Bhavans Vidya Mandir, Elamakkara

Bhavans Vidya Mandir, Elamakkara is a private K–12, CBSE-affiliated school run by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Educational Trust in Elamakkara, Ernakulam, Kerala. Founded in 1972, it is the first Bhavan's school to be set up in Kerala.

The school functions under the purview of the Kochi Kendra of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, which also runs six other schools in and around Kochi.

History

The Bhavans Kochi Kendra started functioning on 24 June 1970.^[1] On 9 September 1970, G. S. Pathak, then Vice-President of India, inaugurated the Bhavans Cochin Centre. In 1972, Dr. V. V. Giri, then President of India, laid the foundation-stone of the building for Bhavan's Cochin Centre.^[2]

The first Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan school under the Kochi Kendra, the Bhavans Vidya Mandir, Elamakkara was opened in 1972.

The school received affiliation from the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi in 1981.^[3]

The school was introduced to the National Institute of Open Schooling system in the year 2000.

General information

Academics

Available streams

Language options

Hindi is compulsory from classes I to VIII. Malayalam or Sanskrit can be taken as third language from classes II to VIII. Students of classes IX & X are allowed to take either Hindi, Malayalam or Sanskrit as their second language. Classes XI & XII do not have language options, but have to learn English.

However, as per the recent Government of Kerala directive, the native Malayalam language shall be taught compulsorily from classes I to X, including to those who haven't opted for Malayalam previously.

Senior Secondary Section

The senior secondary students on enrollment get a chance to choose their streams (i.e. set of subjects). The study of English is compulsory, and is the only language option available. The streams are subject to change, and are usually determined by the availability of staff and the interest of the students.

Table showing possible streams with subjects

Subjects	Comp-Math	HS-Math	Bio-Math	Bio-IP	Bio-HS	Com-Maths	Com-IP	Com-HS	Humanities
English	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Maths	Y	Y	Y			Y
Physics	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Chemistry	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Biology			Y	Y	Y
Computer	Y
IP				Y			Y		Y
Accountancy						Y	Y	Y
Business Studies						Y	Y	Y
Economics						Y	Y	Y	Y
History									Y
Civics									Y
Home Science		Y			Y			Y

Facilities

The play ground

The school offers ample facilities for the students, though is not one among the modern state-of-art schools in the city. The school campus is very large spanning about 8 acres of land, and the school has been best known as a green campus, owing to a large number of trees sheltering the school.

Over the years, the school has adorned some of the best technologies and improved the infrastructure.

In 2007, the school became one of the first in the city to introduce smart classrooms, partnering with Educomp. All the classrooms in the school today are powered by TeachNext Smart Boards, which are used to deliver lessons and write notes.

The school also houses a large library for the students, with over 16000 books across genres, and collections of magazines and study materials.

The school has a separate block – "Kalakshetra" and staff to teach students arts, crafts, music, dance, and instruments like Keyboard, Congo Drums, Tabla, Violin, Jazz etc. upon their interests.

The school has 2 open basketball courts, cricket nets, volleyball court, Kho-Kho court, and a football ground. From 2016, the school has partnered with FitKids, to train students in various games and indulge sporting passion in them. As part of this, dedicated coaches train students in the primary classes for different sports throughout the academic year. The school also trains its students in the National Cadet Corps (NCC).

The school also has a large canteen serving lunches for the students. However, the school is strictly vegetarian, and the canteen serves only meals in the lunch break.

The school has two air-conditioned computer labs, science labs for physics, chemistry and biology. The science lab facilities of the school have become largely worn out, and have been only marginally improved over the years.

Notable alumni

The school has produced several successful students in different fields. The most prominent among them is S. Sreesanth, who was a part of the Indian team which won two ICC trophies - ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2007, and the ICC World Cup 2011. The national award-winning popular musician Gopi Sundar also learnt in this school.

See also

• List of schools in Ernakulam district
• Bhavan's Vidya Mandir, Girinagar

References

Coordinates: 10°01′05″N 76°17′33″E / 10.0181°N 76.2926°E / 10.0181; 76.2926