The annual Prize Day was held on 17^th June. The Chief Guest, Mr. Shanker Gopalkrishnan, President of the Madras Consultancy Group gave away the prizes. Long Service Awards for completing many years of meritorious service in Vidya Mandir were presented to Mrs. Sumitra Ravichandran (30 years), Mrs. Sudha Suresh (20 years), and Mrs. Jayalakshmi (20 years). The Best All Rounder Awards were presented to Ramanna Srinivas and Nivedita Shankar.  The Best Outgoing Boy and Girl were Vivek S and Vaishnavi S respectively. In his address, Mr. Shanker Gopalkrishnan, spoke about how commitment to a noble cause leads to success and fulfillment in life

The Alumni Induction ceremony was held on 18^th June.  Our principal, Mrs.Raghunandan, officially inducted the batch of 2011 into the Vidya Mandir Alumni family.

Reflections, the annual Inter-School Culturals was held on July 1^st and 2^nd.  This year twenty six schools participated in the various events held on two days.  The overall trophy was won by P.S. Senior Secondary School.

On July 8^th and 9^th it was time for Entrenous, the Intra-School Culturals.  It was a platform for VM students from class X, XI and XII to showcase their budding talents.  The events held included debate, quiz, T-shirt designing, shipwreck, Dumb-C, Adzap, music, dance and variety entertainment.  It was a close contest and XII C emerged the winner.

On 16^th July, there was fierce competition among the four houses for the top spot in the Annual Inter-House Dramatics Competition.   "Ms. Civilization", the Nangaparbhat play was adjudged the winner.  The second place was won by Nilkant for their play "Elizabeth Refuses".  The plays were judged by Krishnakumar Balasubramanian from Little Theatre, Mr. Viswananthan of Alchemy and our Alumnus, Mr.Bhargav from Evam.

From July 17^th to 21^st, six girls from Class X visited the Mehodist Girls' High School in Singapore as part of the on-going twinning program. They were accompanied by Mrs. Shobha Raman and Mrs. Elizabeth George.   The students spent two days at the Methodist Girls School participating in class room sessions and also attended the Regional Youth Conference.  This year the theme of the conference was "This earth is mine"

Independence Day was celebrated as usual with great enthusiasm. After the flag hoisting ceremony, the students put up a cultural program consisting of patriotic songs, colorful dances and a special mime show on keeping the environment clean.  This was also the day chosen by the batch of 1986 to meet in school along with their teachers to celebrate their 25th anniversary.

The School Day was held on the 19^th of August at Narada Gana Sabha. The evening started with a melodious performance by the school orchestra "Amrita Lahiri ". This was followed by the middle school play titled "The Fool's Hunt ".  The Sanskrit and Tamil plays depicted themes from the mythology. The dance drama, "Navarasanayagi" depicted the nine moods of the Devi. The Hindi dances featured the various dance forms of the North East. The evening ended with the High School English play, "Ms Civilization".

From Aug 17^th to 21^st, ten students from Class XI and XII attended the Harvard Model United Nations Conference held at the World Trade Centre in Bombay.  The students were accompanied by their teacher, Mrs. Anuradha Prasad and PTA member, Mrs. Lathika Raman.

The 56^th Annual Sports Day held on 31^st Aug began with the march past followed by well-coordinated mass drill performance by the primary. The students participated enthusiastically in the various track events held during that day. The prize distribution ceremony was presided over by the Hon. Justice V. Rama Subramaniam. The overall cup was bagged by the Nagaparbhat house.  The individual champions were

Juniors:               Ananth and S Sadhvi
Seniors:               Abhinav Nair and Nethra Vishwanathan
Super Seniors:    Adithya Arun and Easha.P.Yadav.

The CBSE Cluster V Football Tournament was organized by our school from 19^th Oct to 21^st Oct at SDAT Nehru Park.  The tournament was inaugurated by Mr. Viji Santhanam, Brakes India Ltd and the Validectory function was presided over by Mr. Srikanth, Elforge Ltd.  The guest of honour was Mr. Samuel Raj Daniel, Infra SDAT. 

Winning Team:   St. Johns International Residential School, Palandur

Runners Up:       Vidya Mandir Mylapore

Third Place:        Chinmaya International Residential School, Coimbatore

Fourth Place:        SBOA School, Anna Nagar

The winning team and the runners up will attend the CBSE National Football Finals to be held in November at Chennai organized by DAV Public School.

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