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Two children from Tamil Nadu holding a Samacheer Kalvi textbook. Samacheer Kalvi or Tamil Nadu Uniform System of School Education or Equitable education system is a School Education Department of Government of Tamil Nadu, India programme to integrate the various school educational systems within the state.
From the academic year of 2011, the Government of Tamil Nadu has brought in the "Samachiyar Kalvi" syllabus to replace Anglo-Indian, state, Oriental and matriculation modes of education. Now only the following syllabi are available in Tamil Nadu: Samachyar Kalvi, CBSE, ICSE and IGCSE.
The school is affiliated with the Matriculation Board of Tamil Nadu and the State Board of Tamil Nadu. The samacheer Kalvi is introduced from June 2012 as per Tamil Nadu educational board. The grade 11 standard Common Examination comes under the control of the Kancheepuram District Board of Education.
Samuel Vedanayagam Pillai (1826–1889), also known as Mayavaram Vedanayagam Pillai was an Indian civil servant, Tamil poet, novelist and social worker who is remembered for the authorship of Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram (1879), recognized as the "first modern Tamil novel". Vedanayagam's ideals of women's liberation and education are reflected ...
Students from 6th std will be in either housed in Valluvar or Bharathi houses based on their houses. Students are divided into four houses namely Chera, Chola, Pandya and Pallava from 6th Std onwards. 7th std to 9th std Students are in respective junior houses and 10th std to 12th std students are in respective senior houses. School badge: SSA
Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram (English: The Life of Prathapa Mudaliar), ,written in 1857 and published in 1879, was the first novel in the Tamil language. [1] Penned by Samuel Vedanayagam Pillai (1826-1889), it was a landmark in Tamil literature, which had hitherto seen writings only in poetry.
A page from the first printed Tamil book - Luso-Tamil Catechism (Cartilha) printed in Lisbon in 1554 CE. It was rediscovered by Thaninayagam in the 1950s. Born as Xavier Nicholas Stanislaus, he later came to be called as Xavier Stanislaus Thaninayagam (his last name is often written as two words - Thani Nayagam) and also respectfully as "Thaninayagam Adigal".
The 17th century also saw for the first time literary works by Christian authors. Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680–1746), better known as Veeramamunivar, compiled the first dictionary in Tamil. His Chathurakarathi was the first to list the Tamil words in alphabetical order.