Activities

To encourage maximum Participation School day is conducted for KG, Primary & High school on different days.

Reflections
The School hosts an inter-school cultural competition called Reflections with many schools participating. It also offers an opportunity for Class 11 students to get together with students of other schools. Our school was the first to introduce the inter school cultural competition in the year 1980.


Comfest
A Cultural Fest conducted by the Commerce Department is held along with Reflections.


Inter House English Dramatics
Dramatics competition between the four houses of classes X, XI & XII are held. The plays are directed and enacted by the students themselves with almost no help from the teachers.

Sports day
The event starts traditionally with the lighting of the torch by previous years champions, the oath is taken by the sports secretary and there is a colourful march past by the students of all the houses from class IX to XII, followed by sports events. The day ends with an exhibition Mass Drill by students of classes VI, VII and VIII.

SPAM
The Society for Promotion and Appreciation of Music better known as SPAM is one of Vidya Mandir's most well known clubs. The SPAM consists of students from class 6 to 12. Various activities and programmes are organized by the club to inculcate love for music in all its members. These include the SPAM / PTA interclass competitions. The club members also participate in a number of inter-school competitions. This club also organizes informative sessions on music. Well -known artists preside over these meetings. Inter-school music competitions are organized during the "REFLECTIONS". SPAM keeps the music alive in our lives.

Commerce Club
The Commerce club is an extension of the Commerce Department and its aim is to foster entrepreneurship among the students.

Vidya Prashna
An Inter School Quiz competition for students of classes 4 & 5 is conducted once a year.

Concurrence
Concurrence, the maths club of our school was inaugurated in 2002 to promote students with an interest in the subject. A number of lectures, quizzes, competitive exams and other such enjoyable activities are held frequently every year.

The club aims at learning mathematics in a pleasurable and fun filled manner.

Nature Club

WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE - INDIA AT MSSRF

On 6th September WWF held a function to release it's catalogue of articles. On that occasion, a few people who helped the WWF were honoured and Vidya Mandir Nature Club was recognized for it's long standing effort in bringing about awareness of conservation of nature among students. 12 students attended the function. Ms Asha Raghavan Coordinator, VM Nature Club received the memento from Dr. M.S.Swaminathan

The conducts regular field trips, treks, nature walk. The students of classes 7 to 9 are the members.

Heritage Club
The club is functioning under the guidance of INTACH(Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage) and has attracted several members, both boys and girls over the past two years. The Club's emphasis is on Culture, Tradition and Heritage. The club carries out various activities like Workshops, Competitions etc.,

Literary and Dramatics Club
The club has completed nearly 6 years with over 150 members every year. The members of this club always seem to have a busy schedule making props or watching plays put up by Contemporary Theatre Groups like Evam, Masquerade and Little Theater. The club has conducted several workshops on Creative Writing and on Poem Reading in the British Council, for its members. A crossword competition to encourage the members and a Scrabble Tourney to develop vocabulary are also held. The members of the club look forward to several more years filled with fun and frolic.

Effervescence
The Effervescence, our chemistry club, is open to Class XI and Class XII subject enthusiasts. These highly active people indulge in activities such as Quiz, Sudoku, Crosswords and Dumb-Charades etc (in Chemistry!) and undertake two field trips a year. They also conduct “BONDS” an interschool Chemfest, every alternate year.

Exnora Club
The club conducts the Students' Exnora Program, an environment awareness program for students of class VIII. They conduct field trips, programs in civic consciousness, environmental issues etc.