St. John's Matriculation Higher Secondary School Alwarthirunagar

This school is present in Alwarthirunagar [ [http://www.chennaieducation.net/Schools/highersecondary.asp Higher Secondary Schools in Chennai, Chennai Higher Schools Profile, Chennai Profile Education, Education Profile Chennai, Educational Profile Chennai ] ] was started by D John Ponnudurai who has expired in 2004 [.http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/10/26/16hdline.htm] . This school is also part of IYAP [http://www.iaypdukeaward.in/school_award.html] . The syllabus of the school is Matriculation till X standard and State board during XI and XII.The other schools that were founded by this founder were Good shepherd at Alwarthirunagar and St. John's Matriculation school at Porur.Address: 15, New Colony , Alwarthirunagar, Chennai, 600087

The school construction consists of a three floored building with a Thatched top floor. It has got a creche and some more classrooms opposite to the main buildings. The space is most effectively utilized. The competition to this school are Balalok, Avichi and A V Meiyappan. The school depends on R K Ground near by for the Games and Sports events. Some of the famous teachers of this school were:
#Irwin Gurudev Singh for Physics ("Till year 1991")
#Marakadavalli for Maths ("Till year 1993 in this school")
#Poongodi for Geography

Uniform

The school uniforms have changed from time to time. The First Uniform was checked tops with 1/2 cm white and brown check boxes and chocolate pants till the year 1983. In 1984 it was cream colored shirt and chocolate pants. During year 1985 they changed it to lighter shade of chocolate shirt and chocolate pants with Black shoes. On Mondays the Uniform was white tops, white pants and white shoes right from beginning. From the starting of the school the tie was a full brown tie. In the 1980's, the tie design changed to 1/2 cm colored stripes of cream and chocolate. The ladies wear shirt and skirt till VII standard and Salwar Kameez from VIII standard. For boys its Half pant and shirt till VII standard and full pants from VIII standard. The school provided belts with school logo and 4 colored(Blue, Green, Red and Yellow) groupings with school logo were mandatory till year 1986.

Other Details

During the years 1984 to 1987, the school provided badges to students for First, second and third rank holders and also to class leaders. Buying books from the school are mandatory. The school starts with Christian prayers at 8:45 AM and closes with Indian National Anthem at 4:30 PM. Since its a Christian school, they have one extra Subject called as Moral Science. The school had a very small playground within Campus. It used to depend on Ramakrishna Nagar Playground for its Sports day. The school started its computer labs during the year 1989 with old computers.

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