ABOUT
US
An insight and an appreciation of what the school
stands for is subtly expressed herein. Enjoy
going through the contents About us…
Overview of the School
The Nicholson Syrian Girls Higher Secondary
School and Training Home was started in 1910
by the late Mrs. F. S. Nicholson and Miss .S.
C. McKibbin. The control is now vested with
a Board of Trustees and managed by a Board of
Management according to the provisions of the
Trust Deed made by the donors. Miss M D Ward
served as the Manager of the school from 1910
till 1960.
The school is situated on a hill overlooking
Tiruvalla – Kozhenchery road about three
kilometers away from Tiruvalla town in Pathanamthitta
District of Kerala State now known also as–
God’s Own Country.
Students are prepared for the Secondary School
Leaving Certificate examination and Higher Secondary
examination. Besides the school subjects, needle
work, arts and crafts, music and dance are also
taught. Since 2007 CBSE programme is also launched
by the school.
There are parallel divisions
with English and Malayalam as medium of instruction
in all standards. Examinations are conducted at
the end of each term.
Strict manners and discipline
are instilled in the pupils in the dining hall
as well. The school has the ideal of ‘Public
Schools of England’ without the practice
of segregation and privilege but with social equality
in all possible aspects of living in the boarding
and studying in the school. The school encourages
each girl to do every thing by herself. Spreading
and rolling up the bed, washing their own clothes,
washing plates after eating, sweeping and keeping
tidy the class rooms and chapel and so on. Simplicity
is the warp and weft of the fabric of life of
the school and the boarding right from its start
and even today.
