This is the 39th anniversary of my alma mater. I cannot believe the school is almost 40 years old. OMG, time does fly, doesn't it? Ok, I will try to stay out of cliches. I see on the website www.vijayantaseniorsecondaryschool.com that some of my teachers are still working there. Can't wait to go there in May 2014 and see them. It has been 26 years since I left the school in 1988 after my 10th standard.
In Avadi, there are schools and there are schools. My favorite will always be Vijayanta Senior Secondary School. For here I went, for 10 wonderful years, to complete my secondary education among friends and trusted teachers after my 2 year stint at the Vijayanta Nursery School.
Kendriya Vidyalaya, HVF was established way before VSSS. I think VSSS was founded in 1975. It was another school that was run in the CBSE syllabus to cater to the employees of HVF, Avadi. KVHVF was no longer able to handle the intake of all the offspring of the 6000 employees and their ever growing families. So the management of HVF decided to run 2 new schools, one in English Medium and based on CBSE syllabus like the KVHVF and another one, Tamil medium and based on State of TamilNadu education syllabus. My mom was transferred there(Vijayanta Higher Secondary School, VHSS or Tamil Medium school) from when she moved out of Satyamangalam after having me.
So for those that did not grow up in Avadi - why is there this common theme of naming schools "Vijayanta". Vijayanta was the name of the combat tanks that were produced at the Ministry of Defence, Ordinance Factory Board, Heavy Vehicles Factory (HVF) Avadi. These tanks defend, defended and will continue to defend the country at all her borders. This girl was born and raised on patriotism.
My 10th standard English teacher, Mrs. P. Omana is the principal now. She started teaching English in our school as a very young college graduate. She used to live at HVF Estate too. I believe her dad worked there. We have seen her get married (again to somebody who was already working in HVF), raise children...wow, a lot of ours' and our teacher's lives revolved around HVF and Avadi in those days.
I started in this school in June of 1978 in first standard. There, I just revealed my age :-)
I wanted to introduce something that is really near and dear to my heart.I will start blogging my years there in chornological order soon. This is no attempt to self advertise my life - but I do think my life has been and continues to be very interesting and it is personally very satisfying for me to record it here in these blogs.
I am thankful to you for introducing this new school here. Education is the right of every kid and we should always try to give our kids best education that will be helpful for them in academics, socially and in their professional career. I am preparing my kids for better academic education and I use activity ideas and practice tests from http://www.kidsfront.com/class/2nd-class.html.
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