Student Life
What the two years hold beyond the syllabus — the hall, the trail, the library and the ground.
Two years is not only a syllabus
Standards XI and XII are two years with a public examination at the end of them, and a college that treated them as nothing else would be a poor place to spend the time.
So the year has a shape of its own: days marked together in the hall, a festival the Society has kept since 1934, work that happens outdoors, and an hour on the ground learning to sit still.
What the year holds
The national days
Independence Day is marked on the ground with the flag and a formed contingent, and in the hall with the students’ own programme.
Pongal Thiruvizha
The harvest festival kept in the college hall, under Tamil banners and sugarcane — the South Indians’ Welfare Society observing its own.
Field visits
Environmental studies taken out of the classroom and onto a woodland trail, with the teachers who set the work walking it alongside.
The library
Long tables by the windows, open stacks, computers and a reference section — used through the day rather than reserved for examinations.
The laboratories
Practical work set up bench by bench, with the apparatus laid out before the class arrives.
Yoga and meditation
Guided sessions in the open air. Two public examinations sit two years apart, and an hour spent learning to settle is not an hour lost.
Pongal in the hall
The harvest festival, kept in the college hall with sugarcane at the backdrop and the banners up. The staff turn out in silk for it, and the room is decorated the day before.
It is the plainest thing on this page and the least negotiable: the South Indians’ Welfare Society has been in Wadala since 1934, and Pongal is the day the college looks most like itself.
The rest of student life
Student Wall
What the students themselves made and staged this year — the charts, the performances, the trail.
Transport
Getting to Wadala, arriving and being collected, and who to ask about your own route.