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

July 2011

In the month of July Creative writing competition was conducted for classes 6 – 10 . Students were given various “phrases” which they developed into a story.




August 2011

Poems help bring out the inner emotions, creativity and humour  of a person. In the month of August class 7 students were given an opportunity to pen out lines that would tickle the funny bone through a parody .The activity involved was spoofing the poem ‘The Moon’ by Robert Louis Stevenson. The different ways in which students re interpreted the poem was simply outstanding and the students too had a great time.

 



The Inter school Literary competition was held at  the Vidya peet Auditorium in Bala Vidya Mandir  on 20th August 2011. It was exclusively for the students of classes 3, 4 and 5 .Competitions were held in three languages. English, Hindi   and Tamil Students from various schools in the city participated in this event. In English, there were three events - Poetry Recitation, Poetry reading and story telling. In Hindi there was poetry recitation and in Tamil there was story telling.

It was organized by the English department and volunteers from ninth standard as part of Literary Club activity. Prizes were given out to  winners of first, second and third place  and there were two consolation prizes also for every event. The winners of the event received a certificate and a gift voucher from Odyssey from the Principal Mrs. Sashikala Sriram. All in all, this event was a grand success.

 



September 2011

The T.M.P. Mahadevan essay writing competition was held in the month of September as part of the Literary club activity . The students of class 6 – 10 wrote an essay on a proverb given to them. The proverbs were ‘Time and tide waits for no man’, ‘If wealth is lost nothing is lost if health is lost something is lost and if character is lost everything is lost ‘etc. The children participated with a lot of enthusiasm .

 





October 2011

 

A cross word puzzle activity was conducted by the Literary  club in the month of October . The students of class 8  were furnished with a cross word puzzle and clues from famous children’s books were  given to solve the cross word.

 



 

November 2011

A ‘Spellathon ‘ activity was conducted for students of class X on 04/11/2011 . They were given a grid with seven alphabets and were asked to coin four or more letter words with each letter containing the center letter. Ultimately a seven letter word including all the letters in the grid were made.



December

The literary club of BVM conducted the Recitation Competition for classes III, IV & V on the 21st of December 2010. The judges for the event were Ms. Thulasilakshmi and Ms Jayashree Arun.

The III std students recited the poem ‘If I were the ruler of the world’, IV std students recited ‘The lone dog’ and the V std students recited the poem ‘My shadow’. The students participated with enthusiasm displaying props whenever required.

January

The Literary Club of Bala Vidya Mandir celebrated the Poetry Week from 24th to 28th of January, by organizing completions for classes 6 to 10. The poet of the week was Alfred Lord Tennyson, and students were given different activities based on different poems of his. The 6th graders had to design a cover for the poem ‘The Splendor Falls’, the 7th class students had to write their own poem, titled ‘The Miller’s Daughter’. Std 8 had to create an acrostic poem on ‘The Lady of Shallot’, while students of class 9 wrote a haiku on ‘The Burial of Love’, and the 10th graders tried their hand at mosaic poetry. Some poems were serious, some were downright hilarious, but all in all, their creativity made us go wow.