Catherine Nursery & Primary School

Located in Chidamparanathapuram, Catherine Nursery & Primary School is just a simple spot in Devakottai where the local kids spend their day. It’s not a very big place, just enough rooms for the nursery and primary classes to sit and do their work. Most of the kids live nearby, so they walk over with their parents or siblings in the morning. You can hear the younger ones singing their rhymes from the street if you pass by at the right time. The walls have some old drawings on them, and the furniture is the basic wooden kind that has seen a lot of use over the years. Devakottai is a quiet enough place, and our corner of Chidamparanathapuram feels like a small community. We don’t really have any big fancy equipment or high-tech stuff. It’s mostly just teachers with their notebooks and kids with their pencils. Sometimes the power goes out, and we just open the windows wider to let the breeze in. It gets a bit hot in the afternoons, so everyone is happy when the final bell rings. We keep a few plants near the entrance, but they don’t always survive the dry season. It’s a bit messy sometimes, especially when the little ones are playing during their break, but that is expected. We just try to keep things moving along day by day. There is nothing too complicated about how we run things here.