Thiruvananthapuram: In its efforts to achieve the status of a high-tech institution, St Mary’s Higher Secondary School, Pattom, has converted all the classrooms in the higher secondary section to smart classrooms.
Tourism minister Kadakampally Surendran inaugurated the classrooms in a function held at the school on Monday. The twenty-eight classrooms in the higher secondary section have been provided with LCD projectors, laptops and whiteboards as part of the initiative.
The laptops and LCD projectors were provided by Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE). “The other classrooms will be converted in phases. By the 2019 academic year, all classrooms in the school will be converted,” said principal Fr C C John.
The IT lab in the higher secondary section has been provided with 60 computers. Also, a hundred computers are arranged in five labs in the high school and the UP section.
A renovated auditorium with a seating capacity of 5,000 was inaugurated by Union minister Alphons Kannanthanam. The auditorium is named after the former patron of the school Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios.
Major Archbishop of Thiruvananthapuram Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, who presided over the meeting, inaugurated three audio-visual centres in the school in the function.
Also, a mini auditorium with 700 seating capacity, a conference hall with 150 seats and a model audiovisual centre with 100 seating capacity will be used for school-level meetings.
The students have created a vegetable garden on the school premises and the classrooms are given ‘swatch class’ status. A library in each classroom, digital library and vision to procure one lakh books in the school library by 2021, are among other initiatives taken in the school to inculcate reading habit.
The renovated auditorium at St Mary’s Higher Secondary School, Pattom
