TN schools welcome students with chocolates, cartoon characters

Schools in Tamil Nadu welcomed back students on Monday, after a gap of 20 months following the pandemic, with chocolates and cartoon characters.
The classes were decorated with balloons and senior students in several schools dressed up as cartoon characters to welcome back the juniors. In some schools, children were also greeted with roses and pencil pouches.

Despite heavy rain in Chennai and adjoining districts, the parents took their children to school.

Talking to IANS, Principal GJ Manohar of MCC higher secondary school in Chennai's Chetpet, said that there was around 75 per cent attendance in the school despite the heavy showers in the morning. There were no lectures and only fun games on the first day of class, he added.

At RKV memorial school in Erode, children were welcomed with the traditional 'thavil' and 'nadaswaram'. Principal Sudheer Babu told IANS that around 79 per cent of the children reached school in the morning. Most of the primary school students came with their parents.

The school education department has directed schools not to conduct regular teaching for the time being.

Tamil Nadu minister for school education Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, while addressing the media expressed confidence in the large turnout in schools across the state. He said that the turnout reflects the faith of the parents in the government and the education system of the state - IANS