BHEL Matriculation Higher Secondary School
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| Type | Private matriculation school |
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| Established | 1974 |
| Location | , , India |
| Campus | Kailasapuram, Trichy |
BHEL Matriculation Higher Secondary School (BHEL) is an English medium co-educational school affiliated to the Matriculation Board of Education in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. It was formerly known as the YWCA Matriculation Higher Secondary School (YWCA).
The school is managed by the Neelaveni Thayarammal Memorial Trust, Coimbatore, which took over the school management from BHEL Educational Society, Trichy on 1 June 2011.
Motto
The YWCA doctrine is based on its motto "By Love Serve One Another", which was chosen by the founder and educators from the board. The motto of the school is "Lightened to Lighten"
Classes
The school provides education classes from kindergarten to Class XII. Co-curricular activities include music, dance, arts, and sports.
Campus
The campus includes ventilated classrooms, library, computer labs, science labs, and a playground.
Celebrations
Celebrations for Diwali, Pongal, and Gandhi Jayanthi Day are held. The school's internal celebrations include Sports Days, Founder's Days and Annual Days. These celebrations have about 3,000 people attending them on average.
International celebrations like Earth Day, Christmas, Mother's day, Father's day are also celebrated. Farewell feasts for the graduating students are given as a grand dinner with entertainment programmes by their juniors. Other celebrations include Children's Day, Independence Day, and Republic Day.
Yearbooks and newsletters
The school publishes a yearbook. It is a hardbound book with about 100 colour pages and a mini DVD with multimedia content. The school also produces newsletters highlighting the events and activities of the term.
Notable Alumni
Prasanna, Tamil actor who made his debut in Tamil film industry with movie 5Star.
James Vasanthan, famous Tamil film industry music director and TV anchor.
