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Two authorities schools successful Kozhikode — Government Vocational Higher Secondary School for Girls (VHSSG), Nadakkavu, and Government Higher Secondary School (GHSS), Karaparamba — are continuing to revolutionise nationalist acquisition by giving a caller meaning to the conception of State schools.
Government Higher Secondary School, Karaparamba, adopted the Prism task successful 2019. The field features a built-in amphitheatre wherever the theatre nine rehearses and performs. | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh
Under the innovative PRISM (Promoting Regional Schools to International Standards done Multiple Interventions) initiative, these campuses are demonstrating however authorities schools tin successfully germinate into world-class facilities.
“We, arsenic teachers, person changed with students,” said English teacher O. Amini of VHSSG, which archetypal launched the strategy successful 2010. She described however students had evolved with the pandemic and changing world, saying that the alteration was not for the worse but simply an adaptation.
Former Kozhikode North legislator A. Pradeepkumar, who spearheaded the project, said, “We wanted students to go winners not lone successful examinations but successful beingness arsenic well.”
The schoolhouse present has high-tech classrooms, subject and machine labs, and an indoor stadium. Besides renovating infrastructure, PRISM interventions purpose to empower students to beryllium independent. The schoolhouse is besides acceptable to heighten its extracurricular activities. “We are launching a cricket squad for our girls this world year. They person been waiting for this opportunity,” said K. Shimla, the school’s sports teacher.
Similarly, GHSS, Karaparamba, which adopted the PRISM task successful 2019, has made singular strides successful some academics and co-curricular activities. The field features a built-in amphitheatre wherever the theatre nine rehearses and performs. “This inaugural has importantly boosted our students’ English proficiency and helped them flooded signifier fright,” said Omana Ambili, headmistress-in-charge.
The school’s taste and world illustration continues to rise. In 2024, it became location to Kerala’s archetypal schoolhouse creation gallery, established by the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi. It is besides successful the process of mounting up a geology laboratory. “Government backing has already been allocated to procure instrumentality for the facility,” said Sandhya Sharmendhra, a teacher.
Mr. Pradeepkumar highlighted that the ‘Nadakkavu model’ had since been replicated crossed respective schools successful Kozhikode city, including the GHSS connected the aesculapian assemblage campus. There, PRISM successfully established a ‘virtual and applicable world lab’, giving students entree to a ‘virtual museum’ and a quality studio, vastly expanding their technological literacy.
Over the years, PRISM has forged collaborations with a divers web of organisations, including Faisal & Shabana Foundation, National Institute of Technology-Calicut, Indian Institute of Architects, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), DC Books, and the Kerala State Sports Council.
Looking ahead, Mr. Pradeepkumar discussed the aboriginal of the inaugural with K. Jayanth, MLA, during Pravesanotsavam astatine Nadakkavu GVHSS. “He [MLA] has assured his afloat enactment and enactment for the project,” Mr. Pradeepkumar added.
