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

The literary club of Bala Vidya Mandir involves the students of the middle and high school in various activities. This club provides them to showcase their talents in writing, speaking and dramatic performances.

• A creative writing competition was conducted for the students of classes VI - X wherein they work on topics suited to their level.
• The students of class XI put up a performance for the students of class VI. They enacted a play from their literature book ‘Isabel’.
• The inter school literary competition saw the participation of students of class 3, 4, 5 from various neighboring schools in Chennai. poetry, reading, recitation and story telling competitions were held.
• TMP Mahadevan essay writing competition allows the students to express their writing talent on topics concerning moral values.
• The members of the literary club conducted a crossword event for the students of class VIII.
• Enlightening the students on the importance of Alternative careers was the purpose behind the essay writing competition held for the students of class X, XI and XII.
• The students of class VII were taken to watch the performance of ‘Swami & friends’ at Sivagami Petachi Auditorium.
• Inter class poetry recitation in English and Hindi was held for the students of the primary.
• The 4th of November ushered in the joyous voices of the primary children as they prepared to recite poems at the Annual Recitation Competition. The children chosen for the finals recited a poem in Hindi, and winners from each class were chosen.
• The literary club conducted an exciting activity for the students of class IX. 26th November 2009 was the Book Jacket Making competition, where students were given a short poem and asked to design a book jacket for the same. The students were enthusiastic and well-prepared.
• As is customary, this year too the literary club conducted the mass reading session for students of class I to XII. On 27th November, the Reading Pledge was taken and the entire school read a book of their choice from 12.00 pm to 12.40 pm
• A literary quiz was held in December for class VIII.
• A Recitation Competition in Tamil & Hindi was conducted in December
• A bookmark activity was conducted for class IX in January
• Interschool story telling competition was held in January for classes I & II.
• The Literary Club of Bala Vidya Mandir conducted the Annual Literary Week from 15th Feb to 2oth Feb 2010. The poet chosen this year was Ogden Nash. Students from Class 6 to 9 participated in unique competitions like Mosaic Poetry – Class 7, Haiku writing – Class 6, Anagram poetry – Class 7 and Limerick writing – Class 8. Odgen Nash’s poems like The Firefly, Ode to a Baby, The Wasp, etc were given to the students to aid them. Winners of the various events are as follows –
  In the Haiku Writing Event,
              6 A      -           Ankita Kumar
              6 B      -           R.Aditya
              6 C      -           Shravya.C

  In the Anagram Poetry Event,
              7 A      -           P.Yalini
              7 B      -           Prerna
              7 C      -           Ambika G.R

  In the Limerick Writing Event,
              8 A      -           Aishwaryah & Sharmada
              8 B      -           N.Radha & Aarushi
              8 C      -           S.Siddharth & Thaanush

  In the Mosaic Poetry Event,
              9 A      -           Dinesh Pandyen
              9 B      -           Tanushree
              9 C      -           Vidyesh

  LITERARY CLUB VALEDICTION

  The Literary Club of Bala Vidya Mandir held its valediction on 1.3.2010. The Vice President Shloka Narayanan of XI C read the Club report. Mrs. Sasikala Sriram distributed the certificates to the winners of Literary Week.