Vivekananda Primary School

We are a small primary school located on S.N. Street in Kadambathur. Being in Tiruvallur, it gets quite dusty and warm, but the school is a lively place. We mostly deal with the little ones who are just starting out. You can hear them singing their rhymes and shouting their numbers from the street. The rooms are decorated with charts and drawings made by the children. It is a bit messy sometimes, but that is how it is with kids. We have a small area where they play during their break time. The staff here are mostly local people who live nearby. We know most of the parents by face because they come to drop off and pick up their kids every day. There is no big gate or security guard like the huge private schools. It is just a friendly neighborhood place. We teach them the basics of reading and writing in English and Tamil. Every morning starts with a small assembly where they stand in lines, though the little ones always find it hard to stay still. It is a lot of work looking after them, but it is what we do. By the afternoon, the kids are tired and ready to go home. We pack them off and get ready to do it all again the next day.