Academics
GROWING YOUNG MINDS THROUGH PLAY AND LEARN SYSTEM
The Kindergarten classrooms incorporate source elements of Montessori method and early childhood educational methods.
From sensory stimulation to problem-solving games and storytelling, our classes use play-based activities to stretch the body and mind. Play both independently and with peers while learning to connect ideas through cooperation and communication.
Teachers select activities to encourage curiosity and build self-confidence in your preschooler through art, science exploration, play and more. Key social and emotional skills, self awareness and communication with peers is given importance.
The skill class includes colouring activity, English & math’s lab, pony ride cycling and many more which brings both independent and group learning activities to promote the important personal and social skills your preschool child will need for a successful transition into school. Our learning labs help student’s to understand important mathematical concepts, develop scientific knowledge and writing/reading skills.
Once they transit to the UKG level they put their foot forward to be part of the Bunny movement, so as to be future Cubs and Bulbuls and later scouts and guides. With an array of styles, our music instrumental classes help children explore the power of rhythm, melody, tonality and beat while nurturing key physical, social and intellectual skills to enhance your child’s development in totality. The School inspires your child’s imagination and self-expression with a world of hands-on art activities. Through painting, drawing, collage. Our theatre workshops enhance a child’s wish to portray ***his will through dramatics. Two way method of learning, a combination of Glenn Doman and Phonics method has been insisted in the Child’s Brain Development to make the children interested in Reading-Learning process
EARLY LEARNING CENTRE PHILOSOPHY
We believe that children have the right to enjoy their learning and that play is a key component in a child’s development. We value each child as a unique individual and we welcome and celebrate the richness that diverse cultures bring. We support and develop the whole child with purposeful and meaningful inquiry that allows them to make sense of their world. Our safe and secure environment allows children to express themselves confidently and without inhibition. We aim to develop an enthusiasm for education that will be the foundation for continuous learning throughout life.
ELC AIMS
– To provide an effective early childhood program, which is developmentally appropriate, child-centered, comprehensive, individualized and inquiry based.
– To facilitate having fun while learning through play with their peers.
– To stimulate the talents, abilities and strengths of all children.
– To respect and support all children in the context of their family, culture, and developmental needs.
– To help children grow in curiosity, creative thinking and decision-making.
In meeting the needs of individual children, the Early Childhood classrooms focus on the following developmental areas:
Primary & Secondary School
Fine Motor Development
used to increase small muscle development. This may include manipulating puzzles, drawing, coloring, painting, beading, and manipulating print materials.
Cognitive Development
use in our interactive learning environment. This includes the engagement with peers, adults, materials and activities.
Physical Development
use in our interactive environment. This may include running, jumping, climbing, catching and ball playing, and structured outdoor time.
Social Development: use to promote active learning experiences. This will be done by the use of many dramatic play experiences such as pretend play and role playing.
Mathematical skills and Critical Thinking
used to increase all developmental areas. This may include phonological awareness, vocabulary knowledge, problem solving, creative planning, number concepts, and peer interactions.
Emotional
used to increase positive self concepts. This may include the importance of human relationships such as peer interactions and adult/child interactions. This also includes peer negotiations, the ability to make choices and how to properly interact with others.
Family Involvement
used to increase the educational ability of individual children. Parents are welcome to our open door policy and encouraged to participate in many child centered activities. They are also encouraged to participate in program planning such as study trips and holiday decorating.
Features of the Kindergarten Program:
- A full day program within a developmentally appropriate classroom environment
- Development of social skills is emphasized in order to create and sustain a successful learning environment within the classroom
- Strong focus on phonetic sounds and letters of the alphabet, as well as the recognition and rote counting of numerals 1-10
- Curriculum integration centered on monthly thematic units.
- Numerous opportunities for drama, arts and crafts, free play, construction, as well as fine and gross motor development
- Implementation of small group, large group and independent learning activities, designed to meet the needs of all students in diverse and creative ways.
- A variety of materials and resources are provided for children to explore and use both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
- Pre-reading development emphasizing letter recognition, hearing and manipulating the sounds in our language (phonemic awareness).
- Language and literacy will be enhanced by having fun with language by listening to stories and poems, making up stories and rhymes, participating in sharing times, and role playing.
- Math skills are supported through many activities dealing with classification, sequencing, counting, and experimenting with spatial relations.
Children’s performance, behavior, social development, and physical health are observed and evaluated.
Primary & secondary School
Elementary & secondary School Philosophy
In the elementary & secondary school we recognized that school must be a safe and encouraging environment that fosters risk taking necessary for the full development of a child. Realizing that children are motivated to learn when they experience success and develop understanding, teachers include finding and using information, making connections across the curriculum, and organizing learning around new concepts.
We believe that children take responsibility for their learning when they understand what it means to learn, to be reflective, and to set and personal learning goals. Knowing that children have their own unique learning styles, lessons are structured to meet the needs of all learner’s in the classroom with ongoing assessment strategies and timely feedback to support continuous learning.
Elementary & secondary Curriculum
Language Arts
The goal of the Language Arts Program in classes 1-5 is to continue to enrich young minds and to promote learning across the curriculum. Strong reading skills are developed through various sequential and structured reading programs and exposure to culturally diverse, award-winning literature. The use of a balanced reading program includes the development of strong decoding skills, vocabulary, comprehension strategies, and the attainment of fluency. Students are taught to be critical, purposeful, and careful readers, thinkers, and writers. Written work also stresses clear, neat handwriting, increasingly accurate spelling, and the use of appropriate rules of grammar and punctuation. Students in Classes 1-5 are beginning a rich tradition of oral communication.
Hindi
As a third language, Hindi is taught and children are appearing for the level grade examinations conducted by the Hindi Prachar Sabha.
Mathematics
Mathematics at SSVS utilizes a “spiraling” curriculum that takes students on a journey from the concrete to the abstract. Students learn mathematics through interactions in meaningful events. Using manipulative, traditional computation, charts, graphs, geometry, games and units of measure, students build a solid mathematical foundation and methodically build on their knowledge year after year, constantly solidifying their skills. The program is both rigorous and balanced. Emphasis is placed on conceptual understanding while building mastery of basic skills and exploration of the full mathematics spectrum
Science
The primary goal of the science program is to encourage students’ natural curiosity and sense of wonder. The best way for students to appreciate the scientific enterprise, learn important scientific concepts, and develop the ability to think well is to actively construct ideas through their own inquiries, investigations, and analyses. The curriculum is designed to teach students the scientific method of investigating phenomena. They begin the process by posing questions and then working either in small groups, with a partner or individually to perform experiments that test their hypotheses. Students analyze their results, summarize their findings in group discussions, and keep written records.
Social Studies
The social studies curriculum at SSVS uses a theme-based approach, exploring a variety of topics. Building and evolving at each grade level, study progresses through the grades students expand their awareness of the world in which they live. When students understand the smallest of worlds around them and how best to negotiate them, they can continually expand those worlds and their study of them.
CCE PATTERN
Our School follows CCE Pattern introduced by Govt.of Tamilnadu in this Academic year 2012-13 at Elementary and High school level.
CCE
Continuous and comprehensive evaluation refers to a system of School based assessment that covers all aspects of students development.
1.Formative Assessment
Formative is a tool used by the teacher to monitor students progress continuously in a non -threatening, supportive environment. Again it is assessed as FA(a) & FA(b).
FA(a) Assessment is done using techniques such as assignments, quizzes and competitions, projects, debates, elocution, group discussions , club activities, experiments, etc.,
FA(b) is routine test which is conducted daily.
2.Summative Assessment
Summative Assessment is carried out at the end of a course of learning. It measures or sums up how much a student has learned from the course. It is usually a graded test at the end of each term which is called as Trimester.
Trimester pattern is being conducted every quarterly of the year (Trimester-I , II, III- in Sep.,Dec. &Apr respectively).
TIME TABLE FOR FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT AND HOME WORK
STD I –II
Days | Formative Assesment FA(b) | Home Work | Home Work | HAND WRITING |
Monday | English/GND | Maths | Tamil | English / GND |
Tuesday | Tamil | Maths | English/GND | Tamil |
Wednesday | Maths | Maths | EVS | English / GND |
Thursday | EVS | Maths | III Lang / V.E/ G.K / Comp | Tamil |
Friday | IIILang / V.E/ G.K / Comp | Maths | English/GND | English / GND |
STD III – VIII
Days | Formative Assesment FA(b) | Home Work | Home Work | HAND WRITING |
Monday | English/GND | Maths | Tamil | English |
Tuesday | Tamil | Maths | English/GND | Tamil |
Wednesday | Maths | Maths | Science | English |
Thursday | Science | Maths | Social | Tamil |
Friday | Social | Maths | IIILang / V.E/ G.K / Comp | English |
Saturday | IIILang / V.E/ G.K / Comp | Maths | English | Tamil |
TIME TABLE FOR FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT AND HOME WORK
STD – IX
Days | Formative Assesment FA(b) | Home Work | Home Work | HAND WRITING |
Monday | English | Maths | Tamil | English |
Tuesday | Tamil | Maths | English/GND | Tamil |
Wednesday | Maths | Maths | Natural Science | English |
Thursday | Science | Maths | Social | Tamil |
Friday | Social | Maths | Natural Science | English |
Saturday | Natural Science | Maths | English | Tamil |
Higher secondary School
The students can opt for 2 streams in science and 1 stream in arts after their 10th. With different combinations at the +2 level it consists of three parts
| GROUP A | GROUP B | GROUP C |
|---|---|---|
| Tamil | Tamil | Tamil |
| English | English | English |
| Physics | Physics | Commerce |
| Chemistry | Chemistry | Accontancy |
| Biology | Computer Science | Computer Science |
| Maths | Maths | Economics |
SCHOLARSHIP
The students are offered with two types of Scholarship
- SMATE
- SWARG
SMATE
Scholarship is provided with a view to celebrate the achievement of students who make high performance.
Scholarship is provided based on the marks scored in the SSVS-SMAT exam
The date of the examination will be announced ,a fortnight before the Exam.Questions will be based on all the subjects, current affairs, aptitude, I.Q and general knowledge.
Nearly twenty five students are given scholarship every year.
SWARG SCHOLARSHIP
SWARG is a Government registered & 80(G) certified NGO. SWARG Is established by the youth with intention to provide education to children being deprived year of it and also to create awareness about education among all. The SWARG believe “Education is Cure of & for All”.
The scholarship amount covers the whole academic school fees .The beneficiary should have a track record of not less than 75% in academics. For the academic year 2015 – 2016 seven students of our school have been selected.
RULES & REGULATION
1.English which is the medium of instruction in this school should be normally used at all times in the school premises.
2.Every pupil must possess a school diary which must be brought to the school daily.
3.Pupils must be at the school premises at least 10 minutes before the first bell.
4. a.It is compulsory for every pupil to come to school in full uniform.
b.Shoes and sandals should be regularly cleaned and polished.The defaulters will have to wash their dirty socks and polish their shoes.
c.The students are expected to keep their hair tidy,neat and well combed.Girls having long hair should plait their hair properly and use only ribbons for tying their hair.They must not wear fancy hair clips or ear rings.Boys must have their hair cut regularly.
d.Keeping flowers must be avoided.
e.Nails should be trimmed regularly.
5.Pupils are expected to be clean and tidy in their personal dress,books and belongings.
6.All the pupils are responsible to the authorities for their behaviour outside the school also.
7.Pupils are expected to take part in all the co-academic and extra-academic activities of the school as a part of civic training.No one will be excused except for legitimate reasons and only after obtaining prior permission from the authorities.
8.Every pupil must take part in school games and other activities unless declared physically unfit or exempted by the Principal.
9.No pupil suffering from a contagious or infectious disease will be allowed to attend school.
10.Open Day:Progress Reports are given to parents in person on the dates intimated in advance.It is an opportunity for parents to visit the school,scrutinize their ward’s records and consult the teachers,so that guidance at home is correlated with the methods followed in the school.They could encourage further achievement in areas where their wards are strong and adopt remedial measures suggested by teachers in areas of weakness.
11.Irregular attendance,habitual want od application,insubordination to teacher and any kind of cheating or serious misconduct or any habit or behaviour objectionable to the good tone of the schoolare sufficient reasons for punishment,upto even dismissal from school.
12.All the students are strictly forbidden to bring cell phones and wear jewellery or other valuables.The school takes no responsibility if they are lost.
13.No pupil should stay away from schoolexcept for special reasons,for which leave should be applied for,previously in writing.
14.Pupils must return to the school after the holidays on the responding day positively.
15.Permission to go home after the test or otherwise during school hours will be granted only for valid reasons.A gate pass has to be obtained from the office on production of a written request by the parents.
16.Delay in payment of fees debars a pupil from sitting for any examination.
17.No special examination will be held for the absentees under any circumstances.
18.Promotions are decided by the school authorities and hence the results are final and cannot be reconsidered under any circumstances.Parents are requested not to approach either the class teacher or any other school authority with such requests.Violations of this rule will be seriously dealt with.