Hari Sri Vidya Nidhi School

Infobox Secondary school
name = Hari Sri Vidya Nidhi School

motto = Let the peal of harmony be the appeal of all religions!
type = Private Mixed High School
affiliations = CISCE
accreditation = ICSE Indian School Certificate
oversight =
city = Thrissur
state = Kerala
country = India
established = 1983
founder principal = Nalini Chandran
president = Sudheerkumar Maratt
principal = Jayanthi Nair
student president =
faculty = 80
mascot =
students = 1500
grades = 1–12
website = http://www.harisri.org The Hari Sri Vidya Nidhi School (commonly abbreviated as HSVN) is a school in Thrissur, Kerala, India. It offers classes from pre-Kindergarten to Junior College. It was founded in 1978, by Nalini Chandran, the school's first principal and the first Keralite to win the Derozio Award. [cite web |url=http://www.thehindu.com/yw/2005/12/30/stories/2005123002580600.htm |title=Teacher par excellence - educationist of worth |publisher=The Hindu] The school is registered as a charitable society and is affiliated to the Council for Indian School Certificate Examination, New Delhi (CISCE), [cite web |url=http://education.nic.in/cd50years/f/8U/FG/8UFG0104.htm |title=Council for the Indian school certificate examinations, List of affiliated schools, June 1994 |publisher=Department of School and education, Government of India] which conducts the ICSE and Indian School Certificate (ISC) exams.

Achievements

The school has won the championship at the Kerala State ICSE-ISC Cultural and Sports meets often in the past decade. It won the Co-Curricular championship in 2002, 2004 and 2006. The Sports meet was won in the boys section in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Besides this, Harisri-ites have also come up trumps at the National Level. Besides producing individual champions, they have also been instrumental in helping the state team win trophies. The school also boasts of a strong quiz culture, with National Trophies in 2004 and 2005. The quiz team has also either won or come runners up in all years starting from 2001 at the state level. The school also has an active quiz club founded in 2003. In academics, far from lagging behind, the school consistently produces excellent results. In 2003, a student of the school, Mohammad Afzal Majeed, came 2nd in the Kerala Engineering Entrance Exam, 1st in the CUSAT Entrance and also cracked IIT-JEE. George M. Paily, a student of the 2000 batch, also cleared the IIT-JEE, BITS Pilani and also was a bronze medal winner in the International Chemistry Olympiad. The students of Hari Sri figure regularly among those selected for various scholarship programmes including Singapore airlines and the United world college among a host of others. The students regularly make it to top institutions like the IIM's,IIT's, BITS, NIT's, AFMC, St. Stephens, Lady Sree Ram's, etc. They also won second position at the national level ICSE-ISC annual quiz competition held in 2004. [cite web |url=http://www.hindu.com/yw/2004/11/06/stories/2004110601260300.htm |title=Hari Sri Vidya Nidhi School, Punkunnam |publisher=The Hindu] [cite web |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/fr/2008/07/18/stories/2008071850410200.htm |title=Tuned to each other |publisher=The Hindu]

Principals

* Nalini Chandran (1978-1995, 1999-2000)
* Indira Bhaskaran (1996)
* Suma K (1997-1998)
* Jayanthi Nair (2001-present)

References

External links

* [http://www.harisri.org Official site]