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Stitching Lessons for Students and Mothers
Project Cost: Rs. 35,000.00
To encourage means of additional income, as well as learning a skill, for both students and their parents, we have...
New Handwash area
Project Cost: Rs. 38,500.00
The school currently does not have ample facilities for handwash for the school, leading to overcrowded and...
Basketball Coaching
Project Cost: Rs. 8,200.00
30 kids have been identified based on their talent and interest, to take regular Basketball coaching lessons, and to...
Painting & Renovation of Classrooms - UP Section
Project Cost: Rs. 2,50,000.00
The Upper Primary section of this school (Grade 5-7) is housed in an old and dilapitated building. The classrooms in...
Football & Volleyball Coaching
Project Cost: Rs. 8,200.00
Sport & Games have been identified as effective ways to distract children from a phone / device addiction (post the...
Malayalam Reading Extra Classes
Project Cost: Rs. 11,000.00
Recent NCERT ratings have strongly suggested the need for a serious focus on reading skills for children, post the...
New Science Laboratory
Project Cost: Rs. 5,50,000.00
The school currently does not have an exclusive laboratory for its students. A storage room / library space is being...
Infirmary for UP School
Project Cost: Rs. 62,000.00
There is an old and unused bathroom in the school which they would like to convert to a small infirmary for their...
The Gender Club
Project Cost: Rs. 8,000.00
Pre-Pandemic, The Tiny Seed organised monthly classes for the girls of the UP school of GVHSS Kumarakom under the...
Well for water
Project Cost: Rs. 81,444.00
The school faces a severe water shortage problem which adversely affects the daily running of the school and its...
Water Tank, Motor Pump, Wash Area and Store Room
Project Cost: Rs. 99,185.00
A water tank is required to store water pumped from the newly constructed well (provided by The Tiny Seed). A motor...
Classroom Separators
Project Cost: Rs. 24,200.00
In this school, big halls are converted into 20*20 feet classrooms. The partitions separating one class from another...
4 Cupboards for Laboratories
Project Cost: Rs. 72,600.00
The old laboratories are in bad conditions and massive renovation is required. New storage units with the following...
Repair of Windows in Science Lab
Project Cost: Rs. 9,900.00
The windows in the science lab are broken and not in usable condition. As the school is in a poor neighbourhood,...
Water Purifier
Project Cost: Rs. 27,500.00
The Tiny Seed has provided a new well, tank and water pipes for the use of the school for all purposes. However, the...
Classroom Partition between 2 classes
Project Cost: Rs. 24,200.00
Currently the Commerce and Science groups of Std. 11 share a classroom. Due to the fact that they do not have a...
5 Benches & Desks
Project Cost: Rs. 35,200.00
New sets of tables & benches were requested to replace the dilapitated conditions of the existing ones.
Bin It India 2016-17
Project Cost: Rs. 13,051.00
Does litter drive you nuts? Let's teach our younger generation not to litter. To do that, we first need to provide...
Career Guidance Classes for Grade 9-2017-18
Project Cost: Rs. 11,000.00
A 2 session programme is proposed by an expert trainer. Classes by this guidance counselor will provide help with an...
Kitchen and Dining Hall renovation
Project Cost: Rs. 1,10,935.00
The kitchen requires a new sink, storage units, and tiling. The government provided some amount of money towards...
Renovation of Basketball Court
Project Cost: Rs. 6,03,588.00
Sport and PT are mandated and encouraged in the school curriculum, but Kumarakom being a low lying area, has its...
Kitchen Fridge
Project Cost: Rs. 16,500.00
Milk is supplied twice a week at the school. It is a great challenge to preserve the milk from morning till the...
Gas Stove with Burner
Project Cost: Rs. 4,400.00
There is only one cook to prepare food for 200 plus students. A commercial gas stove would add to the efficiency of...
Plates and Glasses for Mid Day Meals
Project Cost: Rs. 17,050.00
Mid day meals are served to students who bring plates and glasses from their own houses. There is much commotion and...
Spoken English Classes-Kumarakom-2017-18
Project Cost: Rs. 64,762.00
Govt. rules state that only if the school has more than 50 kids per Malayalam section, can an English Medium Section...
Handwash Renovation
Project Cost: Rs. 2,843.5
New taps were required for the school's wash area for the students to use to use.
Painting of the HS-HSS block
Project Cost: Rs. 16,011.6
The school block needed a new coat of paint ahead of school reopening to provide a clean and fresh look.
Roof Repair-UP and HS buildings
Project Cost: Rs. 11,176.00
Schools in Kottayam have old, Kerala style, tiled roofs. In the heavy monsoons of Kerala, these aren't always the...
New benches and desks - UP, HS blocks
Project Cost: Rs. 4,57,380.00
Under Phase 1 of the project, 48 new benches and desks (made of Anjali wood) have been commissioned for. The...
Clearing of School Compound
Project Cost: Rs. 28,985.00
Kumarakom school is located amongst paddy fields, and every year, the school grounds and walk ways become overrun...
Access path to toilets
Project Cost: Rs. 34,100.00
Kumarakom school is in a low lying area, surrounded by paddy fields, that becomes inundated with water during the...
Medical Screening Camp-2017-18-Kumarakom
Project Cost: Rs. 3,300.00
A psychologist and educational specialist was arranged to conduct a screening camp, to assess the learning levels of...
FOM - GVHSS, Kumarakom - 2017-18
Project Cost: Rs. 4,59,967.00
An egg a day or banana a day is provided for all students of the UP and HS sections of the school year on year for...
Parents Counselling
Project Cost: Rs. 3,602.00
A group counselling session was conducted with the parents of grades 5-6-7 in Apr 2017, informing the parents about...
Kerala flood Relief : Back to School Kits - 1
Project Cost: Rs. 2,15,600.00
Kerala's recent floods has devastated homes and lives. Here's how we can help out : We are putting together 'Back to...
Back to School Kits - 2 - Flood Relief
Project Cost: Rs. 2,31,638.00
Kerala's floods of Aug 2018 devastated homes and lives. We put together Back to School kits for a few of our schools...
SAC 2017-18 - GVHSS Kumarakom
Project Cost: Rs. 1,48,500.00
In the year 2017-18, 36 students were provided with scholarships under the Sponsor A Child programme that TTS runs....
SAC 2016-17 Kumarakom
Project Cost: Rs. 73,000.00
12 senior students (HSS) and 10 junior students (HS) were provided with scholarships this year under our Sponsor A...
Vegetable Garden - Flood Relief
Project Cost: Rs. 12,650.00
As part of a community project, in 2017, the students of the school made a vegetable garden from which vegetables...
Meet with Parents
Project Cost: Rs. 3,602.00
The Student Training programme under DISHA commenced in full swing in 2017-18, and a meeting to gauge feedback,...
FOM 2016-17 Kumarakom
Project Cost: Rs. 3,54,376.00
An egg/banana a day for four days of the week were provided to the school under FOM this year
Whole School Transformation - WST 2016-17
Project Cost: Rs. 3,76,563.00
TTS tied up with The Teacher Foundation and Wipro Applying Thought In Schools to provide training and support...
FOM 2015-16 Kumarakom
Project Cost: Rs. 3,87,695.00
We provided an egg/banana a day for the entire school through the year under our Feed Our Minds programme of 2015-16
Whole school transformation 2015-16 (WST)
Project Cost: Rs. 15,422.00
TTS tied up with The Teacher Foundation and Wipro Applying Thought In Schools to provide training and support...
RO Filter - Flood Relief
Project Cost: Rs. 2,47,500.00
Access to clean water has been at the top of our list of ways that we can add value to the students' lives post the...
Renovation of UP School Toilet (Boys)-Flood Relief
Project Cost: Rs. 12,650.00
In the aftermath of the Kerala Floods, the UP Boys toilet was flooded and requires some repair and replacement of...
New UPS systems for Computer Lab - UP Section - Flood Relief
Project Cost: Rs. 38,500.00
The electrical wiring of the school was affected post the Kerala Floods. The existing UPSes for the computer lab of...
Science Park Visit
Project Cost: Rs. 39,600.00
The students of the entire UP school (71 kids of grades 5,6,7) were taken on an educational and englightening field...
20 Smart Devices - Online schooling
Project Cost: Rs. 2,00,950.00
This project was led by 5 students of a private school in Kottayam to raise funds for 20 Tablets (Smart Devices) for...
Activity Kits for UP Students
Project Cost: Rs. 50,000.00
To enhance & supplement the experience of online learning for students of Grade 5,6,7 of Kumarakom school, we...
Notebooks for Upper Primary and High School students
Project Cost: Rs. 86,000.00
2021-22 began as yet another year of online schooling. Most of the students of this school are from families of...
Covid Relief - Kits for Kumarakom
Project Cost: Rs. 1,44,600.00
Steered by 8 students of a private school in Kottayam, this project was designed provide relief during the onset of...
Flood and Covid Relief
Project Cost: Rs. 92,000.00
Floods hit Kerala for the third year in a row, and coupled with pandemic woes, it really took its toll on the poorer...
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School: | GVHSS, Kumarakom | ||||
School Category: | Government | ||||
School Type: | Combinations | ||||
Number Of Students:
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511
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Year Of Establishment: | 1917 | ||||
Medium Of Instruction: | Malayalam and English |
Notes:
This school has been a high school since 1946 and has excelled over the years academically. The most recent pass rate for Grade 10 exams for 2013-14 was 100pc. The students are encouraged to participate in Sport and they have won state level certificates in Swimming, Kabbadi, and district level in Cricket. The pass rates for the Higher Secondary School Board exams of 2013-14 was 54pc, and 92pc (with 100pc in one course) for the Vocational High School. The students are from a rural background, with a team of dedicated teaching staff from far and wide of 50.
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