In the 8th edition of Dr.Pradeep P Thevannoor Hackathon organised by the SCMS School of Engineering and Technology, the team comprising the trio of Lal Krishna S, Abhishek U Pai & Raghav S Hegde won the first prize for their project on ‘Domestic Waste Management’ which in turn fetched them a cash prize of Rs 30000/-apart from certificates & trophies.
Our school team comprising Devabala Padmakumar, Manjunath Menon, Keerthi Manjit, and Rohith Ramesh won the overall Championship at the CBSE Regional Adoloscent Summit held at Amritha Vidyalya in December 2022.
In the CBSE Reading Challenge, held in Dec 2022, Parthiv Nair was one of the winners of the Thiruvananthapuram region
Pranav K. Manoj of X E secured the first rank in the State-level competition - Swara Poorna (Mridangam) conducted by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Kochi Kendra
In the Bhavan’s Scholarship exam held in 2022, Nandini M Prakash, Soorya Neeraj and Rishab Vinod secured the first rank. Karthik A Bejoy, Nandakishore S, Sunand P Menon & Raghav S Hegde secured the 2nd rank and many others performed commendably.
In the English Olympiad conducted by SOF – Adwaith M Pai & Sarang LV secured the first rank in at the International level and Nandini M Prakash secured the First rank at the State level in the Informatics Olympiad conducted by Silver zone.
Rishabh Vinod participated in the national level camp of Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan -India’s largest Science Talent Search for New India using digital devices held by NCERT at IIT Bhubaneshwar in May 2022.
Adrija Raj, Gayathri Arun, Adriel Malcolm, Nidhi R Nair, Adarsh Saju and B Advaith were the recipients of prizes at interschool fests organised by Assisi Vidya Niketan School, Rajagiri school and Bhavan’s Girinagar
ACHIEVEMENTS IN QUIZ AND MUN
The school has a vibrant quizzing culture thanks to the enthusiastic quizzers and one of the most notable quizzers of our school is Aman B Manoj who won the VG Siddhartha Memorial quiz conducted by Amber Valley School Chikmaglur which earned him an ipad and a cash prize of Rs1,00,000/- The other major prizes won by him include second prize for the 2nd consecutive year in the Mrs. YGP Memorial National level Inter School Quiz Competition conducted jointly by Padma Seshadri Bal Bhavan Group of Schools Chennai & tcs ioN & First Prize in the Campion Sports Quiz conducted by Campion School and 1st in the quiz conducted by Rotary club. He also secured the first Rank at the International GK Olympiad.
Aman Manoj and his team mate Harith Mohan have also been selected for the ‘Ultimate Sports Quiz’ to be conducted by Harsha Bhogle, in Jaipur later this year. They also secured the first prize in the Zonal level Inter School Quiz Competitions conducted by Kerala Forest & Wildlife Department, the November Rain quiz conducted by Kottayam Round Table 79, the Inter school Quiz Competition by SBI RBO II (Panampilly Nagar Cluster) & 2nd prize at the quiz conducted by the Mar Basil group of institutions as part of their Tech Olympiad & the All Kerala Inter School MKK Nair Quiz conducted by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Kochi Kendra.
Harith Mohan bagged the second prize for the Inter-High School India Quiz competition in connection with the Gandhi Jayanthi celebrations organised by District Information and Public Relations Department and along with team mate Akshay, he also bagged the 2nd prize in the Purana quiz conducted by ISKCON
Aman Manoj and Sarang LV bagged the first position in the ‘Mind Wars Quiz’ conducted by ZEE TV & the second prize in the 21st District Level Quiz Competition organised by Central Bureau of Communication Jawahar Library & Youth club, Kadamattom . They were also selected for the quarter-finals of the Asianet Whizkid 2022.Another major prize won for quiz was by Kashinath Menon who secured the 2nd position at the All Kerala Inter School Quiz conducted by VSSC as part of the World Space WEEK 2022.
Abhisehk P and Amit Krishna secured the third prize for the inter-school quiz conducted by Bhavan’s Adarsha Vidyalaya, Kakkanad .
Sree Rasya G secured the first rank in the 7th National level Sanskrit Olympiad
Niya Shine won the second position in the Astrophile Space Quiz organised by the Kozhikode based UL Space Club at CUSAT
Keerthi Manjit and Rhea Ann Roy , won the third position in ‘Orateur Eloquent’ conducted by Toc H Public School
Dheeraj Nambiar , Ila Lakshmi Sharma and Sreehari won the first, second and third prize respectively in the Third Philately Quiz conducted by the Postal Department for students of Std VI-X.
9 of our students participated in the HMUN conference held at Hyderabad in August 2022 and at the CUSAT MUN held last week Harishankar Madhu & Aswin Kumar received a honourable mention & verbal mention respectively.
ACHIEVEMENTS IN SPORTS AND GAMES
FOOTBALL
It was a memorable year for the school football team which went on to win 4 Interschool tournaments organised by MGM Public School Kandanad, Marello Public School Njarakkal, Chavara Darsan CMI Public school, Koonammavu and the 21st RSC All Kerala CBSE Inter School Football Championship and they secured the second runner up position in the MAI inter school Football tournament organised by MA international school Kothamangalam
Akshath Shinod of Std III E represented the Ganador team which won the Rondos Baby League 5s football tournament, held at Thrissur.
Badminton
The school badminton boys team comprising Azam Aydin Mohamed & Joe Francis Gipson and the Girls team represented by Navika Sreekumar & Lakshmi Suchith won many interschool tournaments, the most notable amongst them being the ones organised by Assisi Vidyaniketan Public school & Choice Public School . Lakshmi Suchith and Joe Francis also got the awards for best players of the Choice cup tournament . The girls team won a cash prize of Rs 10,000/- at the tournament conducted by M A school Kothamangalam and the boys team won the 3rd position.
In the 49th Ernakulam District Badminton Championship 2022, Lakshmi Suchith won the under 19 mixed doubles . Sabari Prashanth emerged the winner in the boys singles U 13 category. The boys team of Jovin & Nandan B Nair secured the 1st prize in the under 13 boys doubles category
Navika Sreekumar won the 1st runner up in Mixed doubles and 2nd runner up in the under 19 yrs girls category She has also secured the first prize in U17 girls in All Kerala Junior badminton tournament and 2nd runner up in women (All Kerala senior ranking tournament) at Ottapalam organised by KBSA.
In the All Kerala sub. Jr Badminton championship conducted by KBSA Nandan B Nair secured the 3rd position in the under 13 yrs boys singles & Jovin Sojan secured the 3rd position in the under 13 yrs boys doubles.
Nidhi B Nair was a member of the girls under 9 yrs doubles team which emerged winners in the All Kerala Shuttle Badminton Tournament, conducted by Cochin Sewa Sangh.
Tennis
The brother duo of Shrikanth C Menon & Srinath C Menon did themselves and the school proud by winning an array of prizes in the Tennis circuit. The prizes won by Shrikanth include first prize in the Under 16 boys singles and 2nd prize in Under 18 boys singles in the Ernakulam district Tennis Championship, the runner's up position in singles at the All India Ranking under 14 Boys Championship Series Tennis tournament at Bangalore, the Under 16 boys Championship Title (singles winner) in the Sree Chithira Kerala State Tennis Championship. Shrinath C Menon won the runner up position in the Under 14 boys singles in the Ernakulam district Tennis Championship. The brother duo also won the runner's up position in boys doubles in the All India Ranking Under 16 Talent Series Tennis tournament held at the Trivandrum Tennis Club.
They also won the Inter-District Tennis tournament in boys doubles in the under 14 and under 16 categories respectively and the Under 16 boys doubles in the Sree Chithira Kerala State Tennis Championship conducted at Kinattingal Tennis Academy, Trichur. Our school tennis team emerged winners in the above 14 years boys category in the RSC Inter School Prize Money Tennis Championship
Chess
The school chess team secured the Overall runners up in the Inter School Chess League which was conducted by BVM Eroor in association with Eight Times Eight Chess academy and the RSC inter school prize money Chess tournament org. by Regional Sports Centre Kadavanthra.
In the Inter school Chess Championship conducted by Kasturba School, Advik Praveen won the first position in the LP section and Adwaith Praveen won the 2nd position in the High School Section
and at the Don Bosco Inter School Chess tournament , Advik won the 3rd position and Adwaith bagged the 2nd position in their respective categories. Adwik Praveen was the 2nd runner up in the District Inter
School chess tournament LP section .
Swimming
Akshay Ginil secured 1st & 2nd position in 50 M & 100 M surface swimming respectively in the Kerala State Championship organised by the Kerala Underwater Sports Association. He won the 2nd prize in 50 M Backstroke & the Butterflystroke event at the Inter School Swimming competition 2022 conducted by Global Public School.
Basketball
Our school Boys Basketball team secured second prize in Toc H centenary Cup Inter School Junior basketball tournament organised by Toc H Public school .
Athletics
Naethan Verghese John, the most promising athlete of the school represented Kerala and secured the 5th position in High Jump in the under 14 boys category at the 37th Junior Athletic championships 2022 conducted by Athletic federation of India at Guwahati (Assam). The other First prizes won by him in high Jump are at the Kerala State Junior Athletic meet, Kozhikode, the Ernakulam District Athletic Meet & M A Athletic Meet hosted by Mar Athanasius College of Engineering - Kothamangalam. He also won the first place in the 60 M race at the Ernakulam Dist Athletic meet and the 2nd place in 100 mts at both the Mar Athanasius Athletic meet & and the CBSE cluster XI Inter School Aquatic meet 2022 held at Toc H Public school Vyttila.
3 of our athletes won the First prize at the Ernakulam District Athletic Meet 2022 held at MA college ground, Kothamangalam namely Maria Alphonsa in Ball throw under 14 girls category, Sanjana S in high jump in the under 10 girls & Vaiga Shijith in Shot put in the under 10 girls category and Emin Sinto secured second prize in high jump in under 18 boys category
The kids athletic team secured second runners up in the level 3 girls category in the Kerala state Kids Athletics championship at St. Peter's College Indoor stadium Kolencherry org. by Ernakulam District Athletic Association & Kerala State Athletic Association*.
Kho kho
Devavrath was selected to represent the Ernakulam dist team for the State Sub Junior Kho Kho championship which was held at Ramanattukara, Kozhikode .
Nikitha B won the bronze medal in the individual TUL event conducted in the South and West Taekwondo ITF championship.
Punya Arun won first place in the JSKA Kozhikode District level School Karate championship 2022 and received the yellow belt.
ACHIEVEMENTS IN YOGA
Gowri Shankari Pillai represented India and won the 2nd Prize (Traditional Yoga) at the XII Asian Yogasana Sports Championship held at Pattaya, Thailand in September 2022.
Gamaya Srinivasan was one of the participants who represented Kerala at the National Yoga Championships held at Bhubaneswar. She was felicitated at the Lakshmibai National College of Physical Education at Thiruvananthapuram, on the occasion of the 8th International Yoga Day on 21st June 2022.
Our school team won the ever rolling trophy at the 41st Ernakulam Dist Yogasana Championship and participated in the Nationals held at Pondicherry where our students Sumisha S Pai figured amongst those who secured the first 10 positions.
Many of our students won a number of prizes at the 7th Yoga Sports Championship organised by the Ernakulam District Yoga Association
In the Patanjali District Yoga Championship held at Saraswathi Vidyaniketan, the school secured the prize for maximum and best participation and the following students bagged various prizes:
- Sub junior category: Indrajith S Kammath - 1st prize
- Junior Girls Category: Deepika Pramod - 2nd prize
- Junior Boys Category: Suvid Prajeesh - 2nd prize and Anugrah S - 3rd prize
- Senior Girls Category: Hussna Kareem - 1st prize
COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMMES
Members of the Seed club participated enthusiastically in planting coconut saplings near the Nayarambalam temple with the help of "Grassroot" , an organisation dedicated to protection of the environment.
During Gandhi Jayanthi the Seed Club members took part in the ‘Clean Your Surroundings’ initiative where they cleaned their immediate surroundings.
The Seed Club also organised a cycle rally with the slogan ‘Say No to Drugs’ and enacted a street play at Devankulangara to raise awareness against the dangerous menace of substance abuse .The inauguration of ‘Bicycle brigade, a programme launched by Mayor Adv. Anil Kumar to promote the use of bycycles was held in our institution on 3rd of June. On the occasion , the school contributed a significant amount from the school’s ‘seal a desire’ box and from the proceeds of the sale organised by the Nature and SEED club to the Mayor’s ‘Subiksha food initiative’ to provide good quality food at a reasonable price for the poor.
‘Snehadaram’ was a unique programme arranged to honour the yeomen service rendered by the school’s support staff was held just before the school closed for the Onam vacation.
BEOSA
‘Thirike ‘ the first official get together of the Bhavan’s Elamakkara Old students association was held on 19 June 2022 and was attended by a large turnout of alumni. Justice Devan Ramachandran of the high court of Kerala and a student of the school’s first batch inaugurated the event. A vibrant bond is maintained between the school and BEOSA as was evident at the Football match between the BEOSA team and the school team.
DEVELOPING ONE’ S PROWESS
Attending workshops is like giving a novel possibility to learn something new and the objective of all our Seminars and Workshops is to provide participants with simple yet powerful strategies and skills that may be used to enhance the teaching-learning techniques .It enables the teachers to be more productive and innovative in their offline modes of teaching.
Principal Smt Mini K attended the All India Conference for Principals held at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Vidyashram , Munshi Marg Jaipur .
Associate Principal Smt Sreejyothi N attended Leadership 4.0 - a retreat for high potential school leaders - a 3 day workshop organised by IIM - K at their campus in Kozhikode), CBSE Prospective Resource Person Workshop on NEP, at BMV, Thiruvamkulam & CCSK Delegate Meet on ‘Aligning to the Emerging Trends in School Education.
Likewise Teachers of all the departments attended workshops to sharpen their subject knowledge and professional skills.
Enrichment Activities for holistic development
The Annual Comprehensive Evaluation of the school was carried out on &. by the team of educationists from Shikshan Bharati - the education wing of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, led by the school’s education officer Smt Sukumari Menon .
All important occasions like the founder’s day, Environment day, Independence day, Onam, Ramayana week, World Blood Donor’s day, Teachers’ day Navarathri, Deepavali, Id , Christmas, Sanskrit day , Hindi Diwas etc were observed & celebrated in a befitting manner.
‘Prathibhotsav ‘ - Talentime was conducted for Std I -V on 5 separate days and this was a platform for all students to showcase their talent and the success of the concept was largely due to the initiative & enthusiasm of the parent community .
‘Ezhuthu Petti', an initiative mooted by the Akshara Public Library, Perandoor aimed at promoting the reading habit in children was inaugurated on 7th July.
In order to provide refreshing experiences to our primary school students, 2 workshops were conducted. ‘Craftober’ the workshop aimed at honing their skills at craft work, was a resounding success . Likewise, ‘Math Magic sessions conducted to arouse an enthusiastic fervour for Maths, was enjoyed by all students.
The Interact Week celebrated by the Interact club was replete with thought provoking & fun filled activities. The Club also took the lead in celebrating the ‘Library week‘ by initiating a host of activities that included poetry sessions, literature quiz, debates and role play.
A patriotic drama titled ‘ Vande Mataram ‘ by the Apple cart theatre group was staged at school.Kerala Piravi day celebrations at school were embellished with the staging of an Ottanthullan performance. The world food day was celebrated by organising food festivals in select cases.
In an earnest attempt to acquaint the younger generation with the rich cultural & artistic fabric of our nation, ‘Thullal Thrayam', an experimental choreography combining three forms of Thullal ( Ottan, Sheethankan and Parayan ) jointly organized by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Kochi and Infosys Foundation was staged at the school.
As envisioned in the NEP 2020 , strengthening of literacy and numeracy skills is high on the school’s priority list and 2 programmes namely ‘ English Matters‘ and ‘Ganitha Mithram’ have been conceived to serve this great requirement. Currently it has been implemented for class 3 students who have been identified as those in need of some additional hand holding to bring them up to the desired level.
MOTIVATIONAL TALKS AND SESSIONS
In order to facilitate the holistic development of children of all classes, various health and wellness webinars, awareness sessions, motivational talks etc, were arranged during the academic year. A handful of subject specific webinars and career guidance sessions were also arranged for the students of senior secondary.
Seminars on topics like Health & hygiene, ‘Use heart to protect your heart’, Career guidance courses for senior students were conducted.The PTA organised 2 sessions on parenting by renowned psychologists
INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
Building constructions and renovations
School renovation and restructuring are important for creating a contemporary infrastructure that meets the needs of upgraded pedagogy. Reshaping the learning spaces and making the construction futuristic adds value to a student’s life.
The construction of lifts in the Munshi Block which leads to the auditorium and the one in the Sree Sankara Block has been completed . Construction of two new buildings with 28 classrooms, is on the anvil.
All the classrooms in the school are equipped with the state of the art interactive panels and is provided with Internet facility.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Before concluding this report, I bow my head in reverence to the God Almighty for the blessings he has showered upon this institution. We are indeed blessed to have a very supportive management and I would like to express our sincere thanks to the Chairman, Sri.C A Venugopal C Govind, Director, Sri.E Ramankutty and the Committee Members of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Kochi Kendra, members of the SMC & PTA, Senior Academic consultants Academic coordinator, Education officers who have helped, guided and most importantly encouraged us on all occasions.
May I also take this opportunity to express my deepest gratitude to the teaching and non-teaching staff, parents, students, and all other well-wishers for the whole hearted support and cooperation.
Thank You.