of flowers from their home and they made “Pookkalam” to invocate the legendary king ‘Mahabali’. They also designed and made ‘Onam Greeting Cards’ and the cards were sent home. The management and staff together had the ‘Onam Feast’ which brought a feeling of togetherness.

THE TEACHER’S DAY
September 5 is the most important day as for as a Teacher is concerned. All the Teachers were honoured by the Management for their sincere and noble work since most of the members of the management are Teachers.

THE GANDHI JAYANTHI
We celebrated the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the Nation. We paid homage to him on that day by rededicating ourselves to the Nation. All our students actively participated in the “Clean Campus, Green Campus” campaign and made our campus clean, green and beautiful. The selfless service to the mankind was the aim of Mahatma Gandhi and our children were encouraged to practice it in their life.

THE KERALAPPIRAVI DAY
On November 1st, 2004 we celebrated our 54th Kerala State Formation (Keralappiravi) Day. All the assembly proceedings were in Malayalam on that day.

1st ANNUAL ATHLETIC AND SPORTS MEET 2004 - 2005
The 1st Annual athletic and Sports Meet were held in our school stadium on 27 Dec 2004. Prof C. Radhakrishnan was the guest of honour. The competitions were held in four different zones. The opening ceremony programme started with the march past of the athletes. Master Swifad .A was declared as the Sports Champion (Boys Seniors) and Master Pradeesh Lal was declared as the Sports Champion (Boys Juniors) Miss Thaslima Shajahan was declared as the Sports Champion (Girls Seniors) and Miss Muhsina.S was declared as the Sports Champion (Girls Juniors) for the year 2004-2005. The Jasmine House was declared as the overall winners of the 1st Annual Athletic and Sports Meet. The chief guest distributed the price for the winners.

CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS
The ‘Christmas Celebration’ of our school was held on 16 Dec 2004 in the traditional way. The children themselves designed the X’ mas cards and the cards were sent home by hand. Christmas sweets were distributed and afternoon we had a programme ‘Nadankalari’ – a programme on folk songs and folk stories. Mr. Mani K. Chenthappoor was the resource person and our children enjoyed the show very much.

PARENT TEACHERS ASSOCIATION 2004 - 2005
The 1st PTA of our school was formed on 15 Dec 2004. The meeting also nominated the members for the Executive committee for the year 2004 – 2005. Mr. Mashood Lal was unanimously elected as the President of the Parent Teachers Association (PTA) for the year 2004 – 2005.

KIDS SCHOOL
The new ‘KIDS SCHOOL’ (Pre-KG) started functioning at the school on 15 Dec 2004. The students who are between 2 ½ and 3 years are eligible to join the Kids School. Those students who are admitted will be directed to LKG of the school in the academic year 2005-2006. The Kids School has strength of 16 students as on today. Mrs. Priya Anilkumar is in charge of the same.

PICNICS
The Picnic plays an important part in the development of a child. He/she will be exposed to a different world, provides opportunity to travel and learn new things, new trends and changes in the society. The KG children were taken to the Adventure Park, Kollam and Primary children to Thiruvananthapuram, free of cost. It was a wonderful experience for the kids and all of them enjoyed well. The tour in–charges were Mrs. Najuma Beegum and Mrs. Beena Kumari.

MOTHERS’ MEET AND PTA INAUGURATION
The Mothers’ Meet organized by the school was held on 16 Jan 2005. A seminar on ‘Child Psychology’ was also organized in connection with the Mothers’ Meet. Dr. Arun Kumar and Dr. Basheer Kutty, of Dept. of Behavioral Sciences, Medical College Thiruvananthapuram led the seminar. Strength of More than 200 parents attended the seminar which was highly motivating and fantastic.
The PTA inauguration was held on 16 Jan 2005 at 4:00 pm. The Hon. MLA of Chathannoor, Dr. G. Prathapa Varma Thampan inaugurated the 1st Parent Teachers Association of the School.

REPUBLIC DAY CELEBRATIONS 2004 - 2005
The Republic Day Celebrations was celebrated with true patriotic spirit and National pride in our school campus. The principal hoisted the National Flag at 8:00 am in front of the school building and a special assembly was also there. The finals of all the Games competitions - Football, Cricket, and Throw Ball were held that day with true sportsman spirit and the school dispersed by 1:30 pm.

THE INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS
The 57th Independence Day Celebrations of our school were held on Saturday, August 14th 2004 in the school campus in a colourful and patriotic manner since August 15th was a Sunday. The Principal of Sree Buddha Central School Mr. P.T Punnoose and Mrs. Punnoose were the Guests of Honours. The Chief Guest Mr. P.T Punnoose hoisted the National flag. The students were given training to make our National Flag.

ORIENTATION PROGRAMME FOR TEACHERS
The Malayala Manorama “Kalikkudukka” organized a one day Orientation and workshop for Nursery Teachers on 18 Sep 2004. All our Nursery Teachers attended the programme and it was a great opportunity for them to realize the new trends in teaching.
Mrs. Manju Sreekumar attended one day orientation programme in Mathematics organized by Oxford India.
Mrs. Shailaja Mohan attended a three days orientation programme in Computer Science organized by COMPUGEN.

YOUTH FESTIVAL
The 1st Youth Festival of our school was organized at different stages. The programmes were organized in 4 stages and expert judges were chosen from outside. All the group competitions were held house wise and the finals of all the individual items were held on Feb 23rd, 24th and 25th.

CONCLUSION
The unique support from the management has been most remarkable in bringing this institution towards academic excellence. Let me take this opportunity to express my sincere and heartfelt gratitude for the support and cooperation, they have extended to me to bring out to their expected level. I also extent my sincere and hearty gratitude to all my teaching staff, administrative staff especially Mrs. Usha B, the administrative assistant and the office bearers of the school PTA, for the support and cooperation, which enabled me to run this institution towards academic excellence.

(Principal)
Siddhartha Central School