Valluvar Gurukulam Higher Secondary School

Our school is located right on GST Road at number 220 in Tambaram. If you know Chennai, you know how busy this area gets with the trains and the buses constantly moving. We’ve been a fixture in this neighborhood for a long time, and the building itself has a lot of history. It’s a higher secondary school, so we deal with older students who are busy thinking about their future and their board exams. The corridors are usually full of teenagers talking or rushing to their next class. We have a lot of rooms and a decent amount of space, though the city noise never really stops. The teachers here are practical people who have been through many academic cycles. They don't sugarcoat things for the kids. We have a routine that we stick to, starting with the morning assembly and ending when the final bell rings in the afternoon. Sometimes the fans in the classrooms creak a bit, and we have to get them fixed, but that’s just part of maintaining an old place. Parents come in for meetings, and we talk about grades and attendance without any extra fluff. It’s a straightforward environment. Being in 600045 means we are accessible to a lot of people, and we just focus on the work of teaching. No big promises, just the daily reality of running a school in a busy part of town.